Why would you say that? Seriously … on a blog that is supposed to support losing weight, I don’t understand why you’d make such a totally false, misleading, and defeatist comment. I don’t doubt that a lot of people THINK that they are limited when it comes to food choices – because they are used to our “eat everything and Supersize it” society.

But the truth is a reduced calorie diet does NOT mean someone is “pretty limited” when it comes to food choices. There are quite literally THOUSANDS of foods in millions of combinations that people can eat on reduced calorie diets.

Let’s start with the close to 100 varieties of veggies that can be found in the average grocery store. And the 20 or so different ways you can cook all of them individually or in combinations.

Let’s add in a plethora of lean meats such as beef, pork, chicken, fish, and shell fish.

Throw in any variety of healthy grains like quinoa, brown rice, whole grain bread, couscous and then legumes like beans (I can think of 8 different types off the top of my head), lentils, and so forth.

Not to mention low fat dairy of all kinds, including yogurt and cottage cheese. And let’s not forget eggs.

Plus healthy snacks like popcorn, nuts, hummus, etc.

People who aren’t used to thinking in healthy low-cal terms might THINK they are limited just because they need to think in different terms from what they’re used to, but once they start eating healthy food, they’ll realize that there are FAR more options than they’d ever imagined. A weightloss blog shouldn’t validate the concept that food choices are limited .. it should encourage people to get out there and find the massive variety of healthy foods that are available.

Nice blog,

Rafi