What do you think of Oprah's Food diary?

(Stickin' with mammoth) #61

Only if it hits Send with its thumb.

#62

Such bad advice! I went on WW twice in my lifetime. Once, when I was 20. I was pretty successful (but Iā€™m sure that was before the PCOS/insulin resistance really kicked in). Later in life, I decided to join again. Imagine my frustration when I followed the plan PERFECTLY, and gained weight, week after week. The ā€œleaderā€ did not believe me when I showed her my journals as she admonished me for gaining weight. Needless to say, I never returned after that horrible night.

#63

Yep, I experienced the same thing, but instead with a doctor telling me to stop eating junk food, soda and watch my calories, while rolling his eyes and being very condescending when I told him I followed the diet rules religiously, and that I cook everything at homeā€¦never go to restaurants or buy prepared/processed foods.

It feels so hopeless doing everything ā€œrightā€ and being treated like a cheating liar that deserves the negative outcome.

(jketoscribe) #64

Decades ago (in the 90ā€™s) she had the people from Carbohydrate Addiction Diet (Hellers) on her show. She was convinced (for that episode) that she must be a carb addict and she was going to ā€œdoā€ this diet. She didnā€™t stick to it and later said something like ā€œI tried that Carb Addicts diet for about 3 days and let me tell you I NEED my breadā€.

If I recall that diet was the WORST of both worlds. You go all day with very few carbs and then get to eat all the carbs you want for an hour at the end of the day. They correctly identified insulin issues as the problem, but that silly approach never let you really get the insulin levels under control, so itā€™s no wonder she couldnā€™t succeed with it, although she didnā€™t even give it a fighting chance from what she described.

To my knowledge, that was the only attempt she made at a lower carb diet. Sheā€™s done low calorie, low fat (but they donā€™t think 30% fat is low at all) diets before. They always work in the short term but are unsustainable. But she goes right back to them, because the short term success indicates that she has somehow failed, not the diet. The usual pattern. Plus, as a spokesperson for WW, sheā€™s getting paid handsomely for drawing others into this perpetual failure scheme.

Sigh . . . .

#65

Decades back she also did the liquid protein diet. Lost a lot of weight. But, the low carb low fat, drinking protein drinks. Very unhealthy.

(Kathy Meyer) #66

Yup. Family members think you are lying. Some friends think you are lying. Doctors, especially, think you are lying. I wonder if when I show up to my old doctor 80 pounds lighter if sheā€™ll accuse me of lying about how I lost the weight? Since I apparently lied so much about gaining it. No, Iā€™m not bitter ā€“ not at all.

(Stickin' with mammoth) #67

This shit really grinds my gears. At best, such behavior inspires zero loyalty in a patient and at worst, it compounds emotional stress that hinders every possible metric of their success, both mental and physical. Fucktards.

(Adam Kirby) #68

Pretty sad that the standard response to the standard crap diets not working, is for people to think you are a liar, or at best completely doing it wrong.