Title: Drop It and Eat: Drop the Diet, Manage Your Weight: Fat and Always Hungry? No, cutting the carbs won't cure your weight struggle.
Headings: Drop It and Eat: Drop the Diet, Manage Your Weight
Drop It and Eat: Drop the Diet, Manage Your Weight
Tuesday, May 20, 2014
Fat and Always Hungry? No, cutting the carbs won't cure your weight struggle.
Here’s where we agree—and disagree

Content: And the larger the containers or plates we are eating from, the more we will over-consume (see Prof. Wansink's extensive work on this). Time and money constraints add flames to the fire—we take little time to plan, shop and eat mindfully. In fact, our cognitive ability is compromised by these stressors and worsened when we diet. Perceiving that we won’t have enough food to meet our wants or needs, referred to as scarcity creates a range of secondary effects. Poor decision making, impaired ability to organize and follow through and hyper-focusing on the immediate benefits without considering the long term consequences of food choices are well researched and described in the fascinating new book, Scarcity. Unrealistic goals set by national organizations and by ourselves adds to the problem. If 150 minutes per week plus 2 days of muscle strengthening/wk is unattainable, why bother? Further, the food industry isn’t all bad. ( And no, I am not a paid consultant to any food company!)