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and it’s amazing what damage you can do in a short time!  Over Halloween-Thanksgiving-Christmas, I did not gain any weight…. but a few drinks and too much time waiting on floats to pass by…  suddenly I’ve gained four pounds.  Good thing this is the week to actually do the “eating like I’m on foodstamps”…

Speaking of eating… there was a new study recently talking about dieting.  You know there’s always a new study on that, each one “proving” its author’s diet is the best.  Well, this new study from the Harvard School of Public Health demonstrates that many diets are equally effective for weight loss, with a couple of caveats:

The findings show that would-be dieters should choose the weight-loss program that they are most comfortable with, as long as it is high in fiber and low in calories and saturated fat.

“You can’t go wrong,” Dr. Frank Sacks of the Harvard School of Public Health, whose study appears in the New England Journal of Medicine, said in a telephone interview. “Our bottom line is, choose a diet that is good for your heart and there’s a big range of what you can eat. Then just be reasonable about your intake. If you need to lose weight, eat less.”

This study shows what seems to be obvious… but what is also often lost in the latest diet fads: eating should not be as complicated as a lot of diets are!  Sure, it’s one thing to manipulate your macronutrients (ratios of fat, carbs, and protein) if you have an esthetic goal such as a fitness or bodybuilding competition… but overall - just don’t make it too hard on yourself.

Any opinions out there?