Ok so my grandmother always used to say that eating some fish every day will help you lose faster and more consistently than eating other forms of protien. She always made me eat fish for either lunch or dinner or BOTH. I always lost a lot of weight when I stayed with her for the summers. I am wondering now if this is true. Have any of you noticed a difference? I think I may do a self study on this and let you all know

Well there's less calories in a certain amount of fish versus red meat. If you replaced all your red meat with fish, you'd eat less calories, whether or not that would be significant enough to cause weight loss is debatable though.

Fish is good for you and you should it eat for the Omega 3's, but red meat and poultry also contain important nutrients that fish doesnt. A little bit of everything is the way to go.

The guidelines for eating as a bandster are to eat your dense protein first, then vegetables. Fish is a dense protein, so that fits in with grandma's theory. I would think any other protein prepared in a low-cal method (i.e.not fried) would work as well. Fish is a good choice, though....lots of variety in the ways you can fix it.

I eat more fish than anything else, and my weightloss has stalled. I do eat red meat, and chicken but more fish/seafood. I love grilled shrimp and blackened catfish is one of my favorites. I am just 20ish pounds from goal and I am sure that these last pounds are going to be hard to lose, but I am also sure I can do it. I am curious about the fish theory....please keep us updated. ~Mandy

I think the fish theory has to be taken in context of how the fish is cooked. If you bread the fish in beer batter, deep fry it, and pile on the tartar sauce then it is probably not going to make it onto the bandster's Greatest Diet Hits. In general, eating broiled fish with no butter is probably a lower calorie Protein compared to fatty meats.

For me, though, the band is not about dieting. The band is about NOT dieting. I intend to eat more or less what I want, just a lot less of it. Fortunately, what I "want" to eat is usually real food, not ice cream and Doritos.

My favorite fish is prepared like this:

a piece of fish (just about any kind)

some lemon juice

some garlic

some I can't believe it's not butter

Or just lemon and cajun blacking seasonings

I wrap the fish in foil, top with spices and lemon, seal the foil like a pouch, place in the toaster oven or george foreman grill until almost well done. I usually have a baked sweet potato with my fish. My big weakness is breaded shrimp, but I also like it steamed with a bit of hot sauce in the steamer. I don't eat tartar, but could live on spicy coctail sauce. ~Mandy

I don't bread or flour or fry my fish. I bake it with a little bit of olive oil and seasonings. Also it's not eating just fish but just making sure that fish was one source of protien every day along with others. I can tell you that since I started stepping up my fish intake the last two days since this post I have lost a little more than I did the few days previous, but that could just be coincidence. I think she felt it had something to do with the natural fish oils enhancing weightloss by speeding up your metabolism.