To Eat or Not to Eat? That Is the Question

Do I actually have to stop eating at all, to lose some weight? Many people still think that losing weight is about not eating anything tasty for as long as it takes to change the offending number on the scale. A whole industry has grown up around debunking this myth. The limited range of traditional 'diets', those that used to concentrate on what one could not eat, has been replaced by a whole host of 'new-age' diets. Far from discouraging eating, these diets generally concentrate on what you must eat .. if losing weight (and keeping it off) is your goal.
The issue with losing weight the 'wrong' way is (and always has been) that starvation type diets can cause the body to lose important nutrients, sometimes in large enough amounts to risk serious illness. Losing weight, the 'right' way (the classic diet insists) involves reducing your carbohydrate and fat intake, whilst increasing your protein intake, so that weight is lost in the form of unwanted fat, rather than muscle.
A focus on 'unsaturated fats' and a gentle reminder of where they might be found, along with a 'calorie counter'.. with which we can calculate the values of everything from a spoonful of sugar to cupful of cream.. are still mainstays of this traditional approach. But how times have changed in our new, non-traditional dieting world! There are now, by all accounts, more 'right' and 'wrong' ways to go with your weight loss plan, than there are 'right' and 'wrong' turns in the maze at the Palace of Versailles!
There is no longer any excuse for skipping meals or starving yourself. The most popular (and most hyped) weight-loss programs and 'diets' contain a bigger choice of foods than you'd ever have thought possible, and many come with accompanying recipe books, foolproof meal plans.. and motivational notes.. for when you might feel yourself falling off the Weight-Loss-Wagon (an excess of blueberries can do that to you!)
Losing weight, though still not the easiest undertaking for many, no longer requires a high tolerance for small portions of bland foods, nor a pocket calculator and a kitchen scale to measure and weigh them. What's more, there are enough 'celebrity diets' out there for each of us to choose our own.. But no need to change the dieter's battle cry. Regardless of all other changes, that call to action is likely to forever remain:
"I'll start my diet tomorrow!"


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