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I've given up on diet foods and diet drinks as a way to promote weight loss. Aren't 'diet food' and 'diet drink' almost oxymorons anyway?
I have heard that the reason people who drink diet soft drinks may actually gain weight is for the following reasons:
-drinking something sweet, even though it may contain no calories, triggers the body's desire for sweets and high-carbohydrate foods and drinks, in the coming hours and days
-the body has to work to digest diet beverages, and in return receives no calories as it normally would with something sweet, therefore causing the body to crave more sweets to replace the energy spent in digestion
Additionally, people who eat packaged 'diet foods' will just eat a greater quantity of food - the simple part of the mind tells them it's okay to eat more because they are, after all, diet foods. Low fat potato chips - you'll just eat more of them, which is no answer to the problem.
These seem like plausable explanations to me.
Instead of diet foods and drinks, I'll just try to
-eat less food (smaller, more reasonable portions) less often (cutting out 'snacks' and 'meals-between-meals')
-try to overcome my tendency to eat everything that is within arm's reach by keeping less convenience food at home
-take two walks every day
-gradually start doing other types of exercise, for example, lifting dumbbells and doing situps, pushups, and pullups
-keeping myself busy with activities other than eating, such as helping friends and getting out more to explore the city I live in
What are your thoughts on diet foods and diet drinks and weight loss?
I have heard that the reason people who drink diet soft drinks may actually gain weight is for the following reasons:
-drinking something sweet, even though it may contain no calories, triggers the body's desire for sweets and high-carbohydrate foods and drinks, in the coming hours and days
-the body has to work to digest diet beverages, and in return receives no calories as it normally would with something sweet, therefore causing the body to crave more sweets to replace the energy spent in digestion
Additionally, people who eat packaged 'diet foods' will just eat a greater quantity of food - the simple part of the mind tells them it's okay to eat more because they are, after all, diet foods. Low fat potato chips - you'll just eat more of them, which is no answer to the problem.
These seem like plausable explanations to me.
Instead of diet foods and drinks, I'll just try to
-eat less food (smaller, more reasonable portions) less often (cutting out 'snacks' and 'meals-between-meals')
-try to overcome my tendency to eat everything that is within arm's reach by keeping less convenience food at home
-take two walks every day
-gradually start doing other types of exercise, for example, lifting dumbbells and doing situps, pushups, and pullups
-keeping myself busy with activities other than eating, such as helping friends and getting out more to explore the city I live in
What are your thoughts on diet foods and diet drinks and weight loss?
I personally try to stay away from the starches and anything white. I need to start walking again.
The people I know that drink diet soda don't have much, if any, luck at losing weight or keep control of their type two diabetes. I don't know how diet soda works for type one diabetes though. That is a whole different animal but you still need to monitor carbs.
I think everyone responds to a different mix of nutrients. If you don't lose weight by eating low fat/complex carb then try something like Atkins or South Beach diet. I think my next attempt at weight loss is going to be a juice fast. I have been doing ok considering my energy levels plummeted. I gained only five pounds in the last six months but I have a new hobby of cooking that could lump a whole lot more if I'm not careful. I want to do the juice fast for health reasons too, to see if some health concerns are cured by it.
On the diet part, what I fail on is eating once or twice per day. The best way to eat is five small meals as evenly spaced as possible. When I did eat that way I had great energy levels and started losing right away (workout probably helped - Body for life program).