Is this a good plan?

I've been on and off diets since I was 12 (I'm 17 now). What I seem to do is
set an upper and lower limits ... I'll diet until I reach lower, then stop, and
when I reach upper I start dieting, and so forth ... of course, upper and lower
have changed many times since ... Anyone had any results with this? Seems to
work just super.

"KellyClarksonTV" wrote in message
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I've been on and off diets since I was 12 (I'm 17 now). What I seem to do
is
set an upper and lower limits ... I'll diet until I reach lower, then
stop, and
when I reach upper I start dieting, and so forth ... of course, upper and
lower
have changed many times since ... Anyone had any results with this? Seems
to
work just super.

A lot of slightly overweight people have had considerable success with that
kind of approach : they have become full blown obeses. What you are doing is
an "officialized" yo-yo diet. This doesn't fix your problem, and constant
weight changes like this put a harder stress on your health than just being
overweight would. The best "diet" is a diet you don't know how to stop
doing...
What are your current upper and lower limits? How much and how quickly do
you diet when you hit the upper mark? What kind of diet do you follow then?

"KellyClarksonTV" wrote in message
...
I've been on and off diets since I was 12 (I'm 17 now). What I seem to do
is
set an upper and lower limits ... I'll diet until I reach lower, then
stop, and
when I reach upper I start dieting, and so forth ... of course, upper and
lower
have changed many times since ... Anyone had any results with this? Seems
to
work just super.

I think this could make some sense if it's to keep your weight somewhere
within a 10 lb. range or something like that. If you mean something like
eating whatever you want until your 160 and then crash dieting until you're
120, it doesn't sound like a good plan. If you're able to reach a sensible
weight for yourself, it's really not too hard to stay there, if you're
careful. You don't have to deprive yourself, just do sensible things like
if you have a Big Mac combo for lunch, try to stick to a light supper, like
a salad. Try to drink more diet coke than regular coke. Eat fruit more
often than candy. Don't feel like you have to clean your plate every time.
Get some regular excercise. If you see that you're having a small gain, you
might cut back a little for a few weeks. The main thing is that whatever
seems to be working for you when you're 17 will NOT keep working the rest of
your life. However hard it is to lose weight at 17, it will seem 2 or 3
times as hard to do when you're 34 (believe me!) Just think ahead and
realize that whatever sustains you now, you're going to need several hundred
calories less per day when you're 27 and even less when you're 37, etc.

William
210/205/160

"KellyClarksonTV" wrote in message
...
I've been on and off diets since I was 12 (I'm 17 now). What I seem to do
is
set an upper and lower limits ... I'll diet until I reach lower, then
stop, and
when I reach upper I start dieting, and so forth ... of course, upper and
lower
have changed many times since ... Anyone had any results with this? Seems
to
work just super.

I think this could make some sense if it's to keep your weight somewhere
within a 10 lb. range or something like that. If you mean something like
eating whatever you want until your 160 and then crash dieting until you're
120, it doesn't sound like a good plan. If you're able to reach a sensible
weight for yourself, it's really not too hard to stay there, if you're
careful. You don't have to deprive yourself, just do sensible things like
if you have a Big Mac combo for lunch, try to stick to a light supper, like
a salad. Try to drink more diet coke than regular coke. Eat fruit more
often than candy. Don't feel like you have to clean your plate every time.
Get some regular excercise. If you see that you're having a small gain, you
might cut back a little for a few weeks. The main thing is that whatever
seems to be working for you when you're 17 will NOT keep working the rest of
your life. However hard it is to lose weight at 17, it will seem 2 or 3
times as hard to do when you're 34 (believe me!) Just think ahead and
realize that whatever sustains you now, you're going to need several hundred
calories less per day when you're 27 and even less when you're 37, etc.

William
210/205/160