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Re: Mother, mother, mother - there's too many of you crying.
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Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall
I am currently against all diets. They're all stupid and cannot be maintained. I think the best way to lose weight is to gradually change the way you eat. Increase sashimi intake by one or two nights a week. Order a side salad instead of fries every other time. Cut way down on sugar. And reduce drinking to one to three days a week.
Once you get there, order the fish when you wanted the steak. Have chicken breast when you want the pork. Add another sushi day per week. Have one large meal a day and eat protein-and-veggie-heavy, much smaller meals the rest of the time.
Take in fewer calories than you expend.* But if you try to change the way you eat all at once, you will fail.
TM
*And yes, I see that based on that review, I guess I am now a smug lean person.
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I both agree and disagree. Agree that diets are stupid, unless your diet is just what you eat, which is not what you mean. However, if your diet (in the what you eat sense) needs real change, then it's hard to make little changes on the margin -- it works much better (in my experience, which may not be right for anyone else) to make some big changes all at once. But agree that the big changes should be faddish, but along the lines you suggest -- smaller portions, less sugar and drinking, more vegetables and less carbs, etc.
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