Businesses hungry for slice of the low-carb pie (Atkins)

St. Petersburg Times ^ | October 24, 2003 | BENITA D. NEWTON

[tiamat]

Thanks for the testimonial!

I've been drinking Miller Lite mostly these days.. It's the most palatable of the "lite" beers I have found.

I used to be on my feet for hours a day ( years doing Nursing Assistant stuff) and then worked for a time at my daughter's school as a lunch-room/playground monitor. Lots of running around! Ate like a horse and weighed 110.

And then I lost that job.... and well, I am 40-something and only 4'11 ".
The weight began creeping on, and on ME, an extra 10 pounds looks like 30 on a "normal" person! LOL!

I am a carnivore and like my meat , so maybe this will be good for me.

Tia

( Proud member of PETA ~ "People Eating Tasty Animals"! )

[GrandMoM]

GREAT!....there are all kinds of helpful websites, this one is nice!

We also have our famous Chef poster Carbo, I will look for his threads for you! Gotta Gq!

[riri]

Someone explain the biology behind Atkins to me, if they could. Doesn't all food energy basically get broken down into saccharides anyway during digestion/metabolism? (cellular respiration)

Why would eating mostly protein cause one to lose weight which it apparently does ecause I have seen many people with fabulous results.

It just doesn't make sense to me, I tend to think it is because you are so limited in what you can eat that you are inclined to lose weight.

[Aeronaut]

Today is day three of South Beach for me. This A.M. I was down 3.5 pounds. I have felt very little hunger - usually due to skipping the "mandatory" snacks. I am praying for this to work, because somehow I 'let' myself get 50 pounds too heavy.

[Nov3]

Basically your liver is either storing food away (making you fat) or mobilizing fat to use (liposis). The most important factor in what your liver is doing is your insulin level. If your insulin level is high your liver will take the excess sugars and fats in you bloodstream and convert them to body fat. If it is low the opposite happens.

The amount of carbs you eat determines your insulin level. If you eat few carbs your body stays in a fat burning mode all the time instead of only when your body has exhausted its carbs (when you are binging over 75-100 grams a day).

Read Atkins or Protien Power for a complete discussion or read the web.

[Nov3]

I haven't read the South Beach book but I understand it is very similar. Stick with it. It works and becomes painless after a while. You will get to where you detest sugary food!

[jellybean]

Ping

[tiamat]

Why Thank You!
That's very nice of you! :-)

Carlo ( and others ) were very sweet about giving recipes for my daughter's 4-H competitions this summer. She won Blue Ribbons and Honers on them all!

Tia

[ccmay]

I saw a nutritionist a few weeks ago, a woman with whom I had gone to school years ago. She admitted that the entire field of professional nutrition had been made to look like monkeys, and that some of their recommendations (hi-carb diets) did more harm than good.

She supports limiting high-glycemic index foods such as bread and potatoes, and now realizes that meat and fat are not the bugaboos she had been taught to avoid, but still thinks there is a place for slowly digestible complex carbohydrates. And she still favors a high intake of vegetables and fruit, which I cannot dispute.

-ccm

[aruanan]

You are plain wrong. You can't see the forest because of the trees. I don't have the time to argue this much further but in the next few years you will see a great deal of retreat on the "fatten up the cow style of dieting" (high carb).

Here, argue with this Harvard guy about whether or not excess carbohydrates are making us fat

You're still misinformed. You can add mass, whether in muscle or fat, only if you're taking in more than you're burning. Businesses will promote anything that they believe will bring them added customers whether it be appealing to the scientifically-baseless Adkins wackiness or to "environmentally-friendly," "green," "safe for the ozone layer," crap. And I'll still put my University of Chicago Ph.D. against a grade-inflated Harvard guy. As far as Harvard goes, remember Al Gore.

[radiohead]

Yes, I do know about those kind of jeans!

I have a pair of pants like that. I wore them the other weekend while galavanting around town. Thank you, SouthBeach!

[Nov3]

As far as Harvard goes, remember Al Gore.

Pretty much indisputable.

You can add mass, whether in muscle or fat, only if you're taking in more than you're burning.

That is very true. However if you take in more calories than you burn you will not necessarily gain weight. The calorie is a calorie theory is PURE BS. I have eaten 3000+ calories a day early into low carbing and lost weight incredibly fast and I assure you I was not using three thousand calories!

I know you guys can't admit you are wrong so you will have to admit pieces of the low carb truth until you can act like it is what you have been saying all along. It will be hard to explain the pasta is a diet food premise however!

Oh you show how much research you have done when you call it ADkins

[jellybean]

I tend to think it is because you are so limited in what you can eat that you are inclined to lose weight.

Have a look at some of Carlo's recipes and you'll see that you're not limited by what you can eat...

All aboard.. We're getting on track toa healthier LIFE!

Get series about HEALTHY, and LOW CARB FOOD

Lets get the SKINNY on the Atkins Diet

Hurry, GET ON BOARD the LOWCARB, and OTHER HEALTH LIVING TRAIN, is leaving the station..

THE DIET WARS, a Battle of the SEXES.. How LowCarb can this go?

[ETERNAL WARMING]

What am I doing wrong? I've been on it for 2 1/2 weeks and I've maybe lost 5 pounds. I eat meat, a couple of veggies...not huge amounts..mostly meat. I don't get it. Will someone please give me the first two weeks eating plan and then what to add after that?

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Hi Gatún,

I haven't been to St. Pete for about 7 years. I went to jr. high and high school there. Wolfies had it right with those huge piles of meat!

[Cincinatus' Wife]

I think the problem is, there is no "one size fits all" and that doesn't fit nicely into a plan. We all burn food differently. As Atkins teaches, after you begin losing weight, add foods back slowly so you can see which ones are more likely to pack on the pounds. Then you can modify your diet accordingly.

It was interesting to hear what your nutritionist friend said.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Atkins

It is anything but limited.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Go to the Atkins LINK in the post above. Don't be discouraged, I didn't lose as fast as many others, and 5 pounds is nothing to sneeze at! There is a lot of information at the site that will help. Also read some of the old LINKS here on FR (Here's one). And remember to DRINK a lot of water when you're on Atkins.

[Hank Rearden]

If you haven't read Atkins' "New Diet Revolution", you should. I bet you're eating carbs you're not aware of, especially from certain fruits and vegetables. Make sure you take appropriate vitamin supplements, too. I just use plain multivitamins; Centrum clone from Costco.

And be patient; some people start off with rapid loss, others take a little while to get rolling. For most people, it does seem to work. I'm down 47 lbs in 6 months; now losing about 7 lbs/month. But sometimes nothing happens for a week or two, than wham - 3 lbs. gone in a couple of days.

[tiamat]

Hi Jellybean!

Thanks for the links!

Tia