Wellness

[qbetzforreal]

There are many ways to achieve and/or maintain optimal health.

Those ways are different for each individual.

Sounds like the OP and her husband needed to lose a lot of weight and decided to go the low-no carb/high fat way.  From the many and frequent posts, it is working. 

For me, I found that moderation does work, coupled with mindful eating.  If I want a burger, I'll make it myself, most likely with ground turkey rather than fast food.  I limit fruit to twice a day, and if I want pasta or rice, I utilize portion control.

I limit dairy such milk but I love cheese, but I watch how much I consume.

Lots of veggies and salad.

I think balance is the key.  I trust my doctor who stresses exercise not just what I put into mouth.

[mom2four0418]

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@4kitties wrote:

@Susan Louise 

Honestly, what is your purpose in starting all of these threads about your lifestyle?

Indeed..

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When you do a low carb diet for a long time, you become addicted to it.  It is very much an eating disorder.

I was there myself.  I lost a lot of weight and it was easy to do.  The diet is easy to stay  on once you get past about a two week period and your body goes into ketosis.

You get a natural high and you feel great.  I was on such a diet under a doctors direction for about six months.  I got weekly blood tests and urine tests.  I was given potassium because my levels dropped too low, but I was still passing out.

My doctor dropped me from the program.  I continued on my own and ended up going to the hospital by ambulance.  I refused to eat foods that were high carbs, like fruit and grains.  In my mind, they were evil foods.

it took me quite a while to get back to eating normally.  I admit to lowering my intake of carbs when I want to lose weight, but I do not go into ketosis.  It can be dangerous.

I am not a person who has an addictive personality, but that diet sucked me in.  I thought it was the best thing at the time and told everyone about it just like the OP.

Today, I know better.  This diet can be dangerous.  Lots of red meat and high fat dairy and other fats.  Little to no fruit, or grains.  You eat meat, cheese  and leafy veggies.

When you can't eat a big juicy apple on a diet without blowing it, maybe you should rethink that.

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The sad thing is that "experts" are getting rich by pushing these fad diets, and convincing people that it is a lifestyle change. Chronic dieting can lead to an eating disorder, and "diet culture" contributes to it.

[gertrudecloset]

Whatever happened to calories in and calories out?  Exercise is key.

Sitting is the new smoking.  I don't like diets that deprive of things I like.  If I'm told not to eat it for a health reason, then that's different.  I still might cheat on it for a minute every now and then.

Calories in + Calories out

[Duckncover]

Congrats on your and your hubby's success. DH has lost 60 lbs in 6 months by using a modified South Beach eating plan. He loves oatmeal and gave it up for phase one and now eats it once a week....he also has a slice of sourdough toast every other week. Whole grains for fiber are good, according to his cardiologist, just in small amounts,  and he told him to lose his gut and to use red meat only as a garnish of his meal of veggies/ salads. Can have as much fish or chicken as he wants. It has worked great. No sweets. Premier Protein drinks have really helped as he has them for breakfast or lunch.

[hckynut]

@Susan Louise 

You obviously have found the nutrition that must work for you, for now. I have heard the name Keto mentioned everywhere in media, even my wife mentioned it to me. The only thing I got out what I have read and heard? It appears to me something about low carbs.

Have no idea if you exercise, and if so, what levels. I can only assume if you eat very low carbs, or no carbs, you probably have not entered or thought what fuels long, long endurance athletes. It is not protein/fat or sugar, it is carbs. 

Low carbs/lower weight? If only. Some swear by this, but weight is only a number unless it is broken down in to body composition.

Me at 5'8" weighing 140lb. versus a no carb/man the does little to no exercise, weighing the same? I can assure you, I am not "carrying my body weight/my body weight is carrying me". Simple to understand the difference if one has ever given a thought to "scale weight" versus "body composition weight".

What people choose to eat is like most things in life in our country, do whatever you want to do when it comes to choices. You found what works for you now, but very few things I have found in my many decades of life, last forever, some not even close.

I enjoy whole grains and they make up a large percentage of my fuel for each day. Having blood readings quite often over about 2 decades now, I know what to look for and what to pay attention to in those readings. 

If I didn't know better I could easily confuse you with a poster that I haven't seen here in a long time. There was the right way to eat, then there was everybody else.

ETA:  @Susan Louise   Guess I should have read a few of your other posts, along with others, before typing this one. 

So DH loses 130lbs and you lose 100lbs.  That pretty much answers my question  about your personal knowledge about athletes, that enter long duration athletic events. Not just 45 minutes, more like 4-6 hours.

Your "carbs=sugar"? Didn't see where you mentioned the difference between Complex Carbs and Simple Carbs. I see no mention of what Complex Carbs are broken down into by the body, and after that process why the body actually needs them, and for what purpose.

Been here for about 20 years, probably more, and pretty well know the difference between posts offering information, and those doing their best to try to push an agenda. For what? Don't know/don't care.

What I do know is some of what you/and or the doctors you mention in videos, are making an effort to get followers.

Why? Maybe $$$, again, I do not care in relation to myself, I know from a lifetime of athletics/eating programs/having been tested by Exercise Physiologists with Invasive and non-Invasive testing. You state "how you feel", anyone losing 100lbs(yours most likely fat) is going to "feel better".

Geez, it's 4 o'clock in the morning! Time to stop typing.

hckynut

[Tinkrbl44]

Even if you don't care about youtube videos, many people already relize that cereals made out of white flour and sugar aren't good for you, even if they add vitamins to make them "nutritious".   

To make matters even worse, some add spoon fulls of sugar to the cereal!   

[CelticCrafter]

So the title to your post is about Cheerios but you go onto bash sugar, oatmeal and bread? 

Not a word from you about the original topic of Cheerios?   

[bikerbabe]

These threads are sooooo tiresome due to the attitude.

I will say that Cheerios are one of the worst offenders for glycophosphate contamination. A better choice would be an organic version.

[JeanLouiseFinch]

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@CelticCrafter wrote:

So the title to your post is about Cheerios but you go onto bash sugar, oatmeal and bread? 

Not a word from you about the original topic of Cheerios?   

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If you break down the Cheerios, the basic ingredients are the same.  

[x Hedge]

  There are various ways to un-balance your diet. Cutting out carbs is one way.

Of course not eating carbs doesn't eliminate your body's need for carbs. It just means your liver will have to be tasked with converting protein into the carbohydrates you need.

So I hope your liver's up to it, and you're eating a lot of extra protein to make up for the carbs. 

   No?

Then your body will scavenge for it.

There's a lot of protein in your body and any protein viewed as "expendable" will be broken down and used to make up for any carb and protein shortage in your diet.

Your body will prioritize it's scavenging by "use it or lose it".

Your body can adapt to periods of famine and other disruptions in food availability. But it eventually takes a toll, and I wouldn't intentionally eat an unbalanced diet for any length of time.

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  As @hckynut noted above, I don't see where you differentiate between simple vs complex carbs, and no mention of soluble & insoluble fiber which also come under the carb umbrella. I think I know what you're trying to say about the damage sugar can do, but that's when it is consumed in excess of the body's needs.

  UN- balanced nutritional intake in either direction is not good.