Replies

Yeah, kev, I agree about the Atkins diet, when folks in my immediate family heard about it (the youngest of us is in the late 50s -- out of six people, ALL of us are pretty much the same good weight and shape as we were in high school), we realized that it's pretty much the way we've ALWAYS eaten -- that is --

-- usually ONE starchy carb in a meal -- rolls/bread, OR corn, OR rice, OR pasta, OR tortillas, OR potatoes, breakfast being an exception where two carbs was okay because BIG hearty breakfasts were encouraged (as a kid I was shocked early on when I went to the homes of friends and saw for dinner three and four starchy carbs served in one meal, but soon learned that that was the norm in MOST households, where folks were constantly going on diets and overweight)

-- cane sugar, honey, molasses, maybe corn syrup on occasion, and at that only in home-made desserts and on porridge

-- candy and soda was forbidden in my home and in my aunties' and gramma's homes except candy for special occasions, soda pop totally verboten

-- protein, protein, and more protein, fat fat fat, real butter, lard, bacon bacon bacon -- plus all the fruits and veggies (barring starchy carbs) you wanted or could eat -- LOTS and lots of fresh fruits and green vegetables. LOTS -- all you could eat, and always, all the whole milk you could drink.

I have one suggestion for you and the wonderful cook missus -- stop using fake sugar and use real cane sugar or molasses or honey or something like that. Use it sparingly, but STOP with the fake sugar. I used to drink a lot of fake sugar sodas and used fake sugar in some foods, and when I stopped, I felt so much better physically that it was amazing.

Fake sugar, like fake animal-based fat (hydrogenated vegetable "solids" like Crisco and margarine) is bad for your body and metabolism, flat out BAD, much worse than what they replace, regardless of what doctors and nurses tell you. Doctors and nurses very rarely "get" good nutrition. The best nutrition is simple, whole, pure foods, including wrongly demonized ones like eggs, lard, and whole dairy. See my post #10. You could have knocked me over with a feather when I so quickly LOST weight (four pounds is significant on my muscular 5-4 then 132-lb frame) by switching from non-fat to whole milk.

God bless you and yours!!!

I’ve eliminated the fake sugars, for the most part. (I still like an occasional sugar-free Jello, and not being a coffee drinker, my one self-allowed vice is diet soda.) Mrs. kevkrom eliminated them entirely.

When I need a sweetener, I use a natural sugar alcohol like xylitol or eryitherol. (Maltitol and sorbitol do bad things to me.) Or stevia extract. There’s also a zero-cal soluble fiber that’s naturally sweet that goes by the brand name FiberFit that I use.