Thu, Apr-04-13, 16:12
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Senior Member
Posts: 6,498
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Plan: VLC, mostly meat
Stats: 202/200/165
BF:
Progress: 5%
Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Shameless plug alert!
I wrote a low-carb booklet. I posted the English version in my journal. I also wrote a French version. It's free. It's 8 pages long. That's right, some guy on the internet without a doctor's degree wrote a free low-carb booklet that's shorter than any other low-carb book on this planet, including the famous Letter on Corpulence by William Banting. Send me an email or pm and I'll send you a pdf of both. Did I mention it's free and only 8 pages long?
Brought to you by Martin Levac, some guy on the internet.
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It's about time somebody else wrote a short low-carb book. I mean, I thought it was a great idea when I was writing mine, I guess I'm not the only one who can come up with great ideas. I won't order Westman's book, but I'd like to read it because I'm curious to find out how many different ways we can summarize low-carb yet keep it just as effective as a big bulky book. Actually, I believe shorter instructions are easiest to follow.
I opened the video and the first thing I noticed is how long it is, 38 minutes. Take a moment and think of how much time you want to dedicate to reading instructions, or here how much time you want to spend sitting down listening to a doctor explain the instructions. Now take another moment and think of this video and how there's a doctor explaining the instructions with words not in the instructions themselves. To me, this sounds like we need another set of instructions to understand the first set of instructions. Not particularly logical in my opinion. I mean, if the first set of instructions were done properly in the first place, they wouldn't need a second set of instructions to explain how to read the first set of instructions, right? Instructions must stand on their own.
What?!? Criticism of a low-carb doctor by some guy on the internet? It can't be! Yes, it can. Only by criticizing ourselves do we improve. After all, don't we learn from our mistakes? And we do hate it when somebody else points out our mistakes to us, don't we. It makes us all kinds of confrontational and contentious. Well, some of you must know by now, I'm all kinds of confrontational and contentious all the time, so I guess criticizing Dr Westman is just the natural thing to do for me. We must analyze and criticize our own low-carb plans if we want to make them better for ourselves. The alternative is that we let the Conventional Wisdom Squad do it for us using all kinds of fallacious arguments we refute all the time on this forum. To me, the choice is obvious.
I like Dr Westman. I wish his book tops the list and sells tons of copies. Honestly I do.
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