JK said:The one group that can NEVER be sold on the LC lifestyle, are the ones
that can eat whatever they want and stay thin. They keep lecturing low
calorie, small portions, and exercise is all you need. They don't understand
that most of US LCers simply can't do it that way.
To which Pen replied
Quoted message said:Uh, that is EXACTLY what LCers do. We just don't have to be hungry while
doing it through the beauty of ketosis.
Not so. I used to visit my sister (now passed away) whose metabolism
was the exact opposite of mine. She would be wiping the cream off her
second Vienna Coffee with her third Mars Bar, telling me that if I
just used a little willpower I'd be as slender as she was. She was
eating roughly 3000 cals a day, got only extraneous exercise but had
SUCH a fast metabolism it burned off rapidly, leaving her frail and
gaunt if she missed a meal or snack for more than a few days.
I, on the other hand, was gaining weight on as little as 1000 cals a
day on my Evil Low Fat, High Carb diet, while exercising several times
a week. When I first switched to LC, I was losing weight on 2000 cals
a day, and (in an experiment where I literally drank oil several times
a day) can go up as high as 6000 cals a day without gaining - as long
as I keep my carb intake very low.
Mind you, I don't WANT to eat that much. I'm quite comfortable now
eating around 1500 cals a day, even though I'm not losing weight (but
that's a whole other story and has a lot to do with the meds I'm
taking). I'm still able to eat more, and not gain weight, as long as
I keep my carb intake low. For ME, and I don't necessarily claim it's
true for others, it's all about the carb levels.
Aramanth