No, its to keep the carbs down. The portion sizes are actually the same if not larger. This diet also insists that you eat six times a day (hence why it is getting expensive). The point is to manage your blood sugar levels so that you aren't hungry throughout the day (because apparently feeling hungry means that your blood sugar is low, and that isn't good).
It is over all about moderation. In the mantanence phase (phase 3), you can actually have junk food, but just not much of it, and you need to make sure that you are getting enough fibre as well so that you blood sugar doesn't spike from it).
I have had problems with mild hypoglycemia because I usually don't eat breakfast, and so I would sometimes get nauseaus, headachey, and this hollow starving feeling at about 11 oclock (which I would have to wait until it passed until I actually *could* eat). Like my insomnia (which I assumed everyone had until I met WD), I didn't really realize that that was a bad thing until I read about this diet.
So far it is working pretty well on the 'not hungry' front. I am getting good at telling when I *will be* hungyr, so that I eat something before that happens.
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It is over all about moderation. In the mantanence phase (phase 3), you can actually have junk food, but just not much of it, and you need to make sure that you are getting enough fibre as well so that you blood sugar doesn't spike from it).
I have had problems with mild hypoglycemia because I usually don't eat breakfast, and so I would sometimes get nauseaus, headachey, and this hollow starving feeling at about 11 oclock (which I would have to wait until it passed until I actually *could* eat). Like my insomnia (which I assumed everyone had until I met WD), I didn't really realize that that was a bad thing until I read about this diet.
So far it is working pretty well on the 'not hungry' front. I am getting good at telling when I *will be* hungyr, so that I eat something before that happens.
--Phae