The Fat Trap

[kangofu]

The Fat Trap
Source - NYTimes
By TARA PARKER-POPE
Published: December 28, 2011For 15 years, Joseph Proietto has been helping people lose weight. When these obese patients arrive at his weight-loss clinic in Australia, they are determined to slim down. And most of the time, he says, they do just that, sticking to the clinic’s program and dropping

Comments

[roseofjuly]

Changing your diet is a lifestyle change, and it is far more difficult to do than going on a diet - and as the author points out, may not work as effectively as one would thing given biological and genetic antecedents to being fat. It needs to be studied more.

[spyral_path]

lf you read the entire article it says that even permanent changes to diet don't always work because of changes weightloss causes to a person's body.

[spyral_path]

This article doesn't talk about fat cells. It talks about hormonal and muscle tissue changes the body undergoes after losing about 10% of its mass, that these changes increase appetite and decrease metabolism, and they might be permanent.

[roseofjuly]

That was exactly my point, thank you.

[kyra_neko_rei]

I find adding foods, and not subtracting then, to be particularly useful in terms of eating healthier. Like add vegetables, drown them in butter and salt if necessary to make them yummy, but start eating that first when eating it. And then slowly adjust the butter and salt levels over a few months while focusing on the taste of the vegetables, and you slowly develop different tastes; healthy things become more satisfying, and unhealthy things become less of a need so it becomes less of a problem to give yourself what you want of it.

The only real sustainable way to eat less of something, or eat healthier, is to find a way to make the changes enjoyable enough that you keep with them without being miserable. If you have to go against the flow, try to figure a way to change the flow instead.

[sfrlz]

This has always helped me too. Try to eat more protein and fruits and veggies and I'm too full to eat all the bad stuff.

[confectionqueen]

This is exactly how I've done things, and it's worked perfectly.
I've been changing my diet very slowly over the past... 6-8months and I have been losing, not gaining, weight for the first time in 6 years.

[intrikate88]

Well, dieting IS generally something that tends to result in more weight gain once the diet is over. That's one of the things I appreciated about Weight Watchers- they are about lifestyle changes, about having realistic, healthy expectations of weight loss, and being conscious of portion size, yet not so obsessive it ruins your life. A comfortable and healthy weight and lifestyle is different for everyone, and diets tend to reinforce the idea that absolute thinness is all that matters.