No-foods-barred diet feeds cravings to lose II
December 5th, 2005
By Brock Vergakis
ASSOCIATED PRESS
December 5, 2005
“It astonished me, actually,” said his friend, Steven Peck. “We were both very heavy. It was hard not to be struck.”
After watching Mr. Hawks lose and keep the weight off for a year and a half, Mr. Peck tried intuitive eating in January. “I was pretty skeptical of the idea you could eat anything you wanted until you didn’t feel like it. It struck me as odd.” Mr. Peck is an assistant professor at BYU.
Eleven months later, Mr. Peck sometimes eats mint-chocolate-chip ice cream for dinner, is 35 pounds lighter and a believer in intuitive eating.
“There are times when I overeat. I did at Thanksgiving,” Mr. Peck said. “That’s one thing about Steve’s ideas, they’re sort of forgiving. On other diets, if you slip up, you feel you’ve blown it, and it takes a couple weeks get back into it. — This sort of has this built-in forgiveness factor.”
The one thing all diets have in common is that they restrict food, said Michael Goran, an obesity specialist at the University of Southern California. Ultimately, that’s why they usually fail. At some point, you want what you can’t have.” Still, he thinks intuitive eating makes sense as a concept “if you know what you’re doing.”
Intuitive eating alone won’t give anyone six-pack abs, Mr. Hawks said, and what he eats is “actually quite healthy.”
“I’m as likely to eat broccoli as eat a steak,” he said.
In a small study published in the American Journal of Health Education, Mr. Hawks and a team of researchers examined a group of BYU students and found those who were intuitive eaters typically weighed less and had a lower risk of cardiovascular disease than other students. He said the study indicates intuitive eating is a viable approach to long-term weight management and he plans to do a larger study.
Source: washtimes.com
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