I think I've just heard the stupidest diet thing I've ever heard.
They were having a health fair at work near the cafe. I had actually packed a lunch but I've been so hungry for the past 2 days I decided to get the salad at work and save my lunch (which was simply less food mass) for eating for dinner tonight when I could add some grilled vegetables for it.
Went to the cafe, got a grilled chicken caesar salad with a ton of veggies and skipped the dressing in favor of a splash of red wine vinegar (total 500 calories) then hit the fair. One of their tables was for fat intake so I headed over there to see their visuals and check out their fliers and one of there spokeswomen zeroed in on me to make a point.
First she pointed to a large display plate loaded down with a fatty cut of meat and a big serving of potatos and declared that this size plate was wrong. I pointed out that the food on it was more the issue to me than the plate size. After all the same size plate full of grilled vegetables would be a hundred calories tops! She then proceded to go on about how that was entirely wrong and point to my salad as an example and asked if I was planning on eating it all. As I had eaten breakfast 9 hours previously and was really hungry I said yes.
She suggested that to lose weight you need to wait until you're starving then wait another hour to make sure it's a physical hunger not a psychological one. Then you need to eat no more than 1-2 cups volume of food (any food) and throw the rest out. Then an hour or 2 later you can start the whole process over again if you're still hungry. She told me if you eat until your stomach is full your body can't decide what to do with it and turns it all into fat that one bite can determine whether the mean is healthy and will result in weight loss or extravegant and lead to weight gain. I told her that calories were what was important and having a heathy mix of foods. She questioned my knowledge of this and I told her that I've lost 30 lbs counting calories and studies show that in vs out is what matters and she declared my loses were temporary and it would stop if I didn't take her approach. She then went on about some she knew who worked out 7 days a week and only ate 400 calories but wasn't losing weight because she didn't wait until she was 'truly hungry' before eating. *rolls eyes* I pointed out that it was well below the minimum recommended for heathly weightloss and that probably had something to do with it.
I finally just asked her flat out if she had any brochures that promoted this idea because I would love to see the documented scientific research and which point she admited she didn't and I walked off without any of their information.
Gosh it's good to know I can lose weight eating 1 cup of icecream every 3 hours!
And yes I ate every bite of my beautiful vegetable and lean protein salad. It was delicious. I'm actually not hungry now. (Saving my crabcakes for dinner)
