No more pasta, ever. No more potatoes, ever. No more white bread, ever.
Not quite what I got out of the book, just can't go over your daily carb budget. Again, with starches and junk food, if you're gonna play, you gotta pay.
People just won't follow the rules - they say, "Just this once won't hurt", then it turns into twice, then ten times, then they are right back where they used to be.
I hear 'ya. Sweets and sugary yummies are meant to be occaisional treats, and that is possible if you are disciplined about the diet, and don;t mind inducting to keep the carb addiction from returning--The big problem is that people don't see their gut coming back right away, and by the time that they do, their carb addiction is back all the way...
You know, that right there is something that I've noticed...
When I was a little kid, about 30 or 35 years ago, there were only a few McDonalds in the Kansas City area. I would be suprised if there were more than 5 or 6. There were other national and local fast food chains as well, but the simple fact was that going to them was like going to any other restaurant: Something that was done on fairly rare occassions. I don't think that I went to a McDs more than once every few weeks (it was a pretty good drive), and to local fast food places, like "Smaks" no more than once a week. It was considered to be "junk food," something that was NOT on the regular diet. And soft drinks like coke or pepsi were not the beverage of choice, to be had with every meal and in between as well.
In a generation, we've changed out eating habits so completely that there are people who survive on fast food, who never have veggies, unless they're on a big mac or whopper, and only drink soda. One person I know from work admitted that he hadn't had a drink of water in nearly 2 weeks! Nothing but coffee or soda. It's shocking.
Mark
BTW, just to let you know, I started the Atkins diet about 2 weeks ago, but don't know how much I weigh or how much I've lost. I couldn't find a scale that would go past 275#. I will go to a hospital this weekend to see if I can get weighed. However, all my clothes are fitting looser, and I feel a lot better.