Carb Intercept??

[CarbStarve]

by Natrol. Does anyone use this or can anyone offer any info about it? I bought some "just in case". Pretty lame I know, but have any of you tried it?

[potatofree]

I've used it and unfortunately, all I got for my money was gas, coupled with the feeling that a little "taste" of carbs was just fine with my magic pill to cover my butt. :D That led to two tastes.... Your mileage may vary, but the majority of people I know who've tried it haven't been impressed.

[CarbStarve]

Thanks Potato!

[tomsej]

CarbStarve.

And they talk about snake oil ... well I think we are going to see a lot of low carb snake oil out there. Potato here was just being her normal politically correct self.

I have been afraid to buy it - I've had enough surprises with sugar alcohols that were supposed to be okay by Dr. Atkins.

A crutch by any other name - or excuse to carb-out.

Tom.

[Cindi3]

CarbStarve.

And they talk about snake oil ... well I think we are going to see a lot of low carb snake oil out there. Potato here was just being her normal politically correct self.

I have been afraid to buy it - I've had enough surprises with sugar alcohols that were supposed to be okay by Dr. Atkins.

A crutch by any other name - or excuse to carb-out.

Tom.

Ain't THAT the truth..........I was suckered into a few "snake oils" and I am still kicking myself for wasting all that time, when I could have been loosing some serious weight. ""If ya wanna play the game and win.......ya gotta follow the correct rules. ""

[bfdzio]

From what I have picked up, it only blocks a certain types of carbs, such as the starch ones I believe...and only a small amount. So if you're following an atkins WOE, you shouldn't have any starchy foods?

So..that would leave the only other benefit of taking it having bad gas.

[blueflyer]

Have you read the label on this stuff? The ones that I've read are made from white kidney beans. And guess what, beans are high carb.

[whyspers]

I don't know about this one in particular, but I did read an article a while back talking about various carb blockers. The consensus was that on their own, they won't do much for a person, but in connection with a low carb diet and used only for occassions when a person thinks they may go too high on their carbs, they could really supplement the low carb lifestyle. I posted a link to it a long time ago, but don't feel like searching through all my old posts to find it...lol.


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[CarbStarve]

Wyspers- This is what I was hoping for. I don't take them everyday... just when I go over my 20g/carbs- and when I go over, it's like by 5 at the most and has been once since on induction. I had a couple bites of pound cake and started stressing!

Today is my 11th day in induction and I have been CRAVING Dairy Queen Peanut Buster Parfait!! My friend Korina and I had a "virtual DQ session" last night and we imagined ourselves eating whatever we wanted from DQ and then we hurried to go down 2 glasses of water! It actually worked! LOL!