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Mermaid wrote in alt.support.diet on Wed, 18 Aug 2004:
In trying to select my new eating program. I have a question. Which is more important? Counting calories or fat grams? I have seen people go both ways. I have some cellulite and would like to deal with that too. Both, and! The *only* way to lose weight is to burn more calories than you take in. This means eating less and exercising more. However, while protein and carbohydrate each have 4 calories (Kilocalories, actually) per gramme, fat has 9. So if you can cut excess fat out of your diet, it's a relatively easy and painless way to cut calories. It is sensible to allow yourself a little "healthy" fat, such as olive oil, or to take, as I do, a fish-oil supplement daily (keeps my joints supple!), but if you cut out butter, margarine, lard, cheese (as much as possible), egg yolks (again, as much as possible), and when you buy prepared foods, only buy those that claim to have less than 5 grammes of fat per 100 grammes of product, you will do well. However, one caveat. When low fat eating became very popular, about 8-10 years ago, the market was flooded with "healthy" low-fat products. Unfortunately, many of these products replaced the fat with sugar, or artificial flavourings, to make up for the absence of fat. You would do better, whatever way you choose to cut calories, to prepare as much of your own food as possible, and to buy as little ready-made food as you can. It is easy to make a fruit-cake and substitute pureed prunes for the margarine, for instance, and you can even cut the sugar a little as the prunes are sweet already. But a bought cake may have *extra* sugar to make up for the lack of fat. Sigh. -- Annabel - "Mrs Redboots" 90/88/80kg |
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Mermaid wrote in alt.support.diet on Wed, 18 Aug 2004:
In trying to select my new eating program. I have a question. Which is more important? Counting calories or fat grams? I have seen people go both ways. I have some cellulite and would like to deal with that too. Both, and! The *only* way to lose weight is to burn more calories than you take in. This means eating less and exercising more. However, while protein and carbohydrate each have 4 calories (Kilocalories, actually) per gramme, fat has 9. So if you can cut excess fat out of your diet, it's a relatively easy and painless way to cut calories. It is sensible to allow yourself a little "healthy" fat, such as olive oil, or to take, as I do, a fish-oil supplement daily (keeps my joints supple!), but if you cut out butter, margarine, lard, cheese (as much as possible), egg yolks (again, as much as possible), and when you buy prepared foods, only buy those that claim to have less than 5 grammes of fat per 100 grammes of product, you will do well. However, one caveat. When low fat eating became very popular, about 8-10 years ago, the market was flooded with "healthy" low-fat products. Unfortunately, many of these products replaced the fat with sugar, or artificial flavourings, to make up for the absence of fat. You would do better, whatever way you choose to cut calories, to prepare as much of your own food as possible, and to buy as little ready-made food as you can. It is easy to make a fruit-cake and substitute pureed prunes for the margarine, for instance, and you can even cut the sugar a little as the prunes are sweet already. But a bought cake may have *extra* sugar to make up for the lack of fat. Sigh. -- Annabel - "Mrs Redboots" 90/88/80kg |
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Heywood Mogroot wrote in alt.support.diet on Wed, 18 Aug 2004:
I think over-limiting fat is a big, big dieting mistake. 1oz of almonds are an excellent 200kcal snack, even though they are most certainly not low-fat. Nuts, of course, contain "good" fat, so should be limited rather than banned in a healthy, low-fat diet. But while one is actively losing weight, there may be better ways of eating that 200 kcal - or one might, perhaps, do without it altogether? I'm no expert, but I think removing fat is very traumatic to the body. The body wants and actually needs fat. It's actually as impossible to cut fat out completely as it is to cut carbohydrates! One can, however, lower the amount one eats very easily, and there is medical evidence to prove that saturated fats are best avoided as much as possible. -- Annabel - "Mrs Redboots" 90/88/80kg |
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Heywood Mogroot wrote in alt.support.diet on Wed, 18 Aug 2004:
I think over-limiting fat is a big, big dieting mistake. 1oz of almonds are an excellent 200kcal snack, even though they are most certainly not low-fat. Nuts, of course, contain "good" fat, so should be limited rather than banned in a healthy, low-fat diet. But while one is actively losing weight, there may be better ways of eating that 200 kcal - or one might, perhaps, do without it altogether? I'm no expert, but I think removing fat is very traumatic to the body. The body wants and actually needs fat. It's actually as impossible to cut fat out completely as it is to cut carbohydrates! One can, however, lower the amount one eats very easily, and there is medical evidence to prove that saturated fats are best avoided as much as possible. -- Annabel - "Mrs Redboots" 90/88/80kg |
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"Annabel Smyth" wrote in message ... Heywood Mogroot wrote in alt.support.diet on Wed, 18 Aug 2004: I think over-limiting fat is a big, big dieting mistake. 1oz of almonds are an excellent 200kcal snack, even though they are most certainly not low-fat. Nuts, of course, contain "good" fat, so should be limited rather than banned in a healthy, low-fat diet. But while one is actively losing weight, there may be better ways of eating that 200 kcal - or one might, perhaps, do without it altogether? Actually, I eat a single serving of almonds a few times a week as one of my 5-6 meals a day and find they are very satisfying and tie me over very well until my next mealtime. Plus they're portable and easy to eat on the way to the gym. Studies have shown that adding almonds to a healthy diet *promotes* weight loss. I'm no expert, but I think removing fat is very traumatic to the body. The body wants and actually needs fat. It's actually as impossible to cut fat out completely as it is to cut carbohydrates! One can, however, lower the amount one eats very easily, and there is medical evidence to prove that saturated fats are best avoided as much as possible. Of the 18g fat in a single serving of almonds, 12g are monounstaturated and 4g are polyunsaturated. It has a better nutritional profile than a similar serving of most cheeses if you're worried about fat. Jenn |
