I haven't read the book, or tried the diet, or anything, so if you care about that then STOP READING.
If you're here for my opinion, then great because I have thinky thoughts.
First, some resources!
- A review of the diet.
- A blog from someone who actually tried the diet.
- One of my oldest, most favorite friends who is logging the types of meals she uses on the diet which has helped her lose tons of weight and has made me totally jealous.
- A local Maryland Game On Team with resources.
Yay!
Positive things:
If you're more of a grazer than a big meal person, this will work.
If you're really bad at putting together balanced meals, this plan makes that easier.
This plan focuses more on a healthy lifestyle in that it asks you give up soda, asks you not to weigh yourself all the live-long day like a crazy person, and you can get points for just lying there and doing nothing for 7 hours with the lights off.
Negative things:
People who find it hard to eat often probably won't earn those points as easily. Some people do better just eating once or twice a day, and there's no real evidence that shows eating more frequently actually does anything. Although I think it would help with blood sugar spikes to have a bit of something every few hours if you're a diabetic or something.
It believes in diet cheese and limits avocados. However, you do get 100 calories to waste on whatever you want daily, and I would totally just take that as use it to eat more avocado.
It believes in diet cheese.
It believes in diet cheese.
No, seriously, it believes in lowfat cheese which means the cheese is processed. And yet you can't have sausage. Or you can, but it's on a no-no list that you can only access in 100 calories a day, one meal a week, or one day a week. But eat all the turkey bacon throughout the day if you want, as long as it's palm sized and five times a day. (Turkey bacon isn't exactly healthy either!) So weird.
Okay, so I don't agree with all of its nutrition stuff. But there's no law saying you have to eat lowfat cheese or turkey bacon. There are lots of other choices on the list.
It just bothers me from a nutrition standpoint what they deem is or isn't OK to eat. When you take the fat out of something, something else unhealthy is usually substituted. If you're going to have cheese, have actual cheese, and have less of it. If you're eating cheese for the concentrated calcium, why not try cooked spinach where you can get other nutrients too?
And Game-On Diet is OK with that. They want you to eat as much spinach, or other green vegetables, as you can.
Anyway, remember, this is from somebody who spent all day eating waffles out of a box. Ugh, I could have had spinach ... and I could have had it on a pizza that I made from scratch. Jenny, what are you doing?
Anyway, do you like to be competitive and super organized and social? Game-On sounds pretty rad to me if you don't let the science of it bother you too much.
Go Liz, go girl, go get your game on! I am rooting for you! xoxo
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