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Update: Weight up, cholesterol up for man who lost 27 pounds on Twinkie diet
Nutrition professor Mark Haub, who lost 27 pounds eating mainly Twinkies, powdered donuts and Oreo cookies, is back to an average American diet.
Since ending his junk food experiment in November, he has gained 2 pounds and his cholesterol has also increased a little bit, he said. He also has gained a new insight into the debate over healthy eating.
"People have a hatred towards (processed) foods," he said. "I like them. I eat them. It's amazing how people believe if it's processed, it's not food."
What also caught Haub by surprise was "how vitriolic people can be when they take a stance, whether it's low-carb or paleo diet. It's like politics. Those discussions can get heated. It's the same thing with religion, I'm right. You're wrong."
Last fall, Haub shed 13% of his weight over two months restricting his diet to 1,600 calories while eating "junk food." Surprisingly, his cholesterol readings improved and his level of triglycerides, which are a form of fat, decreased. This could have been explained by the decreased consumption of calories.
November 8, 2010: Twinkie diet helps nutrition professor lose 27 pounds
Today he eats three meals a day, consuming about 2,200 calories with food choices like turkey sandwiches, peanut butter, and snacking on pears.
"The main thing I did was reduce portion size," he said about what he learned from the diet. "It's that concept of mindfulness or mindful eating - I eat relatively the same. I just eat less."
And he still munches on an occasional Twinkie or snack cake.
I don't count calories, and I work out in a gym 6 times a week.
I look in the mirror instead of standing on a scale, and put on and take off weight deliberately in bodybuilder style.
After reading this thread last night, I added up the calories I'm consuming now in a maintenance phase of training.
My present caloric intake is not nearly as much as the "recommended" allowances I googled.
My opinion remains that a major reason for USA obesity is advise from nutritionists and the FDA.
Go into a gym and ask the best built people there how many calories they eat. They probably don't know, as I don't, but I bet it's far less than how-many-calories-should-I-eat recommendations you can find on the internet.
I once had a (fairly fat) medical doctor tell me that I looked wonderful, but that I should put on weight in case I got sick.
Fat people love to tell in-shape people that they appear anorexic. That's what our housekeeper told me when she saw my PR workout photos in a magazine.
We eat too much in America, and too many of us are fat–no, obese and morbidly obese, eating "balanced" diets.
LOL @ using a mirror plus your vanity as a medical instrument...
Hint: what you are doing is not all that healthy at the end of the day. If you want to live fast, die young, and leave a pretty corpse, that's one thing. But don't fool yourself into thinking that 5% body fat is healthy.
Guido name, check. Obsession with gym, check. Mirror vanity, check. We have it, folks. A Jersey Shore trifecta. Something about a spray tan would have been a perfecta.
@Bruce: jealous much?
As for me, I exercise 6x a week for at least an hour each day, varying between lifting and intense aerobic activity. I don't really watch what I eat that closely, so I still enjoy good-tasting food in good portions and don't suffer through the bland diets that people put themselves through. However, like Joey, I often do not meet my nutritional intake recommendation given my activity level (upper 2000s in calories). Despite enjoying good food, my metabolic panel is excellent, including my HDL to LDL levels and triglyceride count. I am extremely fit and don't need to give up good food to do it. It's not hard, people: simply exercise often and don't go overboard on portions.
It must be nice to have a maid and a gardner/lawn service and no job or life to be able to spend that much time at the gym. I eat healthy, workout when I can, I don't have a hard body, but I AM HAPPY. I have a life, I go do many fun and exciting things. but to each his own.
@Mike: LOL. Vanity is vane...
No, I'm not jealous. I'm just saying that aesthetics (how you look in the mirror) is not medical science.
Even if I was jealous, it wouldn't matter. Jealousy is an extension of the same vanity that leads people to look in the mirror to find out if they are "healthy" and to decry the "plump" people as unhealthy.
Seriously, people. Stop conflating visual aesthetics for health. You might as well step into the tanning booth and bronze your skin and let the mirror tell you THAT is healthy...
I agree with you! I was Mr. Camp Afrashian in Kuwait in 2004 before I deployed to Iraq and over weight people want you to gain weight so they do not feel out of place. I used to count my calories but it was too difficult and inaccurate. I probably should be eating a lot more than I should but I generally eat healthier with lots of lean meats, ect.
Vanity isn't vane, it is a sane judge of health. Modesty is the worst form of vanity. Eat till your not hungery, don't eat till your full. Avoid fried food. Make time for the gym, your days will be more productive due to higher energy levels. Also, casien before bed will keep your body form going into starvation mode in the middle of the night. Breakfast is king.
"Vanity isn't vane, it is a sane judge of health."
Actually, it's not an accurate judge of health. The studies are in. If you look at health problems and death rates and all that as a function of BMI, on-average the healthiest people are overweight or even slightly obese (though not morbidly obese). The normal BMI and underweight BMI people have more medical problems and don't live as long as the the overweight people.
@Bruce: Firstly, sorry for the jab – falling into the same internet bullying pitfalls that so many people often fall into.
But to address your point, sure, "mirror image" is far from a perfect factor to determine health, and I'm not defending Joey in saying that it is. However, I believe that you are somewhat mistaken in claiming studies that mention that overweight and slightly obese people have, in general, better health than their "skinnier" counterparts.
A quick search of Pubmed does bring up an article that qualifies your argument, however.
