S/O - the "Snob Diet" (in Dec's Glamour)

EmmieB

If you don't get Glamour (because you're not a spastic 19 year old), this is an article I found while googling that pretty much sums up how I feel.

http://tinyurl.com/bv3wdfn
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http://yournutritionista.com/post/12556873010/glamours-snob-diet-the-good-bad-and-ugly

 

So while I am fully on board with the concept of eating food that is nothing short of divine and enjoying every bite...sometimes you have to zone out with some chinese cartons and House.

 

(full disclosure - I have never been on any kind of weight-loss program. On the flip side, the only time I haven't exercised regularly was due to injury or illness. So that probably colors my view of food. A lot.)

 

Discuss.

PinkHighlighter

I completely agree.  If you can pull it off.  Self-control isn't one of my strong points, especially for delicious food...

Passanie

This smells like bs to me. Brie, cream, red meat, chocolate? Those things will still make you fat, raise your cholesterol, etc.

hannikan

Passanie:

This smells like bs to me. Brie, cream, red meat, chocolate? Those things will still make you fat, raise your cholesterol, etc.

Not necessarily. My family ate those kinds of things in moderation and no one was fat. I think we should all do the best we can to eat healthy and certainly you shouldn't make those kinds of things the bulk of your diet but there is such a thing as driving yourself insane measuring, reading labels and denying yourself anything you enjoy.

EmmieB

Passanie:

This smells like bs to me. Brie, cream, red meat, chocolate? Those things will still make you fat, raise your cholesterol, etc.

It's what I eat.

What we ate yesterday: scones and tea for breakfast, pear/gruyere/bacon paninis for lunch (fried in butter), brie with honey and pomegranate seeds on crackers for snack while I was baking and then steak sandwiches in which the steak had been sliced thin, pounded even thinner, breaded in panko, and fried and served on thick white bread with tonkatsu sauce (made at home) and mustard butter (made at home) and lettuce and pickles.

Granted, that was a fancy sunday meal, but tonight we're having baked tilapia (probably over risotto because we need our carbs around here like a fish needs water) and a pear cashew salad with homemade dressing (I don't even buy it unless it's for a picnic or something) and then roasted pears with marscapone for dessert.

My cholesterol is so good I get smiley faces on my blood work. My weight has never been an issue. (Same with Husband. Well, he says his weight is an issue, but only in the "if I lose 2 pounds, i'll go that much faster in the next race" insane cyclist way.)

 The trick is to eat slowly so you register when you're actually full and then stop eating. Which feels like a no-brainer, but I know so many people who have actually said to me that they eat until there's not more food left on the table, regardless of whether they're full or not. (The one who springs immediately to mind likes to tell me how to make our meals "healthier" by switching out the butter for margarine and the cream for low-fat yogurt...and he's on weight watchers...and he's generally a jackass so I like to scapegoat him ;-) )

If you're eating real food, your body knows what to do with it and how to do it efficiently. If you're eating a bunch of chemical laden crap, your body gets thrown for a loop and it's less likely to break it down effectively.

Now - as for the meat...I buy very specifically and directly from the ranch (Prather, at the Campbell farmer's market.) If I don't know where the meat came from, then it's meat-free meals for me. There's a reason the rest of the world doesn't want our beef. But again - that's because it's chemical laden crap if you just pick up a couple of steaks from Safeway (or wherever) and don't care about what's happened to the cow before it became your beef.

But that's a whole other soap box. :-) 

pink.dutch.tulips

i subscribe to Glamour .. well that and Parents .. go figure. i read the Snob Diet .. like hannikan said and what the article says too is that all that good rich food is to be eaten in moderation and simply put you do NOT wolf that petite filet down !! you savor each bite and by doing that .. you actually eat less. its an age old dieting trick - eating slowly b/c your body is on a 20 min delay when it comes to the brain telling you that you're full. the slower you eat, the more likely you are to hear your brain tell you enough ! you're full and you push the plate away.

 

EmmieB

pink.dutch.tulips:

i subscribe to Glamour .. well that and Parents .. go figure. i read the Snob Diet .. like hannikan said and what the article says too is that all that good rich food is to be eaten in moderation and simply put you do NOT wolf that petite filet down !! you savor each bite and by doing that .. you actually eat less. its an age old dieting trick - eating slowly b/c your body is on a 20 min delay when it comes to the brain telling you that you're full. the slower you eat, the more likely you are to hear your brain tell you enough ! you're full and you push the plate away.

 

and have really yummy leftovers :-) 

Mrs.BoomBoom

The last time I did Weight Watchers, I did their core plan which was heavy on low fat proteins and fruits and vegetables.  The big 'trick' was to stop eating when you were satisfied...not full.  I remember how wonderful food tasted!  If I wanted chocolate, I had chocolate but one little piece would satisfy that craving and I'd be done.  I lost about 80 lbs.  Now I've gone back to my old ways of eating until it's gone and everything tastes sort of bland and I never register 'full' (let alone 'satisfied') and, of course, I've gained all that weight back.

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PinkHighlighter:

I completely agree.  If you can pull it off.  Self-control isn't one of my strong points, especially for delicious food...

Exactly. My problem is that I'm not good at having just a small piece of chocolate or one oz. of cheese. And the meal ideas this blogger included at the end of the entry also would never work for me. I would be constantly hungry.

hannikan

I think self-control is hard for everyone at some point in their life. When I was a kid and even teen I had WAY better self control with food than I do now. It may have been because my mom was always hovering over me and did NOT let me overeat. Now there's no one doing that so I have to be more self-motivated about it. There are lots of things I just can't have at home or I will eat it ALL! And I don't eat as many fruits and vegetables as I did growing up. I try but I never have as much on hand because it's hard to eat all fast enough so it doesn't go bad. And now I have to cook it instead of having it appear on my plate. At the end of a long day teaching, I have a hard time putting much thought into what I eat. And it's just for me because I can't get DH to eat any of it. In fact, I have a hard time getting him to eat enough and me to not eat too much. When we met 10 years ago, it would have been the opposite. He was overweight then and I was underweight.