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What was "The Diet" when you were growing up?

Josie

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What I mean is -- what was the trend in dieting when you were young? I've noticed that the trend seems to change every 10 years or so. When I was young, it was all about low fat, fat free, low cholesterol, etc. The Food Pyramid was the guideline. Breads and pastas were what you were mainly supposed to eat since they were low in fat. Then I think around my college years (late 90s to early 2000s) the Atkins diet was THE diet.

What about the diets that were popular when you were younger? Do you remember your mom or dad being on a specific diet plan? What did you learn in school about diet? Did you try any diets?
 
Josie said:
What I mean is -- what was the trend in dieting when you were young? I've noticed that the trend seems to change every 10 years or so. When I was young, it was all about low fat, fat free, low cholesterol, etc. The Food Pyramid was the guideline. Breads and pastas were what you were mainly supposed to eat since they were low in fat. Then I think around my college years (late 90s to early 2000s) the Atkins diet was THE diet.

What about the diets that were popular when you were younger? Do you remember your mom or dad being on a specific diet plan? What did you learn in school about diet? Did you try any diets?
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I haven't the faintest idea. No one in my family ever went on a diet. Being an old farm boy, fact is I sprung up to six feet and weighed only 150 pounds or so. But that was back in the 1950's and early 60's. Come to think of it, I knew of no one who went on a diet during that time period.

Today, 71 years old, I get out in the mornings and walk 3-4 miles and eat anything and everything I want. I have never watched what I eat and today I'm at around 195 pounds to go on my six foot frame.
 
Mom did Weight Watchers.

Dad did Atkins.

Both did Cambridge.


I seem to remember Atkins or Cambridge causing a kidney crisis.
 
being poor was very effective. We got what mom put on our plates, if that wasn't enough we could have a margarine and syrup sandwich.
 
Josie said:
What I mean is -- what was the trend in dieting when you were young? I've noticed that the trend seems to change every 10 years or so. When I was young, it was all about low fat, fat free, low cholesterol, etc. The Food Pyramid was the guideline. Breads and pastas were what you were mainly supposed to eat since they were low in fat. Then I think around my college years (late 90s to early 2000s) the Atkins diet was THE diet.

What about the diets that were popular when you were younger? Do you remember your mom or dad being on a specific diet plan? What did you learn in school about diet? Did you try any diets?
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crazy low calorie diets. bad news and Atkins too.
 
UtahBill said:
being poor was very effective. We got what mom put on our plates, if that wasn't enough we could have a margarine and syrup sandwich.
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And that's not bad either.
 
UtahBill said:
being poor was very effective. We got what mom put on our plates, if that wasn't enough we could have a margarine and syrup sandwich.
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Exactly...waste not, want not...
 
The first fad diets I remember were the Atkins and South Beach diets which I believe were popular 2000-2004?
 
It was Cambridge back when I was young or Weight Watchers. Explain to me the Gluten free craze. I know one woman on a Gluten free diet for (as far as I'm concerned absolutely no reason). She doesn't seem to be losing weight, isn't allergic to Gluten, and her doctor didn't put her on that diet. Why eat that way? Sure, cutting carbs can be healthy, but no bread ever, for no reason? Yo no comprehende!
 
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Mom was NOT going to change her fat laden country cooking
so we had to change our activity level
 
In my 20's my mother gave me the book Fit for Life.

That was a kinda neat diet. Involved lots of fruit if I recall correctly.
 
Josie said:
What I mean is -- what was the trend in dieting when you were young? I've noticed that the trend seems to change every 10 years or so. When I was young, it was all about low fat, fat free, low cholesterol, etc. The Food Pyramid was the guideline. Breads and pastas were what you were mainly supposed to eat since they were low in fat. Then I think around my college years (late 90s to early 2000s) the Atkins diet was THE diet.

What about the diets that were popular when you were younger? Do you remember your mom or dad being on a specific diet plan? What did you learn in school about diet? Did you try any diets?
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Looks like I am only a little younger than you so that was roughly the same trends.

