ellgee wrote:I would love to introduce this to my daughter who is also in college. She abhors any kind of "diet" and I think this system might just appeal to her. I reckon if I am successful that might pique her interest, too!
I was like this in college. I'll tell you what I was thinking, maybe it will help you understand what your daughter is thinking. Or not. She's not me, your mileage may vary, yada yada.
I had the tendency, that seems to be common in the young, to think in all-or-nothing, black-or-white terms. I applied that kind of thinking to healthy eating, as well. I thought that you could either:
1. Give up all unhealthy foods (for some definition of "unhealthy foods", there are many to pick from) and spend all your time planning meals/snacks and exercising. Carry weird healthy snacks with you everywhere you go. Count calories, probably have to weigh and measure all your portions out, too. Be unable to have a conversation that does not revolve around your diet or exercise routine. Don't eat for pleasure, eat only for health. Basically, act like people on a lot of diets do, like my parents acted when they would periodically go on diets (without success, or with only temporary success, I should note).
2. Live a normal, non-diet-or-exercise-obsessed life and be fat.
Option 1 still doesn't sound appealing to me. But, as I got older, I learned things weren't all black or white. There are ways to eat healthIER (it's not an all-or-nothing thing, where you either eat healthy or you don't) without obsessing over it, or giving up all the foods you love. No S is one of those ways.