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September 2007
Weight Watchers Bans The "Yo-Yo" in Belgium
Weight Watchers is receiving a brand makeover in Belgium that, if successful, will give residents the chance for a leaner look.
Found this interesting story by Amy Curr for MEDIA POST's e-pub called Media Creativity
Fructose Nation
I could have just posted a link but sometimes it's really hard to get into an online site so I posted verbatim what William Baldwin, Editor, FORBES opened the October 1st issue with.
Lots of great food for thought here.
Vitamin beer? As if the riboflavin were going to lessen the damage this stuff does to your paunch?
The vita-beer has a lot of company on the deli shelf. "Bran" muffins that are just cupcakes with a dash of bran. "Yogurt" pretzels whose dominant ingredients are sugar and palm oil. Vitaminwater, which is more sugar than vitamins. "Energy" drinks that have taurine, as if that dubious chemical were what gave you a lift. Whole wheat Krispy Kremes.
All this junk food with a veneer of virtue is enough to turn Michael Jacobson's stomach. For a third of a century he and his Center for Science in the Public Interest have been preaching to America's consumers, and to the food manufactures who feed their addictions, to repent. No, there isn't any huge vitamin shortage that needs to be corrected, he declares. There is a great excess of saturated fat and sweeteners.
Sermons from the food police have failed to shrink waistlines. But they are having a visible impact on the way food is marketed: a proliferation of nutritional claims. For an eater suffering from a guilty conscience, a spoonful of vitamins makes the fattening food go down.
The most imperious of the nutrition nannies would have the federal government crack down on junk, banning it from schools or even taxing it. Here's a more measured response. Let's transfer control of food labeling to an agency with the mentality of the Securities & Exchange Commission. The philosophy there is that it's better to regulate disclosure than content. Companies subject to the SEC can peddle almost any security they want, so long as it's honestly labeled. Look around and you will see plenty of SEC-registered garbage trading on Wall Street. But you won't see a product branded "High Performance Fund."
An SEC-regulated supermarket would have the same naughty foods, but they wouldn't sell quite as well, because their labels would be brutally candid. Vitaminwater would have to relaunch as Fructose Water. The Nutri-Grain name would vanish from wrappers in favor of the more direct Kellogg's Gooey Cookie. "Energy bars" would have to make it clearer what they are getting at; since energy is measured in calories, these would become "calorie bars." Red Bull would become Caffeine Bull.
You won't be denied your guilty pleasures. But you will feel guiltier.
Did You Ever See a Fat Turtle?
On Day 5 Dr. Beck asks us to "Slow Down and Be Mindful" to maximize our psychological satisfaction by eating slowy and paying full attention to our food.
Simple enough request but challenging to say the least with the busy lives most of us we lead so it's easy to forget.
I'm not sure why but as I pondered the list of great ideas Dr. Beck shared that would help me stay very mindful and help me "slow down" with what I was eating today, the image of a turtle came to mind.
And I began to think "have you ever seen a fat turtle? or for that matter have you ever seen a fat animal of any kind other than ones that live with humans.
Now here's a funny thought.
Ok, its kind of a side-tracked idea, but think about it... I wonder what would happen to any animal in the wild if we feed them only processed food.
If someone did that as an experiment there probably would be an outcry that it would "cruel and unusual treatment"...
Repair Your Credit
Day 4 in "The Beck Diet Solution Weight Loss Workbook" is titled "Build Your Confidence" by giving yourself credit for every positive thing you do, but on this time around I think of this as being about "Reparing Your Credit" in the sense that most of the time we're all so conditioned to see all of things we're doing wrong whenever we're doing any new lifestyle change.
So I gave myself credit today for completing the day very successfully and most important, at least to me is that I think after doing the Beck Diet Solution a few times my "self credit repair" is doing quite well.
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Don't miss Oprah Today!
She's got a great show planned for today with Dr. Oz who's going to give advice on how we can stop counting calories, and eat more to lose more.
And Bob Greene is going to share how he helped a woman lose almost 100LBS.
CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE ABOUT TODAY'S SHOW
Dr. Beck says.. "Sit Down to Eat"
Simple idea, so its also a simple idea not to do as well.
Today's lesson on Day 3 from Dr. Beck is "Sit Down to Eat" 100% today and be aware of any sabotaging thoughts you might have as you become aware of times when you normally may have eaten while standing up.
Snacking... talking... cooking....
30LBS in 42Days Thanks to The Beck Diet Solution Weight Loss Workbook
I set a goal for myself on that I would lose 30LBS in 42Days as I read and applied what I was learning in "The Beck Diet Solution Weight Loss Workbook", following Ultrametabolism" and with with new trainer Julia
And to help keep my head on track I'll be weighing a MY 30LBS hat everyday as a mental reminder of my goal and I'll be tracking my success on the back of a MY 30LBS t.
My 30LB t is a little wrinkled in this shot but it felt great filling in the outline of the 3LBS I lost over the weekend with a Sharpie Rub-A-Dub premanent marker.
THANKS DR.BECK!
Our son Matt* is attending his freshman year at Johnson & Wales, so Kim decided to make him a batch of his [and our] favorite cookies as part of a surprise package to send him.
Now here's a testiment to the power of Dr. Beck's CBT work. Not only didn't I eat a cookie, for some reason I don't even remember smelling them baking.
And even though I have fallen off the wagon quite a few times as I've read and re-read "The Beck Diet Solution" and now as I'm going through "The Beck Diet Solution Weight loss Workbook", I really think that my brain is starting to "think more like a thin person".
*Matt's a weight loss success story in his own right as after he topped the scales at 230LBS he really got his head into making healthier choices and made sure he got himself to the gym 4 to 5 times a week at a minimum. Having gotten down as low at 160LBS Matt now tends to hover around 165 - 170LBS
So far the "Freshman 15" hasn't gotten a hold of him yet but we may have to monitor how many cookie packages Kim keeps sending him
