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I think everyone's body is different this way. I couldn't do Atkins. I applaud those who have lost weight on it, but it messed up my digestion something awful.

I lost 35 lbs. on Weight Watchers (lots 'o carbs) very easily, and have kept it off successfully. Went from size 14 to size 2! Yeah! :o)

Everyone is different—which is why there are many, many successful diet plans.

[Trust but Verify]

Congratulations on your success using WW. I do think they should tighten their guidelines on carbs, though. You really have to be very disciplined, though. I know a woman who faithfully counts her points all day, but ends up going over them anyway, sometimes by lunch! She does all kinds of crazy things, though. She will eat carrot sticks, but then dip them in ranch dressing. Or slather celery with peanut butter. She hasn't lost any weight in more than a year and is still 70-80 lbs from her goal.

[dansangel]

See my post 177 - I absolutely agree. Congratulations!

[XBob]

88 - "I think everyone's body is different this way."

I am pretty certain that you are mostly correct. Unfortunately, the dieticians and doctors do not think this, and are bound up it the concept of eating carbohydrates, and feeding carbs to those whose bodies work better on protein.

One of the things I have noted in my many travels, is the frequency of diabetes or lack of it, in indigenous populations.

I have noticed that frequency of diabetes (now this is a generalization, but none the less, I think a fair generalization), diabetes occurs more often in populations which have survived starvation frequently in their developments over thousands of years, and who have survived on meat.

I have noticed that diabetes is more common among northern europeans (those who had to survive the cold winters with no crops and survived by hunting, and survived with lower metabolic rates, and lack of 'grown' foods - (carbohydrates). They could store fat better and live on their fat and endure starvation better with low metabolic rates when few carbohydrates (grains, fruits and vegetables) were available. This is also true of arabs (lack of water and droughts, and desert living. And even along the nile river, the Egyptians had to wait for the yearly floods to grow the grain. The Egyptians have a very high rate of diabetes. The American Indians, who frequently had very adverse conditions, and starved in the winters, and lived on hunting). They have the highest rates of diabetes of any ethnic group in the US.

While those who grew up in prehistory in lands of plenty of growing food (carbohydrates), fruits and vegetables, etc, have very low rates of diabetes, relatively. South Asians, South East Asians, particularly, where you can go out nearly the whole year round and 'pick a banana' off the tree.

My own ancestors came from Germany, and immegrated to Germany from Northern Russia near the Bering about 1500 years ago.

[XBob]

88 "I lost 35 lbs. on Weight Watchers (lots 'o carbs) very easily, and have kept it off successfully. Went from size 14 to size 2! Yeah! :o)

Everyone is different—which is why there are many, many successful diet plans. "

Wow, are you right. Based on your recommendation, I got one of the weight watchers frozen meals - 270 calories. I literally knocked me out, my sugar went through the roof, and I fell into an uncontrolled doze for about 4 hours.

Never again - weight watchers. It did taste allright though, but relatively high in salt too. Basil chicken and some sort of noodles that must have a glycemic index of about 12 million.

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Actually there are people who really don't lose on controlled carb plans. There are also some people who don't really get lower colesterol numbers either. It's like everything else, it may be for you or not, you just don't know til you give it a try. There are always exceptions to the rule.