My late night internet ramblings discovered these articles.

The first is "7 Thoughts that can Make you Thin". Not sure I love the title, but the advice is a lot of the things we talk about on the forum. What do you all think of the tips?

The second is about some diets out there you may not have heard of -- "America's Next Diet Craze" Lots of similar principles being bandied about. I feel that what I do matches a lot of the issues mentioned here. I guess I pick and choose! You?

One thing I found interesting is that they don't really discuss making this a LIFESTYLE change. That is one of the biggest things many of us have to wrap our heads around. We can't just diet and then go back to what we did before!

Same for me. I kind of mix 'n match them. I really liked the first article's idea of changing how you think...easier said than done though.

Both of these articles relate to the way I've been trying to approach weight-loss this time. It's a lot slower, but hopefully it'll stick. The first is eating REAL food- anything is fine as long as it is REAL food - not overly processed.

The Beck Diet Solution Book is a GREAT help in changing one's thinking. The other book that was worth the money is The 150 healthiest Foods on Earth. I think at least the second one has been reviewed on 3FC and is still up on the main page. Not sure about the other one.

Those were good.

She looks great!

http://health.msn.com/dietfitness/we...ntid=100162711

I liked the first one a lot. Changing my mental messages has been really important in making changes. They missed a few for me. They had the deserve thing linked with exercise, but for me it is more linked with overall rewards. “You have been so good this week – you have done X (cleaned the house, finished that task, etc.) so you really deserve to treat yourself to Y. The reward thing is really hard to break since it is so ingrained from childhood. What I really deserve is to feel good and be healthy, and that won’t happen if I reward myself in the short term with food.

Another trap I fall into is the “everyone else is having a piece of cake and I either 1) don’t want to feel left out, or 2)I should be able to eat the same thing as everyone else! This one is harder for me because of the social aspect. Mainly I need to realize that people are different and just because someone else can eat cake every day and not gain weight doesn’t mean that it is healthy and also that just because I don’t think it is fair that it isn’t reality.

On the diets, I agree that for anyone with more than 20 pounds to lose some quick fix isn’t going to do it. It really does need to be a lifestyle change. That said, different diets can provide insight into ways for a person to craft something that will work for them, but ultimately it has to be workable for the individual. There are so many factors in this – lifestyle, time schedules, budget, family, etc.

Read most of it before... there are a few that annoy me for their simplistic way of looking at things but this one bothers me a bit:

"After that grueling workout, I deserve a bacon double cheeseburger"

While no a bacon double cheeseburger isn't the best choice we have it ingrained in our heads that we shouldn't eat back our exercise calories. I for one and encouraged to work out because say instead of eatting 1300 and struggling for the day I can eat say 1700 because of my daily workouts. 1700 is much more easy to substain long term, and I still lose about 2lbs a week because I'm still at a 1000 calorie deficit for the day.

Plus yeah, I agree no mention of substining for the long term. "Lifestyle"