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About 5 percent of the UK population is lactose intolerant. Just 1% has celiac disease, meaning they cannot eat gluten, which is found in wheat.

Despite these relatively small numbers, gluten and dairy have been labeled as "bad" or "dirty" by diet trends such as "clean eating."

In general, a "clean" diet means cutting back or eliminating gluten, dairy, processed foods, and refined sugars.

These fad diets are particularly popular with young people, especially women. This year, the Food Standard's Agency's Food and You survey found that almost half (46%) of people aged 16 to 24 said they had a bad reaction to milk, which could be part of the reason for trying out the "clean" way of life.

However, what many people think is a healthy choice could be doing more harm than good.

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The National Osteoporosis Society (NOS) has said cutting milk out of diets could be leaving thousands of young adults with weakened bones because they're not getting enough calcium. The charity warned it is a "ticking time-bomb" for developing permanent bone problems like osteoporosis, because bones generally stop developing once you hit 30 years old.

Osteoporosis currently affects about three million people in the UK, and it is usually a normal part of getting older, but if this trend continues a larger proportion of young people now could end up with it.

Food bloggers and Instagram chefs promote "clean eating" diets as healthy. They can be, if you ensure to get all the necessary nutrients elsewhere, like calcium from leafy greens and nuts. However, it often doesn't work out in reality.

Young people who don't have the budget to afford nutritionists and expensive health foods look to social media stars for advice on what they should cut out, not add in. Instead of making them healthier, these diets can just end up being restrictive.

Clean eating has faced a backlash in the past couple of years for promoting an unhealthy body image and making people, particularly young people, feel bad about enjoying all types of food. Nigella Lawson, for example, has spoken out against the fad in the past, saying people use it as a way to hide eating disorders.

Ella Mills, the star behind the Deliciously Ella blog, used to be part of the clean eating trend, but has since removed the phrase from her website. However, she claims milk can cause calcium loss in bones, a myth that crops up on food blogs and healthy eating websites over and over again.

This also isn't the first time clean eating diets have been described as potentially dangerous. In 2016, experts said restrictive diets were a noticeable route into eating disorders for vulnerable people.

However, the damage has been done. The NOS survey found that four in ten young people (18 to 24) have tried a clean eating diet, and one in five have reduced how much milk and cheese they consume. The issue isn't necessarily choosing to be healthier, it's following the advice of people who have no real authority to talk about nutrition.

Professor Susan Lanham-New, an adviser to the NOS and head of nutritional sciences at the University of Surrey, told Today on BBC Radio 4: "There's nothing wrong with the concept [of clean eating] but I think there is very much a focus for young people to cut out dairy. Social media is rife with people who are talking, quite frankly, about subjects where they don't know what they're talking about."

"The foundations for good bone health are very much laid down in the early years, up to the late twenties," she added. "If you have a prolonged time of low calcium intake, that will put you at risk of osteoporotic fractures in later life and at greater risk of stress fractures in earlier life."

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Keeping up with diet and nutrition is a difficult challenge for anyone, let alone college students who love beer and pizza. Diets are great but much like other addictions such as painkillers and meth, its easy to backslide into cheeseburgers. Staying strong will benefit you in the long run, but how can you do that on campus? Here are some helpful diet tips for a variety of picky eaters.

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So you want to lose weight. If youre looking to lose a healthy amount of weight, a little (a lot) hard work and persistence will go a long way.

The cafeteria has a salad bar that will be pretty decent once you spice it up with some veggies and a little dressing. Aside from that, theres usually at least one healthy item at the Kitchen like sauted spinach or kale. The hardest part here will just be avoiding eye contact with the pizza bar.

Chopd & Wrapd is the healthiest option outside of the cafeteria with salads and wraps galore. Be careful though as theyll pour the dressing until you say stop. Dont let your salad or wrap turn into soup. Stay away from adding too much fun stuff like bacon bits and croutons as well.

UNF nutrition instructor, Andrea Altice, gave some helpful advice for a variety of diets.

