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| Weight Loss | Going below 1000 calories will it work? | Mar 12 2008 15:41 (UTC) |
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Hi Pretty-Girl, I don't know what you are eating, but I recommend cutting all carbs out until you reach your weight. I think you will not have to go under 1000 cals this way - stick to protein and fat (yes fat!) and green veggies only and see what happens. Basically, try Atkins. Hope this helps. It worked for me. Good luck!! Karen |
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| Weight Loss | Vegan weight gain | Mar 05 2008 19:32 (UTC) |
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| How many carbs were you eating? It's not meat that makes your gain weight; it's carbs, even if they are "complex" - please see my thread about Good Calories, Bad Calories by Gary Taubes in the lounge...his book has no agenda other than the truth and science, and was not funded by the Beef COuncil or any meat constituency. It's pretty eye opening. Good luck!! | |||
| The Lounge | Good Calories, Bad Calories by Gary Taubes | Feb 27 2008 19:50 (UTC) |
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| HI! You DO have to check it out. It really blew my mind...Taubes' lays out the existing scientific evidence really well (although the book is dense, it's not difficult). After years of writing about "healthy eating" - basically "carb eating" for health magazines, I now find myself in a bind about it. I sort of feel mislead - and Taubes is convincing. I guess I am very exited about it because it's the first time someone has challenged the conventional wisdom so convincingly and with so much documentation. | |||
| The Lounge | Good Calories, Bad Calories by Gary Taubes | Feb 27 2008 19:47 (UTC) |
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HI - Basically, Taubes says that carbs, both simple (white flour, bread, white rice, potatoes) and complex (like grains and beans!) and refined sugar, especially high fructose corn syrup and white sugar, are really what makes you (uh, me!) fat...and that basically, Dr. Atkins seems to have been right all along. Taubes took a lot of heat when the Times article came out (you can find it online if you google Gary Taubes) and then he wrote this big book for Knopf, which I just finished going through. But on the other hadn, no one could say he was wrong, it's just that a lot of food people and nutritionists don;t like to consider the idea that fat does not make you fat. It is not a diet book, but it talks about how all the science about food and fat has been really misinterpreted. I have been eating lots of meat, fish and poultry, nuts, olive oil, cheese, and green veggies and I tell you I have never seen pounds come off faster, and not felt hungry or irritable. I have been against Atkins for years, and I write about healthy eating for a lot of health magazines...so Taubes has really been an eye opener for me. If you can stick with the book, it's fascinating. Or, find the articel online that was in the Times - that's good too.
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