Nutritionist Lyssa Weiss, 44, has a new framework for dieting: “Bad boyfriend” foods are to be avoided; only the “good guy” alternatives are allowed in your shopping cart. She lays it all out in her book, The Skinny Jeans Diet.
Bad boyfriend foods vary from person to person—they are whatever makes you unable to control yourself, says Weiss. “My bad boyfriend is chocolate-chip cookies,” she explains. “I wanted to think I could handle myself around them, and I wouldn’t end up in bed with them like last time. But I always did.”
It sounds like a cute analogy, but Weiss, who runs a private nutrition practice in Armonk and holds a master’s degree in nutrition from Columbia University, is speaking from hard-learned experience—she battled eating disorders and yo-yo dieting before becoming a nutritionist in her late 20s. “We’re focusing on the wrong thing—what we put in our mouth,” she says. “What we should be focusing on is the thoughts we put in our head.”
Here, Weiss lays out a few common bad boyfriend foods and their replacements.
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Bad Boyfriend: Peanut butter Good Guy Alternative: PB2 powdered Peanut butter’s powder alternative is made with just powder, salt, and sugar (you add water), and contains just 45 calories for every two tablespoons (regular peanut butter contains about 190). |
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Bad Boyfriend: Pasta - Partner Content -
Good Guy Alternative: Nasoya brand You can find these tofu-and-yam-flower alternatives at any supermarket. An eight-ounce bag has 40 calories; eight ounces of pasta has 200. |
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Bad Boyfriend: Frozen ice cream bars Good Guy Alternative: Yasso brand frozen Greek yogurt bars Yasso’s frozen Greek yogurt bars have 110 calories and pack eight grams of protein; a |
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