Get [foods] with whole grains whether its whole grain cereal or whole wheat bread, said Altice. Things with fiber, like fresh fruit and vegetables, keep you full and that will help with people trying to lose a few pounds.

Altering your diet to include whole grains and fruit is easy. When ordering a wrap or a sandwich, make sure to ask for wheat simple as that. And why not put some fruit on the side? Almost every eatery on campus has apples or bananas for sale.

Maintaining a lean diet is important, but the weight wont go away on its own. Exercise and diet go hand-in-hand and working out at least four to six times a week will produce happy results. After you lose the extra weight, you may want to take the next step: putting on muscle.

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Curls get girls and tris get guys, its true, but gains are impossible without a proper diet to go along with your workout. Luckily most locations on campus have at least one option for the nerds who want some muscle.

Protein (brotein) is going to be your best friend through this process. Some good sources of protein include peanut butter, milk and meat. The type of meat is important though. Try to get in the habit of screaming and running when you see fried chicken or any other kind of meat. It has protein, yes, but you are far better off with lean meats such as grilled chicken or fish.

Chopd & Wrapd has the leanest and greenest options on campus. Build your own salad, build your own wraps, choose your protein (always pick grilled chicken), and youll be putting things inside you that make your body happy and healthy.

For those who really want to bulk, however, the cafeteria is the way to go. Find the grill in the back left and take as much grilled chicken as you likeafter all, its a buffet. The kitchen to the right of that usually has veggies like spinach or kale, and of course the salad bar works here too (though it isnt as good as Chopd & Wrapd).

Altice says that one of the most important parts of staying strong is a large carb intake.

People are usually saying that carbs are bad because they are trying to lose weight, when in fact you need at least 50 percent of your calories coming from carbohydrates; thats the bulk of getting your energy, said Altice. You should not be cutting out carbohydrates to lose weight.

The main focus here is to eat a lot, but eat healthy. Working out every day will increase your appetite exponentially and what better place to satiate that hunger than a buffet filled with protein (brotein).

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This will be by far the hardest diet to maintain with an on-campus diet. You might run into some locations that dont cater to vegans at all. The cafe does have plenty of options for those of you with meal plans.

All the way in the back right corner is the vegan bar. This tiny bar has only three stations, but they are full of food catered specifically to vegans. Choices like tofu stew, vegetable paella, kale and other tasty, animal-free treats.

The most important thing for vegans is to make sure you are getting enough of three main nutrients: protein, iron and B12. Protein can be found in tofu, beans, tofu, nuts and peanut butterand tofu. So basically if you dont like tofu, you will have a hard time being a vegan.

For B12, Altice recommends a supplement for vegans because it comes from animals. These can be bought for cheap from Publix or Walgreens.

Iron comes from red meats, chicken and fish. Altice recommends using an iron skillet to cook dried beans and peas which will absorb the iron from the cooking ware.

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Everybody needs a cheat day too. Sorry, but diet or no diet, you cant just quit pizza cold turkey. Take a Sunday or Saturday every week to have some pizza at the cafeteria or Papa Johns. If you want to stay healthy while also cheating a bit, get a quesadilla from Chick-N-Grill. They taste like Christmas morning and you can fill em up with veggies.

Altice knows the importance of cheat days too.

I know you have cravings for pizza and Chick-fil-A and thats okay. If youre having it once in awhile thats fine. Pizza is okay but its about what you put on it. Dont put any high fat products on there. Put hamburger instead of pepperoni or use turkey pepperoni, said Altice.

Take it from someone who used to eat whole pizzas every chance he got, switching to a healthier diet makes you feel better inside and out. Whether you want to gain muscle, lose fat, or go vegan, you will become a better version of yourself. Whats not to like about more energy throughout the day? At the very least, youll be able to complain about having to stick to a strict eating regimen. And youll have that cheat day to look forward to as well.

