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Who survived the liquid diet?
October 8, 2008
I lasted two hours on Slim-fast. I think it made me hungry. I was ready to eat a half of cow. I did not realize what was in the drink and why I was so hungry. It was not good that I was lactose intolerant too. There are people who successfully lost weight on liquid diets. The most famous was Oprah. My sister did well on the liquid diet also. I really applaud their discipline. They did all the rights things. They did not fail the diet, the diet failed them.
Meal replacement diets set everyone up for long-term failure. It is more severe than calorie restriction. Ninety-five percent gain back the weight in one year. Ninety-seven percent gain back the weight in two years. It is an unsuccessful quick fix. Most of the weight loss is muscle, so you end up will a lower weight and a higher body fat percentage. Since it cannot be done long-term, the weight gained back is generally fat instead of muscle.
Most meal replacements are filled with vitamins. Unfortunately it is not nutritionally balanced. They are also filled with a lot of sugar. Punishing yourself with these meal replacements is not worth the fatigue and hunger that come with it. I am not against all shake products, but I am against using them as meal replacements.
Del-Metri Williams, MBA NC CTLC
Weight Management Coach
Fat Factor #5 Chronic Stress
October 1, 2008
When I told my husband’s manager that stress makes people hold weight in their stomach he replied “I guess there’s no hope for me”. When your body is on constant alert due to physical or emotional pressures, it goes into a life preserving mode and stores fat.
Stress is good when and has a purpose in our bodies. In the pioneer days if one ran into a bear, the body would work up all the adrenals needed to fight it or out run it. The process of fight or flight help balance our adrenals.
Today, when your boss makes you mad you can’t just sock them. If someone cuts you off in traffic, you can’t jump out your car and beat them up. Now you have got all of your stress hormones going without a way to balance them out. Adrenal fatigue occurs, because our bodies don’t know the difference between a bear coming after you or your boss getting on you nerves.
Our bodies try to preserve our lives by secreting survival hormones. Unfortunately, our bodies were not meant to constantly be on alert. The chronic alert signals cause fat storage. Manage stress and you will do much better managing your weight.
Many people manage stress by eating. I don’t blame them. Chocolate makes me feel good. People don’t realize that the are sabotaging their weight goals by ignoring how they handle stress.
Healthy regards,
Del-Metri Williams, MBA NC CTLC
Weight Management Coach
Confessions of a recovering “yo-yo” dieter
September 22, 2008
Ever since high school, I have mastered the art of dieting. When I was young my goal was to achieve a certain look. I was very thin, but dieting for girls was cool. As a teenager the starvation diet worked very well for me. The experts said if you want to lose weight, eat less and exercise more. That is what I did.
In college aerobics became the rage. After gaining the freshman 15 I had to do something. Oh yeah, every time I wanted to lose weight I would still starve myself. My senior year consisted of diet coke and yogurt.
After college I started to pay more attention to the “experts”. The answer to my health concerns was OAT BRAN. I bought everything that had the word oat bran on the box. I even forced my neice and nephew to eat oat bran donuts for dessert. They still talk about me for that one. From oat bran I went to shakes, low fat and then low carb. If it was on Oprah, I did it.
I had great success with 90% of the diets I attempted. Although I only lasted two weeks on Weight Watchers and one day on Slimfast, for the most part I was a very good dieter. Then I hit forty and no matter what I did, I could not lose a pound. There is a reason why diets don’t work and there is a smart way to lose weight and keep it off.
Healthy regards,
Del-Metri Williams, MBA NC CTLC
Weight Management Coach
