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!
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.
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.
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.