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My 4-year-old daughter often nabs my wife's iPhone and disappears for hours into the YouTube Kids app. We intermittently check on what she's watching, but it's hard to keep track of every video.

Since lots of parents deal with this issue, Amazon decided to roll out a new way to check on your kid's digital diet. It's a service for its FreeTime kids' apps, called Parent Dashboard.

The dashboard, which is free to use starting Wednesday and can be accessed from any web browser at parents.amazon.com, provides daily activity reports on each of your accounts on FreeTime, an app that provides a gated, age-appropriate experience for kids on Amazon Fire tablets. The new website also offers handy flash cards on many kids' books and games, to give parents quickly digestible information on the items their kids are looking at in the app.

"I would love to see parents engaging more with their kids, using this information to further customize their child's experience in [FreeTime] to make the product better for kids," said Kurt Beidler, Amazon's kids and family director.

Parent Dashboard fits well in the online retailer's strategy of catering to parents and families, in hopes of getting mom, dad and the kids all hooked on the company's many websites and services. The new service could also entice more people to join FreeTime Unlimited, the paid version of FreeTime that offers curated sets of books, apps and games for specific age groups, starting at $3 a month.

Screenshots of the dashboard (left) and a "discussion card" (right).

The daily reports in the dashboard show colorful pie charts for time spent in four categories in FreeTime: books, video, apps and games. Click on any pie chart and the site will show the amount of time your kid spent per day in that category, as well as a breakdown of every video watched or book read or game played. Within these lists, parents can click through to flash cards, which Amazon calls "discussion cards," that offer a quick synopsis of the show viewed or app used, as well as general questions parents can ask their kids.

For instance, for the Strawberry Shortcake Berry Beauty Salon app, the discussion card tells me my daughter can help "style hair, clothing and make sure nails are sparkling," and I can ask open-ended questions like "What part of this game do you like the most?" or "How did you use your imagination to play this game?"

At best, these reports and flash cards could help parents get more involved in their kids' digital worlds and encourage their kids to do more reading and less gaming. At worst, the daily reports could just offer guilty reminders of how much time their kids spend watching videos (OK, maybe that's just my kids).

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Plant-derived proteins are less expensive than animal proteins if used in weanling pig diets, but may contain anti-nutritional factors that can negatively affect gut health and growth performance. However, results of a new study from the University of Illinois indicate that soy protein concentrate may be partly or fully substituted for animal proteins without adverse effects.

We determined digestibility of crude protein, amino acids and energy in SPC ground to three particle sizes, says U of I animal sciences professor Hans H. Stein. We also investigated the effects of substituting SPC for animal proteins on weanling growth performance.

Soy protein concentrate is derived from defatted soy flakes by removing soluble carbohydrates and some non-protein constituents. Three particle sizes 70, 180 and 700 micrometers were tested because earlier work showed that particle size of soybean meal affects digestibility of amino acids in weanling pigs.

In the groups first experiment, pigs were fed diets containing soybean meal, fish meal or SPC ground to one of the three particle sizes. Ileal digesta were collected and analyzed for amino acid and crude protein content.

Standardized ileal digestibility of crude protein was not different among the three diets containing SPC, but diets with SPC ground to 70 or 180 micrometers had greater crude protein digestibility than the traditional protein sources. The SID of several amino acids, including tryptophan, was also greater in diets containing SPC ground to 70 or 180 micrometers, compared with the other diets.

Stein explains that these results differed from similar studies using soybean meal, in which particle size had a greater influence on digestibility. It could be that alcohol extraction used in SPC processing improves digestibility, making it unnecessary to reduce particle size further to obtain the same results.

In a second experiment, weanling pigs were fed corn mixed with each of the protein sources used in the first experiment. The goal was to measure apparent total tract digestibility of gross energy and the digestible and metabolizable energy in each diet.

There were no differences in digestible and metabolizable energy among the three SPC particle sizes, but SPC ground to 180 micrometers contained more digestible energy than corn, soybean meal and fish meal, Stein says.