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"Annabel Smyth" wrote in message ... Heywood Mogroot wrote in alt.support.diet on Wed, 18 Aug 2004: I think over-limiting fat is a big, big dieting mistake. 1oz of almonds are an excellent 200kcal snack, even though they are most certainly not low-fat. Nuts, of course, contain "good" fat, so should be limited rather than banned in a healthy, low-fat diet. But while one is actively losing weight, there may be better ways of eating that 200 kcal - or one might, perhaps, do without it altogether? Actually, I eat a single serving of almonds a few times a week as one of my 5-6 meals a day and find they are very satisfying and tie me over very well until my next mealtime. Plus they're portable and easy to eat on the way to the gym. Studies have shown that adding almonds to a healthy diet *promotes* weight loss. I'm no expert, but I think removing fat is very traumatic to the body. The body wants and actually needs fat. It's actually as impossible to cut fat out completely as it is to cut carbohydrates! One can, however, lower the amount one eats very easily, and there is medical evidence to prove that saturated fats are best avoided as much as possible. Of the 18g fat in a single serving of almonds, 12g are monounstaturated and 4g are polyunsaturated. It has a better nutritional profile than a similar serving of most cheeses if you're worried about fat. Jenn |
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"JMA" wrote in message ... "Annabel Smyth" wrote in message ... Heywood Mogroot wrote in alt.support.diet on Wed, 18 Aug 2004: I think over-limiting fat is a big, big dieting mistake. 1oz of almonds are an excellent 200kcal snack, even though they are most certainly not low-fat. Nuts, of course, contain "good" fat, so should be limited rather than banned in a healthy, low-fat diet. But while one is actively losing weight, there may be better ways of eating that 200 kcal - or one might, perhaps, do without it altogether? Actually, I eat a single serving of almonds a few times a week as one of my 5-6 meals a day and find they are very satisfying and tie me over very well until my next mealtime. Plus they're portable and easy to eat on the way to the gym. Studies have shown that adding almonds to a healthy diet *promotes* weight loss. One of my favorite "desserts" is ricotta cheese, almond extract, a packet of Splenda and a few almonds. Beverly 177 (years ago) / 146 / 140 I'm no expert, but I think removing fat is very traumatic to the body. The body wants and actually needs fat. It's actually as impossible to cut fat out completely as it is to cut carbohydrates! One can, however, lower the amount one eats very easily, and there is medical evidence to prove that saturated fats are best avoided as much as possible. Of the 18g fat in a single serving of almonds, 12g are monounstaturated and 4g are polyunsaturated. It has a better nutritional profile than a similar serving of most cheeses if you're worried about fat. Jenn |
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"JMA" wrote in message ... "Annabel Smyth" wrote in message ... Heywood Mogroot wrote in alt.support.diet on Wed, 18 Aug 2004: I think over-limiting fat is a big, big dieting mistake. 1oz of almonds are an excellent 200kcal snack, even though they are most certainly not low-fat. Nuts, of course, contain "good" fat, so should be limited rather than banned in a healthy, low-fat diet. But while one is actively losing weight, there may be better ways of eating that 200 kcal - or one might, perhaps, do without it altogether? Actually, I eat a single serving of almonds a few times a week as one of my 5-6 meals a day and find they are very satisfying and tie me over very well until my next mealtime. Plus they're portable and easy to eat on the way to the gym. Studies have shown that adding almonds to a healthy diet *promotes* weight loss. One of my favorite "desserts" is ricotta cheese, almond extract, a packet of Splenda and a few almonds. Beverly 177 (years ago) / 146 / 140 I'm no expert, but I think removing fat is very traumatic to the body. The body wants and actually needs fat. It's actually as impossible to cut fat out completely as it is to cut carbohydrates! One can, however, lower the amount one eats very easily, and there is medical evidence to prove that saturated fats are best avoided as much as possible. Of the 18g fat in a single serving of almonds, 12g are monounstaturated and 4g are polyunsaturated. It has a better nutritional profile than a similar serving of most cheeses if you're worried about fat. Jenn |
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JMA wrote in alt.support.diet on Thu, 19 Aug 2004:
Actually, I eat a single serving of almonds a few times a week as one of my 5-6 meals a day and find they are very satisfying and tie me over very well until my next mealtime. Plus they're portable and easy to eat on the way to the gym. Studies have shown that adding almonds to a healthy diet *promotes* weight loss. Fair enough. I believe walnuts are alleged to have a similar effect, no? I'm no expert, but I think removing fat is very traumatic to the body. The body wants and actually needs fat. It's actually as impossible to cut fat out completely as it is to cut carbohydrates! One can, however, lower the amount one eats very easily, and there is medical evidence to prove that saturated fats are best avoided as much as possible. Of the 18g fat in a single serving of almonds, 12g are monounstaturated and 4g are polyunsaturated. It has a better nutritional profile than a similar serving of most cheeses if you're worried about fat. That's rather what I thought, in terms of nuts. -- Annabel - "Mrs Redboots" 90/88/80kg |
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