atkins diet

[Guest guest]

Vegetarians may not have some of the health risks associated with

this diet, but by far and large this diet is marketed toward meat

eaters. It plays on the whole notion that you can still eat all those

fat ladden meats, it can be healthy and ya never liked those veggies

anyways, you'll lose weight, it works...blahhh. The main problem with

it is that the meat eaters are still accumulating the high amounts of

saturated fat from the meat and even more so when on the atkins diet.

Didn't Dr. Atkins himself have more than 1 heart surgery due to

following his own diet and his arteries filling up with plaque? I try

not to think everything is a conspiracy, but I think him falling down

on the sidewalk and dying seems kind of odd...especially considering

how much money his diet propoganda made for him and now his widowed

wife.

Like another member mentioned, warning sirens should go off when a

diet promotes diminishing one's vegetable and fruit intake.

With all the above said, I think alot of the anti-carbness has to do

with the hidden and not-so hidden sugar in some carbs. People may not

be looking for the sugar in their cereal, canned veggies, etc. I know

I can notice a difference when I greatly reduce my sugar intake.

Other than chocolate which I swear is a form of heroin, my main sugar

creepers are sweet tea and homemade lemonade. I'm in Alabama..try

going to anyone's house and NOT being offered a glass of sweet tea.

Really, I think most people's problem is lack of exercise. Ehh, back

to a few more hours of sitting in front of my puter.

karen

[Guest guest]

--- bluetulipz <bluetulipz wrote:

> I try

> not to think everything is a conspiracy, but I think

> him falling down

> on the sidewalk and dying seems kind of

> odd...especially considering

> how much money his diet propoganda made for him and

> now his widowed wife.

 

I'm not surprised that Dr. Atkins died from a fall to

the sidewalk (fractured skull). I'm sure his bones

must have been very, very brittle from all that

protein leaching the calcium out of his body.

 

I was on Atkins about a year and a half ago. I felt

great for about a week. Then the ketosis (when your

body supposedly becomes a fat burning machine) set in,

and I became very ill. I stuck with it for two more

weeks, never felt better, even when I increased my

carb intake slightly, and I don't think I was able to

go to the bathroom for the majority of the three week

ordeal. End result, I lost six pounds, mostly from

water weight and from being too ill to eat much. And

I promptly gained 12 after going off the diet.

 

I'm 5'10 and currently weigh 180 even. I have a

pretty big bone structure, so my ideal weight is

probably in the 145-150 range. The thinnest I have

been since high school is when I lived in Culebra,

Puerto Rico for a year in 1998. The day I got there,

I weighed 185. I went to the beach or went out scuba

diving almost every day, and 90% of my diet consisted

of fresh fruit, salad, and (usually vegetarian) beans

and rice (white rice at that). The day I got on the

plane to return home, I wore a size seven dress, and I

weighed 135 lbs.

 

 

 

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[Guest guest]

I'm in Alabama..try

> going to anyone's house and NOT being offered a glass of sweet

tea.

 

 

That's funny you say that! I like to drink my tea unsweetened and

it's so funny when you're down south and ask for tea, you have to

make sure to specify! Even when you order in the restaurants:

sweet or unsweet!! Kind of like being in New Mexico and being asked

if you want red or green!! Like you don't even have a choice

whether you want chiles on your food or not, they just assume!! I

have to warn visitors before I take them to the restaurants: " they

will ask you 'red or green' and it refers to the type of chile you

want " . LOL (I just love local variations like this!!)

[Guest guest]

Kind of like being in New Mexico and being asked

> if you want red or green!! Like you don't even have a choice

> whether you want chiles on your food or not, they just assume!! I

> have to warn visitors before I take them to the

restaurants: " they

> will ask you 'red or green' and it refers to the type of chile you

> want " . LOL (I just love local variations like this!!)

 

 

BTW, I have learned the hard way that you must ask whether the green

and red chiles are vegetarian. Usually I have found that the red is

NOT, but the green is just as often not, but they usually have a a

vegetarian green version (or just plain chiles). Sometimes I have

even found a vegetarian red version. Definitely ask.

[Guest guest]

>That's funny you say that! I like to drink my tea unsweetened and it's so

>funny when you're down >south and ask for tea, you have to make sure to

>specify! Even when you order in the restaurants: >sweet or unsweet!!

>

Don't you hate it when you get an iced tea, put your sweetener in, take a

sip and BLECH!! It was sweet tea.

 

Laurie

 

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