LoseIt!, which I’ve used and endorsed, is getting into he spirit of February being National Heart Month with a piece about how eating heart-healthy can lead to weight loss.
The article, which you can read by clicking here, goes through the usual — the Mediterranean and DASH diets, both of which are big on veggies, olive oil and fiber. But then LoseIt! asks if eating healthy can lead to weight loss. This is an obvious question — the answer is — of course!
If your old diet is full of fried foods, desserts, sugary content, etc., and you stop eating all that, of course you’ll lose weight. It would be impossible to cram enough vegetables into your stomach to equal all those lost calories.
After my first stent in 2012, I changed my eating habits and lost 25 pounds over the next several months. I had simply stopped eating everything I enjoy. Junk food is called junk food for a reason, it’s loaded with calories.
Sadly, in the now 13 years since my first stent (I had a second in 2017), I’ve regained that weight because it’s been impossible for me merely to eat healthy. During the Covid years especially, I saw little reason to worry about my diet when a virus might kill me the next day.
What LoseIt! really should have addressed in this article is how to keep eating healthy for years and years. The temptations of junk food are all around us, every minute of every day, as is the stress that prompts junk binging. Those are overwhelming forces to fight.
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