Ever done either of these diets?

[frugal-one]

Have been looking into combining the Whole Foods diet and THM (Thin Healthy Mama)... dumb name, I know. My neighbor loaned me THM book and it actually looks good. I am looking for something that uses regular food and is something I would actually DO. Either of these look doable to me. Anybody tried either?

[Gardnr]

https://www.ttuhsc.edu/som/fammed/wholefoods.aspx

Is your concern/issue recipes, food prep, needing a menu plan?

It's whole foods and lean proteins, healthy carb choices not "refined whites".

Any eating plan that does this works. Weight watchers, diabetic plans, medical weight loss company.....

[frugal-one]

Actually gave the wrong diet I am considering. It is the SuperFoods Diet (not Whole Foods). Supposedly, different foods work together synergistically to help your metabolism.
https://www.linkcat.info/cgi-bin/koh...onumber=569740

[ApatheticNoMore]

From Amazon reviews a lot of people think these are complicated diets. But no I haven't tried either diet. Anything temporarily, but really I'm not good at diets.

[catherine]

I'm with Gardnr. If those diets emphasize just eating regular food, why not just eat regular food? I don't know if there's a magic bullet in combining certain foods.

I think the value of some of those diet cookbooks lies in ideas for recipes, but I'm also with ANM--regimented meal plans are too often recipes for failure.

[razz]

I have done the simple restrict to 45 gm of carbs each meal and focused otherwise on modest servings of legs, fruit and protein and lost about 30lbs with no difficulty. I have kept most of it off but need to monitor my carb intake again as the weight is creeping up.
I stuck to basic unprocessed foods I then prepared myself. Based on my experience, I agree with Michael Pollan. Did post this in another thread?

"Pollan's book In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto, released on January 1, 2008, explores the relationship with what he terms nutritionism and the Western diet, with a focus on late 20th century food advice given by the science community. Pollan holds that consumption of fat and dietary cholesterol does not lead to a higher rate of coronary disease, and that the reductive analysis of food into nutrient components is a mistake. He questions the view that the point of eating is to promote health, pointing out that this attitude is not universal and that cultures that perceive food as having purposes of pleasure, identity, and sociality may end up with better health. He explains this seeming paradox by vetting, and then validating, the notion that nutritionism and, therefore, the whole Western framework through which we intellectualize the value of food is more a religious and faddish devotion to the mythology of simple solutions than a convincing and reliable conclusion of incontrovertible scientific research."

[iris lilies]

I'm with Gardnr. If those diets emphasize just eating regular food, why not just eat regular food? I don't know if there's a magic bullet in combining certain foods.

I think the value of some of those diet cookbooks lies in ideas for recipes, but I'm also with ANM--regimented meal plans are too often recipes for failure.

Agreed, the food combining ideas are hokum.

Eat real food in moderation. There is nothing magical in combined eating.

[frugal-one]

I'm with Gardnr. If those diets emphasize just eating regular food, why not just eat regular food? I don't know if there's a magic bullet in combining certain foods.

I think the value of some of those diet cookbooks lies in ideas for recipes, but I'm also with ANM--regimented meal plans are too often recipes for failure.

One example... supposedly eating green tea and oranges together helps metabolism (SuperFoods book). My neighbor did the Thin Healthy Mama (THM) diet and lost 27 pounds. She said even eating out is easy and nothing has to be counted. I haven't read the book yet but plan on it. Also, what I mean by regular food is stuff you can easily buy at the grocery store. I am not going to poo poo this until I give it a shot.

[iris lilies]

OP, I wonder why you think a reducing diet that emphasizes "regular" foods is unique. At least, that is the impression I get?

Reducng diets that require odd foods at odd times, or the require very specific foods, are doomed to fail. They are always faddish.

So absolutely carry on in following this diet that allows you to eat food you normally would. The idea of boosting metablism is interesting and certainly metabolism plays a large role in weight reduction. I just doubt that there is any scientifics basis to it. i'd like to see the foundation study on which these combining ideas are based.

30 years ago there was a hugely popular diet book and it was a food combining diet, I think.And I remember the book cover had a photo of the Mr. and Mrs. whodesigned the diet, and all I could thnk of was "ugh I dont want to look like YOU!" They might have been skinny but they were not, um, attractive people. Haha. .i have no point here, just an aside and a notice that food combining has been around for decades as one of the myth diets.

[catherine]

OK, I did a google search to learn more about that, and there are tons of things to click on, so I'll spend more time on it later. But I did click on this article. It's not scientific, but those combos sure look yummy. I eat a lot of them already--they seem like natural pairings.

http://www.eatthis.com/food-combinin...hy-weight-loss