As far as good diets go, I was on a paleo diet and it worked extremely well and I felt healthier and more energetic then ever while on it. I lost 100lbs in 7 months (weightlifting 4x a week for 45min). I would still be on it if I hadn't got promoted and had a drastic increase in the amount of hours I had to work.
 
Nap said:
Looks like I am only a little younger than you so that was roughly the same trends.

As far as good diets go, I was on a paleo diet and it worked extremely well and I felt healthier and more energetic then ever while on it. I lost 100lbs in 7 months (weightlifting 4x a week for 45min). I would still be on it if I hadn't got promoted and had a drastic increase in the amount of hours I had to work.
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hell of a promotion it seems
 
justabubba said:
hell of a promotion it seems
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I liked it because it had a simple premise. If a cave man can eat then so can you (I added protein shakes of course because of the weightlifting :p). I was eating nothing but meat, nuts, vegetables, and fruit (limited amounts because I was trying to limit my sugar/carb intake as well)
 
"Amphetamines"

The saying back then was, "Better living through Chemistry"
 
Genetically, my family was pretty slender, but my mom prided herself on making "healthy" food, which was just plain awful. My sister and I would literally cringe when she made her famous "lentil and walnut" loaf. My mom was the mommie dearest of the dinner table - we learned to take very small servings as the food passed and then, if we couldn't choke it down, we shoved it into the hollow table legs to keep from getting smacked. I remained slim enough to model throughout college and I think a lot of it was just because the idea of eating became something to suffer through, but not to enjoy.
 
Nap said:
Looks like I am only a little younger than you so that was roughly the same trends.

As far as good diets go, I was on a paleo diet and it worked extremely well and I felt healthier and more energetic then ever while on it. I lost 100lbs in 7 months (weightlifting 4x a week for 45min). I would still be on it if I hadn't got promoted and had a drastic increase in the amount of hours I had to work.
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Whoa!
 
brothern said:
The first fad diets I remember were the Atkins and South Beach diets which I believe were popular 2000-2004?
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Those have transitioned into the KETO Diet, which is even more restrictive of carbs.

Seems to work for some, not for me, I go hypglycemic to easily.
 
We always had enough food on the table to fill our tummy, mostly home grown. Now and then we splurged. We moved enough to not get fat. Diet?
 
The earliest diet I can remember was the grapefruit diet in the late '70s or early '80s.

Works like most diets, if you restrict what you eat to a limited number of food sources, you are probably going to eat less. You could do this with any food source. The all bacon diet or all butter diet would probably work just as well.

I'm personally a fan of simply eating healthy. Limited sweets, no sugar sweetened drinks, high protein, whole grain bread when available, high protein, moderate carbs and moderate fat.

If I wanted to be a great tennis player, I would probably train like pro tennis players do. Likewise, if I wanted to be a great chess player, I would probably practice like champion chess players do. If I want to be a great dieter, then it's most logical to diet like a competitive bodybuilder on a cut for a competition (although maybe not that extreme). Bodybuilders are experts at loosing fat while minimizing muscle loss, which makes them about as close to a "professional dieter" as possible.
 
The diet trends are stupid, eat healthy foods, well balanced meals, exercise. The max you should ever lose is 2 lbs per week. Slow and steady, and you'll make the changes needed to keep it going. Fad diets are just scams or ways to lose weight quick but you will put it right back on afterwards. You shouldn't exclude anything.

Start counting calories to see how many calories your food is. Meal prepping to me is key to dieting, although it takes work and could be difficult cooking for more than one person.
 
Apparently "intermittent fasting" is popular now.
 
I've never been on a diet in my life...until 2 1/2 years ago when I almost died. I SHOULD have been on a diet so that wouldn't have happened.

My mother grew up on a farm and didn't move to the city until I was about 2 years old. I was the lower middle of 6 kids. I was fed farm food: Meat, potatoes, veggies, bread, gravy...and sometimes a desert. That was dinner. Breakfast was cereal during the week, a more "continental" style breakfast on Saturdays and good old American bacon/ham/sausage, eggs, hashbrowns, toast, etc. on Sunday. Lunch was soup and/or sandwich.

I grew up skinny as a rail.

Oh...LOTS of chicken. God!! I hated chicken for the longest time!
 
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