A Firm Resolve

"Intuitive Eating" is really just "Will Power"

A professor at Brigham Young is pushing a diet called the "Intuitive Eating" diet.  In this diet, people are encouraged to follow their urges but only eat as much as you need to.  That is, don't gorge.  I think this is somewhat novel, but it misses the point that people's urges can be out of control.  In fact, urges are so hard to control and change that I recommend a "Baby Steps" approach where very small but successive changes are made over a period of time.

Consumer Reports rates diets

Consumer Reports recently rated five popular diets on the following characteristics:

• Pounds lost
• Nutrition
• Ease of following the diet
• Dropout rates

According to these criteria, the five popular diets were ranked as follows:

1. Weight Watchers
2. Slim-Fast
3. The Zone Diet
4. The Ornish Diet
5. The Atkins Diet

Of course, diets are ranked in terms of being weight loss vehicles.  It doesn't mean these diets are the best to sustain currently levels of health and fitness.  And the entire point of this "A Firm Resolve" blog is maintaining good levels of health and fitness.  "A Firm Resolve" is the result of translating the Latin expression res firma mitescere nescit, which was mentioned in the bicycling movie American Flyers, "roughly" translating into "once you've got it up, keep it up."

The list would look different for those who are not overweight.  In my mind, here are the top 3 "diets" (for lack of a better term) for healthy people (in no particular order):

• The Zone Diet
• The Ornish Diet
• The Atkins Diet (Stage 4)

Source:  CNN.com