The topics in the title of this post are addressed in a recent New York Times article by an M.D. / med school professor who studies and writes about dietary principles. Here's a link to the article and an excerpt:
How I Lost Weight and Learned to Love Thanksgiving Again
"Studies of diets show that many of them succeed at first. But results slow, and often reverse over time. No one diet substantially outperforms another. The evidence does not favor any one greatly over any other.
"That has not slowed experts from declaring otherwise. Doctors, weight-loss gurus, personal trainers and bloggers all push radically different opinions about what we should be eating, and why. We should eat the way cave men did. We should avoid gluten completely. We should eat only organic. No dairy. No fats. No meat. These different waves of advice push us in one direction, then another. More often than not, we end up right where we started, but with thinner wallets and thicker waistlines."
Here's another article by the same author, entitled "Simple Rules for Healthy Eating", which focuses on eating principles, not good vs. evil foods.
For the record, I'm no longer losing weight but now in maintenance (I'm 3 years, 3 months post-op and consistently maintaining a 100+ pound weight loss post-VSG). Therefore, these issues may be of more interest to those approaching maintenance or in maintenance. On the other hand, folks out there who are wondering what life will be like post-WLS down the road are probably interested in these issues, too.
Thus far, my personal WLS eating philosophy is that our bodies are not all identical and respond in different ways to specific eating regimens. I also have found that I must be aware of when and if my body starts to respond differently to eating patterns I've been following and that I must be willing to experiment and change if/when I need to do so to remain at a healthy weight.
What do y'all think about these two articles and this approach to eating? Do you think it can eventually work for you?
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