Finally, the researchers investigated the effects of SPC on growth performance and blood characteristics. In this experiment, pigs were fed combinations of fish meal, spray-dried protein plasma and SPC ground to 180 micrometers. The different diets did not change growth performance overall and no reduction in performance was observed if SPC was used instead of fish meal or spray-dried protein plasma.

Results of this experiment indicated that diets based on soybean meal and SPC can be fed to weanling pigs without negative effects on growth performance during the initial four weeks after weaning, Stein says. Altogether, results of the three experiments indicate that SPC ground to 180 micrometers may be used as an alternative to animal proteins in weanling pig diets.

The article, Nutritional value of soy protein concentrate ground to different particle sizes and fed to pigs,is published in Journal of Animal Science. The research was funded by Selecta.

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Motivation can come from the most unlikely places. For one mom, the push to lose weight came from a particularly surprising source: a cruel comment from an unknowing child at an indoor swimming pool.

"I was called a hippopotamus," Peggy Pullen, 48, told TODAY, recalling the moment in November 2014 she realized she needed to change. "In front of everybody, in front of my kids. The hardest part was the look on my children's faces. It wasn't just me who was humiliated it was them, too."

At the time, Pullen, a mom of four kids in Lehi, Utah, weighed over 200 pounds. That afternoon, she went home and cried, too embarrassed to even face her own family.

"I was just bawling," Pullen said. "I didn't want to eat. I didn't want to come out of the room or anything. I was in a really bad place. I needed to do something about it. I knew I had to make a choice that my children could learn from."

Peggy Pullen on the day she started her weight-loss transformation, January 1, 2015.

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She had tried to shed the weight before through fad diets and pills Atkins, Weight Watchers, cabbage soup and more. But nothing really worked.

"Basically, any diet that has come out to the market, I've done," Pullen said.

"I knew that diets didn't work, so I wasn't going to go through that anymore," she added. "I needed to be challenged."

Pullen dances at a wedding. She weighed about 200 pounds at the time this photo was taken.

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For Pullen, the answer was joining a 12-week program through BodyBuilding.com that helped her figure out what to eat and how to work out. She found support through other people in the program, who were also trying to lose weight and had shared their stories online.

The first step was the hardest: posting her "before" picture.

"It was a tough moment when my husband took my picture," she said. "I like to wear a lot of black and hide, and not show my husband my whole body. We as women like to hide sometimes, and I had my whole gut out and everything."

Pullen poses with her husband after her weight loss.

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"I posted my picture and the second I did, I had a nervous breakdown," she added. "It was worse than the pool. (But) some young kid said he liked my picture, and then all these people started to show their support. I think they knew it was tough, what I had done."

Of course, what happened next wasn't much easier. Pullen had to curb her cravings for sweets and carbs. She also loves to cook and had to learn to alter her recipes to be healthier. As a newbie at the gym, she felt unwelcome and even bullied.

Pullen credits clean eating and weightlifting for her new shape.

"When you are fat very fat and you want to go and lift weights with the cool guys, they own the machines," she said. "You're not welcome and those cool guys are very close friends with the people who work there. They laugh at you, and they don't like an old, fat lady in their space, so they bully you."

But Pullen, who is 5 feet 3 inches tall, stuck to her routine and within 10 months was down to 120 pounds. For her, clean eating and lifting weights are what worked. She now weighs 110 pounds, and has kept the weight off for about a year and a half.

"One of the biggest things I (noticed) before I got fit was that I was always so tired," she said. "Junk food makes you tired. Today, I eat clean and whenever I get hungry, I eat protein first."

Pullen, now a bodybuilder, lost about 90 pounds.

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That's not to say she doesn't allow for the occasional cheat meal or deprive her kids of things like birthday cake. Pullen knows the best diets allow for moderation. While she's figured out what works best for her, she still keeps in touch with the online community that helped get her there.

"You have to have a support group it's the most important part of your transformation," Pullen said.

Because even when you think you can't do it, other people do, and eventually, the feeling is contagious.

