Wed, Mar-07-18, 20:51
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Plan: EpiPaleo/Primal/LowOx
Stats: 220/130/150
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Progress: 129%
Location: USA
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Jane Brody shares weight loss secrets
For those unaware, Jane Brody of the New York Times is one of the most reliable repeaters of “common nutritional wisdom” out there.
So you can imagine what her weight loss secrets are, can’t you?
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I eat everything I want, in moderation. My meals — mostly homemade — are heavily loaded with vegetables, and I choose calorie-controlled snacks like popcorn at 35 calories a cup, a graham cracker at 59 calories for two squares, and ice cream (really ice milk) at 100 to 150 calories a half cup. No seconds!
My weight maintenance secrets are simple: I read nutrition labels before I buy anything in a package, I practice portion control, and I exercise and weigh myself every day to stay within a two-pound range appropriate for my height. If the number on the scale begins to creep up, I may walk, bike or swim a little more and eat a little less for a few days.
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So damn simple people! Why can’t all of us do this? It is truly baffling. We must be stupid and lazy.
My sarcasm for Jane Brody knows no bounds. She has solved the obesity crisis. We can all go home now.
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I don’t count calories, but I have a working knowledge of the approximate calories in nearly everything I eat. If you need to lose weight, I urge you to download a comprehensive calorie chart of common foods to help you make substitutions that will cut about 500 calories from your daily diet. You can do the same with an exercise chart, keeping in mind that the caloric cost of any activity depends on how strenuously you do it and how much you weigh.
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She, like me, endorses Michael Pollan’s diet mantra: “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.”
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I really have been struggling with an urge to do some science fiction device on Jane Brody where I take her smug self-righteous self and transfer it into a body like mine, for which all this oh so “sensible and simple” advice doesn’t work.
When I was twenty I knew every calorie in any food which crossed my radar. I rode my bike an hour a day. And by afternoon, I was tired and screaming hungry. Smack-around-a-Jane-Brody-in-effigy hangry.
And people like her would chirp that it was so easy.
Jane Brody’s Personal Secrets to Lasting Weight Loss
Last edited by WereBear : Wed, Mar-07-18 at 20:58.
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