10 Dieting Myths article

Everyone is different and this weight loss thing is difficult at best doing it on your own. But doctors like her are very expensive and usually not covered under insurance. I agree, that she didn't give enough information to help anyone out in a meaningful way. The article adds to the confusion over what is best for an individual, implying that you need someone like her to figure it out.

Interesting...

1) Slow & Steady - I know that for people with a significant amount of weight to lose, it can be daunting, disheartening, and frustrating to do slow & steady at first. There have been medical weight loss efforts aimed at severely obese that focus on rapid initial weight loss and then work to a lower rate of loss once at a certain point. In these extreme cases, I am in agreement with the article. However, most people losing smaller amounts of weight, slower is better. I don't know what the cut off should be, but certainly all your weight loss should not be in free-fall no matter how big or small you are. At some point, you need to slow it down and lose the rest at a slow pace.

2) Fruits & Vegetables - she's not really focusing on the same thing. GMOs are not chemicals. They are genetically modified organisms. Now, GMOs we can't do much about unless you are growing and eating heirlooms from your own garden. Pesticides and chemicals are gone around by eating organic. Most people pursuing healthy lifestyles and eating fruits and vegetables generally do know about the differences between organic and not.

As to her other point on sugar, we eat food for more than just energy - we eat them for nutrients. And fruits and vegetables, while they shouldn't be the only source of food in a diet, are incredibly nutrient dense. Which makes them GOOD.

3) No problems here. Its one of my biggest pet peeve in the yogurt industry. Its been years and still pissed Greek Yogurt jumped on the low-fat bandwagon.

4) Cleanses and Detoxes - she only focused on commercial ones. While in (2), she complains about chemicals and toxins slowing weight loss, she says no to cleanses and detoxes and doesn't even mention natural and balanced cleanses with limited chemicals, toxins, and sugars... which dovetails into her next point...

5) Elimination diets - Cutting foods is a means to find a food sensitivity. The goal of an elimination diet isn't supposed to be weight loss (which she never addresses), but is about finding food sensitivities or even to break dependence and ... Detoxing! Which, depending on the detox diet, can aid with this:
"The reason why people have food sensitivities and problems with digestion is not the food but the gut bacteria. When that’s corrected you should be able to digest food. And when you reduce that inflammation, you can then lose weight" (from #5 slide)

6) Calories In / Calories Out - I largely am not a fan of calories in/calories out, a calorie is a calorie. Macros are more than calories to our bodies - they aid in different functions... And while it is possible to lose weight by treating a calorie as a calorie, it is not possible to remain healthy by treating a calorie as a calorie. However, 3500 calories burned doesn't always mean you burned 1 lb of fat. Sometimes it means you burned some fat and some muscle. And its very difficult to micro-manage those differences so we are ONLY burning fat in 3500 calories lost.

7) Gluten Free - no problems here except HYPOCRITE!!! (see # 5)

8) Probiotics - I don't know enough about it. All I know is they are good to take after a round of antibiotics and can help in gut health and bloating in combination with healthy fiber

9) Fad Diets - duh.

10) "Over" exercising - she doesn't describe over-exercising. She describes exercising. From experience with trying to eat healthy, dealing with cravings, and working in exercising, exercise helps facilitate the hormone production that changing from unhealthy eating habits can deprive your brain of. Nixxing baked goods, cheese, fried foods deplete you of a "feel good" hormone that leaves you feeling deprived and craving a fix. Exercise can alleviate that by producing new (and sometimes the same) "feel good" hormones. Exercise changes your brain chemistry, making healthy eating feel more natural and less like your swimming up a waterfall.

My thoughts =p

No problems here. Its one of my biggest pet peeve in the yogurt industry. Its been years and still pissed Greek Yogurt jumped on the low-fat bandwagon.

Really? Because I've looked at the sugar content in all yogurts that I have bought and just so you know the plain non fat Chobani Greek and their "blended" non fat yogurt have the same amount of sugar: 4g. The only difference is the non fat uses skim milk. The fruit filled ones on the other hand have a TON of sugar in them. Strawberry for example has 23 grams for just 1 cup!

T-Nation just did one on 10 Dieting mistakes women keep making. (least I think it's new- it was new on my feed)

as usual it's a little inflammatory- but I felt it was actually solid enough to pass on.

Took a solid stab on the "emotional eating" aspect which I thought was really good- since yes- a big thing with diets it's people eat their emotions- men and women a like.

T nation has taught me a lot. This article in OP was ridiculous.