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mm100
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Posted: 9 Oct 2007 04:51 pm |
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| one time on tv, i was watching true life, and there was a girl going on a crash diet of nothing but cottage cheese for about 2 weeks. she lost alot of weight, but then gained it all back of course when she started to eat regularly. i was just wondering can cottage cheese really help that much in weight loss? i've been meaning to go out and buy some but i haven't really had the time.
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Javan
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Posted: 14 Oct 2007 11:55 pm |
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| I know that cottage cheese is for you in certain ways, but only in limited quantities. Sort of like peanuts. Lots of good nutrients, but very high in calories.
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Ohm
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Posted: 15 Oct 2007 07:39 am |
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Um well, compared to normal cheese, or any other kind of cheese fat free cottage cheese is a rther good choice, calorie wise. It has useful amounts of calcium and yet is not accompanied by the fat found in such quantitiesin many dairy choices. Hang on, I'll just go and check the calorie content of the one in my fridge right now.
85 calories for 100g - and 100g is quite a big portion, so I am certain that you could enjoy a useful and satisfying sized portion for around 50 calories. Mine is fat free - don't forget that there are higher calorie versions around which are not fat free. Also, watch out for the ones made with pineapple - they often have added sugar.
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Nir
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Posted: 15 Oct 2007 09:22 am |
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basing your entire diet on animal products (like the girl in the TV story) is not exactly the healthiest approach. Animal products (even low-fat ones) have no fibre, and lack many vitamins etc.
My brand of cottage cheese is 69 calories per 100g and comes in 200g cups. That means my all-cottage-cheese diet might be 10 of those packs per day - I guess I'd be sick of it by then. I'd also have consumed 240g of protein - that's a lot more than my daily target of 100g.
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Peter
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Posted: 15 Oct 2007 05:00 pm |
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mm100 wrote: there was a girl going on a crash diet of nothing but cottage cheese for about 2 weeks. she lost alot of weight, but then gained it all back of course when she started to eat regularly.
Pick your favorite food.
Oreo cookies? French fries? Snickers candy bars?
Whatever you like.
Don't you think that if you only ate one thing for two weeks you would tire of it, eat less, and lose weight?
And then, as the girl did, put the weight back on when you went back to your regular diet?
Peter
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Ohm
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Posted: 15 Oct 2007 05:07 pm |
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Of course, it is a documented phenomenon. The "cafeteria diet" available to us all tody offers us peaches in winter, hot food at all hours of the day (if only via the microwave), food which used to take hours to cook is now available in moments. Arguably, this "cafeteria lifestyle" has led to people overeating.
Apparently (and I haven't done any work in this particular theory) what happens is that you become sated in a particular taste, but other sensations can re-awaken your appetitie for more. Apparently, if you eat til you are stuffed on say, a savoury food (e.g. chips) and then someone offers you cake - you will find space for it!
So yes, if you limmited yourself to a single food stuff you would be sated and stop eating earlier than you would if a variety was available. But the moment you went back to normal eating (eating a wider range of foods) you would probably gain back all the weight and then some.
The moral of the story: eat a wide range of foods in moderte or small portions (so as to ensure that you get all your micro nutrients and all your macro nutrients) and change your lifestyle for ever, so that you don't regain all the weight!
Here endeth the umpteenth lesson!
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1seekspie
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Posted: 29 Oct 2007 03:53 pm |
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Don't go on the cottage cheese thing. First of all eating 1 thing for a long period is not only boring but it's just a set up for diet failure. Second of all...cottage cheese...(no offense to those of you who are fans but um....)....eeeeeewwwww !!!!
As far as the topic post: "how come low fat stuff has higher carbs than regular?"
When you try to reduce one thing such as the carbohydrate amount or the fat calorie amount, you'll need to add more of the other variable to make up for flavor loss. So when you reduce your fat you'll need more carbs...when you reduce your carbs...you'll need more fat.
Alas, there is no middle ground.
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NevD
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Posted: 30 Oct 2007 12:40 pm |
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Many 'low fat' products have extra sugar - otherwise they'd taste ekkk - and nobody would buy them.
One of the worst facts about processed food is that it's, well, processed. Good thing to remember.
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