Overweight

Don't give up tasty taters, just the butter and salt!

Why in heaven's name would you give up butter?

Old 1970s science pushes high carb low fat, that is when we had the 2nd massive wave of obesity in the US. People were doing exactly what they were told and they got fatter than ever before in US history.

Current science, full fat/low carb. Move beyond science from 45 years ago.

We did not become a fat nation from eating dietary fat, we can eat a juicy steak and salad with full fat dressing. What got us fat was the dinner rolls, bread, pasta, rice, potatoes, cookies, cake, brownies, Doritos, Cheetos, chips, candy, candy bars, etc.

Eat the butter, ditch the potato. Dietary fat keeps your joints lubricated, your hair and nails lubricated. It enables you to absorb fat soluble vitamins. It keeps you full longer. Dietary fat is needed to sustain life, sugar and carbs are not needed to sustain life.

Some of the worst products you can buy in the grocery store are low fat. Yogurt and salad dressings are good examples. Dietary fat flavors food, remove the flavor and nobody will buy your product so they have to replace the flavor with one of two options, sugar or a storm of chemicals. The dietary fat is *still* needed to sustain life. We do not need sugar. Check the labels between low/full fat Thousand Island and low/full fat yogurt, the sugar grams are much higher on low fat.

Buy the full fat.

Sweden Becomes First Western Nation to Reject Low-fat Diet Dogma in Favor of Low-carb High-fat Nutrition

Why in heaven's name would you give up butter?

Old 1970s science pushes high carb low fat, that is when we had the 2nd massive wave of obesity in the US. People were doing exactly what they were told and they got fatter than ever before in US history.

Current science, full fat/low carb. Move beyond science from 45 years ago.

We did not become a fat nation from eating dietary fat, we can eat a juicy steak and salad with full fat dressing. What got us fat was the dinner rolls, bread, pasta, rice, potatoes, cookies, cake, brownies, Doritos, Cheetos, chips, candy, candy bars, etc.

Eat the butter, ditch the potato. Dietary fat keeps your joints lubricated, your hair and nails lubricated. It enables you to absorb fat soluble vitamins. It keeps you full longer. Dietary fat is needed to sustain life, sugar and carbs are not needed to sustain life.

Some of the worst products you can buy in the grocery store are low fat. Yogurt and salad dressings are good examples. Dietary fat flavors food, remove the flavor and nobody will buy your product so they have to replace the flavor with one of two options, sugar or a storm of chemicals. The dietary fat is *still* needed to sustain life. We do not need sugar. Check the labels between low/full fat Thousand Island and low/full fat yogurt, the sugar grams are much higher on low fat.

Buy the full fat.

Sweden Becomes First Western Nation to Reject Low-fat Diet Dogma in Favor of Low-carb High-fat Nutrition

This.

Ever since I started doing a low carb, high fat diet, I lost 3 pounds water weight in 1 week. That's all I could lose though (went from 109 to 106 so any more weight would have been unhealthy), but that kind of diet makes you shed water first, then you start to burn the fat. My mom lost 10 pounds in a couple weeks after I convinced her to try it.

I second (or 3rd, 4th, 5th) the no-white-carb diet as well. Along with booze, I'm down about 14 lb since the start of 2015, and I haven't changed my exercise program much. My husband is down about 23 lb., and he still drinks.

As I type this I'm eating a spinach salad with zucchini, full fat dressing, cheese, nuts and berries.

No booze and no potatoes.

Go on...

I feel that potatoes are more negotiable than bread. Can I have that?

No booze and no potatoes.

Go on...

I feel that potatoes are more negotiable than bread. Can I have that?

Sweet potatoes.

Sweet potatoes.

Blech

Blech

Boo. I prefer sweet potatoes to white potatoes.

Boo. I prefer sweet potatoes to white potatoes.

Then you're insane.

I never said I was sane. O.o muahahahahaha!

No booze and no potatoes.

Go on...

I feel that potatoes are more negotiable than bread. Can I have that?

I don't know which would be harder, bread or booze.

I don't know which would be harder, bread or booze.

Well, I haven't eaten bread in awhile...

Diet really is the key, as well as cutting caloric intake. Read the nutrition labels because looks are deceiving. Clean eating goes a long way.

Yes, exercise is important, but 80 percent is a healthy diet. Since I started my job 18 months ago, I gained 10 pounds, lost 5. Not a lot of weight, but I still noticed it. Every day at work: cookies, chocolates, cakes that either staff or families bring in. All adds up, and I've stopped eating that stuff at work.

Of course, everything in moderation. I still eat cookies, cake and other stuff just not every day.