DIETING

[Gvac]

Ol' Gvac went back on the Atkins diet today (No carbs), as I've been getting a wee bit tubby lately. I first went on it New Years day of 2000, and by April, I had lost over 35 lbs. Now, whenever I start getting a little chubby, I just go back on it, and the weight just falls off.

You gotta love a diet where you eat bacon, eggs, and cheese for breakfast and still lose fat. Anybody have any other favorite diets to share?







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[girl germs]

i've never been on any diets but i hear starving yourself works just fine.

oh yeah, it's also extremely unhealty and stupid.

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[erinmoran]

C'mon people try a salad...gotta have those greens...

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I touched Scott Baios junk....

[girl germs]

i agree!

greens and agree rhyme, right?

<p align="center"><font face="arial">"no, don't be afraid (to protect everyone). love and courage are your friends. yes, yes, anpanman. how gentle you are! go, protect everyone's dreams."</font></p>

[Gvac]

Grilled chicken salad with huge hunks of fresh mozzarella is my favorite dinner on this diet. Up until a few years ago, I used to be appalled at the very idea of eating anything green.







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[girl germs]

grilled blood clots with some melted mozzarella on a bun seems like something i'd try.

<p align="center"><font face="arial">"no, don't be afraid (to protect everyone). love and courage are your friends. yes, yes, anpanman. how gentle you are! go, protect everyone's dreams."</font></p>

[Alice S. Fuzzybutt]

"But Ronny, why doesn't it
taste like meat?!"

All on the next Ron and Fez!

Yes, Alice's butt has gotten
quite "fuzzy" as of late! I'm
trying todo the Hollywood
48-hour Diet this weekend.
Well, I've made
it to noon! :-) Sigh!

[Gvac]

What the hell is that 48 hour
diet all about, Fuzzy?








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[Alice S. Fuzzybutt]

Eh, you buy a quart container
of concentrated fruit juice
($25 buck my fuzzy ass!). you
mix 4 oz of juice with 4 oz of
water and sip on that for 4
hours. then you mix it up
again and drink that for
another 4 hours... I got a big
ass headache 8 hours into it.
I'm giving up. It's called
"The 48-hour MIRACLE Hollywood
Diet"-- yeah, it's a *MIRACLE*
I lasted this long!

Hey gvac, good luck with the
battle of the bulge!!!! :-)

[Gvac]

You too, Alice! Geez, that 48 hour diet is one of those pre-mixed pieces of shit? I hate diets like that; that's why I love the Atkins. No measuring or calorie counting, and you eat whenever you're hungry.







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[babychanel]

staker2 and hanging pictures of hot women on the fridge.

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[TomPoo]

Mystery Behind the Atkins Diet

Where Does the Weight Loss Come From?


By Dan DeNoon with reporting by David Flegel, MS
WebMD Medical News

Reviewed by Dr. Pamela R. Yoder


Nov. 1, 2000 (Long Beach, Calif.) -- Dieters who lose weight the Atkins way may really be doing it the old-fashioned way: by simply eating fewer calories. Even so, very few people on the diet maintain their weight loss over the long term, according to studies presented here at a meeting of obesity experts.

An outspoken critic of the Atkins diet -- Harvard researcher George Blackburn, MD, PhD -- says the studies offer the first hard, scientific evidence to disprove the theory behind the diet.

Blackburn doesn't deny that Atkins followers lose weight, but "you get no points for weight loss -- only for keeping it off. Very few people can stay on this diet beyond a few days or weeks," he says. Although Blackburn currently is involved in Atkins diet research -- some of which Robert Atkins, MD, helps pay for -- he was not involved in the studies reported at this conference.

First introduced in the 1970s, the Atkins diet makes carbohydrates taboo -- breads, cereals, rice, pasta, fruits, and vegetables. The idea is to change the body's metabolism by making it get most of its fuel not from carbohydrates, as is normal, but from protein and fat. This leads to an altered state called ketosis. The theory behind the diet is that the body loses weight more efficiently when forced into a state of ketosis. One reason for this may simply be that ketosis makes a person lose his or her appetite.

To test this theory, Bernard V. Miller, MD, and colleagues at The Research Institute and Clinical Pharmacology Research Center in Cooperstown, N.Y., intensively studied nine men and nine women who agreed to follow the Atkins diet. All of the men and six of the women were medically diagnosed as obese, and the three remaining women were overweight.

As expected, all subjects went into a state of ketosis each day they stayed on the diet. And they lost weight -- nearly 12 pounds, on average. But when Miller and co-workers looked at the number of calories consumed, they discovered that the Atkins dieters were taking in far fewer calories than they did before starting the diet.
"While the Atkins diet causes ketosis, weight loss appears to be result from caloric restriction," Miller tells WebMD.

"It is possible that people who are doing the diet on their own may eat less," Colette Heimowitz, MS, director of education and research at The Atkins Center for Complementary Medicine in New York, tells WebMD. But when patients participate in the programs at the center, the staff monitors their eating habits. The nutritional counselors advise patients to get 1,800 calories a day, she says. Ultimately, what does it matter whether it's calories or ketones, asks Heimowitz, as long as people are losing the weight?

Successful weight loss and maintenance of that loss has been the area of research by Holly Wyatt, MD, a researcher at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. She and her colleagues at the University of Pittsburgh and Brown University studied people who have successfully lost a lot of weight -- at least 30 pounds -- and who have kept it off for more than a year.

Wyatt took a look at the diets reported by more than 2,600 men and women. Only 25 of these people ate diets containing less than 24% carbohydrates -- more carbohydrates than the Atkins diet allows. Those eating the low carbs tended to have kept their weight off for shorter periods and tended to exercise less than other people -- most of whom ate lots of carbohydrates.

"If there were successful, long-term weight losers on the Atkins diet out there, we would have found them," Wyatt tells WebMD, noting that she found very few Atkins dieters among the group. "If it worked over the long term, we think we would have seen a substantial number of those people."

Wyatt says that the people lost their weight using all kinds of strategies. But nearly all of them kept t

[Gvac]

The above article is a criticism of the Atkins diet that I have often heard. I have personally found SOME of it to be true, but certainly not all.

The theory that you are merely eating less is hogwash. I eat like an animal on this diet! At night while just loafing, I eat pepperoni and cheese (after a steak and salad dinner). Cheese omelets with about half a pound of ham or bacon are my breakfast norm.

The part that is true is that once you go off and begin eating "bad" carbs once again, the weight comes back in a hurry. You're faced with 2 choices:
1) Maintain the Atkins ideal for the rest of your life, or
2) Every time you start getting a bit paunchy, go back on for a while.

I opt for #2.







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[TomPoo]

gvac,

I didn't post as a criticism... I just had this from when I was doing some diet research and thought it was interesting and good for this discussion.


Good Luck with your Diet!!!!

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----TomPoo

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