Stupid Diet Advice

[Nuzzolese]

"Don't buy diet foods or fat free products - because they're loaded with calories and you'll over-indulge"

I disagree. Sometimes this advice is offered without an explanation. I'd like to address the explanation by saying that, as to the former reason, these foods usually have fewer calories than full-fat versions; as to the latter, that's assuming quite a bit to base a general suggestion around it! You assume that just because I'm fat, it's because I have no self control? Maybe I just like butter, jerk.


"Chew gum to stop cravings."

This actually makes you hungrier because it activates your salivary glands and triggers your stomach to get ready to digest by producing acids and other reactions only to leave your stomach unsatisfied by the food that never reaches it.


"Don't diet"

Whatever, dude!

[Echewta]

Big Mac, Large Fries, Apple Pie, and a small diet coke please.

[yeahwho]

The dairy diet will do wonders for your waistline, whenever you have anything to eat try and include something that comes from a cows udder.

[monkey]

fat free or reduced fat products, and sugar free products do not satiate the way full fat/full sugar products do. the advice comes from the fact that you are more likely to eat less full fat/full sugar products than its fat free/sugar free counterpart because those counterparts are less filling and taste less... yummy. this is only if you're not the type of person to do portion control. if you eat the same portion, whether it's full fat or fat free, then it doesn't really matter if you're satiated, now does it?

and the whole "don't diet" thing makes sense if you're a person who knows how to eat healthy, who listens to their body in regards to how much food it needs and what would calm down the hungry bear inside of them and thats it. not how much would them so full they could burst, and not eating just because something tastes good and it's there. it's a matter of treating your body well and giving it fuel and occasionally treating it to a little bit of ice cream for being so awesome. :)

[nodanaonlyzuul]

and the whole "don't diet" thing makes sense if you're a person who knows how to eat healthy, who listens to their body in regards to how much food it needs and what would calm down the hungry bear inside of them and thats it. not how much would them so full they could burst, and not eating just because something tastes good and it's there. it's a matter of treating your body well and giving it fuel and occasionally treating it to a little bit of ice cream for being so awesome. :)

(y)

I exercise and eat healthier in general, but still eat the 'bad' stuff sometimes, and people have been telling me I lost weight and look pretty fantastic right now. It can be done, most definitely. I'll never be Victoria's Secret supermodel thin (for that you have to be SUPER strict, at least for my body I would have to) but f- that. Some days I want a cookie so I'm eating a damned cookie.

Na'mean?

[Yetra Flam]

my somewhat recent change into living healthy is starting to seem like total bullshit. being healthy has made my body look a little too healthy and full figured. fuck that shit.

[funk63]

anorexia

[TOY]

Everything in moderation!

[b i o n i c]

fact: diet soda makes you hungry/huungrier

[hpdrifter]

I don't bother with that stuff anymore. It's just a stop on the road to eat in moderation, exercise, and learn to be happy with what results from that.

[Nuzzolese]

Fat blocker pills.

People need to realize that if the fat goes in and you don't allow it to stay, it has to come out. How do you think that's going to happen?

[jabumbo]

dookie!!!