Hooray! Yet another article about the end-all, be-all method to finally, yes finally (!) lose weight!Ugh.
Strangely enough, the tips in an article by Sally Squires of the Washington Post are absolutely normal, and if I'm going to poke fun at anything at all, it's the fact that the logic behind the Energy Density method is absolutely sound.
Basically, you replace food with a high energy density with foods that have low energy-density. It sounds fancy. It sounds scientific and complicated. Energy density? Do we need to carry around little notebooks with an entire database of foods and their energy densities?!?!
No. Energy density is just a fancy way of saying "caloric bang for your buck." You want to eat foods that give you less caloric bang for your buck, and remove foods that have a higher number of calories for the volume of food you eat. For example, an apple is low density. Mashed potatoes with butter that's the same size as that apple is high density.
It's not rocket science, but if you need more concrete to-dos, here's a list from the article:
- Add fruits and vegetables to cut calories
- Get more fiber
- Add a course to your meal like salad to cut down on a higher density main course
- Sip on soup
- Cut out fat where you won't be sacrificing too much flavor
- Eat dessert, but make it fruit.
A fraking amazing Battlestar Galactica cake
Iced Tea 101
Pierogies + cheese + onions + kraut = Parmageddon!
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
7-29-2007 @ 5:35PM
anne said...
so in other words, eat healthy. Like you say, not rocket science. I'm so tired of these diets that try to dance around the fact that you need to eat healthy to lose weight.
1. what's so terribly difficult about eating more fruits and vegetables?
2. you get so much more than "losing weight" from eating healthy! Losing weight is just a side benefit.
3. what's so terribly difficult about eating more fruits and vegetables? Oops did I say that one already?
another thing that bugs me about these diets is they're so black-and-white. Is there a problem if I want to eat some butter sometimes? I would say it IS a problem if I avoid ALL fats, since fat is a critical component of a healthy diet. Yeah, of course prefer healthy plant-based fats and oily fish, blah blah blah, but still.
It just makes me so irritated that people find it so hard to think for themselves that they suck up every single stupid useless diet article retooling the same old advice in a slightly different package.
Thanks for letting me rant everyone. back to your regularly schedule food blog comments.
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7-30-2007 @ 6:54AM
bdw said...
I finally got off prescribed steroids last year. When I started them, I gained 60 lbs in the first 18 months. Using pretty much this plan I lost those 60 pounds in less than a year. I eat three apples a day, tomatos, winter squash,etc, and almost always have a bowl of soup per day. Now I'm gearing down for the next 30.
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8-17-2007 @ 11:42PM
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