Repairing your broken furnace (Metabolism)

Points 1, 8, 9, and 10 are good.

The others (my personal opinion follows)...

2.

Never go too long without food – not more than 3-4 waking hours. Starvation is not the way to lose fat.

You're not going to go into starvation after 4 hours.

3. No foods are evil, even ones out of a box. Eat them in moderation but you don't have to outright avoid them.

4. Food combinations are unnecessary. Also, another avoidance statement when it says do not eat pastries.

5.

Instead of counting calories, practice portion control.

This is counterproductive. Counting calories is a form of portion control.

6.

Vegetables are "free." In other words, eat as many fibrous vegetables as you want with any meal.

Vegetables still have calories.

As far as fruits are concerned, eat them only in the morning and combined with protein.

LOL, really? And then it finishes with another avoidance. Never drink juice.

7.

Eat these fats only in the afternoon and evening and only when combined with protein.

No.

And my personal favorite:

Sure, vigorous activity stimulates the metabolism, but if you overdo it by taking aerobics classes or running several miles a week, you could actually hinder your results! Why? Because excess aerobic activity burns up muscle at the expense of fat.

What a load of crap.

I'm amazed this article had gotten as positive a reception as it has. It's actually terrible. It makes me think of propaganda that gets dropped on countries at war in order to confuse the enemy with disinformation. Oh well, to each their own.

...and i stopped reading at 'don't let yourself get hungry'..... uh huh.

thanks for the info. Going to the doctor today for a knee injury and will be bringing this info up to him to see what he has to say

You had me up until here:

Zero-carb diets like Atkins have you avoid all carbs, but that isn't necessary. Eliminating carbs from your diet makes your body sluggish, your mind foggy, and is plain unhealthy. Too few grams of carbohydrate can lead to mood swings, uncontrollable cravings, and the loss of muscle tissue.

Atkins is not a no-carb diet, for one.

Eliminating carbs from your diet does NOT make you sluggish or mentally foggy. It is *NOT* unhealthy, quite the opposite, in fact.

Cutting carbs does NOT lead to mood swings, uncontrollable cravings or the loss of muscle tissue. All of that is patently and provably false.

0% Greek Yogurt, low fat cottage cheese, egg whites to name a few.

I love oatmeal with greek yogurt, a little vanilla, and some truvia.

I think it should be noted that minimum calories has a minimum- 1200. I'm currently 111 pounds and according to the math that gives me 1,000 calories a day, and yeah I would lose a lot of weight on that but uhh.....not healthy.

Long time to repair mine!