"It's something that clicks inside of you," she said. "You start to believe in yourself."

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April 10, 2017 Weanling pigs can be fed soy protein concentrate in place of more expensive animal proteins, without detrimental effects. Credit: Flickr - Nick Saltmarsh

Plant-derived proteins are less expensive than animal proteins if used in weanling pig diets, but may contain anti-nutritional factors that can negatively affect gut health and growth performance. However, results of a new study from the University of Illinois indicate that soy protein concentrate (SPC) may be partly or fully substituted for animal proteins without adverse effects.

"We determined digestibility of crude protein, amino acids, and energy in SPC ground to three particle sizes," says U of I animal sciences professor Hans H. Stein. "We also investigated the effects of substituting SPC for animal proteins on weanling growth performance."

Soy protein concentrate is derived from defatted soy flakes by removing soluble carbohydrates and some nonprotein constituents. Three particle sizes - 70, 180, and 700 micrometers - were tested because earlier work showed that particle size of soybean meal affects digestibility of amino acids in weanling pigs.

In the group's first experiment, pigs were fed diets containing soybean meal, fish meal, or SPC ground to one of the three particle sizes. Ileal digesta were collected and analyzed for amino acid and crude protein content.

Standardized ileal digestibility (SID) of crude protein was not different among the three diets containing SPC, but diets with SPC ground to 70 or 180 micrometers had greater crude protein digestibility than the traditional protein sources. The SID of several amino acids, including tryptophan, was also greater in diets containing SPC ground to 70 or 180 micrometers, compared with the other diets.

Stein explains that these results differed from similar studies using soybean meal, in which particle size had a greater influence on digestibility. "It could be that alcohol extraction used in SPC processing improves digestibility, making it unnecessary to reduce particle size further to obtain the same results."

In a second experiment, weanling pigs were fed corn mixed with each of the protein sources used in the first experiment. The goal was to measure apparent total tract digestibility of gross energy and the digestible and metabolizable energy in each diet.

"There were no differences in digestible and metabolizable energy among the three SPC particle sizes, but SPC ground to 180 micrometers contained more digestible energy than corn, soybean meal, and fish meal," Stein says.

Finally, the researchers investigated the effects of SPC on growth performance and blood characteristics. In this experiment, pigs were fed combinations of fish meal, spray-dried protein plasma, and SPC ground to 180 micrometers. The different diets did not change growth performance overall and no reduction in performance was observed if SPC was used instead of fish meal or spray-dried protein plasma.

"Results of this experiment indicated that diets based on soybean meal and SPC can be fed to weanling pigs without negative effects on growth performance during the initial four weeks after weaning," Stein says.

Altogether, results of the three experiments indicate that SPC ground to 180 micrometers may be used as an alternative to animal proteins in weanling pig diets.

The article, "Nutritional value of soy protein concentrate ground to different particle sizes and fed to pigs," is published in Journal of Animal Science.

The research was funded by Selecta.

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This policy details how WFP can support governments in achieving their commitments to reducing malnutrition and reaching Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2, particularly target 2.2. As the world embarks on the path of sustainable development, WFP recognizes that good nutrition is both a critical input to and an outcome of the SDGs. With concurrent emergencies continuing around the world, humanitarian response will remain a priority in WFPs nutrition activities and will be essential to achieving the SDGs. Ensuring that nutrient needs are met before, during and after emergencies is central to WFPs work, as the changing nature and frequency of crises amplify already critical levels of malnutrition.

The policy builds on the good work started by the previous WFP nutrition policy and takes into account evaluation findings, new evidence and innovations from WFP programmes. It expands WFPs focus on preventing malnutrition to cover all forms of malnutrition including both undernutrition and overweight/obesity (Box 1) while reaffirming WFPs support to treatment of moderate acute malnutrition, which is a critical part of the continuum of care.

The policy is aligned with WFPs Integrated Road Map and reaffirms national governments as WFPs primary partners. At the country level, WFP coordinates with other United Nations agencies, using the United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF) or other mechanisms to support government-led strategies and programmes.

