I know I said I was going to stop obsessing over my weight and what I eat, but as I also said, it's hard to break a decades-old habit. Since I started reading the new book by Gary Taubes, Why We Get Fat, I've been thinking about dropping all the healthy carbs the McDougall program says to eat and start loading up on animal products.
Then I saw a few posts from adamant low-carbers saying that while the food plan may work quite nicely in the beginning for weight loss (as most weight loss food plans do), eventually the weight loss stalls and regains happen. It happened to the #1 low-carber in America Jimmy Moore, according to this blogger, and back in 2009 the blog called Diabetes Update said the same thing.
Those of us who had been dieting for weight loss for decades KNOW that this happens, no matter what food plan is followed. Calories in/calories out doesn't account for the metabolism slowing down to accomodate the lower amount of calories to maintain homeostasis, that as time goes on, if we want to continue to lose weight we must eat even less, exercise even more. For those of us who have to eat 1000 calories and under plus exercise an hour or more a day just to lose 1 pound a week, it's impossible to eat less, do more, than that. Already at that level we're running into nutritional deficiencies and the long term problems that go along with them, as well as setting ourselves up for musculo-skeletal system injuries. Recent articles on-line are saying how my generation, the Baby Boomers, are getting joint replacements in record numbers. Yeah, it's my generation that's over-working our bodies in the quest to lose weight, to stay young!
Doesn't it just make more sense to follow the Health At Every Size guidelines and just stay off the scale?
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