By: Zola
Chief Dieter
Plan Z Diet
This article hit me like a ton of bricks. It is so well written. I highly recommend it.
You’ll be shocked, and you’ll be better educated when you have completed your reading. I promise.
Now for a little back story.
Before I began the Plan Z Diet by Zola I was fat. I was fat by anyone’s measurement. I felt I had tried everything to lose weight. I ate less. I exercised. Nothing moved the needle. It seemed the harder I tried to get thin the fatter I got over time.
I did everything the dieting experts asked me to do. I ate smaller portions. I ate less fat. I ate whole grains. I ate diet foods almost exclusively, yet I gained weight. I’ll admit I treated myself at times. When you spend all week dieting and not getting anywhere (year after year) you get sick of it and then splurging on the weekend at a dinner party doesn’t seem like such a sin. You deserve a little treat here and there. Right? So I got stuck in this cycle of lose a pound, gain a pound. Oops make that gained 2 pounds until I was off the charts. And I was miserable.
So it was July of 2009 when I got hold of a lecture given by award-winning science writer, Gary Taubes. That lecture changed my life and my whole perspective on food chemistry. It was the beginning of my research for the Plan Z Diet. I’m not talking about the lecture today, but the article I’m about to connect you to had the same effect on me as that lecture did.
As I watched that lecture I could not believe my eyes or my ears. What Gary Taubes was telling me was close to completely the opposite of what I had learned about dieting starting in the 80’s. Everything the dieting industry jammed into my head decade after decade was all ripped apart by the Taubes lecture. No wonder I was fat. I did what they told me to do and what they told me, over and over, with grand enthusiasm and bravado beyond compare was wrong.
Suddenly I felt exonerated. I cried. I had done what I was supposed to do but it was wrong. Pretty much, all wrong. All of that diet macaroni and cheese was eaten with the greatest of intentions but it just kept making me fat.
What you are about to read isn’t just another “down with carbs” article. This one has great science in it. This one explains it in detail and it doesn’t mince words. This article, written by Paul John Scott in Details Magazine equates carbohydrates to a cocaine addiction. No kidding. And when you read it and consider your own experiences with food, I bet you are going to make the some of the same connections I did. At least I hope so.
Feel free to send me your comments. I’ll welcome them with open ears.
Cheers,
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