The Diet Fix - A talk by Dr. Yoni Freedhoff

Upvote for using an "all the things" meme. :)

Thank you so much for posting!  Really got me thinking!

Thanks so much for this great post!  It articulates many of the things I'm beginning to realize in maintenance, but couldn't really put into words yet. I think it's interesting how we all have to go through our own personal dieting histories to arrive at the realizations you discuss.  Our relationship with food (and exercise, and our weight, and our body image), like many other things in life, is so much more complex than we want to give it credit for. 

Again, thanks for the great post.

Fiona

Thanks so much for posting this!  Great blog and post.  Some of the extreme "all or nothing" that I see posted here comes way too close to being an eating disorder. 

Thanks for posting this Mac.  I enjoyed what he had to say as well as your personal input.  It was informative and reinforced some of my own ideas as well as giving me new perspective on others.

Deb

Thank you for posting this.

I'm confused about the hunger part.  It seems contradictory.  If you allow a little hunger...that can lead to very low blood sugar and lead to the "Big Hunger" you mention.  I don't know how to walk that fine line, and usually end up with low blood sugar and starving and eating way, way too fast.  I just don't get the advice here. 

Also, the cheers about Carnie Wilson - I don't get your cynicism here.  McDonald's puts silly putty in their food for filler, and the nuggets are made of pink sludge.  And they use all GMO, and engineer their food to be like Crack - sugar/salt/fat addictive combos. I think Carnie deserves a standing ovation for not giving in to The Beast.  I commend her for realizing that health is truly important, and what we put in our bodies.  If she is a gourmet junk food junkie, and gained weight by eating an organic $7 cupcake, oh well, but I am like Carnie, and have certain "nevers" and they include the poison made by McDonalds.

You can get a salad at McDonalds. And you can get chicken nuggets made of pink sludge at regular restaurants. But that's not the point.

The point is that it is possible to eat there and maintain your weight and it's possible to completely avoid the place and not maintain your weight. Blind Restriction says that if you cut out some particular food or food group that you'll have dieting success but if you eat it, you'll have dieting failure. That clearly isn't true.

As for hunger, I wasn't giving advice but relating my own experience which is that I find sometimes a little hunger can be okay and can either give me perspective or help me reset my appetite. So on that one I was disagreeing a bit with Dr. Freedhoff who only said that Hunger leads to EAT ALL THE THINGS. I don't find that always happens to me. But it can.