This policy commits WFP to increasing its focus on resilience-building and stunting prevention in longer-term humanitarian responses with national governments and other partners and aims to ensure that WFP applies a nutrition lens in all of its activities, identifying and leveraging opportunities to improve nutrition through its work. The policy aims to leverage WFPs support to reaching SDG 2 by ensuring the availability of, access to, demand for and consumption of diets that comprehensively meet but do not exceed the nutrient requirements of nutritionally vulnerable groups.

There is a clear need to accelerate reductions in malnutrition, which remains the underlying cause of 45 percent of deaths among children under 5 annually. Good nutrition matters throughout the life cycle, but is especially important during the first 1,000 days from conception to 2 years of age. Evidence shows that undernutrition during this period can have lasting impacts on a childs growth, learning and future productivity, leading to significant losses in national productivity and economic growth that are equivalent to 811 percent of gross domestic product. Such chronic undernutrition can lead to stunting, increasing the risk of non-communicable diseases later in life.

Worldwide, approximately 2 billion people suffer from micronutrient deficiencies, 51 million children under 5 are wasted, 159 million are stunted and 43 million are overweight. This burden of malnutrition is reflected in sub-optimal physical development and health among populations, which undermines the social and economic development of countries.

Ten evidence-based, nutrition-specific interventions have been identified, which if brought to scale would decrease child deaths by 15 percent and stunting by 20 percent.1 Continued focus on nutrition-specific interventions, particularly those that prevent malnutrition, is necessary, but nutrition-sensitive approaches are also essential in accelerating progress towards ending malnutrition in all its forms. With its strong operational and technical skills, WFP will build on its broad-ranging experience of nutrition in changing contexts, to support direct implementation and provide governments with technical assistance in improving analysis, targeting, modality selection, delivery and monitoring for nutrition interventions based on its complementary strengths.

In its enhanced engagement in nutrition, WFP will prioritize support to vulnerable groups to increase their access to and consumption of adequate and diverse diets, using gender-sensitive nutrition analysis as the base for gender-transformative nutrition programming in line with the WFP Gender Policy.

Combining approaches for improving gender equality and womens empowerment (GEWE) with nutrition programming has the potential to produce mutually reinforcing results for both GEWE and nutrition. Availability of, access to and demand for nutritious food are fundamental in supporting good nutrition, eliminating poverty and achieving the SDGs for inclusive economic growth, health and education. They require moving beyond the focus on quantity calories and increasing attention to quality nutrients.

A world free from malnutrition can only be attained through government-led, multi-partner and multi-sector efforts involving United Nations agencies, civil society, international organizations, foundations, academia and the private sector. WFP commits to working as a global advocate, and at the regional and country levels, to support programmes and enhance national capacities for overcoming constraints on availability of, access to, demand for and consumption of the safe, healthy and adequate diets needed to end malnutrition in all its forms by 2030.2 Coordinated partnerships are a cornerstone of WFPs engagement in nutrition. Addressing the complex drivers of malnutrition requires collaboration among diverse sectors and stakeholders and intensified work to scale up nutrition-specific and -sensitive programmes at the country level. With partners, WFP has committed to incorporating nutrition components into appropriate programmes for which nutrition is not a primary objective, and to linking vulnerable groups to these components where possible.

The 2012 Nutrition Policy provided the foundation for WFPs approach to nutrition by emphasizing how a combination of nutrition-specific and -sensitive interventions could be used to address malnutrition. This entails a context-specific focus on supporting women, men, girls and boys in consuming healthy diets, balancing immediate needs with long-term approaches to strengthen local food and social protection systems. The Nutrition Policy significantly enhances WFPs work by aligning it with the 2030 Agenda, building on WFPs current approach based on the latest thinking and evidence, and diversifying the means of supporting countries in achieving their nutrition-related goals.

