Kyberneticist wrote:
Hrm … this page seems to have the same type of slant as I might expect from the Zone Diet or Atkins Diet webpage. Namely, “This is my diet. See how good it is? The experts were/are all wrong! Buy into my program!”
How well-documented are the “glycemic index” calculations for various foods, outside the fad-diet community? The comments on Rick Mendosa’s table at http://www.mendosa.com/gilists.htm imply that these data were just thrown together.
When it comes to dieting or any other of life’s difficulties, I think that the wonderful folks at AlAnon say it best when they say:
Let go and let God. And pass the cake.
I second this. I am currently trying to lose weight using Weight Watchers At Work (I always swore “group weight loss” was ridiculous, but this was too easy not to try, and doing it alone wasn’t working). The thing that they keep hammering home is that you shouldn’t look upon it as changing your diet to lose weight. You eat to take care of your body. Same with exercise. So yes, as others have said, you need to concentrate on eating healthily, for the rest of your life. Not just until you can fit into those old pants again.
You’ve only got one body; where are you going to live if you don’t take care of it?
Eating well for longer, happier life is a more appealing concept than regarding diet & exercise as a punishment for excess flesh.
The beauty of it is, doing this is such a marked change from my former eating habits, the pounds are coming off. Okay, a measly 7 lbs so far, but I’ll take what I can get.
I’m not advocating WW, necessarily. But I am advocating NOT going for a diet that is meant to be followed only for a little while, or is too restrictive to stick with in the long term. The carb addicts diet, for example, is something I think I could do forever if I got better at figuring out how to make two meals a day low-carb. As it is right now, however, portion control and increased fiber is working on this ol’ bod.
Sorry, I just grabbed a page that looked fairly well documented. The reason being is that for the life of me I cannot remember the title of the book I read on the Glycemic index diet. I do know that it got a fairly positive review in either Science News or Science about half a year back, which is when I first read about it (researchers learning some surprising things about rate of sugar absorption for different foods).