education different sites

There are a few sites I really like. one is http://whfoods.org, Another is sparkpeople.com
Lets really talk about education and how to get it. First you can go to a school. I ask is that going to give you the best? When you want to bild a box do you go to a teacher with a book or go to a box builder that has built hundreds of boxes. I am one of the box builders. When I ask which one is better? I couldn't tell you. I will tell you that there are people that will say you should only go to the teacher. Does this mean that only people with a degree have the ability to help you lose weight. Do I have a very personal opion on this? oh yes. Are there a lot of people out there that just want to take your money for nothing and how can you spot them. First I will tell you that depending on the changes you make it may seam like the pounds are just falling off. One example would be if on a normal day you ate 3000 calories and didn't really do to much and you changed to eating 50% of your calories from fruits and veggies, put your dence carbs in a measuring cup and only eat 1/2 a cup skip desert 6 out of 7 days and start walking 1/2 hour per day. Your going to notice some fast changes. If on the other hand you are trying to lose those last 10 pounds your not going to see it fall off overnight. The first thing I do when I want to know the truth about something I type the word in and with one of the following words; scam or review. One of the things you need to look for is who is posting the site. Is it an ad? Are they trying to sell you something? This is one reason I like sparkpeople because it is a site made up of people like you and me. Always remember websites do need a way of supporting themselfs and banner ads maybe posted on the site for that reason.
Here is on way I look at sites that are selling prepared foods. Think about the concepts of the program. First get a plate the size the prepared food is served on. Eat your main foods off that plate nad you only get 1 serving. That's it your done. If you want something else eat an apple. I would tell you to eat the apple no matter what. You can cut it up on your oats, cut it into chunks and put some nut butter on it remember to limit the nut butter to 2T. Nut butters are higher in calories and need to be limited to 1 serving.
Just becaust a person is thinner doesn't mean they have healthy eating habits. It is all about calories in vs. calories out. I like to eat a verity of foods for max. nutrition. I eat for nutrition because I feel that if you teach a person to eat this way they start to look at food differently. If you look at a bowl of ice cream and ask what good is this going to do for my body? My answer would be it just taste good and then I look at what I ate sofar that day. Do I haev 120-300 calories to spend on this item? There are times I can and do eat 1000 calories worth of this item and then when I look back I don't have to ask why did the scale go up. It went up because I ate more calorie then I used that day. If I would do that one day I would really have to watch the nutrition I eat the next day and only eat high nutrition so I can use those extra calories.
I talk about this in my book about the everyother day way of thinking. I have heard it called the johnson upday down day diet, the 1 day diet, the zig-zag diet. Now my whole book is about the concepts that you may learn about this and other diets.
Noow you may ask how is this working for you? Good. I am holding steedy at 125 pounds and feeling strong.