Southbeach loses on dateline.

PJx said:

While the dateline weightloss program tonight showed some other
successful diets, it again failed to illustrate the tremendous success
that so many (30 million?) on low-carb have attained. I am
disgusted.

Unfortunately, the woman who went on South Beach wasn't terribly motivated.
That's probably the biggest factor in weight loss success. If one of the
successful people in the group had been on low-carb, the results would
likely have been very different.

Carol
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"Years ago my mother used to say to me... She'd say,
'In this world Elwood, you must be oh-so smart or oh-so pleasant.'
Well, for years I was smart.... I recommend pleasant. You may quote me."

*James Stewart* in the 1950 movie, _Harvey_

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Quoted message said:

While the dateline weightloss program tonight showed some other
successful diets, it again failed to illustrate the tremendous success
that so many (30 million?) on low-carb have attained. I am
disgusted.

I've decided not to even bother watching these types of shows. *I've* ALREADY
found what works for me and makes me feel great -- I'm not going to be swayed by
shows like these, especially when the likelihood of results being skewed or
portrayed in a bad (or good) light at the whim of some producer and/or sponsor is
so high. Shows like Dateline, Primetime Live and 20/20 are so ... so .... so
dumbed down and cliched and self-important that I can hardly stand to watch them
anymore (and, yet, I slavishly watch All My Children -- but they never purport to
be anything but preposterous to begin with :-)

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Saffire
205/148/125 - 5'1.5"
Atkins since 6/14/03
Progress photo: http://photos.yahoo.com/saffire333

I watched the same program. It did a good job at being unbiased.
Unfortunately, the woman doing South Beach cheated a lot whereas the others
stayed on their chosen programs much more faithfully. So it really wasn't
a scientific comparison of the plans. But of course people unfamiliar with
LC might come to the conclusion that South Beach was too difficult to
follow.

Saffire said:

I've decided not to even bother watching these types of shows. *I've* ALREADY
found what works for me and makes me feel great -- I'm not going to be swayed by
shows like these, especially when the likelihood of results being skewed or
portrayed in a bad (or good) light at the whim of some producer and/or sponsor is
so high. Shows like Dateline, Primetime Live and 20/20 are so ... so .... so
dumbed down and cliched and self-important that I can hardly stand to watch them
anymore (and, yet, I slavishly watch All My Children -- but they never purport to
be anything but preposterous to begin with :-)

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Bev