Have you ever been on a diet?

ecchi · 2007-01-27, 10:39 AM

I used to diet, and I came to the conclusion that there is only one diet that really works, and it is:

Eat the things you normally eat, but eat smaller portions.

Anything else is too much hard work and too hard to stick to.

(Although if you eat a lot of things with sugar in them try to cut those out. Sugar is not very fattening, but in a healthy human it causes a sudden rise in blood sugar levels, followed by a sudden drop in it when your body removes the sugar from your blood. Unfortunately your brain interprets this drop in blood sugar as a need for food so makes you feel hungry. So sugary foods make it very hard to stick to the "eat smaller portions" ideal, or any other diet you try. And do note that because sugar does not have a lot of calories in it, you will find it in many diet foods too.)

Oh, and exercising more at the same time helps as well.

2007-01-27, 10:39 AM	#10
ecchi Banned Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: About to be evicted!!!! Posts: 4,082	I used to diet, and I came to the conclusion that there is only one diet that really works, and it is: Eat the things you normally eat, but eat smaller portions. Anything else is too much hard work and too hard to stick to. (Although if you eat a lot of things with sugar in them try to cut those out. Sugar is not very fattening, but in a healthy human it causes a sudden rise in blood sugar levels, followed by a sudden drop in it when your body removes the sugar from your blood. Unfortunately your brain interprets this drop in blood sugar as a need for food so makes you feel hungry. So sugary foods make it very hard to stick to the "eat smaller portions" ideal, or any other diet you try. And do note that because sugar does not have a lot of calories in it, you will find it in many diet foods too.) Oh, and exercising more at the same time helps as well.