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Weighing In On The Dieting and Weight-Loss Frenzy: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. Making a New Years resolution to diet or lose weight is simple. It's the actual dieting and losing weight part that gets a little tricky, if not darn near impossible.
My personal philosophy is...1) Set small and attainable goals; 2) Eat healthy foods and adopt a healthy lifestyle; 3) Do as I say, not as I do.
The good thing is...If you want to lose weight in the New Year, you have unlimited recourses and support online. Just at BlogHer you can find...
Denise - How Do You Choose A Diet?
Kristy has introduced us to the BlogHer 2008 Good Health-a-thon!
Alanna has Lost 50 Pounds in Five Minutes.
Here are some other great women and their dieting plans...
Weighing in with a Plan and a Purpose
First I’d like to mention that I didn’t make any resolutions for 2008, however I did set some goals. What’s the difference between resolutions and goals? The goals I’ve set for myself are not new and I know that I can accomplish them because I previously was living a healthy lifestyle until I got back into my unhealthy ways and my sugar addiction. Now I am committed to achieving these goals because I am sick and tired of feeling sickly (and tired!).
Healthy weight is just one part of an overall healthy lifestyle. The conclusion of all the research conducted by so many respected organizations is that people are overweight because not only do they intake more calories than they burn, but overweight people also tend to eat too many rich foods high in fat and sugar and devoid of nutritional value. I’ll bet this sounds familiar. The most surefire way to lose weight is the one that people in our immediate-gratification society hate most to hear: eat less and exercise more.
I am not one to make New Year’s resolutions. Call me “pressure-resistant”, but the more I am being nagged to do something, the less I get motivated to do it. Especially about diets and food.
The bad. I think choosing to lose weight for the sake of being a healthier person is great. But, dieting and starving yourself to be thin, is bad.
From Denise at BlogHer -- Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters
As a mom of daughters and as a woman with some disordered eating patterns, Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters by Courtney Martin was a tough read. A very tough read. The first few chapters had me second guessing everything I've said to my daughters and everything I've exposed them to.
From The F-word -- Eating Disorders: Eating 101
One Jewish Dyke has posted a very personal and honest blog entry about her recent experiences battling ED-NOS that you should go read. She has already taken what may be the most difficult step for many with an eating disorder to make: the decision to seek out help for her problem.
Yet like so many other eating disorder sufferers, OJD faces an obstinate medical professional who doesn’t entirely *get* the nature of an eating disorder and how to treat it.
The Media has made a mockery of what a beautiful woman is, reducing many of our self images to rubble. Don't be taken in by this...Don't diet because you hate the way you look, try learning to love the way you look (no matter what your weight).
Now for the UGLY. Alli: "The Diarrhea Diet"
Denise did Alli has Allies.
Really, does it get any uglier than diarrhea as a method for weight-loss? And people are actually paying over $50 a month for this Shhh(stuff).
Have you made a New Years resolution to lose weight? Do you have a plan? Do you think you'll be successful? Do you have any advice for those of us who haven't started our diet yet?
Contributing Editor Catherine Morgan
also at CatherineBlogs.com and The Political Voices of Women
