No, what he’s saying is that, in the end, it’s all a matter of calories gained and calories burned. As long as you’re getting a healthy balance of food, it’s all different ways to spin “eat less than you burn”.
Seriously, most diet books are about 20 pages of content with 200 pages of filler. Whether that filler is saying the same thing over and over again, recipes, anecdotes or pretty pictures, depends on the writer.
Having said that, from what I’ve skimmed from the Amazon write-up, it looks like a load of horseshit.
Add me to the list of people that thought it was about Maker’s Mark. Now that’s a diet I can get behind. Or a diet I can lay down on the floor for, or something like that
So, it would seem that newcrasher is either too new here to have developed any skill in skepticism, or newcrasher is merely a shill for “doctor” Jordan Rubin’s scam.
We don’t need any shills. However, some initial gullibility will be tolerated if the newbie is willing to learn. Which is it, stranger?
Well, I don’t know the exact details of the actual diet, but if it is a “biblical diet” that would be practically synonomous with a “Mediterranean Diet”. I think there could be some health benefits from a diet consisting largely of fruits and vegetables, dairy, and wholegrains accompanied by comparably small amounts of meat.
Not only that, but many perfectly intellegent people let reason go out the window when it comes to the all-important goal of becoming an “acceptable” weight.
That said, it looks like an unnecessarily complex way to try to lose weight. The most likely route to success as mentioned before is that you should eat foods you like in reasonable quanities and eat fewer (kilo)calories than you burn. Nothing drastic necessary. The difference in calories need not be drastic. Including exercise is a good idea for burning calories and general fitness. Some people need to address food abuse issues before they can even think about going down the “lose weight” road in a reasonable and sane manner. Other folks will have other obstacles. Counting approximate calories eaten and utilized (the latter of which can be confusing sometimes because of individual metabolic variances) is free and doesn’t have to be complicated.
Well, this is my opinion only…but I frequent a number of message boards and I see a lot of posts whose entire content is “Title says it all…” or “per title”. In every case, it seems to turn out that there is in fact more information required to give a good answer, and in far too many of these threads, people felt annoyed, insulted, or used by the original poster’s apparently lazy and perfunctory approach. No “thanks in advance,” no clarification, no qualification, no link, not even a full sentence.
From what I see on game-related boards, I associate this sort of OP with teenage boys with poor communication skills.
Of course, I know nothing about you personally, I am just explaining why I find this sort of post obnoxious. Please underrstand I’m not trying to bait you; you did ask.