Low-Carb Could Spell Next Fast-Food Fight

That's exactly what I did and I've lost 92 pounds as of this morning, giving that Jared at Subway a run for his money. Call it Atkins, call it South Beach, call it SugarBusters, it doesn't matter. Cutting out sugar, white flour and nearly all processed foods was the best thing I ever did healthwise in my 41-year-old life. Check out a recent picture of me on my profile page. I'm now six pounds lighter than even that and still going. Did a 12-mile walk this morning in the woods, walking up and down hills, and feel like doing somersaults in my living room - I have so much energy. This on top of walking 17 miles yesterday and spending the entire afternoon doing yard work. I sleep like a baby and get up at 5AM every morning without an alarm clock.

That's fantastic! I've lost 30lbs since the beginning of August putting me right at my target weight...which I haven't seen in 5 years. I turned 40 this summer and decided that I needed a permanent change. No longer could I eat whatever I wanted and still be able to drop the weight fast. I'm tall so I could always pack on 10 extra pounds and lose it without it being a big issue but that changed in the last few years. I did NOT want a diet, I wanted a change. I have more energy than I've had in the last 15 years. I no longer crave junk food. I don't care if I never eat another potato in my life...and I was a potato fanatic. I'll never go back to the way I used to eat.

Oh, looky here...we have yet another study, this one from Harvard.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=541&ncid=751&e=6&u=/ap/20031013/ap_on_he_me/low_carb_mystery

Over the past year, several small studies have shown, to many experts' surprise, that the Atkins approach actually does work better, at least in the short run. Dieters lose more than those on a standard American Heart Association plan without driving up their cholesterol levels, as many feared would happen.

Skeptics contend, however, that these dieters simply must be eating less. Maybe the low-carb diets are more satisfying, so they do not get so hungry. Or perhaps the food choices are just so limited that low-carb dieters are too bored to eat a lot.

Now, a small but carefully controlled study offers a strong hint that maybe Atkins was right: People on low-carb, high-fat diets actually can eat more.

The study, directed by Penelope Greene of the Harvard School of Public Health and presented at a meeting here this week of the American Association for the Study of Obesity, found that people eating an extra 300 calories a day on a very low-carb regimen lost just as much during a 12-week study as those on a standard lowfat diet.

Over the course of the study, they consumed an extra 25,000 calories. That should have added up to about seven pounds. But for some reason, it did not.

"There does indeed seem to be something about a low-carb diet that says you can eat more calories and lose a similar amount of weight," Greene said.

Even with the data in front of them, they still can't believe what thousands of us have experienced first hand.

As I understand he also was going to a Subway that was a couple miles from his house and walking there for his meals. So the over all Jared diet is:
Cut out one meal a day completely (Subway doesn't do breakfast)
Cut out processed food and relly on fresher food
End the soda intake
Walk 6 to 8 miles a day

When you think about it it's kind of a no brainer. Then he sold his story to Subway and got paid for all the weight he lost, pretty smart guy when you think about it.

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