Ignoramus8220 <[email hidden]> wrote:
:> On Sun, 8 May 2005 11:48:41 -0400, Roger Zoul
:> <[email hidden]> wrote:
:> > Ignoramus8220 <[email hidden]> wrote:
:> >:> On Sun, 08 May 2005 08:13:34 -0700, Stacey Bender <[email hidden]>
:> >:> wrote:
:> >:> > Ignoramus8220 wrote:
:> >:> >> On Sun, 08 May 2005 14:54:14 GMT, Cubit <[email hidden]> wrote:
:> >:> >>
:> >:> >>>In the months just before the regain were you still eating
:> >:> >>>Paleo,
:> >:> >>>or had you added grain and starch based foods back in?
:> >:> >
:> >:> > The amount of weight you are losing or gaining is very small.
:> >:> > It's
:> >:> > just
:> >:> > a few extra calories a day. Maybe look at slightly larger
:> >:> > portion
:> >:> > sizes
:> >:> > or a decrease in your exercise.
:> >:>
:> >:> Well, I was hoping, rightly or wrongly, that by eating low carb
:> >:> and
:> >:> with some exercise, I would naturally regulate how much I eat,
:> >:> without thinking too much or going hungry.
:> >:>
:> >
:> > As a former fat person, I just don't think it will ever be that
:> > way for you. Sorry.
:>
:> I appreciate the comment, but is the above not what low carb diets
:> are claiming to accomplish? "Eat LC, do not be hungry and reach your
:> ideal weight".
Low carb diets don't claim anything...the people pushing them make the
claims...and they can oversell a thing, as I'm sure you know. But,
specically, I was referring to your comment about "naturally regulate how
much I eat, without thinking too much or going hungry". Why is it that
going hungry sometimes is such a bad thing? And the fact is, some people
just enjoy eating...and that means you're going to have to pay attention if
you don't want to be fat. The process doesn't have to be all that painful.
:>
:> For me personally, LC worked just like that until approximately
:> March. I hope that it will continue to work, although I am now
:> doubting it.
I think you're expecting too much, honestly. Surely you don't think you can
eat all the meat and fat you want (assuming you want a lot) and never gain
weight, do you?
:>
:> >
:> >:> I started eating low carb at normal weight, way after I lost 50
:> >:> lbs. The main rationale for going LC was to be able to maintain
:> >:> weight
:> >:> without being hungry all the time, like I was when I was
:> >:> maintaining weight on a general "eat less" diet. That was the
:> >:> hope.
:> >
:> > Well, you weren't hungry all the time...were you? It seems you
:> > were successful.
:>
:> Well, yes, but I gained 3-4 or so lbs at some point. That's my
:> current concern.
You mentioned weight gain before, followed by a loss. How is this really
different?
:>
:> >:>
:> >:> It worked quite beautifully in the first 8 months. I was eating
:> >:> all I wanted, and was not gaining. Sometimes I would gain a
:> >:> couple of lbs temporarily and they would go away in a couple of
:> >:> weeks. It was a
:> >:> fairly carefree existence. Then I gained 3-5 lbs in March, and it
:> >:> would not go away until I decided to tough it out and "eat less"
:> >:> for
:> >:> one week.
:> >
:> > Seems like I recall they came very quickly and, according to this,
:> > you lost them in a week. Not bad if you ask me.
:>
:> Agreed.
:>
:> >:>
:> >:> So, I am concerned that as my body adjusted to LC, this diet will
:> >:> stop
:> >:> working as well. Time will tell if that's so. I am very busy with
:> >:> some projects right now, and I would very much like to be on some
:> >:> sort of
:> >:> diet that lets me concentrate on something else besides eating.
:> >:> LC
:> >:> was "it", but now I am beginning to have concerns.
:> >
:> > IMO, you're worrying about nothing. Keep doing what you're doing,
:> > and if you pick up a few pounds, restricting eating for a week to
:> > settle down. It's just your way...live it with.
:>
:> That makes full sense to me.
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