| ladybugnessa
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the June 2007 issue cover story for Consumer Reports is "Rating the Diets"
Basic stuff:
"the basic formula for losing weight has not changed: Consume fewer caloreis than you burn about 500 fewer every day, to lose about a pound a week."
1. eat breafast
2. choose and LIMIT your fat
3. eat healthfully-but sparingly
4. crank up the activity (
5. consider cutting carbs
6. fill up on low-density foods (soup or salad to start the meal)
7. weigh yourself at least weekly
8. bore yourself thin (eat the same things over and over)
three things to avoid
1. diet pills
2. banning particular foods or requiring special foods (angel and devil foods)
3. the glycemic index (remember that lean proteins, healthy fats and high fiber fruits, veggies and grains slow down glucouse absorption)
top rated diet was The Volumetrics Eating Plan"
weight watchers was second
jenny craig third
I get the impression that the evaluators didn't really understand SBD... as they rated it only fair nutritionally and referred to it as a 'slightly more permissive version of the Atkins diet"
it did receive bad ratings for a 'too short exercise section" and "unusual ingredients" in the recipes.
very interesting... |
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Thu May 03, 2007 1:30 am |
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| Lady T
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| I so do not agree with #8. For me, that was a very slippery slope. |
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Thu May 03, 2007 6:30 am |
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| ladybugnessa
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Lady T wrote: I so do not agree with #8. For me, that was a very slippery slope.
well their basic premise was gthat variety stimulates the appetie "so steer clear of buffet tables, which can be the dieter's worst enemy"
well NO DUH! |
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Thu May 03, 2007 9:30 am |
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| LegalBeagle
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Why should you avoid the glycemic index? Slowing absortion of glucose helps keep you from being hungry all the time.
Jenny Craig and Weight Watchers BOTH have glycemic index versions (WW's is The Core, which is almost just like SB in many respects). So if they rate those plans so highly, why do they say avoid the glycemic index???
I can't understand how regular WW would be better nutritionally than SB, either. I mean, on points, you can eat anything you want as long as you don't exceed your daily/weekly points allotment. So there's really no incentive to eat healthy at all, unless you just want to. |
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Thu May 03, 2007 1:39 pm |
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| ladybugnessa
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I agree. the article is not as in depth as i would like and i'm not sure what the criteria was.
the magazine is at home. they did diet books..vs diet books then then plans like Jenny Craig and weight watchers... but they had atkins in with JC and WW... i have to look at it more. |
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Thu May 03, 2007 1:51 pm |
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| Lynt
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Obviously they don't undertand it at all. I'm trying to think of one unhealthy or counter productive thing I have eaten today and can't. I have had every food group and the amount of veggies I am supposed to have, all of it cooked from scratch from fresh foods, I've had water, and have exercised. As I do every day of the four months I have been following this WOE..during which I have lost 18-19lbs so far, depending on what day it is. They can say whatever..I'm experienced in the WOE, and the results of same.
It's all irrelevent anyway..SB is not a diet, it's a way of life. So it doesn't belong in their diet ratings. I could crash off the weight many ways, bore myself to death indeed on the same fare day after day, starve on the minimum points WW would allow me at this stage, and yep, I'd lose. But I wouldn't be able to stand it long term..not the plastic food, not the starvation rations, not the boredom of an uninteresting and repetitive diet. so when I reached goal I'd drop kick the diet and return with a sigh of relief to "normal eating"..like most of them do. Instead, I'll enjoy the beach, lose slowly and healthfully, and keep it off by the healthy eating and exercise I've learned to love. |
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Thu May 03, 2007 11:31 pm |
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| <3.Nikki.<3
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*scratches head* Atkin's puts your body into starvation mode.. Atkin's TELLS you that too. Not only is bread limited, but so are veggies and stuff. SB only is limiting in Phase 1.. past that it's more of a "know your own body" thing. It gives you a blank slate to build up your nutrition with.
And I'm sorry but any plan that requires you to buy their food and eat only that (a la Jenny Craig) isn't as feasible as one that requires you to make your own meals/plan for your own. A good diet should be sustainable indefinitely, which SB is.
Of course I'm preaching to the Choir here, I do think that evaluation is unfair though. |
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Fri May 04, 2007 2:12 am |
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| Kimboroni
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Most of the advice is good. I, too, disagree with "bore yourself thin." You can eat plenty of variety but still avoid the buffet table. We had salads all week for lunch this week, but a different kind every day (Cajun, Caesar, Lime/Avocado/Cilantro, Ham/Dill, and one other). If I always ate the same thing, I'd bore myself right off the plan.
It also doesn't make any sense to suggest avoiding the glycemic index, when the next thing they say comes right from glycemic-based eating: "remember that lean proteins, healthy fats and high fiber fruits, veggies and grains slow down glucose absorption." That's exactly what we do here at the Beach.
But it is generally good.
Strange that it's so difficult for most reviewers to really "get" SB. It's so healthy. I eat way more fruit and veggies than I did before. I was never a sweets eater-- just too many starches, so I eat less of those, but only whole grains and low sugar when I do. I eat good fats and lean protein. I haven't even had any artificial sweeteners for nearly a year. What's not to like? |
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Fri May 04, 2007 11:18 pm |
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| DarkChocolate
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| The only thing I can think of is that the book itself isn't as clear as it could be. There are a lot of things that "newbies" don't know after reading the book, and then learn once they come here (or to the paid site, I assume). |
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Sat May 05, 2007 10:24 am |
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| Lynt
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| That's true, DarkChocolate..the book by itself can be unclear in certain areas without the clarification provided when one asks questions here (or elsewhere). What I always remember most from the book are the pages of testimonials (which have little to do with how I am to follow the diet) a daily menu derived of things I can't easily get up here in the back of beyond so I never used the menus, and the claim that one loses 8 to 15 lbs in P-1. It's a great diet plan, it does work (although usually not any 8-15lbs in P1) and Dr. A did us all a great service by devising the plan and writing the book. I love SBD! But if I hadn't had y'all to ask questions of, and to recieve suggestions from, I wouldn't understand the diet as well as I do, nor do I feel I would have succeeded as well as I have. So I guess if the book is all the surveyors had to go on, it's understandable that they are unclear re what it's about. |
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Sat May 05, 2007 12:26 pm |
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| dgurba
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Lynt wrote: Obviously they don't undertand it at all. I'm trying to think of one unhealthy or counter productive thing I have eaten today and can't. I have had every food group and the amount of veggies I am supposed to have, all of it cooked from scratch from fresh foods, I've had water, and have exercised. As I do every day of the four months I have been following this WOE..during which I have lost 18-19lbs so far, depending on what day it is. They can say whatever..I'm experienced in the WOE, and the results of same.
It's all irrelevent anyway..SB is not a diet, it's a way of life. So it doesn't belong in their diet ratings. I could crash off the weight many ways, bore myself to death indeed on the same fare day after day, starve on the minimum points WW would allow me at this stage, and yep, I'd lose. But I wouldn't be able to stand it long term..not the plastic food, not the starvation rations, not the boredom of an uninteresting and repetitive diet. so when I reached goal I'd drop kick the diet and return with a sigh of relief to "normal eating"..like most of them do. Instead, I'll enjoy the beach, lose slowly and healthfully, and keep it off by the healthy eating and exercise I've learned to love.
All this post needs is a ONE WORD reply......AMEN! |
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