"Obesity but not overweight is associated with increased mortality risk." Study authors: Faeh D, Braun J, Tarnutzer S, Bopp M. (University of Zurich) (European Journal of Epidemiology)
Though this paper verifies the fact that overweight people might not experience increased mortality rates compared to normal BMI individuals, I believe that your claim that overweight and slightly obese people have BETTER health is specious. In addition, in according to the study (and so many others), obese people do experience increased mortality risk. Further, as one creeps up in BMI and possesses more unhealthful habits-in terms of exercise and diet-one will subject themself to such greater risk for metabolic syndrome and insulin resistance, among other illnesses.
TYPO:
Advice, not advise.
Actually, they are both right. Depends on if you speak UK English or US English, as they do make a difference. It is like gray and grey, theatre and theater, advise and advice, colour and color, armour and armor, et cetera.
The quite plump housekeeper to whom I referred above–she is no longer with us–had a still-very-plump teenaged daughter, and the two were very proud of how the victoriously smiling daughter had "lost the weight" safely, a pound a week, as nutritionists had said she should.
I don't think she could have found a boyfriend.
They considered me anorexic, and themselves healthy.
They ate according to guidelines.
Ask yourself again why our nation is fostering obesity.
Surely it cannot be the guidelines.
You seem to not understand that the "guidelines" are for "average" people with little or no exercise. Average being someone around 5' 10", 150-160 lbs (2000 calorie diet.). This doesn't work for a 5'4", 120 lb woman because they require less calories, I would assume around 1700. Similarly, a 6'4", 210 lb man probably requires about 2500. (note these are best guesses, you can look up a calculator online). So not every single American can say 2000 calories is for them. In fact, most can't.
I also eat 3500 calories a day, but I also run 70-100 miles per week since I run 4-6 marathons a year. I don't fit into that average, sedentary person category and from the sounds of it you don't either. So yes, we can eat a lot more. That doesn't make the guidelines wrong.
Remember those shill professors for the Tobacco industry? He may have temporarily lost weight due to lower caloric intake, but if he kept it up, he would have been in a world of spit.
Joey-Isotta...thank you for the manifesto....we're only talking twinkies
No kidding. People today are worshipping their chiseled bodies as they did in Roman times. They have become a God unto themselves. You don't have to be a doctor to know that cutting down on your portion size equates to less calories taken in, thus less will have to be burned off. People, relax. Don't use food to cure your depression, eat less, eat more healthy. It's that simple. It wouldn't hurt to exercise a little too, ya know?
Thank you Captain Obvious.
The number one thing that helps me lose weight is to stop drinking soda. For the past four weeks, I've been drinking water 90% while having a soda 10% of the time. I am now at 192lbs down from 200lbs. I'll be under 190 in two weeks if not sooner. Also, weight lifting burns energy and fat along with cardio. I also eat smaller meals and throw out exessive portions that are served to me at restaurants. I won't eat a huge plate of food because it is too much to eat with too many calories and fat.
Excess sugar, it is in everything. HFCS, it's in everything. The corn industry would like you to believe that drinking a soda loaded with HFCS is the same as eating some fruit because your body can't tell the difference between the two types of sugar, oh but it can. I started losing tons of weight when I got rid of the foods and condiments with HFCS in them. I felt better, lost weight, and my overall health improved. Yours can too...
Kudos to Joey. It takes a great deal of hard work, dedication, and commitment to spend six days in the gym. Overweight individuals seem to always have resentment to those who spend time in the gym. Don't hate because your fat and lazy.
Short people are lazy because they aren't tall, too...
Hint: obesity isn't explained as a moral failure. The science simply doesn't support that idea.
Of course, you "religious nuts" don't care about science when it comes to spewing your morality regarding laziness and self-control. You just want to feel morally superior.
I lost weight essentially the same way. For me, it was calorie control, not what I ate. I've kept it off for 32 years.
PORTION CONTROL PEOPLE!!!
That's all it takes! I'm 5' 7" 120lbs and I eat whatever the hell I want....I just eat it in small portions. Restaurants in America serve HUGE portions....I'm gonna make three meals out of the pasta dish I was served last night at Applebee's. Just eat smaller portions!
TWINKIE DIET IS SUPER CAUSE IT SHOWS YOU DONT NEED TO WORRY ABOUT PROTEIN INTAKE
WHO CARES IF U LOSE MUSCLE
AT THE END OF THE DAY ITS HOW MUCH YOU WAY
"Two-thirds of his total intake came from junk food. He also took a multivitamin pill and drank a protein shake daily. And he ate vegetables, typically a can of green beans or three to four celery stalks."
Just so you know, that was from the original story. I think that part is quite important.
Here in the Palin household we prefer a steady diet of warm, fresh horse droppings.
You tell 'em, momma grizzly!
Hey, how about some horse droppings for me ?
The trick to eating less calories is NOT sheer force of will. Eventually you will lose that contest.
The trick to eating less calories is to be full with less food, and not get hungry as fast afterward. Learn what foods make you full with fewer calories and keep you satisfied for at least 3 hours at a time and eating less food becomes manageable. If you eat a 200 calorie high-protein chicken breast pan-fried in 100 calories worth of olive oil, you will get full faster and stay satisfied longer than if you drink a 300 calorie Mountain Dew.
It's not just how much you eat–it's WHAT you eat.
I love grilled chicken
This guy is a nutrition prof? wow, he should know its not just about weight loss, its about keeping your body able to fend off disease, having energy, living as long as possible.