Eat This, Not That....Chuck Full of Malarkey!

WinoGelato wrote: »

Thanks for posting this - it's a good summary of what is NOT necessary in order to lose weight.

I never even realized that site had more than just the food comparisons. My hairdresser used to have those books laying around while people were waiting and I've thumbed through them a few times. The part that gets me is that they often try to compare something which is meant to have multiple portions, to an individualized item. Granted, there are often portions at a restaurant that are oversized, and certainly many are very calorie dense, but it drives me crazy that they play on the sensationalism of the 2000 calorie Bloomin Onion and compare it to a single portion of Coconut Shrimp for 600 calories...

shell1005 wrote: »

robertw486 wrote: »

But all the people who want excuses rather than results need web sites like that. Should we be critical of those that want some comfort in a pillow to cry on?























Why yes. Yes we should!

That's the rub isn't it. When I first started my weight loss plan or as many controversially put it, my journey....I probably believed half of those things on the list. I spent a lot of time convincing myself that I needed to do this or that in order to find weight loss success. Don't go more than 3 hours without eating....you'll crash your metabolism. Mix up your calories during the week to trick your metabolism. Don't eat after 7pm or all your food will instantly turn to fat. Don't do the same workouts every week or your body will adjust and you'll never lose weight. Don't eat processed foods because your body will treat it like crack. I was a food addict and could not control myself around my trigger foods. I could go on and on and on. Not only did I believe this things, but I was a passionate defender.

While on the outside you would think those things didn't hurt me, etc....but I would make the case that they did. I convinced myself that so many things were not only good for health, but an absolute necessity to meet my weight loss goals. I was setting myself up to not be able to be successful. I couldn't follow all these unneeded rules. I would end up twisting myself into a pretzel and inevitably finding that weight loss was impossible. It felt pointless to try when I seemed destined to fail.

When I came sniffing around MFP this time I spent a lot of time lurking and listening. I saw some people that seemed to have a lot of success and the things they were saying....CRAZY TALK. They made weight loss out to be something so simple....as eating less than you burn. I waved their simplicity away, but I let it hang out in my brain. I couldn't let go of those rigid rules. Those things promised to bring me success. But the long and the short of it was those people had success and I just had the promise of success, but no real success.

I started listening to their threads more....reading their research and science. It was making sense. Could this be true? No. Couldn't be. And then I slowly started to put my toe in the water of the land of CICO, eat less than you burn. And....I also found success.

My awareness was raising little by little. The light bulbs were going off. The pounds were also coming off. And as this was happening, I started to see all the weight loss scams and fads for what they were....ways to make money off the fat and desperate. What is at the end of each one of those Eat This, Not That articles....an ad for their No Belly Diet program. So, what is the gain for believing that all those things ruin your metabolism??? Well, they will fix it for you if you just pay some money and follow their program.

Or...your metabolism isn't ruined. And you already have the tools for success.