Every diet can work if one eats real food
That being told, the only thing unprocessed here is the lettuce and it's not known for being nutrition-dense.
Your snack is basically the Atkins' equivalent of french fries with ketchup...
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@creept0 proving my point spectacularly, thank you. You've jumped straight in to critisize someone else's diet and tell them that there's a better and different way - your way. 'Your diet sucks (but mine doesn't)'. If you were going for ironic, you nailed it ;)
Nowhere did I say that my diet is better. Moreover - I said that every kind of diet can work. I literally wrote that :)
But ok, let's keep it simple: will you agree that the less processed food in a diet, the better?
You said, 'every diet can work if one eats real food'. Implying that diets that include any food that you don't categorise as 'real' (that's a very vague concept) can't work. I don't agree with that. I believe diets that contain some non-'real' foods can work.
Do I agree that the less processed foods the better the diet? It depends. It depends what works for that person, at that time, in their current situation, with the resources they have.
I don't obviously believe that a diet coke is better than some fruit that's been smoothied - but if I had an individual who wanted to lose weight but were struggling to change, I would perhaps ask them to switch their normal soda intake to diet soda intake. If anything the diet soda is more processed, but it might be better for that person at that time.
Does that make sense?
Real food is not really a vague concept - it's meat and vegetables (plus eggs and dairy) - everything that can be eaten and is bought raw.
It doesn't mean that one has to eat only that -just that the more the better.
As for the coke - if somebody NEEDS his daily coke AND enjoys the taste of diet coke - I think it's a step in the right direction (though a bit risky as it might raise insulin levels).
But if he hates the taste - I'd say staying with normal coke but decreasing the amount would be more beneficial, as he won't feel like he's giving something up, which would cause additional stress - and we want to minimize that when changing eating habbits.
I believe that what you're trying to say is that for every person with given restrictions (life habbits, budget, goals) we can propose a different diet and relatively this diet will be better - and I agree with that.
What I disagree is that you're going a bit too far with that - because in absolute terms this diet will still be worse than the "best" diet following the guidelines I'm pointing out.
The thing is - it's fine. Your diet doesn't have to be perfect. But to make conscious food choices we have to know on which part of the "healthy" spectrum we are. And that's just it - awareness is key, and by saying "every diet is good if it works" you are one step too close to denial/ignorance.