Eating healthier - loosing weight. What works for others?

[Charles]

Originally Posted by elnina

To find out what worked for them read here:

Best Diet Tips | Losing Weight - Consumer Reports

Depends on how you define "worked". That article pointed out the 2000 or so participants' favorite diet and the reason they wanted to lose weight. I don't think it mentioned anything of long term success which is the only criteria that counts. Anybody can lose weight but very few keep it off long term.

[MUTGR]

Originally Posted by TXboomerang

I increased fat intake, dropped carb intake, and stopped counting calories.

You hit on something that our country needs to get over before we make progress: increased fat intake.

Natural "fat" has been so demonized and wrongly so. The science behind the anti-fat craze is bunk, but sadly, still generally accepted.

The government allows the mega-food producers to stick little heart friendly stickers on boxes of cereal full of sugar and at the same time try to tell you you'll die if you eat a couple of eggs and a slice of bacon for breakfast. Madness.

[AnonChick]

The government isn't telling anyone that. The FDA, in their own words, tell you that eating a plate of 8 strips of bacon, 3 eggs fried in butter, two buttermilk biscuits with gravy, a 12-ounce glass of orange fruit drink with sugar/corn syrup as the second ingredient after water, 4 breakfast sausage links, and a fist-sized portion of hashed browns every morning...

plus half a fried chicken, 2 ears of corn with butter, more biscuits with gravy, mashed potatoes, hamhocks and collard greens, and followed with sweet potato pie for dessert...

is eventually going to put you in the hospital. Whether it's for broken bones because your body can no longer support your weight, or clogged arteries, or high blood pressure, or a heart attack, or an aneurism from the stress of carrying yourself, or back pain, torn ligaments, diabetes...etc. etc. etc.

Now granted, eating healthy is no guarantee you won't get any of these illnesses anyway. But eating all that crap on a daily basis is nearly (notice that word? Nearly? It means - not always, but close) guaranteed to result in at least one of the above ailments that warrant a visit to the local critical care unit/hospital.

[MUTGR]

Originally Posted by AnonChick

The government isn't telling anyone that. The FDA, in their own words, tell you that eating a plate of 8 strips of bacon, 3 eggs fried in butter, two buttermilk biscuits with gravy, a 12-ounce glass of orange fruit drink with sugar/corn syrup as the second ingredient after water, 4 breakfast sausage links, and a fist-sized portion of hashed browns every morning...

plus half a fried chicken, 2 ears of corn with butter, more biscuits with gravy, mashed potatoes, hamhocks and collard greens, and followed with sweet potato pie for dessert...

is eventually going to put you in the hospital. Whether it's for broken bones because your body can no longer support your weight, or clogged arteries, or high blood pressure, or a heart attack, or an aneurism from the stress of carrying yourself, or back pain, torn ligaments, diabetes...etc. etc. etc.

Now granted, eating healthy is no guarantee you won't get any of these illnesses anyway. But eating all that crap on a daily basis is nearly (notice that word? Nearly? It means - not always, but close) guaranteed to result in at least one of the above ailments that warrant a visit to the local critical care unit/hospital.

Saturated fat has been public enemy number one (ok, maybe down the list after smoking and a few other things) for several decades now, and I think
it has been a huge mistake. I also believe it is based on faulty science. The government has largely been behind the misguided low fat craze (see the food pyramid that was only fairly recently replaced) which happened to have coincided with our country's twin epidemics of obesity and diabetes.