Forest for the trees

Been there done that?

Ever notice that when you have a sore tooth your tongue won't leave the spot alone. Keeps returning to it even though you already know it's there and sore?

Then throughout the day it becomes the background of everything you do and think. You perceive good news is a little less good. Bad news a little worse, etc etc. The day takes a little more out of you. You know what I mean, we have all been there.

So what does this mean to me?

Think about that and think about what that means insofar as counting calories. In you are constantly thinking about calories and food values, where will you mind be? Where will you attention be turned. What will be the color of you mood as a result of this?

Working with clients over the years I have coined a new term and a new way to think about calories.  Rather than counting them we can Mind them.  There are plenty of internet tools out there to help you do this and believe it or not once you get into the groove it's kinda fun.  It winds up being a tools in your toolbox rather than a yoke on your mind.

Something to think about as we move about in the real world

Stay tuned true believers.  There's always something around the corner.

Meal Frequency Review

The following is not mine. I am posting the abstract in total to make sure credit goes where credit is due.

Please note the mention that ghrelin, a hormone that is part of the signaling process for eating, was the same for both groups,  and that this was a small study.

One final point to ponder.  In our evolution was food always plentiful or did we have times of famine, and how does that relate to our chemical make today.

Steve

Br J Nutr. 2010 Apr;103(8):1098-101. Epub 2009 Nov 30.

 

Increased meal frequency does not promote greater weight loss in subjects who were prescribed an 8-week equi-energetic energy-restricted diet.

Cameron JD, Cyr MJ, Doucet E.

Source

Behavioural and Metabolic Research Unit, School of Human Kinetics, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

Abstract

There have been reports of an inverse relationship between meal frequency (MF) and adiposity. It has been postulated that this may be explained by favourable effects of increased MF on appetite control and possibly on gut peptides as well. The main goal of the present study was to investigate whether using a high MF could lead to a greater weight loss than that obtained with a low MF under conditions of similar energy restriction. Subjects were randomised into two treatment arms (high MF = 3 meals+3 snacks/d or low MF = 3 meals/d) and subjected to the same dietary energy restriction of - 2931 kJ/d for 8 weeks. Sixteen obese adults (n 8 women and 8 men; age 34.6 (sd 9.5); BMI 37.1 (sd 4.5) kg/m2) completed the study. Overall, there was a 4.7 % decrease in body weight (P < 0.01); similarly, significant decreases were noted in fat mass ( - 3.1 (sd 2.9) kg; P < 0.01), lean body mass ( - 2.0 (sd 3.1) kg; P < 0.05) and BMI ( - 1.7 (sd 0.8) kg/m2; P < 0.01). However, there were NS differences between the low- and high-MF groups for adiposity indices, appetite measurements or gut peptides (peptide YY and ghrelin) either before or after the intervention. We conclude that increasing MF does not promote greater body weight loss under the conditions described in the present study.

PMID:

19943985

[PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]