I've abandoned "healthy eating"

KittyLove

I've been coming here for about 6 years, and I've tried MANY different diets or "healthy eating guidelines" according to the government and "experts". After years of dissapointment, I'll put this out there...give up the refined sugar and flour immediately if you want to lose any weight. I've been doing low carb, meaning no junk, and I have lost about 6 pounds in 3 weeks. I know low carb has been getting a bad rap lately, but I suggest looking into it more. Low carb basically means sticking to NATURAL foods which is the WAY WE SHOULD BE eating. The refining is THE reason why we are overweight...60 years ago we did not have an obesity problem...think about that. We've basically been brainwashed into thinking "cereal" and "white rice" will help us get thin. It's all about money. Please pass these "healthy" things by and stick to foods in their natural state and I assure you you'll be healthy...and thin.

Eating processed foods like Special K, breakfast bars, and "healthy" fruit juices are just making this country a fat mess...our bodies aren't meant to digest corn syrup and all these other chemicals they add. The food industry and especially the govenment are not being truthful...there is too much money at stake!! The answer to eating healthy truly lies in eating foods IN THEIR NATURAL STATE. This statement is becoming almost weird because most of us have grown up on processed foods and are "used" to it. I know I am, like "home cookin'" to me is processed foods. My mother worked two jobs, and my father didn't cook, or even try, so we lived on TV dinners. I'm even surprised right now that I even have a yen for foods in their natural state. I feel sorry for the youth today because they are SURROUNDED by the foods they deem normal and "healthy" right now. There seems to be a MAJOR movement from "healthy" foods to "convenient" foods at the expense of our health and the profit of the food industry.

I just wanted to add that "low carb" does not mean a fad diet to me. I am basically eating just as I was except I forego the rice and potato. (white rice has become a staple in our country, I have nothing against the potato, although I'm not eating them right now) Starches are indeed getting a bad rap right now but that's because the hidden culprit is the REFINED starches. Therefore, the potato is now getting a bad reputation.

I know most people are confused now about how to lose weight, and I believe the industry benefits greatly from this. My advice is to stay away from processed starches and fruits. I know that takes effort but it's worth it and it works. And if you worry about the hormones and antibiotics injected into our meat, believe me the things they spray onto our veggies are just as bad, or even worse.

I'm an animal lover too, but I do eat some chicken now and then....I know that's a contradiction , but I believe most of us here do the same thing: eat chicken and not beef or pork and then try to not feel so bad. I do always feel like I'm one step away from being a vegetarian, but then I can't stop yearning for meat. I'm truly confused about this and believe it's almost primal.
If I think about the way I used to eat versus now, it's about the same minus the processed starches and chemical additives.

Bottom line: no more "low-fat pastas, cereals, rice, cookies, and cakes" ...these things are making us FAT. While everyone is scrambling to find out exactly what's causing us to be fat...here's the answer...shhhhh..it's a secret. ..





"Stick to foods in their natural state and exercise more". Don't laugh, you'll eventually find that this IS the only solution (after years of trying everything else)