Low Carb Diva

August 4, 2011 Day 25

Dieting forces brain to eat itself, scientists claim

Well it seems the geniuses are at it again. Claiming that if you go on a diet that your brain will start eating itself. Quite scary considering some in our population need all of the brain cells they have and just cannot afford to lose anymore.

I wonder if they did a study on dieting that did not advocate for the low fat whole grain mantra how many brain cells would be lost. My guess probably not as many or even any at all considering our brains are made up of 2/3rds fat. After all if a baby's brain needs fat to develop my guess is that even as adults we need that fat and cholesterol to save our brains from cannibalizing itself in a quest for nutrients.

So one can conclude that to keep yourself from turning into one of those brain eating zombies you need to either stop dieting OR start eating saturated fat!

Too bad they don't have a saturated fat council that could run public service announcements on TV.

Their slogan could be: Fat It's Where It's At or Fat It's What's For Dinner.

April 12, 2010

If dieting was easy no one would be fat and the diet industry would not introduce a new gimmick or product for quick, easy weight loss every five seconds. The secret to losing weight is perseverance. Without this you will keep gaining and re-losing the same 20, 50, 100 or more pounds over and over.

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June 1, 2009

Can you believe that it is June already? Personally I can't wait until the summer is over. I am just so tired of all this bad economic news and am praying that the fall will bring everyone a little relief and breathing room.

Sticking to a weight loss plan when you are worried about being able to pay your bills can be difficult but it is not impossible.

I am not using this economy as an excuse to pig out and neither should you. Yes I have a slip up every now and then but the secret is to get right back on the next meal. Believe me this is harder than it sounds. After all once you start eating all of those forbidden carbs the sugar beast wakes up.

It is almost like that little cute orange monster in those weight watchers commercials.

I think the key is to try to have more on plan days than off and hope that it all evens out.