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Perhaps you saw the news report that Weight Watchers has released a new weight-loss
program, called the Core Plan, that does not require participants to count
points.
The original program allowed you to eat a wide variety of foods, with each food
being assigned a serving size and a certain number of points. To lose weight,
participants watched and tracked their points, staying below a certain level for
the day.
The new program allows you to eat a smaller variety of foods, from lists of
certain approved foods, without being so careful about serving size and points.
This in response to the increasing number of diets that promise you can eat all
you want on their plans and still lose weight.
Is this really possible? Yes and no. It's impossible to eat unlimited amounts of
any food and still lose weight. But it is possible to eat food that makes you
want to stop, rather than to eat more. And the foods on the Core Plan lists, such as fruits, vegetables, and lean protein, are in that category.
Unfortunately, modern diets have evolved to include many foods that are not only
bad for our health and wellness, they also make us want to eat and eat and eat.
Of these, the most insidious combination is the flour-fat flash. Mix together
flour and fat, or some kind of oil, throw in a little sugar and salt, and you
have recipe for most breads, crackers, chips, cookies, cakes, donuts, and waffles. You
also have the recipe for disaster.
Nothing makes blood sugar spike faster than the flour-fat combination. This
combination generates a flash that is the nutritional equivalent to crack
cocaine: it is highly addictive and ultimately deadly. It generates a vicious
cycle of making us go back for more and more, even though our bodies don't need
more food.
So plans that minimize or eliminate the flour-fat combination, like the Weight
Watchers' Core Plan, the Paleo Diet, the Anti-Inflammation Diet, and the
Volumetrics Diet, are moving in the right direction. By focusing more on the
quality of the food we eat than on the quantity, they put us on the road to
optimal body weight without as much will power or effort.
Coaching Inquiries: How often do you eat foods that combine flour and fat? Can you
imagine giving them up? What would you miss most? Would the change be worth
making if you were to reach your optimal body weight without having to focus on
serving size and calories? What's holding you back?
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