The Dieter's Dilemma
VP of Anger Management
Plan Z Diet
If two “experts” are giving you diametrically opposed advice on weight loss, only one of them can be right. The other “expert” has to be dead wrong. Choose your expert wisely because taking the wrong advice can stop your weight loss dead in its tracks.
That is the Dieter’s Dileamma.
It doesn’t have to be your dilemma. We’re going to guide you to the right advice. However, you have to decide if it’s right for you.
Chris Lytle here, VP of Anger Management for Plan Z diet by Zola. My job is to point out bad advice and help you choose the right advice that will get you to your healthy weight. When I started my own weight loss program, I read Good Calories, Bad Calories by Gary Taubes. Twice! It took two readings for the powerful message to sink in. Here are three of the conclusions Taubes came to after 5 years of research:
1. Dietary fat, whether saturated or not, does not cause heart disease.
2. Carbohydrates do, because of their effect on the hormone insulin. The more easily-digestible and refined the carbohydrates and the more fructose they contain, the greater the effect on our health, weight and well-being.
3. Exercise does not make us lose excess fat, it makes us hungry.
If these three statements are true, then the “conventional wisdom” is false. But Gary Taubes is only one guy. Everywhere you turn, there are web sites, talk show hosts and news media giving you advice that is diametrically opposed to his. How can one guy (Taubes) be right and all of the other experts be wrong?
Let Gary Taubes convince you himself. He is the award-winning science journalist who spent five years researching the science of obesity. I have urged my friends and family to watch his lecture at Dartmouth You decide for yourself whether he is right or wrong. If you decide he is right, then you have to quit taking weight loss advice from the government and the media. Fair enough?
The United States Department of Agriculture tells us to eat six to eleven servings of grain-based products (carbohydrates) per day. The Center for Disease Control tells us that exercise is a vital component of weight loss. And I quote . . .
"To lose weight, you must use up more calories than you take in. Since one pound equals 3,500 calories, you need to reduce your caloric intake by 500—1000 calories per day to lose about 1 to 2 pounds per week. Once you’ve achieved a healthy weight, by relying on healthful eating and physical activity most days of the week (about 60—90 minutes, moderate intensity), you are more likely to be successful at keeping the weight off over the long term."
You may not be richer than Oprah, but you have much better (and cheaper) advice than she does about losing weight. And because you do, you will have much better results than she has had as she starts her 24th season.
If Taubes’ conclusions are right, then the USDA, CDC, Bob Greene and most of the other experts are dead wrong.
I believe Taubes. You may have trouble believing him. If you are skeptical, I urge you to buy his book or read some of the Internet chatter on him. There are people who are critical of his work and people who are benefiting from it every day. You’ve got to find out what works for you.
Here’s the big question: If you had proof that something you always believed to be true was absolutely false, would you change your mind?
Chris Lytle VP of Anger Management
Please note: We are not saying you shouldn’t exercise. We are saying that diet is much more critical to weight loss than exercise. Zola took a couple of walks as she lost her first 30 pounds, but there was no heavy lifting or breathing involved.
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