Suzien
Sun, Jul-12-09, 03:37
Hi, I seem to be losing half a lifetime researching calories vs low carbs. I came upon this fantastic forum yesterday and started reading. I haven't finished yet but I think it's time to join in.
I started researching because I was induced to buy the book The Harcombe Diet after reading about it in a magazine. It seemed to tick all the boxes because it allowed me to eat carbs (without fat) or Fats (with low carbs). A kind of mixture betwen Atkins et al and Food combining.
Having read it though I found it disappointingly woolly about the biological processes that made it work. I had been automatically enrolled in the club so I asked my many questions. The replies included one about ketosis. She replied that she didn't know much about it. This left me with little faith in her diet as I feel pretty sure that ketosis, the result of converting fat to usable energy (I think) would be the result of any weight loss program.
I am now on a mission to find the answers to my questions and this intelligent forum seems to me a good place to start.
I have been on Robert Atkin's diet before and, to be honest, although I enjoyed it at first I got sick of it and I found it difficult to live with when going out and about. Good quallity restaurants were fine but I got sick of eating breadless burgers and batterless fish when on the motorway or at a children's activity. I also felt a bit short of texture in my food. So I need some help this time to make it a lifestyle rather than a diet. I need to make this sustainable. Any help would be much appreciated (I admit I haven't looked at the recipes yet).
I started researching because I was induced to buy the book The Harcombe Diet after reading about it in a magazine. It seemed to tick all the boxes because it allowed me to eat carbs (without fat) or Fats (with low carbs). A kind of mixture betwen Atkins et al and Food combining.
Having read it though I found it disappointingly woolly about the biological processes that made it work. I had been automatically enrolled in the club so I asked my many questions. The replies included one about ketosis. She replied that she didn't know much about it. This left me with little faith in her diet as I feel pretty sure that ketosis, the result of converting fat to usable energy (I think) would be the result of any weight loss program.
I am now on a mission to find the answers to my questions and this intelligent forum seems to me a good place to start.
I have been on Robert Atkin's diet before and, to be honest, although I enjoyed it at first I got sick of it and I found it difficult to live with when going out and about. Good quallity restaurants were fine but I got sick of eating breadless burgers and batterless fish when on the motorway or at a children's activity. I also felt a bit short of texture in my food. So I need some help this time to make it a lifestyle rather than a diet. I need to make this sustainable. Any help would be much appreciated (I admit I haven't looked at the recipes yet).