Most of the things you are saying are okay are the things that the people I know are going to Weight Watchers for, specifically.
The -only- way I have ever lost weight was by keeping track of what went into my mouth, and holding myself responsible for it. I am an emotional eater, I eat when I'm bored, I eat too much when I eat. And keeping track, which to you seems obsessive and unhealthy is, for -me-, the only way I can curb that.
And obviously, if someone goes on a meal plan of some sort, and is careful what they eat and how much of it they eat, and then loses 20 or 30 or 40 pounds, and then goes back to eating the same way they did before, they're going to gain it back. What is needed is not a "diet", but a lifetime reevaluation of how and what a person eats. Something sustainable. Forever.
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Date: 2005-09-09 12:08 pm (UTC)The -only- way I have ever lost weight was by keeping track of what went into my mouth, and holding myself responsible for it. I am an emotional eater, I eat when I'm bored, I eat too much when I eat. And keeping track, which to you seems obsessive and unhealthy is, for -me-, the only way I can curb that.
And obviously, if someone goes on a meal plan of some sort, and is careful what they eat and how much of it they eat, and then loses 20 or 30 or 40 pounds, and then goes back to eating the same way they did before, they're going to gain it back. What is needed is not a "diet", but a lifetime reevaluation of how and what a person eats. Something sustainable. Forever.