Great idea!
Add me to the list!
In August of 2002, I started the Atkins diet. Eight months later I went from 427# to 301# (a loss of 126#). I lost all that without exercise. I can't do much thanks to arthritis.
Sadly, I've slowly gained most of it back. The diet started to get really boring and really expensive.
I think I could do it again and get to where I wanna be (210#), if I had others to whom I needed to answer. My wife ain't much help 'cause she loves me no matter how I look. I just want to lose it because I realized I've never seen any morbidly obese senior citizens...
The diet started to get really boring and really expensive.
I know what you mean. It is hard to be creative with your food when you grew up eating pasta, bread, and pizza. You have to relearn how to cook.
I mentioned this earlier, but wanted to reiterate it.
Pick up
Protein Power Life-plan by Dr's. Eades. They have 20 years of research on the low carb diet.
They followed Eskimos that eat nothing but caribou for 8 months of the year. They looked at the aborigines in Australia and realized that when they became westernized, they developed all of the same health issues. When they went back to their native diet, the regained their health.
Also there is a yahoo group (similar to freerepublic) that is dedicated to the Protein Power Lifestyle. Once you join, you have access to 20-30 different text files with all kinds of recipes. There are 2 or 3 that focus on Low Carb eating for less money.
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/ppbbs/
http://www.proteinpower.com/forum/