Page 14 - BTC Debunking the diet

Now some people starve themselves during the day, thinking that they are
cutting back on the calories. Well, aside from starving, which is not
necessarily a good thing unless it’s part of a calorie-controlled fast (we will
qualify that statement later), they get home and eat two plates of macaroni
& cheese at night and then they wonder why they’ve gained weight.

You are going to hear us say this very often: making right choices is very
important, because that’s what helps people to lose weight and keep it off.
Making good choices is imperative for long-term weight loss.

People often start out with good choices and cut out sugar, salt, diary,
alcohol and starch, and they exercise and drink water, and then miraculously
they lose weight. Then when they are done, they go back to their old habits –
pizza for lunch and McDonald’s for dinner (and we add a six-pack of beer
because we are thin – we’ve all been there), and they add all the weight back
(and more).

If they lose the weight by “being good,” AND they continue with this good
habit, they will keep the weight off forever.

But let’s face facts. Forbidden fruit is sweeter because it’s forbidden. The
English language is peppered with idioms to prove that: guilty pleasures…
delicious as sin… mouth-watering….

So now for a little good news. It doesn’t mean you are never going to eat a
pizza again – but maybe share the pizza, and have it with a salad, and do it
every 6 weeks or so, not every time you go out (if you go out more frequently
than that).

If that doesn’t work for you, because you’re a die-hard carb fan, and that
triple cheesy pizza ain’t getting shared with no one (pardon the poor English),
then maybe you can try the one-meal-a-week cheat rule: some people allow

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