Posted on 10/12/2003 2:15:57 PM PDT by sixmil
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The food pyramid doesn't work as can be shown by the near epidemic obesity in Americans, particularly children. I lowered both weight and cholesteral by eliminating sugar, white flour and nearly all "processed" foods from my diet but I guess I ought to stop doing that according to the "experts". Pass the wonderbread and the twinkies...I've decided to die young. *sarcasm*
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.
All the naysayers who say the diet is too limited have no idea what they're talking about. I eat more vegetables than I ever did in my life. Instead of rice, pasta, and potatoes, I'm eating broccoli, asparagus, squash and carrots. Instead of pastries, donuts, breads and pies, I'm eating yogurt, eggs, nuts and berries. The diet is vast in choices - a sample meal would be cajun catfish, sauteed mushrooms, jalapenos, and onions, salad w/olive oil sprinkled with some cashews and bits of smoked gouda cheese. Usually skip the dessert because I'm always so full and satisfied, but when I'm inclined, I'll have some plain yogurt with blueberries swirled in - tastes just like ice cream and blueberry pie (without the crust) when that is the only sweet you have.
Whenever somebody tries to tell me that I'm endangering my health with this "restrictive" diet, I come right back with the foods I no longer eat like cookies, cakes, pies, chips, pastries, donuts and candy. I then ask them which of those foods, of which the lack of, is endangering my health. Is it the lack of Twinkies that is endangering my health or is it the lack of caramel creams (that I used to eat by the bag)? I want to know? I have yet to get a cogent response to that question. But they go on with their "you are endangering your health" crap.
Getting back to that "Jared" character from those Subway commercials...did he really lose all his weight on Subway subs or did he use some other method? What did he eat (or not eat) when he wasn't eating Subway subs. Anybody know?
Aside from the cajun catfish everything else sounds horrible to me; mushrooms, jalapenos, onions, olive oil, cashews, etc. which is why I could never go on a diet like yours. Instead I eat one chicken leg, chicken flavored rice, and canned green beans sauted with butter and salad with buttermilk ranch dressing. And I feel great too!
Hey, everybody's different. If you are feeling great, why would you change? I wasn't feeling great so I did change. Now I feel great too!
Soy milk, pasta was OK, feta cheese and greens. Not much help.
She started the South Beach diet and her fasting sugars are under a 100. She's doing great and feeling better all the time. She should probably should be posting this cause she knows a lot more about it but the SB diet seems to be doing well for her - measurably with actual blood tests.
I lowered both weight and cholesteral by eliminating sugar, white flour and nearly all "processed" foods from my dietThat'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.
Howdy, Sam, you're looking great! I only lost 25 lbs, but after putting on an avg. 3 lbs/year for 10 years, I was getting resigned to being overweight for life. So I couldn't be happier!
Me & hubby are coming up on our 4-year mark on low-carb. We'll be going out to a nice steakhouse to celebrate, natch.
High-carb? Stick a fork in it
City says goodbye starch, hello Atkins-style diets
New Yorkers have seen the enemy, and it is bread. Popular low-carbohydrate diets are changing the culinary landscape in a city used to noshing on starch-packed pretzels, pasta and the mighty bagel.
Queens street vendors have taken to hawking sausages instead of muffins. An Italian restaurant in Brooklyn has come up with a low-carb pasta.
Even venerable Junior's in downtown Brooklyn has invented a low-carb, sugar-free version of its world-famous cheesecake.
"It ain't a rice-and-beans world no more," said Washington Heights restaurant owner Jesus Ramirez, who serves more oxtail and chicken these days than the old starchy standby.
"People always got to eat. You just make sure you sell what they are eating, and right now, that's meat," he said.
Thanks to the Atkins diet, and spinoffs like the South Beach diet and Sugar Busters, many now believe that a meat- and fat-heavy menu leads to more weight loss than the traditional carb-friendly calorie counter.
