The diet that ate Atkins (Clinton's diet)

The Independent (U.K.) ^ | 12/31/03 | James Sherwood

[Miss Marple]

On the Carbohydrate Addict's Diet, you eat 2 protein meals, a la Atkins. For the third meal, you can eat anything you want, but everything must be consumed within a one-hour time period.

Sample menus:

Breakfast...bacon and scrambled eggs, black coffee.

Lunch...hamburger and small tossed salad.

Dinner...pancakes, bacon, orange juice, two glasses of wine, coffee.

Thee is a book about this diet, if you search the internet you can find it.

[alrea]

The powerful Democratic troika Barbra Streisand, Oprah Winfrey and Donna Karan

fat and ugly regardless of how much they diet, drug and sue

[CaptainK]

Mrs. Clinton looks heavier than ever in every recent picture I have seen of her. The rancid black pantsuit can't hide her ampleness anymore.

[cajun-jack]

wanna lose weight and gt fit and the same time??? get off your fat lazy ass and get outside and so some serious yardwork...go to wally world and buy a $100.00 small wheel push mower...start a mowing svc..you will be getting paid to shed the "shed"

[Ditter]

I went on the Carbo Addicts Diet a few years ago & it is great. I am on my own version of low carb diet now & it is working too. I think one reason these diet work, at least for me, is because eating plenty of protein keeps you satisfied longer. When you are satisfied longer you end up eating less food & your stomach shrinks. I am full after eating half the amounts that I used to eat.

[mo]

when you eat processed food.....there's more in it than you'd know by the label. Philip Morris and RJ Reynolds-the cigarette manufacturers-own Kraft Foods and Nabisco....

[hunter112]

So far, I haven't seen 5 grams worth of diff between the two plans, except one sounds sexy and the other doesn't.

The sexy part comes only from the newness, when that wears off, there will be another one.

I did get a valuable insight from this comment in the article:

"Why do people fail on the South Beach Diet?" Hence the overriding tone of South Beach is evangelical tinged with AA-meeting rhetoric. Dieting is not dissimilar to Alcoholics Anonymous. You get with the programme and you stay with it for life. It's a discipline few people can exercise after the initial burst of drop a dress size cheerleading.

Dieting is a modern substitute for old-time religion! There are rules to learn, constant sources of temptation, failing and redemption, and plenty of guilt to wrap it all together. Also, loads of people to keep you in line by holding you to the rules, it meets a social structure need that only good old fashioned religious mind control could equal.

Think I'm making this up? Name me a religion founded over a hundred years ago that does not have food taboos or restrictions as part of its worship. Diets are the religions of our time. I've always wondered why I've resented them, now I know.

[Ditter]

I don't eat processed food.

[Praxeologue]

Dieting is a modern substitute for old-time religion! There are rules to learn, constant sources of temptation, failing and redemption, and plenty of guilt to wrap it all together. Also, loads of people to keep you in line by holding you to the rules, it meets a social structure need that only good old fashioned religious mind control could equal

Brilliant insight!

Food and cults are a deadly combination, literally.

[Born Conservative]

I think the protein part is more of what comes OUT of the tube steaks....