So when is a diet not a diet? can you take a "fad" diet and make it a life style change? I don't like to say the word diet, as soon as you mention the word, you are leaving yourself wide open for everyone's opinion of what is good and what is not, you will receive more negativity than support, especially if this is "Diet #139" and you yourself will be having doubts and feeling deprived. I hate the word "diet" I prefer to think that I am changing the way I eat and what I eat that is sustainable for the rest of my life (now that I have found what works for me!), and trust me it has taken a long time, but I feel I am managing not only my weight but my health and diabetes too so it is not a diet it is a life style change.
Having said that I still read the diets and recipes that flood the Facebook pages, and I will recommend to anyone that asks, the way to go for optimum health and weight loss is Low carb high fat, I know a lot of people are scared by the term "high fat" but you should not be scared of the saturated fats that are good for you, it took the health professionals over 30 years to realize the advice on low fat anything and canola and vegetable oils was wrong! and in fact the wrong oils combined with sugar is what causes the inflammation that causes the heart problems, so what do you think about the health officials now? (for 30-40 years they have been feeding the public with the wrong information and making the nation fatter and sicker!) I know they make me angry, but what can you do the damage has been done, now it is up to you to undo as much of that damage as you can but working out which diet or "life style" works best for you and live with it, and not only will you be healthier but a whole lot happier. So how do you find what works for you? I did many years ago try the Atkins diet, the original Atkins designed by Dr Robert Atkins, I glossed over the details of the diet and stayed on the induction stage of the diet for way longer than I should have, I felt the diet was very restrictive and I felt deprived, but now I know this was because I hadn't kicked the sugar habit before I started, and if you are still craving sugar you will fail at all attempts to make your diet a life style change. I did lose weight and a fair bit of weight too about 17 kilos but it took about 4 months and I was unhappy, and when the weight started to go back on, I was even more unhappier, so I look at the Atkins as a fail for me, I didn't sustain the diet and I didn't keep the weight off. I am not trying to turn anyone off going on Atkins as it is primarily a Low carb diet, but it needed some tweaking and my taste buds needed to be sugar free, which they are now, and I basically live an Atkins lifestyle, i don't have carbs like (bread, potato, pasta, rice, SUGAR) but I get a small amount of carbs daily from my vegetable juices which is the key for me, when I was on Atkins I could have bacon and eggs, and meat and lots of veges, but I didn't like the taste of the veges, and I got sick of bacon and eggs (I know that sounds unbelievable, who gets sick of bacon right?) but if you have the same thing over and over you will get sick of it! [when I was 16 I went on a Israeli Army diet, which consisted eat apples for 2 days, then cheese for 2 days, boiled chicken for 2 days finishing with salad for 2 days, well back then I didn't like cheese so I went 4 days eating nothing but apples and to this day I can't eat an apple ha ha, also i did the same with tuna, for 6 months while doing tafe I took a small can of Tuna for lunch and now I don't like tuna] luckily for me I still like eggs and bacon occasionally and more importantly is, that I discovered all those vegetables that are good for you, like spinach, Kale, zucchini broccoli, fennel, cabbage, Brussels sprouts the list goes on and on, well they taste good in a juice! so now I get all the good nutrients in a juice, add in a lemon and lime some ginger and a green apple and you have a great healthy drink that is full of nutrition and tastes good, and the carb count is low!. That saying "don't knock it till you try it", is so true, 20 years ago if you said that I could get healthy lose weight and actually not feel deprived doing it, I would say "bring it on"! but then if you handed me a green juice and said it has spinach, broccoli, cabbage, etc in it, I would say "Arrr no thanks" and I wouldn't even try it, a bit like one of my daughters now, ha ha her reaction to juicing veges is "Hell No" but I think she is young give her another 20 years and she will look at food and lifestyle in a more matured way, like I do now. For those of us that have diabetes it is a juggling act, to find the right amount that works for you, something that you can call a life style not a diet, no one wants to diet for the rest of their life, especially when people scrutinize, every thing you eat once you proclaim to be on a diet, it is like they take it upon themselves to be your "guardian of the gob" put a handful of nuts in your mouth and on cue you will hear "should you be eating that?" and you should be grateful that someone cares enough, but it doesn't feel like that at the time because no one likes to be told what to do, and to be honest you have to take control of your own health, you have to want to lose weight more than you want the bar of chocolate or the cupcake, you have to make sacrifices, that you think you can't live without until you do and realise that you didn't need it, or want it afterall, and the bottom line is, you have to learn "Eat to Live" not "Live to Eat"
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Wendy MeersI am a mother of two grown daughters, 3 beautiful grand-babies. Retired freelance Web Designer and a Sugar Free - Juicing Crusader& Keto supporter Archives
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