On Wed, 30 Nov 2005 22:05:25 +0900, Doug Lerner
wrote:
On 11/30/05 9:32 PM, in article ,
"kmd" wrote:
On Wed, 30 Nov 2005 15:21:03 +0900, Doug Lerner
wrote:
[...] I think I fashioned my diet
in a way that ended up following the ideas of WW very closely. I just use
straight calories instead of points. But I think, mathematically, they
really are statistically equivalent.
By the numbers they might be. By the nutrition value, they definitely
are not.
Does WW say you must eat certain kinds of foods, other than just watching
your flex points?
Yes.
But you're missing the point. The calculation for points incorporates
a low-fat, high-fiber bias. Some of that will show up in calorie
counts, some of it will not.
My personal experience from Atkins and other diets demonstrates that
low-fat, high-fiber matters for every health metric (weight,
cholesterol, blood pressure, energy levels i.e. metabolism) more than
calories or low carb.
Any healthy lifestyle program, when implemented well, is about what
*works*, not about one-size-fits-all. You are saying that you feel
like your current program is *not* *working* for you. so this would be
a time when your WW leader would sit down with you and go over your
tracker. Are you eating enough whole grains? Lean proteins?
Vegetables? Are too many of your (points/calories) being used up with
high-calorie, low-nutrition value foods? And if a thorough review
shows that your nutrition is sound, and your exercise level is good,
then you may just be in a plateau. As Willow wrote, plateaus happen.
There are lots of strategies to break free of them, if you're
interested.
You do know that you can join Weight Watchers online if there's no
meeting near you, right? I do both online and meetings. Many of the
discussion boards (but definitely not all of them!) are very very
helpful. I have gotten a tremendous amount of information, guidance
and inspiration there.
But I'm not a WW pusher. I'm all about what works for you.
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Kristen
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