Judy – I’ve tried to private message you, but for some reason the code on this site doesn’t allow me to do that, so I’ll post here, even though I really think what I’m about to say is inappropriate to this forum.
I think you’re using the word attacking quite liberally at best, and totally erroneously at worst. You seem to be quite defensive about the SB plan, and I can relate, as I have been defending low-carb eating for 3 years now in front of the diet-frustrated low fat/high carb crowd (to which I feel SB does NOT belong btw).
However, once again I feel you totally misinterpreted my tone. Don’t forget, we’re all communicating via a web site, and things like tone and intent can be taken wildly out of context, so please be careful to jump the gun on someone because you could be the one who is misinterpreting what they say.
My objective here, in a thread entitled “from Atkins to South beach,” is to raise issues about the differences between the two plans and discuss them openly, weighing the pros and cons and to voice opinions about each. The media has lumped Atkins and South Beach together as if they’re both very similar low-carb eating plans, and I find that they’re actually quite different and there are actually major aspects to them that should be compared, so I was surprised to learn this isn’t the place for that (which I still find odd but, you know, whatever).
If the structure of this thread is just to pat people on the back and say, “you can do it!” (which has its value) then I’m clearly in the wrong part of the site, but I would have to say “thanks but no thanks” to posting in something called the war zone.
Now, I’ve been using and running web sites/bulletin board forums for about 15 years, so trust me when I say I realize there is a need to keep the contain pertinent, relevant, and in generally on topic. And there are always veterans who participate in them not only via the conversation, but by keeping posts applicable to the topic (which is often needed). But instead of actually gaining meaningful discussion about the two nutrition plans and what their weaknesses are, you’ve spent a lot of bandwidth getting defensive well out of proportion to what I was actually saying.
Remember, part of discussing the differences of a plan is to provide a counter-point to someone’s position (for example, when someone says SB is nothing but fresh, I’m going to bring up the point that your eating plan and Kraft are indistinguishable in at least two of the isles at my grocery store, and your obligation would be to reply to that, not accuse me of attacking).
And finally, you’ve mentioned that I have come in here and said things “that you all know," as if I'm wasting everyone's time.
I would suggest that not everyone knows all that you and the other veterans of the site know about low-carb eating. I think that’s part of the purpose of having a site like this in the first place, and I would also suggest that not every single person reading this 4 page thread new all of the information contained therein before coming here. I could be wrong, but I’d bet differently.
With that said, if you’d like to reply, shoot me a private message because I bet it’s not doing anyone any good here, especially if this is a thread for encouragement and not a discussion of two diet plans for which the thread was named.
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I find that if I get into a rut with my food then I have a tendancy to fall off plan. That was the same on Atkins as it is on SB.
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