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Ive been helping people lose weight for more than 20 years. In all of that time I have seen some weight loss mistakes being repeated over and over. One mistake in particular is failing to make a plan.

Holidays are a major cause of stress for many dieters.

There are known threats to diets. Some women have a monthly threat that their lack of planning sets their diets back a few days every time around that time of the month. Then there are the seasonal threats and the holiday threats that are equally predictable but for which too many dieters fail to make a plan.

Easter is coming. Its a threat and Ive already heard dieters say, Ill be fine. Ill just be careful.

This isnt a good plan. Its not a plan at all. Planning isnt difficult and the results are worth the time and effort. Rather than opening your eyes on Monday morning feeling bloated and full of regret, a little planning can turn that around. Instead of worrying about whether youll be able to get your control back, you can celebrate your Easter success.

Be prepared for your Easter gathering. This is not the day for leggings and a long tunic top or sweat pants. Wear something thats snug around the waist, not stretchy. Eat somefruit and vegetables before you go. Think of your stomach as a balloon 3/4 full of air. An empty belly (totally deflated balloon) makes it harder to practice flexible restraint.

1. Be very choosy about Easter candy.

2. If you will be in a situation where tension runs high with family members find ways to physically or mentally remove yourself.

3. When faced with the meal and the hors doeuvres pick carefully.

4. Avoid alcohol altogether or mix wine with sparkling water for a spritzer.

5. Move, move move!

6. Practice, practice, practice these tips by creating images in your head and watching yourself successfully perform the actions you will do to stay on track.

A well-formed plan is the best way to ensure you will great the scale with confidence after Easter.

Things dont always work out as planned. Your best shot of sticking to your plan is making it as specific and detailed as possible. Then reviewit in your head over and over and over. The more familiar you are with your plan the greater the chances it will become a reality.

If your best laid plans go awry, you didnt fail, you just need to adjust your plan so that it works the way you want it to work next time. Dont beat yourself up or start giving yourself negative self-talk, instead write the word Easter on a piece of toilet paper, flush it, and go on with your program as though Easter never happened. A little weight gain is not a setback or a roadblock, its just a detour.

Link:
Do not let the Easter bunny wreck your diet - Bangor Daily News

Have you ever dipped a Chips Ahoy cookie into a family-size jar of crunchy peanut butter? If not, I highly recommend it.

I discovered the wonder of this very refined culinary pairing recently while approximately 10 months pregnantyou know, the stage at which you havent seen your own bikini line in ages. After a healthy second pregnancy in which Id SoulCycled and strength-trained throughout, even doing pull-ups into my third trimester, in those final weeks I was uncomfortable, cranky, and forgoing my go-to Sweetgreen salads for a diet that could best be described as laissez faire .

Lets just say should we get dessert? had become a rhetorical question. But even though I gave birth to my son, a sweet, simple little man with a striking resemblance to Wallace Shawn, five weeks ago, the truth is Im still treating my three-year-old daughters Chips Ahoy like Dunkaroos for our collective family peanut butter (Note to them: Sorry, guys.) and regularly dining on gnocchi, tortellini, and goat cheese ravioli.

And Im not beating myself up or making any apologies for any of it. This time aroundafter my second and what I now believe will be my lastpregnancy, I am instituting a hard-line personal policy of NOPE to the psychotic post-baby body industrial complex . Or, to put it simply, Im not killing myself to "lose the baby weight" at the pace of a pre-fashion show Victorias Secret Angel.

In part, its my Hillary Clinton showing up at her first big post-election speech with no makeup because eff the patriarchy moment. As a card-carrying nasty woman, Im tired of holding myself to wild beauty and body standards. We might be inundated with celebs on the cover of Us Weekly boasting of their perfect bikini bodies, like, five minutes after baby and Instagram fitspo queens in-the-mirror selfies of their eight-packs one week post-birth. But as a normal civilian woman, and a full-time working mother of now two, I have bigger things to worry aboutlike, when will I sleep again, and President Trump convening a board room of 30 men to ruminate on maternity leave . I literally dont have the time or brain space to obsess over losing the 30 or so pounds Ive gained in a hurry, especially not because thats just what Im supposed to do to make myself more palatable and presentable.

