Complete Failure: Food for thought Part 2

So if you follow our blog posts you may have read my blog about a little experiment I did personally in response to some interesting research I read from Precision Nutrition and an experiment done by a food scientist in the states that got a lot of coverage. If not you can check it out here

http://utcsc.blogspot.ca/2012/02/new-thoughts-about-food-that-are-food.html

If you want a quick overview I wanted to see what would happen if I ate whatever I wanted, whenever I wanted, skipping meals if I wanted and just keeping my caloric intake where I needed to loose weight.

Initially I found some benefit. I got a better sense of how a lower calorie day felt and enjoyed taking the mental stress of myself about having to eat at specific times.

After about 3-4 weeks I found that the days I ate bad foods it was really hard not to over eat my calories. I also felt really swollen and tired on heavy crap food days which made it hard to work out. Initially I didn't mind plugging in my calories but I started to find when I got behind on it I would stress out about it which obviously brought the fun factor down.

I'm not trying to say that I have learned some new cutting edge information here. I have always been a firm believer in the huge benefit of eating a diet full of whole food vegetation and lean meats, while minimizing high carbohydrate processed foods and additives.

What I simply want to share with everyone is that from my personal experience just focusing on calories is a very ineffective way to achieve weight loss especially when it comes to the mental and emotional difficulties with diet change.

What should I try next?