I just made a dumb mistake

I ate low carb pasta.

uuuugggggguuugggg

Dont believe the hype, CARBS RULE!

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Was it dolphin safe?

Carbohydrates are my favorite addiction. Dinner would not be nearly as sating if it weren't for the glory of pasta, or the joy of potatoes!

I'll be soooooo happy when the Atkins craze finally goes away. Companies are selling low carb versions of things that didn't have carbs to begin with, and charging more for them!

Hmmmmm... maybe I should start doing low carb versions of all my clothes.

A low-carb diet can make you thin, but it won't keep you healthy. Unfortunately, a lot of people would rather be thin than healthy and I pity them.

Pretty nasty stuff isn't it. It tasted just like eating rubber to me.

I love lemonade and I don't know why. What's really got to me with the low carb craze was that all the fast food resturaunts switched to a low-carb version of lemonade. I don't care about low carbs! GIVE ME MY CARBS!

reminds me of the fat free hard candy i used to see. it's just sugar and flavor! whyyyyyy?!

course now it's low carb hard candy.

No, it would kill them.

Also most killed me, an Italian from da Bronx, I should be too ashamed to admit to this in public.

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hahaha Gill net pasta should be illegal.

Nothing is better than the low carb hamburgers...they charge you an extra quarter and you get a soggy lettuce leaf instead of a day old chew microwaved bun.

Everyone I have met who uses any of these fad diets loses weight for a while and then gains it all back plus a bit extra. Not to mention Atkins makes most folks cranky and stinky.

Of course, if more than one person in a hundred actually did what the damn diet told them to do, instead of "Oh, I don't eat bread and eat a lot of meat"...

I'm on the Atkins diet. But by that I mean, I've actually read the book from cover to cover and understand what I'm supposed to be doing.

My cholesterol is better than it's ever been, because I've stopped eating a lot of shit I really shouldn't have ate. It's still getting better, as a matter of fact. I eat a bowl of oatmeal in the morning, which still is under the amount of carbs I'm allowed to have, which helps keep my cholesterol down. I don't eat a lot of meat, actually. No more than I ever did.

I'm loosing weight like a fiend. I've lost about 60 pounds since I started, and it's not slowing down yet.

I feel better. I wake up feeling more refreshed, I don't get tired as easily, my nerves are better.

It's also the easiest diet I've ever been on. I get plenty to eat, I don't have to count every single calorie, and I loose weight faster. I do miss being able to chow down on a huge plate of french fries at random, but I shouldn't have been doing that /anyway/, so it's just punishment.

Hey, if you don't like the diet, that's cool. I'm not saying its for everyone. But most of the bad reputation the Atkin's diet gets comes from people who aren't actually /on/ the Atkins diet, but rather a bastardized version of a generic low-carb diet.

As I've mentioned elsewhere, I've lost a lot of weight over the past year. I didn't do it by skimping on bread and other wonderfully carby-things. I can't respect a regimen that doesn't allow you to have a nice slice of sourdough with chili, or toast for chrissakes.

It isn't the magical combination of what you eat that counts, just making sure you burn more than what you're taking in. They even say that you don't have to absolutely make sure that everything you eat is non-fat, just moderate your fat intake as necessary.

I've used this trick for example, to fool my body into thinking that I'm not reducing cals much at all, by sticking to a regimen during most of the week, but eating a little more extravagantly on Friday, sorta kicks it back up there, keeps the metabolism running full-steam instead of shutting down into 'starvation' mode.

And working out three times a week is all I've needed to do to drop the pounds, and I still drink and go out on weekends. It rocks

Hey, don't get me wrong.

I'm not saying other diets don't work. Lord knows, I've had luck with them too in the past.

I'm just saying that, for me, the Atkins diet works better and is easier to stick to than any other I've tried, and I get sick of the constant bashing of the diet based on cases that aren't really applicable to the diet.

Anyhow, I can have bread if I want it. I just have to decide where I want to have it, and what I want to give up for it. Do I want to be able to have a scoop of ice cream? Or a slice of bread? Or my morning oatmeal? Etc. I'm not denied anything, there are just certain things I eat only in moderation now.

Reitsuki,

I completely understand and agree that some folks lose weight on the diet. But my mind harkens back to the baked potato diet of the Susan Powters era and then the grapefruit diets, vegetarian diets, combinations of the diets with cycling carbs and protiens (eat carbs for breakfast, protien for lunch, a carb snack and protiens for dinner). A great friend of mine was an Atkins advocate, on the diet for 2 years with much success but after he had lost the weight and started going back to a dietician recommended diet he gained most of the weight back. Life style changes are much more effective than any fad diet. But the recomended lifestyle for each person is different. Some of my friends can eat anything, never touch a treadmill and still look like Bo Derek. I, however, look at fried chicken and gain 20 lbs. I have to excersize to maintan a high metabolic rate.

To each their own. I do not think that Atkins is the end all be all weight maintanance program for the world. Everything in moderation and a healthy dose of sweat works for me so I'll have my chili in a sourdough bread bowl and a salad the size of a small garden.

Oh, hey, I'm not saying the Atkins diet is the best diet ever. I said for me it's the best diet I've found.




That's exactly the viewpoint the atkins diet promotes, actually! And you could have your chili in a breadbowl and a salad. Just not icecream afterwords

(Though, personaly, I'll take a good stew in a dark pumpernickle rye bowl, myself...)

The Atkins diet is not "eliminate all carbs". It's "Moderate your carb intake".

Ohh I do love dark pumpernickle!!! So few people eat tasty flavorful breads anymore. I suppose if we did then we would not have such a fat society. You can eat far more bunny bread than rye . I get ya though...and you are right the Atkins diet, when done correctly and not as a quick fix, does promote a healthy lifestyle.

I hear ya, Reitsuki. I read the Atkins book a while back, too. It's VERY VERY different from, "Bacon in the morning, Whopper in the afternoon, steak and cheese in the evening with another Whopper for dessert..." If you do it right, then it can do a lot of good things for ya. Unfortunately, doing it right is very very hard.

I love this cartoon though...

http://www.illwillpress.com/fatkins.html

lol that cartoon is funny. And its correct on many points, although I wouldnt use it as a teaching tool.

The Atkins Diet works. I dont eat meat so.. um, it doesnt work for me. My original post was about low carb foods - blech, they are no solution.

I studied as a nutritionist for a few years and to quote one of my professors, "Anything eaten in excess is stored as fat". Sometimes I think with our sedentary lifestyles these days, normal appetite is excess.

And all those damn sugar and fat coated carbs.... mmmmmm



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