Last night, I attended a dinner where I somehow managed to sit at a seat that had two place settings. While that meant two salads, it also meant two desserts.
Facing down two desserts can be difficult, but I found there's an easy way to deal: make sure N&R sports writer Robert Bell is nearby.
After he wolfed down his own slice of cheesecake, I passed over my two pieces to him.
So if you're trying to diet, just invite Robert to your home and feed him everything you're trying to avoid. Maybe it will catch on among dieters: Atkins, The Zone, and now, the Bell.
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2 comments:
First off, Congrats on the award, AMY!!!!!!! Hats off to you:)
Second...good job passing your food off to someone else, kind of.....
Some other tricks in the case that you don't have an excessively hungry male reporter sitting next to you at all vulnerable times...
They are simple things but sometimes you might not think to do them.
-If you don't want dessert, ask them not to bring it to you.
-If you do want dessert, ask someone next to you to share OR ask for another plate, cut off a little piece and ask them to take the rest.
-If everyone else is having dessert and you don't want it, but you don't want to feel left out while everyone else is eating, get a decaf coffee or tea.
-Eat slowly!!!! Difficult to do, but force yourself to put down the fork in between bites...you may actually be satisfied with much less than you would normally think.
Those are only a few of many little tricks that people successfully use to help them get through calorie laden social/work events....ask what other people do in similar situations to get more!
Seems like the "Bell" approach worked for you the other night, though. Hey whatever helps!
Atkins "Nightmare" Diet
When Dr. Atkins Diet Revolution was first published, the President of the American College of Nutrition said, "Of all the bizarre diets that have been proposed in the last 50 years, this is the most dangerous to the public if followed for any length of time."[1]
When the chief health officer for the State of Maryland,[2] was asked "What's wrong with the Atkins Diet?" He replied "What's wrong with... taking an overdose of sleeping pills? You are placing your body in jeopardy." He continued "Although you can lose weight on these nutritionally unsound diets, you do so at the risk of your health and even your life."[3]
The Chair of Harvard's nutrition department went on record before a 1973 U.S. Senate Select Committee investigating fad diets: "The Atkins Diet is nonsense... Any book that recommends unlimited amounts of meat, butter, and eggs, as this one does, in my opinion is dangerous. The author who makes the suggestion is guilty of malpractice."[4]
The Chair of the American Medical Association's Council on Food and Nutrition testified before the Senate Subcommittee as to why the AMA felt they had to formally publish an official condemnation of the Atkins Diet: "A careful scientific appraisal was carried out by several council and staff members, aided by outside consultants. It became apparent that the [Atkins] diet as recommended poses a serious threat to health."[5]
The warnings from medical authorities continue to this day. "People need to wake up to the reality," former U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop writes, that the Atkins Diet is "unhealthy and can be dangerous."[6]
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