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On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 21:45:19 -0600, Philip <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> if it were just as easy to lose weight by limiting calories as by
> changing the types of foods eaten then I don't think that the USwould
> have quite the obesity problem it has and conventional dietswouldn't
> fail as often as they do. We can agree to
> disagree on that one.
For what it's worth, I think the high failure rate of conventional diets
is mostly because of the people engaging in them. There are several
people I know who have been "on a diet", and it's interesting to watch
their eating choices. Several of them will have "just one bite" of a
snacky food, or have just a little too much of something figuring they'll
make it up later. All those little bits here and there really add up. I
was fanatical about recording everything I ate into a database so I know
for sure how much I was getting. If the average person dieting did that
for a month, they would probably discover that they're eating a lot more
than they think they are. I know I was.
Changing the content will probably work faster and easier *if* the person
can stomach the change in content. There are some people I know (my wife
is among them) for whom a meal just is not complete without bread, a
potato, rice, or something. It's really hard to change that mindset. Her
opinion of my diet is that there's nothing she can fix for me other than a
piece of meat and a vegetable. My opinion of my diet is that the choices
are endless (though admittedly they do tend to boil down to a piece of
meat and a vegetable). :-)
The mind is the hardest thing to change -- get *that* done and the diet is
easy.
--
Robert Kesterson
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