- You must be in harmony with yourself in order to lose weight successfully.
- The reasoning is the same for diets, but on a different scale. Why blame defenseless diets for failures. A diet can help you lose weight, but it cannot help you stabilize it because losing pounds and keeping them off are two separate realities. If you don't grasp this, long-lasting, trouble-free weight loss will elude you.
- If you drop 20 pounds on a traditional diet, you'll lose fat and muscle. However, if you go back up to your initial weight, you'll regain 20 pounds of fat, not 20 pounds of muscle!
- You must keep your protein assets to avoid wasting muscle. Proteins are vital. When you lack proteins you become weak.
- I think the same logic can be applied to a diet. If you don't finish your weight-loss project, what does it matter if you regain 2, 5 or 10 pounds? You'll almost be certain to put the pounds back on if you don't do any upstream thinking on your eating behavior. You'll fall back into your old habits and pack the pounds back on.
- The hardest part begins once the pounds have melted away after following the diet for weeks.
- Why is it more difficult to stabilize weight than to lose it? As was stated previously, a diet is a voluntary act. Patients situate their approach within a dynamic. They work hard on their weight and see results week after week. In addition, a diet has a time limit. Every diet has a beginning and an end. That's what makes it bearable.
Unlike a diet, the maintenance phase has no end, as the goal is to maintain a balanced weight forever. It is generally a static phase. Patients tend to think that they are subjected to weight stabilization. Gone are the encouraging spectacular results that made success so concrete. What's more, weight is no longer their priority because life gets in the way.
- If you had a truly gargantuan feast, give your pancreas a break by avoiding all carbs for 24 hours. This way, you'll be able to control your waistline without depriving yourself of the foods you love. Weight loss is no longer the goal; preventing fat storage is.
******- However, similarities end here. DRAP (diet rich in animal protein) are high protein diets, whereas Ideal Protein is a protein-sparing diet, which means that IP only provides dieters with the adequate amount of protein, and no more. (IP recommends 0.5g of protein per pound per day, which is the minimal quantity required.)
- Consequently, high protein diets relying heavily on animal protein have a negative impact on the cell membrane and the insulin receptors. This leads to insulin resistance and hyper insulinemia, which in turn cause weight gain and favor the metabolic syndrome.
These last two points make understanding why I had some trouble with Poon. When I got hungry (or thought I was hungry); I would eat more meat. I always felt that eating more meat was causing me to either gain weight or hold on to the weight (not lose weight), and one of the reasons why I had such small weight loses. Other reason of course was all the snack foods....
The book was good and helpful. Most of it I knew, but still, liked reading it again and confirming what I thought.
Today was a good day. Not as fatigued. Better with the foods as not so hungry as yesterday. I made 2 different kinds of muffins, and some pototoe puree bread. Froze some. Also made veg - but that was basically eaten today between AJ and I - lunch and dinner. Snack was a frozen brownie with WF marshmallow between. Was good. But then I find most of the IP package foods good. (Some would say that was sad I guess).
Want to try more drinks for breakfast this week. Along with the coffee and water. I will be very ''liquidie''.
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