Those who have tried every diet under the sun and failed have generally missed the following points:
1. It's not about fat grams
2. It's not about carbs
3. It's not about sugar
It's about nutrition. Plain and simple. Nutrition. People get confused in the supermarkets with the various frozen, processed foods like Healthy Choice, Weight Watchers or Lean Cuisine and think that having these will make you thin like the actresses int he commercials. However, what little nutrition is in these types of foods is actually destroyed in the microwave, not that the entrees offered much in nutrition to begin with.
Those life-long dieters are the ones who think they know it all because they've tried it all, but they have not really given themselves over to nutrition.
As a caregiver for a severely obese disabled woman, I recently had to deal with her being hospitalized for 10 days because of excess fluid retention and other issues that were making it difficult for her to breathe. At 5'1", she weighted 359 going in. They put her on heavy lasix and 10 days later she
had lost 32 lbs. Oh, she was elated! She had lost "weight." She went home, prescribed with 80mg of lasix twice daily, and she has gone down to 320 has of today. She is happy because she is "losing weight." She came out of the hospital with an apparent new determination to do better... but something happened in the hospital.Jello. In the seven months I have worked for her, she has never once asked for Jello. Because they fed it to her every day in the hospital (sugar-free, laced with aspartame), she now wants it every day. "Look, it's sugar free! I can have all I want!" When I said it was also nutrition free, she insisted that it had vitamin C and was good for your nails. In fact, she got a little huffy about it. How dare I intrude on her food choices. Oh, bad eating habits
The hospital did another bad thing: it made her want comfort foods - for a time. Because she was pampered in the hospital, she wanted a repeat of those foods at home - lots of fish, rice and steamed veggies and that darn jello. Now nearly a month later she lets rice and fish go to waste and veggies rot. Then I get to listen to a diatribe on how much food is being wasted in the house while she insists on more jello please and tells me how much "weight" she is losing. We could all lose water weight with lasix, so I just have to shake my head. She's overweight and doesn't understand nutrition.
The is why Jamie Oliver's FOOD REVOLUTION is critical, although I'm not entirely positive his food is "nutritious." It's certainly a far cry better than what the kids in the school cafeterias are getting for meals, but at least he's making an effort and raising awareness about the processed food problem.
