I am trying to shift my thinking a bit as far as weight and health. It was good to write my How To Lose Weight page and show the results.
An after-effect of the process was that I’ve become a little too focused on pounds instead of health. For example, at my current low weight of 155 lbs, you kind of get the idea that you can eat anything. So I’ve eaten a little more junk than usual over the last month. And while the scale hasn’t moved, that food certainly couldn’t have been beneficial to health.
I plan to tighten things up a bit now. Also, I want to focus more on health measures – how do I feel, what are my energy levels, etc., rather than just scale weight.
This reminds me of both the “Potato Diet” and the “Twinkie Diet” guys, both of whom experienced dramatic weight loss and a radical improvement of all their tested biomarkers after eating their crazy and, SEEMINGLY, unhealthy diets. And both said when interviewed that, even though they felt great and looked great, they would not recommend anyone eat the way they did.
My immediate response was: Why not?
I’m not suggesting that anyone do so either, but only because we have no long-term data on what the effects might be.
While it seems to make sense that we want to eat “well”, humans may be able to thrive on diets that are far from “optimal” as long as other factors are considered (both men seem to have received the beneficial results from a 20-50% reduction in calories).
That said, and speaking as someone who has never been able to find a causative relationship between what I put in my body and how I feel (other than not liking meat and concentrated fat), I look forward to hearing what you discover!