Zero Sugar Diet by David Zinczenko

Author:David Zinczenko [Zinczenko, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2016-12-27T00:00:00+00:00

A DAY OF EATING THE ZERO SUGAR WAY

WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU ATE OUT? Chances are you said last night. Like most Americans, you might get about 43 percent of your calories from outside the home, or about 799 calories of restaurant- or store-prepared foods each day. (In the 1980s, the average American got just 20 percent of his or her calories from outside the home, according to the USDA.) And access to restaurant foods has only gotten easier, thanks to GrubHub and Seamless, Yelp and Open-Table, the growing food truck industry, and the larger and larger sections of grocery stores and even Costco that are dedicated to rotisserie chickens and other premade fare.

That’s part of why we’ve grown heavier: In a 2014 study in the journal Public Health Nutrition, people were asked to report their food intake over the course of forty-eight hours. Those who ate at a restaurant during that time took in an average of 200 calories per day more than those who prepared all their own meals. (Those who ate in sit-down restaurants actually consumed slightly more calories than those who ordered from fast-food joints.)

And if you are an average American woman, you, too, struggle with your weight. Let’s say you weigh 166 pounds. (That, by the way, is about 10 pounds heavier than the average American woman in 1996, and just about what the average American man weighed in the early 1960s.) Perhaps your waist is 37.5 inches—again, average for an American woman circa 2016, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (The average American man is 195.5 pounds and has a waist circumference of 39.7 inches.)

In other words, like 69 percent of Americans over the age of twenty, there’s a chance you’re overweight. So you’ve probably done what people do when they start to worry about their weight: Try to watch what you eat.

But watching what you eat is one thing; knowing exactly what to watch for when you eat is the real challenge. We’ve been told so many things over the years, from “eat less fat” to “eat low carb”—and that’s just from the U.S. government. And we’ve been (literally) fed dozens of diet fads, from juice cleanses to gluten-free plans to Paleo programs. It’s no wonder that a survey by the International Food Information Council Foundation found that three out of four people felt like all the changes in nutrition advice made it hard to know what to eat, and 52 percent said it was easier to do their own taxes than it was to pick healthy foods.

The Amazing Secret to Eating Well

What makes us gain weight?

If you said “calories,” you’re right. But also, you’re not right.

If cutting calories were all it took to lose weight—simply exercising a little more, or eating a little less—then weight loss would be as simple as third-grade math: Subtract y from z and end up with x.

But if you’ve followed any diet or exercise program and achieved less than the desired result, you’ve probably come away frustrated, depressed, maybe feeling a little guilty—and angry, too.

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