I'm always interested in reading new dieting books about new dieting plans, and unique ways to eat in order to lose weight or maintain weight-loss.
Here in 2012, with regards to my dieting hobby, I'm having difficulty finding anything that looks "new and unique" to me.
I've been doing Google searches, and searches of new publications at Amazon, but nothing stands out.
My primary dieting method continues to be logging all my food into my computer software program, and counting calories…working to keep my calorie count lower than my body's energy burn…. The simple measurement for this is … If I'm gaining weight over time, then I'm eating more calories than my body burns.
I've studied the issue of metabolism, and come to the conclusion that any possibility of raising one's metabolism by what one eats, or how one exercises, is a crock of ****.
I'm still very interested in the Habit concepts set forth in The No S Diet, and I continually research and experiment with possibilities of implementing more Habit concepts in my own dieting life.
The last two years, I learned a great deal about low carb, zero carb, zero wheat, and Paleo ways of eating.
For a few years before that, I investigated and experimented with different types of fasting plans, like QOD, Alternate Day Eating, Eat Stop Eat, Fast 5, etc.
I've spent a lot of time investigating Intuitive eating type diets… i.e. listening to your body, eating when hungry, stop when full etc; that "dieting makes you fat" and have come to the conclusion that this advice is very wrong for people who are obese, or reduced obese, and in fact, I believe that this type of diet (which is a diet that is allegedly not a diet) is the VERY WORST of all the many diet's I've ever investigated, tried, or experimented with… INCLUDING things like the cabbage soup diet, human growth hormone, hypnosis, acupuncture, Beverly hills diet, Cambridge diet, the cookie diet, slim fast, weight-loss supplements etc, etc, etc..
Of course, during my lifetime, I've also belonged to all of the major diet clubs and organizations, like Weight Watchers, Jenny Craig, Nutrisystem, TOPS, Overeaters Anonymous and on and on and on..
This year, 2012, I'm not finding any books or clubs or diets with concepts that are new and unique, or interesting to me, and right now, I'm finding that kind of sad.
My hobby with dieting is still full-steam-ahead, because I'm very busy with this DietHobby website, with my DietHobby YouTube channel, and with the diet forums and other dieting websites that I frequently visit.
Still, right now I'm missing reading about new and interesting concepts, and experimenting with them. My current weight-loss maintenance simply involves a recycling of dieting concepts that have worked for me before, even though I'm rather bored by many of them.
Keeping my calories as low as possible is crucial, and although I'm been having great success with my diet, my body keeps fighting my weight-maintenance efforts. Despite all my low-calorie and exercise efforts, year after year, as I age, my weight keeps gradually creeping up.
I'm cheered by the fact, that as long as I continue to keep on with my efforts, even if this creep does continue, as an elderly person, my life probably won't be long enough for that process to return me to obesity.
So, this past couple of months…. besides being really, really busy, I just haven't found a lot of things worth talking about, that I haven't already written about here. So check out the archives, and read up on my past articles.
Eventually, I'm going to figure out the next step for my Dieting Hobby, and when I do, you'll be the first to know.
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