Healthy Eating

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While visiting with my family, a discussion got started regarding healthy eating. 

I have always been of the philosophy that you should be able to eat pretty much anything you want.  You should not deprive yourself of anything.  The key is moderation.  You want chocolate chip cookies?  Fine.  Just don't eat them every night.  And eat 2, not 6. 

Two of my siblings highly disagree with this.  They are of the opposite philosophy.  In order to lose weight you MUST cut out certain things and deprive yourself.  We had lasagna for dinner the other night.  I had the smallest portion of anyone.  And I had a side salad with light dressing.  I skipped the bread and alcohol that everyone else had.  I pointed out that it is frustrating to eat like that and still be the "fat" one in the family.  They told me that I will never lose weight eating like that.  NO lasagna.  NO cheese.  EVER.  I was told that even eating the salads that I often eat are BAD.  I have lettuce, tomato, deli chicken, about 6 croutons, and 2 Tbs of light balsamic vinaigrette.  NO croutons, my sister said.  Well what the hell.  Shouldn't I have SOME carbohydrates with my lunch?  I'll often have a bunch of grapes or an apple for a snack either in the morning or afternoon.  Again, BAD. Sugar!  As another snack I'll often have some cottage cheese and some cut up peaches mixed together.  Again, bad. CHEESE!  EVIL!  Can't ever have it.  Dessert?  Don't even think about it.  One cookie and you are destined to be fat forever.  Don't expect to lose a single pound.  According to their ideas, it seems I can only eat baked chicken and broccoli.

I contest that you cannot live that way.  That is not a long term, healthy, solution.  You need variety.  You should be able to eat a small portion of lasagna every now and then for dinner.  You should be able to have a little cup of cottage cheese as a snack every now and then.   Fruit is good for you and perfectly acceptable to eat in moderation, like everything else.  You should be able to eat these things in moderation and still maintain a perfectly reasonable and healthy weight.  In my head I believe that any nutritionist would agree with me.  Hard to say for sure if I am right or not.  Their argument is that they are thin and I am not so they obviously know what they are talking about and I don't.  My significantly taller sister weighs 113 pounds.  I currently weigh 133.  It is hard to argue with that.

One thing we did agree on is that it is good to eat smaller portions throughout the day.

So are my sisters totally crazy or am I?  What is your personal philosophy?  What works for you?

 



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