nobimbo
Sun, Jun-13-04, 14:28
Posted on Sun, Jun. 13, 2004
Use hunger to gauge consumption
LOW-CARB FOR LIFE
In April, a couple on the Atkins diet eating at a buffet restaurant reportedly requested a 12th serving of roast beef and were told that, in consideration of other patrons, they couldn’t have it. The Atkins dieters demanded their money back. How they could claim to have been cheated, after consuming 11 servings of roast beef each, escapes me. In the end, the couple were asked to leave.
I tell you this story to illustrate a point: Nowhere in “Dr. Atkins’ New Diet Revolution” does it claim that you can eat unlimited quantities of food – of calories – and still expect to lose weight. Yet the myth has gotten around that as long as one eats low-carb, he or she can eat and eat and eat and still lose weight. Americans, used to eating for entertainment more than to satisfy hunger, have embraced the myth. The notion is simply not true.
What is true is that clinical studies show that you can eat more calories on a low-carbohydrate diet than you can on a low-fat/high-carb diet and still lose weight. A study done in 2000 at Schneider’s Children’s Hospital in New Hyde Park, N.Y., compared a low-fat, high-carb diet with a low-carb, high-fat diet for weight loss in obese adolescents.
The low-carb group ended up losing twice as much weight as the low-fat group, despite eating an average of 66 percent more calories each day.
That’s exciting, but just how many calories were they eating? The low-carb kids ate an average of 1,860 calories per day.
For those of you who have struggled to lose weight on 1,200 calories per day, that will sound generous – but it is not an unlimited quantity.
By contrast, if the restaurant those Atkins dieters visited was carving 6-ounce portions of roast beef, then 11 servings each would have come to 6,600 calories at one meal – and that’s assuming they ate nothing else.
Nobody eats that much food at one meal out of genuine hunger.
This should go without saying, but here it is: Eat when you are hungry. Eat enough to feel satisfied, but not stuffed, then stop eating until you are hungry again. Between the appetite-reducing effect of a low-carb diet, and the apparently increased caloric expenditure, most of you should be able to trust your hunger to tell you how much food you need.
http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/journa...ing/8914529.htm
Use hunger to gauge consumption
LOW-CARB FOR LIFE
In April, a couple on the Atkins diet eating at a buffet restaurant reportedly requested a 12th serving of roast beef and were told that, in consideration of other patrons, they couldn’t have it. The Atkins dieters demanded their money back. How they could claim to have been cheated, after consuming 11 servings of roast beef each, escapes me. In the end, the couple were asked to leave.
I tell you this story to illustrate a point: Nowhere in “Dr. Atkins’ New Diet Revolution” does it claim that you can eat unlimited quantities of food – of calories – and still expect to lose weight. Yet the myth has gotten around that as long as one eats low-carb, he or she can eat and eat and eat and still lose weight. Americans, used to eating for entertainment more than to satisfy hunger, have embraced the myth. The notion is simply not true.
What is true is that clinical studies show that you can eat more calories on a low-carbohydrate diet than you can on a low-fat/high-carb diet and still lose weight. A study done in 2000 at Schneider’s Children’s Hospital in New Hyde Park, N.Y., compared a low-fat, high-carb diet with a low-carb, high-fat diet for weight loss in obese adolescents.
The low-carb group ended up losing twice as much weight as the low-fat group, despite eating an average of 66 percent more calories each day.
That’s exciting, but just how many calories were they eating? The low-carb kids ate an average of 1,860 calories per day.
For those of you who have struggled to lose weight on 1,200 calories per day, that will sound generous – but it is not an unlimited quantity.
By contrast, if the restaurant those Atkins dieters visited was carving 6-ounce portions of roast beef, then 11 servings each would have come to 6,600 calories at one meal – and that’s assuming they ate nothing else.
Nobody eats that much food at one meal out of genuine hunger.
This should go without saying, but here it is: Eat when you are hungry. Eat enough to feel satisfied, but not stuffed, then stop eating until you are hungry again. Between the appetite-reducing effect of a low-carb diet, and the apparently increased caloric expenditure, most of you should be able to trust your hunger to tell you how much food you need.
http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/journa...ing/8914529.htm