[quote=CardiffBaseball]OC my only problem is the insistence that eating fat (I am cutting out the sweets part) is what causes fat. There is plenty of evidence out there that the growth in starchy foods is the bigger culprit.
Now when I say starches I include the HFCS type foods which, as you point out, are probably heavily represented in the restaurant industry.
Eating fat is quite satiating and tends to keep one from splurging later. If the complaint is that the variety is lacking, then yes this is true… However one could eat a hunk of steak at each meal 3-4 times a day with some broccoli and possibly a small portion of a brown rice and do perfectly fine despite the fat content in the beef.
Now, I might agree that if you ate a Qtr Pounder from McDonalds every day 3 times a day, you are likely getting a piece of beef that was drenched in salt. Thus it won’t hurt you occasionally but daily intake might not be so good.
Eggs, Cheese, Butter, Red Meat, broccoli, and 1-2 pieces of fruit a day is actually a pretty damn smart way to eat if you can handle the boredom. Chicken as well as long as you don’t get too hungry (because the lack of fat makes it less filling)
The key is you have to cut calories and do it in a way that keeps you going. If you want to go all-low-fat and you like eating that way more power to you, nothing wrong with it, but there are some eating a fairly high fat-content who are otherwise pretty damn healthy. (Check out the folks at Zero-Carb the leader runs half-marathons).[/quote]
People who train for half marathons are going to be thin pretty much no matter what they eat and many of them do it to cope with eating disorders.It’s pretty hard to eat and run at the same time. If they don’t make other changes, they will be fat again when they can’t run. Many moderate people who exercise much less never gain weight. I would want to take notes from the latter group.
I don’t think the food “this or that” is so much at the issue.
If people ate somewhere in the ballpark of what they need and are moderately active that would take care of it for most. Dieting and extreme excercise or any of the other “solutions” would not be necessary. I think this is really where it’s nice to be.
But we don’t.We eat too much of the right and the wrong things.
Here are some things I think might help:
Tired = go to bed.
Bored= Do something interesting
Other feelings= Deal w/your life
Hungry= eat something,and most of the time have it be something recognizable as part of an animal or plant.
Of course for the eating part there needs to be occasional adjustment something short of a Yo Yo syndrome. Almost everyone eats and drinks too much sometimes, including habitually thin, relatively healthy people. If it doesn’t tend to just average out with periods accidental under eating and the occasional super healthy meals with your prius driving liberal friends, then a few moderate adjustments can be made. Special diets always seem to work best for the guru preaching them who are often making a living off that preaching. Of course running the half marathons might actually be what makes it appear to work.
