I am generally on the Atkins site and I neglect the other boards. That is bad
. I want to know about all of the low carb plans but, I have made Atkins a habit. I began this diet at 162 lbs ( not 161, I will change that one day ). While on Induction I lost 1/2 lb. per day. I had to deal with a lengthy stall, however, I remained consistant and managed to have a whoosh in August. All in all I lost 25 lbs
I have a little more than 10 lbs left to lose before reaching my goal. In my stats, I have 130 lbs as my goal weight, but I have since changed my mind to achieve my old weight of 125 healthy lbs.
In the meantime, I have become such and advocate for the low-carb high- protein way of eating. Recently I read the article called Guts and Grease, which was about a mighty nation of people who lived a much more exteme protein diet than us. They had stronger bones, straighter teeth, women had easier childbirths and they healed easily from serious wounds. The average Native American could chase after the same deer all day long without exhaustion. After they were forced to eat the "typical American" diet, their bodies weakened and diabetes raised its nasty little head.
Anytime someone tells me that low carb is bad for you I discuss this article with conviction. Whenever, I hear that there has not been any long term studies on high protein diets I say that the Native American did this long term. As soon as they began incorporating high carb diets they had to deal with diabetes, obesity
and weakness. The mighty eagle had suffered its fatal wound.
When i talk about this there is silence. I only hope that it makes naysayers to take a step back and think about what I say to them.
Black57