June 10th, 2008, 09:19 AM
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 | The Objurgating Queen | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: near the search button
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Bad weight-loss advice #1: Eat five meals a day
Why it doesn't work: Assuming 1,800 calories a day, this means each meal would have to be 360 calories, about the amount in just one of our Morning Glory Muffins. But for most of us, eating this way means feeling not quite full all day long – a recipe for disaster when snacks show up in the office or your kids leave food on their plates. Plus, it means eating out of sync with other people.
What's better: Eat three larger meals, leaving yourself room for a couple of 150-calorie snacks. Schedule your snacks based on when your cravings usually strike, and make sure to include the odd treat to keep your taste buds happy.
| some people can be very successful on the 5 a day plan - it didn't work for me but - it does work for some -to say that it's bad weight loss advice is a little too one size fits all for me...
People need to find what works for them.. Quote:
Bad weight-loss advice #5: Trust food packaging
Why it doesn't work: Low carb, trans fat free, low calorie – packaged foods are laden with these labels meant to convince you that they're healthy choices. (Low-carb ketchup? How much are you eating of it, anyway?) But the claims manufacturers are allowed to make are complex and not always intuitive, and a product low in one bad-for-you ingredient is often made more flavourful by pumping up quantities of another. Besides, a trans-fat-free cookie is still a cookie.
What's better: Instead of trusting what the packaging tells you, trust your common sense, say Freedman and Barnouin. "Read the ingredients," they write. "If you plan on eating something, you should know exactly what it is." Watch for added sugar (including glucose, corn syrup and other sugar substitutes), unhealthy fats and fillers. Once you've read the ingredients and the calorie count (don't forget to check the suggested serving size), you may decide you'd rather have an orange.
| This one is my favorite.. in my other life -i'd get really hung up on fat free/sugar free/whatever free foods -thinking somewhere in the dark recesses of my brain that the calories didn't count... Yeah dumbass... real food tastes so m uch better - if you have to use a little less -then so be it... I'm not gonna be a good looking corpse I don't need the preservatives and other non real food added crap in my food.. real only please.
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