Recently there has been quite a media frenzy about a diet that was made up mostly of junk food.
This diet has been given the name Twinkie Diet because the professor who created and kept this diet ate a combination of Twinkies and other assorted junk foods such as Doritos and other high calorie high fat foods.
The premise of this weight loss plan is that all that counts is calories.
So eating in a fashion that creates a caloric deficit will result in weight loss whether you choose to eat chocolate cake or apples.
To someone who has been a big fan of the Atkins diet plan and other diets that focused on the composition of ones diet rather than the total calories this story has been quite a shock.
Perhaps this explains why even after following a low carb weight loss plan perfectly there have been times that I did not lose weight.
If you subscribe to the idea that eating sugar makes you crave more food then this news about calorie counting is not that helpful.
After all not everyone could do what this master of willpower did.
Could we really just eat one cookie or Twinkie and stop right there? After all probably if we could then we would not be overweight in the first place.
Think of it, isn't the biggest difference between thin and fat people the ability to know when to stop eating.
Most obese people simply eat way past the point of being satisfied.
Though what might be useful from this demonstration of massive self control is that indulging once in a while is not the thing that is going to make you obese.
Rather it is the constant eating of excessive calories on a daily basis that will make us pack on the pounds.