Skinny School

You need 50 g of carbs to have 50 g of carbs. You need 15 g of sugar to have 15 g of sugar. 1000 g of fat is zero carbs, and zero sugar and also 1000 g of protein is zero carbs and zero sugar. For that matter, 1000 g of 200 Proof Everclear is zero carbs and zero sugar. I'd love to be supportive, but you are not helping.

Okay, so I looked it up. It's a book being flogged by someone named Julie Gordon. The book's title is:

"Skinny School: Where Women Learn the Secrets to Finally Get Thin Forever."

Another riveting book that's available by the same author:

"Wife School: Where Women Learn the Secrets of Making Husbands Happy."

M'okay.


Edited to add: The author's educational background is in Journalism and Family & Marriage Counselling. No idea what qualifies her to put out a book on nutrition or dieting, though.

kathynorton12758 wrote: »

I thought this might be a place to get help, but I'll look elsewhere.

Sometimes the help you get isn't just limited to the help you expected, though.

This is an extremely supportive community that's passionate about helping people reach their weight management goals, and is frequented by many members who *are* experts in the field.

As such, whenever a new method/diet/pill/supplement/exercise/whatever gets mentioned, the community will attempt to uncover what's behind the reason a thread about it (like this one) was started in the first place. No offence to you was intended. This is a public forum and by posing your questions you open yourself up to replies that you might not agree with.

I hope you choose to stick around and learn that weight management doesn't have to be complicated to work beautifully.

You might just want to log your current food patterns, to see how the macronutrients stack up. Might be more sustainable if you make smaller changes over a longer time period. Once heard a "Don't do anything to lose weight that you aren't willing to do to maintain the loss" bit of sound advice some time ago,.

@kathynorton12758 ...Don't leave just yet! This is really easy.

When you set up your MFP profile, it will give you a daily calorie goal and a generic macro split. You want to keep that calorie goal, but just tweak your macros to fit the 50g carb goal. I'd start by just decreasing my carbs and also bumping up my protein and fat goals until I hit that same calorie goal. How you allocate the extra calories (from decreasing your carbs) between protein and fat is really individualized, so I would just guess at first, and then see how you feel after about 2 weeks. As long as your overall calorie target is good, you'll lose weight; the way you break out those calories between carbs, protein and fat is entirely up to you and how you like to eat.

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wolfe1234 wrote: »

snickerscharlie wrote: »

This ... is frequented by many members who *are* experts in the field.

I'm sorry, but that's poppycock and you shouldn't be claiming people on this forum are experts. This is a community of enthusiastic amateurs, some of whom know a little more than others.
While some on this forum constantly clamour for peer-reviewed studies and rubbish the reputations of qualified medical professionals, they are noticeably quiet about publicizing any credentials of their own.
Feel free to prove me wrong though. Anyone?

I did not claim that all the members here were experts. But there are many who make their living as professionals in the relevant fields. Just because they don't pull the call to authority card and preface each bit of advice with their curriculum vitae does not mean they aren't qualified to give the advice that they do. It's pretty easy to discern who knows what they're talking about, and who doesn't.

Since you clearly disparage the forums and the help freely given here, may I ask why you remain?