Posted on 05/16/2004 5:50:18 AM PDT by Pharmboy
Edited on 05/26/2004 5:21:51 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
May 16, 2004 -- Dr. Atkins' disciples are eating major food companies alive. The low-carb diet trend is turning the stomachs of the makers of traditional staples like bread and pasta, who are blaming their shrinking profits on shrinking waistlines.
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Went out with some friends yesterday to TGI Fridays. We split a spinach artichoke dip with veggies instead of chips. It was yummy. It was also two dollars more then the one with the chips. Reason? The veggies have a short shelf life, take more preparation and cost more to buy in the first place.
Same with other low carb options, potatoes last forever, you can buy them in bulk and serve them over a month if you like. Fresh broccoli? Maybe a week. Lower volume, higher price, more waste equals higher menu prices.
Wonder what the next fad will be and what business will b.tch about it..
Nice straw man argument!
Who told you not to eat fruit on Atkins?
Eat all the carbs you want, except for one thing:
But when carbs start making you gain weight, you'll have to choose WHICH carbs to eat, unless you want to look like Michael Moore. If you want fruit, enjoy.
Your 'refusal to believe' is just a refusal to accept reality of your body chemistry.
increate = increase
Since starting on locarb, my food bills have increased but not incredibly so. However, there are many stages of marking-up in the restaurant business, and costs that register as nominal to the home cook will be exponential to those dining out.
My 50-25-25 ratio has kept me at the same weight for 27 years. BP 102 over 68, resting pulse rate, 58, weight 120, height 5'3", and I'm near 50 years old, and with a tendency to gain weight easily.
As I understand Atkins bananas, oranjes and any other fruit which place high on the glycemic index should be quite limited, and I don't believe that to be sound, unless of course, you're a diabetic.
So you stay with your system and I'll stay w/mine. A fit body processes carbs much differently than a non-fit body. Any diet worth it's salt would begin first with the concept of physical fitness, and I don't see Atkins doing that.
Hidden agenda? For dieting? Oh yeah, everybody else is as obsessed as you.
The solution is to switch to low carb solutions. Obesity is the number one killer of Americans and we've been told over and over and over by the media that we are a nation of fatties. Therefore, if these companies are having a problems IT'S THE MEDIA'S FAULT :o)
What I can't have is fruit juice, but I just discovered a lighter version of Ruby Red which is delicious. I can only have a small serving of that, however.
I go through at least two heads of broccoli, a head of cauli, a cabbage, large frozen package of peas, bunch of celery, a quart jar of home-canned half-run green beans, two heads of lettuce, large package of grape tomatoes a week. This for four people.
When I get the craving for a mealy potato, I make two into a soup with frozen asparagus.
This business about locarb being a bacon-and-eggs desert is a canard promulgated by overweight dieticians.
Well, not entirely. The Fanjul family (sugar), Archer Daniels Midland (grain), and J.R. Simplot (potatoes) are all major Republican contributors and they are all getting hurt by the low-carb trend.
It's a question of paying attention to how much activity you are going to participate in and planning accordingly.
On the whole, though, far too many people eat like cows. Fill the trough and they eat till it's gone.
The difference between the various low carb diets and other diets more apt to be described as "fads" is how universal the results are. People who could never lose weight in other ways lose weight rapidly on some low-carb variant. Kenechi Udeze, the USC DE now Viking, lost 80 lbs by switching to a low-carb diet.
It just seems to work as long as you do it. Whereas other diets didn't seem to work or you had to exercise your butt off, in which case it could have been the working out, rather than dieting.
Little over a year ago, I was eagerly awaiting the arrival of Krispy Kreme stores to my area. I was salivating over the prospect of picking up a half dozen on a lazy Sunday morning and eating them all in my car as I read the paper.
But last April 1, I went on a low-carb diet (no April foolin') and lost over 100 pounds. Krispy Kreme has been in the area for a year now and I haven't been inside of one yet. And I go to Dunkin' Donuts for their coffee only. No Twinkies in over a year. No Yodels. Not even a glass of orange juice. I thought it would be tough giving that stuff up but after about two months, it was no longer a problem. Now a cup of yogurt is my dessert (tastes like soft-serve ice cream to me) and a handful of nuts satisfies any cravings for snacks that I might have.
Me too. I go out an average of twice a month, brown bag it to work and cook from scratch. The amount of money I spend on food is a very small portion of my budget.
I have been lo-carbing for several years now and I found you can cut cost even further if you buy the veggies at a farmers market and they taste better too! Add in buying your meat in bulk and avoid processed foods, even the lo-carb ones and your food budget doesn't have to go up that much if any.
However, there are many stages of marking-up in the restaurant business, and costs that register as nominal to the home cook will be exponential to those dining out.
Preparation is the biggest part of your costs in restaurant food and lo-carb food often, requires more preparation and doesn't keep well.
But I am glad to see restaurants responding to the lo-carb demand. It makes dining out much less of a hassle for me.
Boycotts do work. However, it seems that food, copulating, drinking (drugs) and sleeping are the only factors sufficient to motivate Americans.
1. Eliminate carbs for a few weeks and watch the weight melt off your body.
2. Reintroduce carbs slowly, to determine how your body uniquely responds to them.
3. Adjust the level of carbs to achieve your desired RATE OF ON-GOING WEIGHT LOSS.
4. At your target weight, increate the level of carbs to maintain your desired body weight
I didn't buy the Atkins book, but did cut down on the carbs and lost 20 lbs in 2 months and maintained for another 2, eating moderate amounts of carbs(a baked potato once a week, an apple a day and such).
Recently went on what one could call a tortilla chip and salsa binge and gained 5 lbs.
It wasn't the salsa that caused the gain, but damn it was good. Happens about once a year.
You nailed it! It has worked really well for me and my wife. I actually put the brakes on the elimination of carbs as I just wanted to fit nicely in my clothes and not change waist size. LOL! Noe I can tuck that shirt in and everything looks nice and neat! I lost easily 20 pounds over a few months. I love this way of eating. I take it easy on the carbs during the week but then 'pig out' on the week ends with no problem. And FAT is good, especially in the good cuts of meat.
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