One meal. Perhaps calories a day just to maintain… and then even less to lose weight without adding substantial exercise. There is no way to maintain weight, let alone lose fat, other than to calorie restrict.
And, restrict we must. That said, the food and medical industry makes that exceedingly difficult. Not only do restaurants make it difficult, but so do prepackaged foods.
The foods they are serving are very calorically dense and processed. That is, these foods contain far more calories than these children should be eating in a single meal.
But, this information is not being taught to children. Sorry, but pizza, tater tots and chicken nuggets do not make for healthy meals. These are meals that should be offered as a treat, a birthday dinner or other special occasion. These are not the types of foods that need to be served every day. Yet, here we are. Children need fresh, not frozen reheated foods. Worse, our doctors tell us to lose weight. Yet, the medical industry tells is we are unhealthy when we do calorie restrict.
How is that? You want us to lose weight, yet when we do we are eating unhealthy? These are all mixed signals. Advertisers show us and tell us one thing. The medical industry tells us another. Our doctors tell us something else. Worse, no one really helps us. Because no one can agree, most people just naturally assume that what the restaurants and packages say is the truth. Hence, we are obese because of misinformation, lack of proper information and the need for convenience.
Anyway, as far as Brooke Bates, was liposuction and then inserting a lap-band the answer for Brooke? Clearly both she and her parents thought so. She has still not been taught the proper information about foods. With proper food counseling and teaching proper nutrition, teaching about calories and combining that with testing resting metabolic rate, a diet could have been devised to help Brooke eat the things she likes in much smaller quantities and still have the body she wanted.
After all, if you want to lose the weight, you have to put your mind to that goal. Not for just a day, not for a week, or a month, but for the rest of your life. Subscribe to comments with RSS.
Hello, My name is Cindy Bates. Just wanted to say Thank you for the above comments. Quick update on Brooke. Its been 7 years now and she has continued to maintain her weight. She exercises several times a week, college student and is engaged to be married. Many Thanks to Dr. Robert Ersek for stepping outside of the box. Truly changed Brookes life and mine too. Sincerely, Cindy Bates.
Like Like. Thank you Kindly for the positive comments! Just a quick update on Brooke… Life is great for her. Continues to work out daily and has maintained her weight beautifully.
Thanks again. Most people eat due to cravings which in general are caused by stress. Not fruits and vegetables. If people could deal with their stress depression, anger, rush hour, work, money, etc.
Overeaters Anonymous is a 12 step program that costs you nothing. TV advertising and other forms always portray slim individuals eating said food items like Pringles, Big Macs, drinking cokes and even consuming things like Captain Morgan. The issue is less one of stress and more one of naivety and societal pressure to fit in. It has nothing to do with eating fruits and vegetables specifically, it has to do with the types of food that the food industry offers, specifically that manufacturers produce and restaurants serve.
When you eat out, are you offered fruits and vegetables as appetizers or even on your main course? At least, not often green leafy vegetables other high calorie dressed salads or healthy fruits. Instead, restaurants make way for baked goods and decadent deserts. But, fast food almost never offers green foods other than salads with dressings that have more calories than a Big Mac. For example, a Big Mac with cheese is calories. It really has little to do with stress.
If people were to become properly educated about food in school, they would emerge as adults able to properly control food consumption. You have to learn the right habits in order to properly exercise them. Unfortunately, the food industry has been teaching us bad habits for so long, we have come to accept it as the norm. We need to reeducate ourselves on proper food consumption and nutrition to understand how to better control our own bodies.
Were people to suddenly cut back on their food consumption, we would see a huge number of food industry failures and a huge food industry recession. These portion sizes are more the size that an adult should be eating at a meal. Most kid sized portions are about calories per main course item.
Liposuction saved my life! As for nutrition i know how to eat and what it takes to lose weight. I agree with you on americans in general not realizing the portions given, nor realizing how bad fast food is. By early she lost 40 pounds through liposuction and a tummy tuck.
But, in less than a year, she regained 35 pounds. Brooke's mother, Cindy Bates, said she was sad for Brooke when she began gaining weight after her first round of surgeries, but she said she didn't blame her daughter. Most doctors in the United States usually don't perform gastric lap-band surgery unless a patient is at least 18 years old, has a body mass index of 40 or higher or weighs at least twice his or her ideal weight.
So against the advice of their family doctor, the Bates traveled to Mexico to get the procedure done, without trying to find a local surgeon. Though Brooke's case may seem extreme, children and teens getting cosmetic surgery has increased drastically during the last decade, according to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons. But doctors worry that getting weight loss surgeries so young can be detrimental in the long term and don't address underlying issues. I think surgery is really not the answer in this age group," said Julius Few, a plastic surgeon at Northwestern Medical Center.
While Brooke likened her overeating to an addiction, her mother said that she didn't believe the problem was psychological. Brooke also found it difficult to stick to a diet and workout regime, Cindy said, and she couldn't constantly monitor her habits. But I lost 15 pounds in about three weeks and I know I can [lose] more.
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