OKie dokes! Today is pretty good. Landing at about 1500. Just rested today. Got a salad in at lunch, and veggies in my eggs at dinner.
Tomorrow starts week 2 of hard core month!! I have to say minus eating a few too many nuts this week I did REALLY good! No sweets excepts for creamer in my coffee and some honey in the jello salad I made, and of course I eat fruit. And I got in 5 sessions for exercising. Gee my back and shoulders are so sore from weights!
On to reads:
Susan Somers claims (and references clinical studies to support claims) that nix the low/no fat idea so many of us cling to to lose weight. She claims, based on research that SUGAR is the problem we don't lose weight. And fat and proteins are just fine. She claims, carbohydrates - like white breads, pastas, refined white flours, and all the other processed sugary foods we eat turn into sugar once in the body. And if the sugar cannot be used as energy it is stored as fat. She has her own weight loss program called Somersize. I don't know much about it yet but you go through levels. Level one is all about getting to your goal weight.
So, she makes A LOT of claims about FAT not being the body's worst enemy...but SUGAR. And even references clinical studies where people who are on low fat VS low sugar diets are compared. And the low sugar diets (IE: no can sugar, sorn syrups, white flour, white rice etc...) has lower triglycerides (the stuff in the body that can aid in heart disease) and lost weight better.
Anyway, I don't know if I buy into it yet....but she's had a TON of people do her program and succeed...but I'm just not sure for how long. Additionally, she seems to make the claim that you can eat all the fat you want....I'll keep reading to verify, but that seems awful on lowering risks for heart disease and general cholesterol issues...hmmmm.
But one thought, my biological father apparently is doing hormone replacement therapy through Dr. Hotze. And apparently, a big thing he has changed in his diet since, and lost a lot of weight and feels like a younger man, is reducing/eliminating the flour in his diet.....hmm.....interesting. I actually want to try eliminating my refined flour intake and try as hard as I can to just stick to whole grains and see how that goes...maybe it'll make a difference?? But I am hesitant to yo yo diet for sure.
I've always heard that we don't ACTUALLY need 5-11 servings of grain everyday, and that really our food pyramids should have a base of fruits and veggies. All I know is, you can't go wrong eating A LOT of fruits and veggies
More on this to come!!
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