[agrarianlady]

Remember no carbs (you can have 20 grams a day) and in two weeks if you gain any weight on a diet of 2500 fat and protein calories a day[...] I will give you a couple of hints. The first is you will begin to lose your food cravings. You will not feel hungry. The second is you will have a difficult time after a week eating more than 2000 calories a day. Finally, your triglyceride levels will plummet almost immediately. That means your body will turn to fat burning.

Absolutely. My 20-carb diet (which took me, a petite 5'3" woman from 150 to 125 in five months - THANKFULLY) was as high as I wanted it to be in calories. But I didn't feel hungry. No cravings. What glorious freedom - to enjoy food at meals and not feel hungry! My stomach would actually growl, and I'd think - "oh, it must be hungry," but I was fine with that.

I had been a horrible 150 for three years no matter what I tried.

If I had hours a day to work out, I might lose the effects from carbs. But I'm not a professional athlete, and I don't have the luxury of time - I have children. That said, a few minutes of exercise a day is incredibly important, of course.

"It turns out that a long-used rule of weight loss — reduce 3,500 calories (or burn an extra 3,500) to lose one pound of body fat — is incorrect and can ultimately doom determined dieters."

That said, I am not in favor of the government prescribing any diet advice. That is a dreadful course that we've been on since George McGovern went on the Pritkin diet and decided it would be good for everyone to stuff themselves with bread and feel guilty about fats. He's a mass murderer.

[PA Engineer]

That said, I am not in favor of the government prescribing any diet advice. That is a dreadful course that we've been on since George McGovern went on the Pritkin diet and decided it would be good for everyone to stuff themselves with bread and feel guilty about fats. He's a mass murderer.

Agreed. There is incredible blood on their hands. The next shoe to drop will be the statin industry. The NIH conducted a seven year study. They did not like the results they had so they manipulated the statistics. Based on this another pseudo-government committee has decided without peer review to lower the threshold of "dangerous" LDL. Everything here is related and it all stinks.

The worst part of the dietary health epidemic is the cure is simple. Metabolic Syndrome and Type II Diabetes are easily cured with a VLC diet. Importantly, there is a cholesterol ratio that is actually predictive of health outcomes. LDL is predictive of nothing, but Triglyceride/HDL ratios are very predictive. This ratio can be easily improved overnight by the VLC diet to 2 or below. A TAG/HDL of less than two correlates with reduced endothelial inflammation.

Sorry. Rant off.