Question

Are You a Victim of a Fad Diet?

Answer 1

I had to change my eating habits due to anxiety and borderline Hypoglycemia. I eat 6-8 small meals a day, instead of the three larger meals I used to eat. I also have cut way back on meat and sugar (difficult) and no caffeine, and increased my consumption of fresh fruits and veggies. The most noticeable benefit of my diet, is that I don't feel sluggish during the day and I cannot remember the last time I felt hunger pains, since my meals are more evenly distributed throughout the day.

Answer 2

Yup, unless they have a legitimate condition, it's not something people should be cutting

Answer 3

That is awesome Katie!! That is a **** change to make. I am working on that right now for cholesterol and diabetes issues I was just diagnosed with. It is ****!! Nice to see some people can do it! Gives me a little strength.

Answer 4

If there is a fad, I'm more likely to go the other way just because it is a fad.

Answer 5

Victims usually choose not to take responsibility for their actions therefore I am not a victim....

Answer 6

I know the real deal though choose to ignore it quite regularly.

On the long plain I still have better nutrition than whatever infomercial is the flavour of the month.

Answer 7

I eat very healthy, my weakness is Gummie Bears

Answer 8

All of my favorite foods are being replaced at my local grocer's with their gluten-free equivalent. Now I can buy food which has a poor texture and flavor, with more calories, less iron, less protein, more sugar, and added carcinogens which the FDA recommends no one eat more often than once a week.

Answer 9

gluten is actually needed in one's diet. people have problems when they cut all gluten out.

Answer 10

Yup was vegan for a whole year

Answer 11

Nope, only "diets" I have ever gone on wore things like eat more greens, reduce sugar intake

Answer 12

I need all the calories I can get.

Answer 13

The fad diets never interested me.

Answer 14

You only become a victim if you choose that path

Answer 15

from what I understand, those "gluten Free" diets are a sham.

Answer 16

never I'm a cur-vie woman and proud of it

Answer 17

I'm on the calzone and pizza diet; just about to make a grub run now. :-p

Answer 18

i don't need to. I eat all day and don't gain a pound

Answer 19

I don't diet. Never have. A "diet" is temporary, and yields temporary results.
I completely changed my eating habits about 4 years ago, because my gall bladder tried to kill me. My Dr. told me that no one can change their diet significantly enough to prevent it from happening again, and that inevitably, the gall bladder will need to come out--generally within the first year following a gall bladder attack.
Still got mine, and it's not going anywhere.
Almost 3 years ago (in May), I gave up meat. It's not a fad...it's forever.
I eat REAL FOOD every day. I've never been more healthy, and for a 35 year old mom of 3 (first two being twins!), I don't look my age, and my body looks better than it did when I was 18. :)

Answer 20

Just had second breakfast....I eat every meal twice and then some.

Answer 21

Well there should have been a "don't know" option for those of us who know little about diets and dieting, I heard of this "Intermittent fasting diet, where you fast for 2 x 24 hour periods a week, I would like to know if it is genuine or not

Answer 22

I don't do diets

Answer 23

No. The only diet difference that every made a difference for me was cutting out the sugar.

Answer 24

no

Answer 25

I'm not a victim of a **** thing. Victim means I gave something else the power in MYT life and that wont happen.

Answer 26

NOPE

Answer 27

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Answer 28

Nope

Answer 29

But I am the victim of a fat diet...

Answer 30

Unfortunately and totally yes.

For people saying just eat less and exercise more, that's great advice if you've never struggled with over-eating or comfort eating or just have never had an unhealthy attitude towards food. But for those of us who do (and I also have hypothyroidism so cannot eat more that 1400 cals a day without gaining weight anyway), it's much **** and goes much deeper than that. Sometimes you are tempted by the 'quick fix', and it's ****.

Answer 31

A survivor of living with my families' ideas of proper eating.

Answer 32

If I were to actually diet, I would be dead very shortly. I'm already underweight, and even if I wasn't, I wouldn't diet; at best, diets are a waste of time and energy, and at worst, they can lead to severe health issues, and even death.

Answer 33

I am not now, but I have in the past tried some lame excuses for weight loss plans. All they ever did for me was lose 5 to 10 pounds, then regain 10 to 20! Yo-Yo diets ****!

Answer 34

Was raised in a very healthy way and have maintained such through-out my life.

Answer 35

I've been blessed with a high metabolism :)

Answer 36

I follow the Hobbit diet of six meals a day if I can get them.

Answer 37

I am not on a diet.

Answer 38

Not yet, but maybe later.

Answer 39

Same!