Mon, Jan-27-03, 10:06
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New Member
Posts: 3
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Plan: low-carb diet
Stats: 164/132/125
BF:
Progress: 82%
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...Raised by a single working mother, way back when, we ate what was the quickest and easiest for her to prepare. It was almost exclusively, meat and salad. She would pop a piece of red meat, fish or poultry into bake or broil and chop up a salad, toss on the vinaigrette. For dessert she would open a can of unsweetened apple sauce and serve this with cinnamon sprinkled on top. She did not prepare rice or potatoes...too long to cook...and we didn't keep alot of breads in the home because she did not make a school lunch for us....we ate on the school lunch program. And even at school I would pick through the gravy and sauces to find the chunks of meat. Never ate the bread, there, because it came from the kitchen with butter spread on it.
...We were thin, but not skinny, and extremely energetic, healthy children. Somewhere along the way, I can remember my mother telling me that, 'This is the way our family needs to eat'. I didn't understand what she meant by those words until recently.
I married and started cooking and eating in a different manner to accomodate my husband's childhood eating patterns. We ate and gained weight and then we'd lose some only to gain again over the years.
I learned about Low-Carb eating plans and my husband and I are taking this approach to eating now (5 months)...and it's 'working' in every way.
We are both the same blood type...similar heighth and body frame size and activity level. If this: 'family needs to eat this way' keeps working to keep us fit, healthy and active...then this could take on all genetic and cultural determinates.....and be the winner, after-all.
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