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NO
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Diet
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A Lifestyle for Fast &
Healthy Weight Loss
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Other
Diets
I am NOT going to
try and tell you that other diets on
the market aren't working. After all,
they all work if you can stick with
them and refuse to return to your old
ways. Let's look at some of the other
diets and see why they will not work
for us. (especially me)
Perhaps the most famous,
back in the 80' and 90's was the
American Heart Association recommended
way of eating properly. Remember the
pyramid? Low fat and high
carbohydrates. There are many authors
writing about the low fat, high
carbohydrate type of eating. I do not
want to bore you with all of their
writings. I could not make it work and
thought after a couple of years it
might be the carbs. (read on and you
will see why)
Low fat diets that say
you have to practically become a
vegetarian to lose weight are just
wrong. What is wrong with meat? How
about Eggs? Something wrong with them
also? I never believed that meat and
eggs were the wrong things to eat. I
also need dessert once in a while.
After all, 'I deserve it and I am going
to have it' (So...... There!)
The next diet I tried and
probably still the most famous is the
Atkins Diet. Does it work? Yes. My
problem was I just couldn't keep eating
the meats without the buns and no
vegetables. No pasta either. (My
Italian mother would not like that, at
all.) My brain was so ingrained to not
eating large quantities of fat that I
just could not do it ! I finally quit.
Great for the short run but in my
opinion it is just not something I can
stick with for the long haul. I would
lose weight then gain it back.
The Fad Diets (as I call
them) like the popcorn diet, pineapple
diet, pasta diet are just what the sign
says, Fads. I could not stand eating 14
different popcorns for 2 weeks or 37
ways to eat pineapple for that matter.
Now........ Pasta ! I can eat some
pasta, let me tell you. Problem was I
couldn't lose weight with it. (what a
shame)
The Zone diet. A doctor
friend of mine turned me on to it. Does
it work? Absolutely. What happened? It
was just too complicated for me to
remember. All those zones and
portioning out the food and counting,
counting, measuring. Yuk !
The old count the
calories diet. Yep! I did that for a
while, use to carry a calorie book in
my back pocket. Then came another book
I had to carry because the first book
didn't have all the foods in it. I
would go into a restaurant and start
looking at the menu and counting the
calories on a napkin. It became silly.
I was not going to start carrying an
adding machine to lose weight.
How about the Sugar
Busters Diet? Right on! Will this one
work? Yes. Trying to read the book is
almost impossible unless you're a
doctor. Of course it's written by a
doctor. (In fact, four of them. Can you
imagine getting four doctors to agree
on anything?) I am a layman, not a
doctor and books should be written for
the average person. I had a hard time
grasping what the guy was saying. If
you can't understand the written word,
you just cannot put it into
practice.
Then came the South Beach
Diet. Pretty good diet. It works. I
like it. I like mine better. Why?
Because I am not going to ask you to
memorize and carry a list of food
numbers (glycemic index) around with
you so you can eat the right items. I
am also not going to try and sell you a
diet plan or special food. Compare the
two and you might pick mine also. (then
again, you might pick theirs. If you
do.... I wish you luck.
The object here is to be
healthy and lose weight. If someone
else's diet floats your boat, then do
it. I congratulate you for your weight
loss and I would appreciate you
contacting me and telling me so.
Bottom
Line:
Most of the diets, diet plans, free
diet plans like the adkins diet,
diabetic diet, sugar busters diet,
south beach diet, are all good diets.
The
decision should be which is best for
you? Hopefully, you will pick the No
White
Diet.
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