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]
No, a person could eat moderate amounts of any food and balance it with protein. If you made your own, it would not have all the bad junk in commercial varieties (and you could add fiber). If I really craved this stuff, I would ask you for a recipe!
Blueberries are rich in essential antioxidants and many other vitamins and minerals that help slow down aging and prevent disease. They are close to being a perfect food. For the low-carbers, what carbs they contain are "low-glycemic", so people on both sides of the low-carb fence can and should eat plenty of them.
Berries in general are very good for you and play a very important role in my diet. Other berries I eat are strawberries, blackberries, and raspberries. They can be expensive but well worth it for the health benefits they provide.
I like swirling fresh berries into plain yogurt. Much better than the "fruit on bottom" type yogurts where the fruit is usually swimming in sugar (necessary to preserve it).
I can't even walk anymore and I have a dog that is getting fatter but your regieme is not for me I only have one tool left and that is diet. >>>>>>>
Just curious, have you tried water aroebics? I don't do this but have a reletive who does, the problem in that case is low bp tho, not knees, so there are actually rescrictions that prohibit walking and such (no sweating).
You would think so, but I am constantly amazed by the sheer number of people who have been fat their entire lives that go on Atkins for a year, and lose upward of a hundred pounds! Many of them are forty and fifty year olds right here on freerepublic. These same people claim to be consuming five to seven THOUSAND calories a day!
I've got to believe weight is like cholesterol, very dependent on your particular physiology. I've known couples who eat the same food, weigh within ten pounds of each other, and have more than a hundred point spread between their cholesterol numbers.
LOL!!!
I have always admitted that I am one of those people that doesn't worry about her weight........but never the type you describe in reference to their treatment of your late SIL. I deplore people like that.
We love pasta in this house and do eat a great deal of it.......but a good majority of the pasta we eat, we make ourselves..............another reason why even though I'm not on a low-carb dieting we are contributing to the whining about the bottom line this article is about!!!
The way I look at it, by making much of my own stuff - I'm avoiding much of the additives that are added. Definitely has to be better for us.
I have some old clothes that say "L" on the size. They are too small on me now and I actually wear meduim in today's shirt size.
I have some old clothes that say "L" on the size. They are too small on me now and I actually wear meduim in today's shirt size.
It's small things like that that really make what I did worth it. For years and years, I never could keep my shirt tucked in. Either my shirt was coming untucked or my pants were sliding down (or rather my gut was pushing over the pants). Always made me look like a slob. I was constantly re-tucking my shirt and pulling up my pants. It is still a novelty to put on my clothes in the morning and not once have to fuss with them the entire day.
Hope I don't sound like I'm tooting my own horn too much. I just feel so good after losing this weight that I want to help others (who are overweight) feel the same way that I do today. Had I known I could be this healthy and energetic again, I'd have lost this weight 20 years ago.
Low-carb diets are the latest fad. Before, it used to be the low-fat diets and the "meat and eggs are bad for you" diets.
In five years, another fad diet will take over.
The key to losing weight and keeping it off is a balanced diet in healthy quantities.
The best piece on dieting I've been able to find so far dates from yr 1510 (quoted from Monstrelet chronicle, book 3, ch. 229):
"About this time there lived in the town of Augsburg a virgin, named Anne, who had arrived at the age of forty years without eating, drinking, sleeping, or having any natural evacuations. By which it may be known that she was under especial grace of our Lord Jesus Christ - and she had given herself up to devout contemplation".
This fate, I beleve, is in store for all the dieters, unless they mend their ways. Cheers. GS
check out post 44 on this thread
Tell that to the Eskimos...
I used to play basketball 3 times a week until I needed a knee operation at age 44. Now I swim. It works for me.
What is it about the tortilla chips that make them so high carb? Is it the processing, the additives, the corn itself?
Not a dumb question.
Like nyconse stated in his reply #114. It's the processing.
Now this is just my experience and opinion but having corn on the cob or a baked potato once a week doesn't put on the pounds.
It's eating the processed pototo and tortilla chips that does.
You raise an interesting point. My exercise program revolves around "fitness walking." I walk at a brisk 4mph pace and try to get at least an hour (if not two) in each day. I'm a busy guy so I get up at 5AM (7 days a week) so that I can guarantee myself an hour a day. If I have time to walk an hour at lunch or after work, it's a bonus. On weekends, I try to do at least one long hike (10+ miles or more). I've grown to really like my walks and I look forward to them to the point that I feel like an animal trapped in a cage on rainy days.
During my walks, I often encounter joggers and runners and they never seem like they are having a good time. Some of the serious runners in my neighborhood look emaciated and they usually are clearly grimacing in pain. No wonder so many people are turned off to exercise if they think it involves jogging or running!
Since my walking program began (and I've walked over 3,000 miles in the past 13 months), I have yet to get an injury. Walking is probably the safest, most injury free exercise one can do. And as one who jogged before (many years ago), you can still get that "runner's high" by just doing some brisk walking - without all the injuries and pain that go with running.
I am very fortunate that I made it to age 40 in relative good health despite being 100+ pounds overweight. I was a borderline diabetic and had near constant backpain. Just climbing stairs would make my heart pound through my chest and if I sat down in a soft couch, it would be difficult for me to get out of it.
Had I not done anything, I'm certain that I would eventually have been put on medications and/or hospitalized at some point.
When I lost the weight, my back pain disappeared, my blood sugars went to normal and my hypertension is no longer an issue. The only challenge now is to maintain my current state and never get in that situation (of obesity) again.
Chapter 26 of "Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution"
"My stand on exercise (I applaud it and encourage it) is the least controversial part of the book. Which doesn't mean exercise isn't important for you. Not only is it an essential part of the program, but in cases of severe metabolic resistance, it's likely to be the difference between success and spinning your wheels."
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I appreciate the responses from both of you.
I have always been of the idea there are no dumb questions, but considering I was posting on a thread about carbs, I had no qualms abut making my ignorance of the facts known.
I grew up in the city, but my parents were always big on fresh fruits and vegatables. I've been big on them for years more because I'm cheap than any other reason. I've always loved having a garden, the bigger the better and I either freeze, can or dry the excess.
We eat a pretty balanced diet of (for lack of a better phrase) a bit of just about everything, including a certain amount of processed foods. We don't eat out a lot, and I enjoy cooking from scratch. I will admit I will admit, though store bought stuff, like pasta, chips, and cookies, is mandatory in the summer - I heat up the kitchen enough without adding baking and such to it!!!!
Since April 1 2003, I have diligently avoided anything with HFCS or hydrogenated vegetable oils. This is very hard to do! For example, have you ever tried to find a barbeque sauce that didn't have HFCS? It's not easy. I finally found some at Trader Joes and at a local natural food store.
If one truly wants to eliminate HFCS and trans-fats from one's diet, it pretty much means avoiding processed foods altogether.
But the effort is well worth it.
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