Lucky for me, my livelihood does not depend on having buns of steel. But the truth is that not even Chrissy Teigen or Alessandra Ambrosio should feel bullied to get their flat abs back on somebody elses timetable; no mom should have to feel bad about, um, actually eating after 40 weeks of pregnancy and the feat of giving birth. Thats just cruel and unusual punishment. When youre at the beck and call of a squealing newborn and, if youre breastfeeding, can barely drink without pumping and dumping, the least you should be able to do for yourself is eat a little gnocchi.

Its occurred to me lately that theres a certain irony to the pressure put on postpartum moms: Eating well and often, and gaining weight, is the goal for my son. Double chins and fat rolls are cause for celebration in babiestheyre a sign hes a healthy growing (mini) human. But, for me as his mother, the premium is on shedding weight, returning to my smaller selfand, oh yeah, and make it snappy. Where is my grace period, in which, like my baby, being well-fed (and, okay, a little squishy) is a sign of my wellbeing?

It helps, of course, that this isnt my first rodeo. During my first pregnancy three years ago, I was laser-focused on getting back to my pre-baby weight. I had an exciting and pretty fabulous job as a magazine editor to return to; my standard-issue leather leggings awaited. I wanted to show up on my first day back, after three months maternity leave, looking as svelte as my old self. I wanted to prove to myself, and to others, that I could be one of the good, Kate-Middleton-kind-of-people who can achieve this big, overhyped goal of losing the baby weight super quickly. The clock was ticking.

And so, in the weeks after having my daughter, I became a walking Cathy comic, trying on my old skinny jeans at intervals, lamenting when they wouldnt button, or even zipper. I hated hated that handful of flesh hanging out around my belly button. I hated pumping breast milk, too (the only way I could make breastfeeding work due to latching issues with my daughter) but at least part of the reason I kept it up for three months was that I knew it was a great calorie-burner. I even tried out one of those alleged waist-shrinking corsets Jessica Alba has said she used to get her abs back after having kids. (PSA: Don't do this; it didn't even fasten. Also, they don't work .) As soon as my doctor signed off, at exactly six weeks after giving birth, I dedicated myself to Tracy Andersons post-baby workout DVD (I think giving birth was less painful), clipped back in at SoulCycle, and started to forego the delicious lasagna and pie friends had generously brought over so I wouldnt have to cook. It worked: I actually wore a shiny new pair of leather leggings on my first day back at work.

Looking back, Im not sorry I lost the weight, but I am sorry I gave myself a pressing deadline by which to do it, and put so much pressure on myself to meet it. As my awesome labor and delivery nurse very kindly reminded me during my recent hospital discharge debrief, it takes time to put baby weight on and it takes time to take it off. I know now that added anxiety and stress in the weeks after having a baby is the last thing I, or any woman needs. Sue me, Im a survivalist.

This time, Im not rushing my post-baby fitness regimen, nor am I holding myself to the standard of fitting back into the very same articles of clothing as before, and stat. Having lost the baby weight once, Im confident I can and will do it again, as hard as it may be with two kids in the mix. (Mercifully, the baby and everything else that comes out with it, plus breastfeeding, have already taken care of a good 15 or 20 pounds of it.) I intend to get back to pull-ups, and my favorite hyper-political SoulCycle class, as soon as I am cleared to exercise (in part to escape my family, but thats another storystay tuned). But when I do, I may or may not return to my exact pre-baby weight and size. Maybe its my bigger boobs and more voluptuous self talking, but when I look at some of my old Instagrams (as one does), I think I looked a little scrawny back then... like I could have used a few Chips Ahoy.

Michelle Ruiz is a freelance writer and contributing editor at Vogue.com whose work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Cosmopolitan and Time.com . She's a big fan of gnocchi. Twitter: @michelleruiz

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