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How can you recommend a sugar-laden cake to people who want to LOSE weight?
A reader sent me a picture similar to the one above to my Swedish blog, Kostdoktorn.se. Weight Watchers is encouraging you to eat chocolate cake when you want to lose weight.
The cake is made with plenty of sugar and wheat flour.
What overweight people “treat themselves” to by following Weight Watcher’s advice is hunger and failure. I don’t think they’re worth it.
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This is totally what the Weight Watchers do, it's nothing new. Eat fewer calories etc etc. Not only does is fail in nutritional level, but it also predicts people's behavior wrong. In my Weight Watcher days (when it was all about counting "points") you took a recipe like this, say, a carrot cake, that *felt* more suitable than a regular cake, bake it and then *ate it all*. It was there, you had a "permission" from your dieting authority, and how many in calorie restricted diet can eat just one slice when offered fast carbs, huh?
Better yet; Buy real butter and high fat cream and consume!
Eric
Well, I'm fat and I'm not stupid. Maybe I don't know exactly how many 'points' there are in a slice of cabbage cake, let alone a whole one but I know that one slice won't do it. I'd eat all the cake, even knowing it's bad for me and will make me fatter.
It's not about knowledge. It's about human biology.
That is why LCHF is the only died that has ever really worked for me. Trying to brute force your body into a SAD type diet doesn't work and does terrible things to you. I'm glad to have gone beyond the fallacy I can eat anything I want in moderation and it will be fine. I don't crave sugar or starches for the first time in my life. I feel better than I ever have.
Would I want to trade that for cabbage cake? No.
I wonder how many carbs they are eating on the Weight Watcher’s diet.
WW stuff is alway full of sugar, white flour, etc. and a huge amount of sodium.
"Let them eat cake."
You are spot on about WW. I had a few employees, in the nineties, who tried WW. Though it does work for short time, all failed due to two things: the low calorie count and the complicated eating system. They also tried a few other similar programs that had the same level of complication and low cal requirements and ended up with the same results.....in initial loss of weight (fat and muscle mass) followed by a plateau and frustration with feeling hungry all of the time as well as confused about how many points were left or used up for each meal.
To me, it's always been much easier ( I lost 50 pounds with Atkins in the early 70s) to keep it simple. Carbs low, high fat, adequate protein. It has worked for me for the 40 years since I began.
Once again, I'm sorry for hitting the wrong button.
A doctor once told me that WW is the best program for weight loss because they teach you all about food. I asked how's that, as all you get is a point system. She said that's the beauty of it; if a food is high in points, you stay away from it, or learn to have just a bit of it. Not sure how that teaches you about food.
So, how is that cake "slimmed down" by adding the sauerkraut? Is it supposed to replace some of the sugar? It still has 1 1/3 cups of sugar.
Another trick they use are in selling their desserts. For $4.00 you can have a package of 2.5 oz ice cream bars with only 90 calories. Of course, left out of the equation is the fact that 2.5 oz of regular ice cream only has 75 calories. Ever tried to eat 2 oz of ice cream?
Organizations like WW makes money on people being overweight and buying their products. A slim population wouldn't have the need to buy convenience "lower calorie" food. Anyone on a diet such as WW can do the same thing buy buying a normal sized "mac and cheese" or similar and scooping out a few tablespoons before eating.
Of course, Atkins does the same thing with their net carbs...sugar alcohols.
If I"m going to eat a sugar, it will be from a natural source such as an apple, greener banana, or a date or two.
And when I was on WW I felt like I was never satisfied with my food choices, not enough proteins than and definitely not enough fats either. Now that I've changed to LCHF, (several years ago) I'll eat my sauerkraut sometimes, but maybe with a hot dog, definitely NOT with flour/sugar, etc.
I enjoy your articles!!
Now on LCHF, I've gotten to a weight I'm reasonably happy with, and have kept it up for three years. It's still tough at times, but this way of eating is a thousand times more satisfying than WW, it works past the first 30 pounds, and you can stick to it without being miserable.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-_LoAm_etU