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Originally posted by valkyrie
I am REALLY sick of low carb everything and all the "Atkins friendly" stuff I see everywhere. The whole fad diet thing just doesn't make sense to me at all -- the only thing that makes sense is eating the most natural, unprocessed foods possible and everything in moderation (not that I necessarily do that, but I try). I'm a vegetarian anyway, so you're never going to see me doing a "high protein" diet.
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Agreed.
If you want to lose weight, do it the old-fashioned way -- count your damn calories. The time in my life where I was losing the most weight, I was eating complete trash -- doughnuts, ice cream, bagels loaded with cream cheese, grilled cheese sandwiches. I just didn't eat a lot of it. Did I lose weight? Sure, lots of it. Was it good for me? No way.
Most recent study I read compared a group of dieters on a low-fat diet and one on a low-carb diet. The low-carb group lost faster at the beginning, but actually put some of that weight back on by the end of the study. By the end each group averaged the exact same amount of weight loss. But I think it's the fact that you tend to lose fast at the beginning that keeps a lot of people on Atkins -- because they see results. And if that works for them, great. It's just not going to work for me. I've spent way too long screwing around with diets and disordered eating and exercise patterns to go on a diet that I can't live with. The most important thing for me is to make permanent changes that I can sustain.
And I'm sick of people ripping on those who drink diet Cokes with Big Macs. I mean, yeah, obviously it's not a good way to diet. But if you replace regular Coke with diet and you're drinking one can a day (lots of people drink more than one can) you're saving, what, 150 calories a day? Over a thousand calories a week? It adds up.