Hi Cathy
Have you started to read Andrew Jenkinson’s book yet? It might just give you more hope.
I’ve re-listened to his first book and in its crudest form he argues:
He says obesity rates started to rise in the 70’s as the Heart Health diet became popular and saturated fats were demonised. Our diets changed from fresh home cooked foods to UPF’s.
– Low calorie diets in fact all ‘diets’ don’t work.
– We each have a ‘weight set-point’ and our bodies will always return to that. How many ‘diets’ have we all done only to regain the weight and more. He names them, to mention just a few…. Weight Watchers, Slimming World, South Beach, Atkins, Lighter Life, Cabbage Soup, Keto, etc. etc. I’m sure somebody can name a few more! He suggests that each time you regain weight + more, your ‘set-point goes up.
– His answer is low carb but using the Glycaemic Load as a guide rather than carbs per se. He gives an example of water melon which has a high Glycaemic Index but a low GL.
– He also says 16:8 works to lower your ‘set-point’.
– He suggest a that it’s the ‘quality’ not the ‘quantity’ of food that affects your ‘set-point’. So the least processed a food is, the it is better for you.
– He argues that reducing insulin, by reducing carbs, ie. avoid, sugar, wheat and corn, will lower your ‘set-point’.
– He also says ‘dump the scales’, doubt I could do that, and be ‘realistic’ about your weight loss.
Obviously there’s a lot more in the book especially about flawed ‘research’ funded by Big Business and Big Pharma. Apparently, the statin industry was worth $35 billion in 2010!
In a ‘nutshell’ he says a diet of grains, vegetable oil and sugar leads to obesity. So it would seem if these are cut out then all will be well.
Now I’m onto the new book which I’m sure will reiterate some of ‘Why We Eat (Too Much). We shall see!
