Businesses hungry for slice of the low-carb pie (Atkins)

St. Petersburg Times ^ | October 24, 2003 | BENITA D. NEWTON

[Always Right]

Shoot, they now even have low-carb bread starting to pop up in grocery stores.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Nutritionists are having a fit!

[netmilsmom]

Geez, we need this is MI!!!!

[Ladysmith]

Ping the los-carbers! The plants are starting to root!

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Geez, we need this is MI!!!!

It looks like a sure-fire winner. I bet a lot of business will cater to low-carb dieters. Soon it will just be the right way to eat.

[T Minus Four]

Mmmmm, pie!

[Naspino]

Thank goodness for this. I have been trying to get/try Atkins delivery service for a year but its not available here and we hate to cook. Everything else is loaded with carbs...

[Mears]

Another fad diet that will be knocked aside in a few years replaced by another fad diet that will knocked------you get my point!!!

Eat less,exercise more ------simple!

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Pie with Splenda sweetner, I presume.

[sourcery]

Is that Lo-Carber pornograhy? :-)

[netmilsmom]

I lived on Slim Fast, popcorn and danced. I maintained a weight, not lost. Come on, if it were calorie in/calorie out I would have had to run around in the shower to get wet.

You do what works for you, I'll do what works for me.

[Savage Beast]

You know that pile of blue jeans you've kept in the closet just in case some day you can get in them again??? Well this morning I slipped into a pair--thanks to Dr. Atkins.

I'll be sure to drop in on Isaiah and Maureen next time I'm in St. Petersburg. We need more low carb restaurants.

[JosephW]

I spend a year and a half on the govt. diet plans and ended up gaining 15 lbs when I wanted to lose 5. I was down to only 900 calories a day and gaining weight.

I finally said forget it. In March I tried Atkins and I love it. My caloric intake is around 2000-2300, I feel great and I've lost 30 lbs. It works too well.

I'm continuing to add in more and more carbs slowly as I've already lost more than I wanted to, but I love this diet (or rather change in eating lifestyle).

Important note for cola drinkers. Diet RC uses only Splenda (sucralose) as a sweetner. Avoid Aspartame, Sacarine and possibly Sunett - the taste is the difference.

[T Minus Four]

Is that Lo-Carber pornograhy? :-)

LOL! I should start food-porn magazine!

[tiamat]

Today I did a mystery-shop at a Farmer Jack and noticed a brand new thing!

The shelves had little tags under various food items , announcing "Low Carb! " in big, bold letters. This was regular food, too, not just the Slim-Fast aisle, or the dietetic section . Dozens of items , all marked "Low-Carb! " And people were looking at the tags and buying the stuff.

Three days ago, I stopped at the local pub for a quick bite, and giggled as the man at the next table order, substituting salad for fries and asking for the bun on his sandwich on the side.
( Me? I am chowing down on a rueben with fries and a small beer)
So I smiled at the man, and said :" Oh I know what YOU'RE doing! " and asked him how he liked it.
( Not only do i have terrrible eating habits, I am also a Bad Girl in that I talk to strange men! LOL! )

Anyway, he proudly told me all about how he was still in the fairly early stages of Atkin's, but had lost 20 pounds in 3 weeks.

This Low-Carb stuff works and is a REAL good marketing opportunity. Everybody I know seems to be trying it.

Who knows. I may even give it a whirl myself.

Tia

[BJClinton]

Isaiah and Maureen Copeland plan to open Copeland's Low Carb Cuisine Saturday in St. Petersburg. The store will offer everything from microwavable pork rinds and candy bars to books and tortillas.

Isaiah and Maureen Copeland plan to open Copeland's Low Carb Cuisine Saturday in St. Petersburg. The store will offer everything from microwavable pork rinds and candy bars to books and tortillas

Could we see that one more time just to make sure we got it?

Seriously, that's great but we need one in Austin.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

You know that pile of blue jeans you've kept in the closet just in case some day you can get in them again???

Ha! Yes, I do know about those kind of jeans!

[XBob]

9-"eat less, exercise more - simple!"

you certainly don't know much about how our metabolism works, and metabolic rates, do you?

try to think about it like vehicles -

You can put a 200hp engine in a car and in a big truck - the truck will haul 50,000 lbs on the same amount of fuel that the car does hauling nothing.

[BJClinton]

And have you noticed how many beer commercials are focusing on low carb?