The latest diet fad got a big boost in May when the New England Journal of Medicine said that Atkins' high-protein, low-carb, no-sugar program, invented in the 1970s, worked and didn't send patients' bad cholesterol through the roof, as critics had claimed.
"A quarter of the population is always on a diet, that hasn't changed in 20 years," said Harry Balzer, vice president of the NPD Group, a Long Island market-research firm that tracks people's eating habits.
"What does change is what diet they are on, and right now it's low-carb, high-protein," Balzer said.
As with most diets, people don't follow Atkins or the others strictly, but many - even those who say they aren't on it are riding the low-carb wagon.
At the 2nd Avenue Deli in the East Village, diners still go for the pastrami and mustard - but hold the rye, please.
"Who needs bread?" said Sophia Cohen, 57, ordering a heaping serving of corned beef without the bread.
At another table, owner Jack Lebewohl digs into a steaming plate of pastrami.
"What's not to love?" said Lebewohl, who has shed 45 pounds on Atkins while eating his fill, from the deli's silky chopped liver to its famous hot dogs. "To eat the food you love and lose weight? That's heaven."
Low-carb hits the streets
Street vendor Beatrice Williams, 42, of Glendale, Queens, said she lives on steak and eggs. Ironically, Williams makes her living selling doughnuts and rolls on the streets of Queens.
"I'm getting a new cart - one with a griddle - so I can serve sausage and peppers and eggs," said Williams, who has lost 16 pounds on Atkins since Sept. 10. "My customers are giving up doughnuts for ham."
The new low-carb pasta at Tutta Pasta in Park Slope, Brooklyn, outsells other specials on the weekend menu by 3 to 1. Their creation will hit supermarket shelves in the coming weeks.
"It's the hot thing," said Jerry DiNatale, CEO of Bianca Pasta, which owns Tutta Pasta. "We will expand to low-carb ravioli, rigatoni and then the sauces."
The new eating habits are likely to blame for declines in sales of carb-heavy products, while eggs, bacon and meat snacks are increasingly popular.
Bagels are turning up in only 10% of breakfasts eaten at home this year, down from a peak of13% in 1998, according to national stats from the NPD Group.
Muffin sales tumbled 2% and rice cakes dropped 7%, according to market research firm ACNielsen. And giant white- bread makers bemoan how Wonder Bread became the whipping boy of obesity and carbohydrate issues.
"People are buying less bread, and definitely asking about the ingredients. Is there sugar? How much?" said Michelle Pope, 28, who works at the Uprising Bread Bakery in Park Slope.
Sales of meat-based snacks, such as beef jerky, jumped 17% and bacon increased 5% over the last year, according to ACNielsen.
When people eat breakfast at home these days, eggs play a starring role 12% of the time, up from 10% in 1996, with women who are more likely to diet eating more than men.
Alan Rosen, the third-generation owner of Junior's, knows taste is everything.
His breakfasts and entrées heaping plates of bacon and eggs, jumbo steaks and fish are perfect for low-carb diets. Rosen himself dropped 14 pounds on Atkins.
"You see it more and more, customers who want bacon and eggs. No toast, extra bacon," he said.
But he couldn't live without the cheesecake. The restaurant just created a low-carb, sugar-free traditional cheesecake with less than 5 net carbs per slice. The treat hit the racks three weeks ago to rave reviews.
"You have to have some sweets," Rosen said.
It is great that you managed to get your diet balanced up, and are feeling the benefits. Congratulations.
As for Jared, I think that he was Subway's greatest ever customer, and ate there two or three times a day. He had their sandwiches, instead of all the junk food he used to binge on, and then he gave up drinking pop drinks as well. (If this is the same person I read an article about.) He just had simple meals at Subways.
Obviously, what eating at Subways did for him was to break his addictive relationships to many other foods, and offer him a "clean break" environment - more or less like rehab. Good on him.
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