Exactly! I lost on the super-low-carb thing (not quite full-on Atkins), but gained much of it back the moment I stopped and started eating sugar again (and my own fault, I went overboard as well); but I do TRY to limit myself on a regular basis, but I'm not as good as I could be.
I do best, really, when I just plain watch what I eat and eat moderately, really not denying myself anything. I've spent this week just trying to be careful, and despite going out last night and having a fried chicken sandwich (another vice: fried foods), I have lost another pound. I have to stop thinking in the "lose it RIGHT NOW!" and start thinking about the long term again.
And I agree with the added sugars. That's another reason we started shopping for so much of our regular groceries at Trader Joe's (although some of their changes went to "0 fat + more sugar = good!" and it was "okay" because it's Raw Cane Sugar instead of HFCS... no) -- but not everyone reads labels, so are completely unaware of that extra sugar in Everything bit. I expect BBQ Sauce to have sugar in it, although I'd prefer molasses or brown sugar to HFCS; but not so much ketchup. I wonder if it's sugar that's changed the taste of cottage cheese -- I've been looking for a cottage cheese that tastes like cottage cheese and not "weird," but until I bought Trader Joe's full-fat (4%) small curd, I hadn't found any I liked... I just checked the label, and there's no added sugar. Mmmm.
One of the problems with Americans is that when we're told something is Good, we tend to overboard on it (i.e., low fat -- the Snackwells example is a good one). We have this "more is better!" attitude on things, when it's not necessarily true (a recent Scientific American had an article about the preponderance of antioxidants and how too much may not be a good thing).
I would like to read a real scientific article on what aspartame REALLY does to one's system -- I've read both the propaganda from the soda companies AND the hysterical ranting of the "Artificial Sweeteners are Teh Evol!" articles, but nothing from actual scientists doing a long-term study, like they finally did for saccharin to disprove the "it causes cancer" study. Because try as I will, the one thing I haven't been able to give up completely is a few Diet Cokes a day...
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I do best, really, when I just plain watch what I eat and eat moderately, really not denying myself anything. I've spent this week just trying to be careful, and despite going out last night and having a fried chicken sandwich (another vice: fried foods), I have lost another pound. I have to stop thinking in the "lose it RIGHT NOW!" and start thinking about the long term again.
And I agree with the added sugars. That's another reason we started shopping for so much of our regular groceries at Trader Joe's (although some of their changes went to "0 fat + more sugar = good!" and it was "okay" because it's Raw Cane Sugar instead of HFCS... no) -- but not everyone reads labels, so are completely unaware of that extra sugar in Everything bit. I expect BBQ Sauce to have sugar in it, although I'd prefer molasses or brown sugar to HFCS; but not so much ketchup. I wonder if it's sugar that's changed the taste of cottage cheese -- I've been looking for a cottage cheese that tastes like cottage cheese and not "weird," but until I bought Trader Joe's full-fat (4%) small curd, I hadn't found any I liked... I just checked the label, and there's no added sugar. Mmmm.
One of the problems with Americans is that when we're told something is Good, we tend to overboard on it (i.e., low fat -- the Snackwells example is a good one). We have this "more is better!" attitude on things, when it's not necessarily true (a recent Scientific American had an article about the preponderance of antioxidants and how too much may not be a good thing).
I would like to read a real scientific article on what aspartame REALLY does to one's system -- I've read both the propaganda from the soda companies AND the hysterical ranting of the "Artificial Sweeteners are Teh Evol!" articles, but nothing from actual scientists doing a long-term study, like they finally did for saccharin to disprove the "it causes cancer" study. Because try as I will, the one thing I haven't been able to give up completely is a few Diet Cokes a day...