Posted on 08/23/2002 5:07:58 PM PDT by Pokey78
After years of diets (including Atkin's) and yo-yo weight gain and loss, I finally lost the weight and have kept it off by, one, giving up diets of any kind for good; and, two, recognizing when I was hungry and when I wasn't and adjusting my eating accordingly. I no longer count carb grams, fat grams, calories, or use any willpower. By experience, I've found that becoming a normal eater is what works in the long run. Diets, on the other hand, cause food obsession and a slowed metabolism.
How does the Beer fit into low carb diet?I dunno really.
But there's no refined sugar, there are not alot of carbs (to my knowledge), it's cold, and it sure tastes good with a steak!
And, I'm still losing weight.
It works, that's all I know.
Slowed metabolism?
You never really were on Atkins, were you?
That's the beauty of Atkins.
You don't starve.
In fact, you're never hungry because you eat darn good - and healthy.
You feel great (and believe me, when you look in the mirror and actually see that you're losing weight and keeping it off - you feel even better!).
Go out and buy the book, Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution.
Only $7.95 at B. Dalton.
You'll be a believer.
It's the best seven bucks I spent this year.
Jesus ate bread. There weren't enlightened Atkin's dieters back then to tell him how fattening bread was.
Did you ever see the NOVA special on dieting a few years back? It was very good in showing proof of how dieting slows the metabolism. When you go off the Atkins diet and start eating carbs again, you gain the weight back very fast. Your body is starving for carbs. The calories and water is retained again fast. I gained back the weight in a couple days after going off Atkins. Then I tried the Scarsdale diet (for the second time) to lose the regained weight. Then the carboydrate addicts diet, and so on and so on. A never-ending cycle.
Dieting of any kind, except for a specific medical condition, is nonsense. As the Bible says, "ALL food is permitted." What God did not intend for us to do was commit gluttony. That's the biggest problem today in America that people just don't want to face. And the deprivation feelings caused by dieting also inspires gluttony.
Besides, what else are you going to do with it? =;^)
Why no aspartame? Is it a carb?
Why not do the Weight Watchers diet and give up none of the above? The diet works and is something you can live with for a lifetime.
I've heard that. But I've never had a problem with it and I've been using it daily for years. Must be my 'iron' constitution.
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