Menu and recipe changes to maintain weight loss?
By maclinda
@maclinda (91)
United States
March 18, 2007 6:54am CST
If you've had a successful weight loss, how have you changed your menus or cooking style to maintain it?
I have a weight loss clinic, and I always advise my patients to watch their weight closely when they enter the maintenance phase, and take action if they regain 3 pounds.
How have you changed your food to maintain your loss?
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@princess07031980 (5412)
• United States
18 Mar 07
OK, this is going to go alittle off subject, but because you have a weight loss clinic, I have always wondered. Which of these diets are marketably and statisticly the best?-Low cal, low carb, low fat. I am not overwieght, and do not need to diet, but have always been curious to which one is most effective and which one has the longest running success rate.
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@maclinda (91)
• United States
18 Mar 07
There is no one "best" diet. What needs to be done is go over the person's usual food intake, and look for patterns.
What I see most often is a person drinking lots of diet soda and refined carbohydrates. Haven't yet seen one who overindulges in green beans-lol
Now, low carb diets do seem to give the fastest weight loss. Why? Because most carbs people eat are very fattening. Cut those out, add some exercise and you get a good weight loss.
BUT--if, at the end of their "diet" they go right back to loads of white bread, potato chips washed down with a Coke, and platefuls of macaroni and cheese, guess what? The weight comes right back on. This is where people say "my diet didn't last". More correctly would be, you went back to the eating patterns that made you fat in the first place.
Low fat diets aren't often satisfactory because many low fat foods have had sugar added to make them taste better. Sugar is a very refined carb source.
Whew! this may be more information than you bargained for. I think I might need to start a new thread!
@princess07031980 (5412)
• United States
18 Mar 07
LOL, no, you did an excellent job! I have just met so many people who have been on so many diets, and I am like, man how do you do that? (Like the low carb-never for me!!) One of my neighbor's moms was recently telling me she was on a 1000 calorie diet. So the next day, I read labels like a mad woman adding up what I eat in day. (Not including fresh produce, because I don't know the nutritional content in fruit and vegetables per serving.) I added up to 1000 by after lunch! And then I have seen those people that eat fat free milk, fat free cereals, fat free yogurts, fat free lunchmeats.....that diet is no good either! I have had some fat free foods, and they are pretty gross for the most part-LOL. Thank you very much for your info-and another thread wouldn't be a bad idea! Let me know if you get it started!!
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@beaniegdi (1964)
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18 Mar 07
I think that is good advice as it makes it easier than if you slip back into bad habits.
The best advice I have had is this, eat when you are hungry, eat somethng you want and not something you think you should eat, chew your food fully, slow down the rate of time you chew by at least 25% and fully enjoy the taste of the food, put down your knife and fork between mouthfulls and do not pick them up again until you have fully chewed and enjoyed and swallowed each mouth full. Watch for the first signs of feeling full, we are trained to eat past that and we need to find tht feeling again, when you notice that full feeling notice that if you continue to eat beyond that tht the food does nt taste as good. realise that food tastes better when we are hungry and does not taste as good when we are full. always leave some food on your plate, never finish the whole plate as this tells our mind that there is no shortage of food so we don't need to overeat and store food as fat, which is what we do in a famine.
Try to eat fresh foods not processed foods as these contain hidden fats etc that can make even small portions high calorie. Excersise each day, walking being one of the best excersises, eat for health, love yourself as you are whatever your size, don't diet make life changes.
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