I agree, I tried this and went from 250lbs (I know... shhh) down to 200lbs
in about 3 months! I was almost never hungry and got to eat all the great
foods I love. My breakfast a lot of times was a nice bacon and cheese omelet
with a bacon side (I LOVE bacon). My wife made some no carb chocolate mousse
for when I got those sugar cravings. I cant rant or rave enough about how
great this works! I'm shooting for 180 where Ill hold.
I don't get hungry between meals much at all anymore, mainly because I'm not
going through that non-sensical carb/sugar cycles. All energy is coming from
that steady state fat source.
P.S. Oh, I DONT exercise even though I should. I am hoping that I will get
out of work and into the gym more soon. Still, 50lbs in 3 months without
exercise is amazing! I calculate my target weight in a few more weeks. Wish
me luck.
> Hi folks,
>
> Since there has been interest in the past on the topic of diets and
> nutrition, I thought I would post the results/side-effects of
> my most recent
> experiment with such things.
>
> About five weeks ago I agreed to provide "morale support" to
> one of the
> girls I live with, who insisted that she needs to lose five
> pounds (from her
> petite 115-lb body -- go figure), by doing a low carb diet
> with her. I am
> not in particular need of a diet, but I'm not super-lean
> either despite
> spending much time at the gym, so I figured it would be an interesting
> experiment. My normal diet tends to be a low-fat, medium
> dairy, medium
> protein diet with lots of carbs and vegetables. I also attend the gym
> regularly (at least for the last several months), so I also
> like to see how
> various diets interact with my workout. My new diet is a high-protein
> high-fat diet with lots of non-starchy vegetables and water.
> Note that I do
> a "two days on, one day off" cycle for the diet; I eat plenty
> of quality
> carbs on the off day.
>
> 1) It makes you lean with surprising speed. I've never seen
> anything else
> like it -- the fat just melted off my body. This is the only
> diet I've ever
> seen that actually produced results like this and at this speed.
>
> 2) It doesn't interfere with a heavy workout schedule. I've
> tried other
> low-fat diets to try to become leaner, but they all seemed to
> have adverse
> affects on my workout scheduling, either by making recovery
> take longer or
> just making my muscles feel lethargic (a problem I've had with
> vegetarian-ish diets in general). No problems here.
>
> 3) Dairy is bad. This was the only change I made to the
> diet mid-course.
> Apparently a low-carb diet aggravates the negative effects of
> diary in the
> diet and generally didn't make me feel that good, so I cut
> back on them
> substantially and stuck with meat and veggies. I've always
> known that dairy
> wasn't so hot, but this made it that much clearer.
>
> 4) No hunger. This is more than just an issue of an empty
> stomach. I
> found that the time I could comfortably go between meals was greatly
> extended beyond my normal diet as well. I am guessing this
> has something to
> do with very stable blood sugar levels. Note that low-fat
> high-carb diets
> always seemed to increase the frequency that I felt hungry.
>
>
> In summary, I feel great, better than I do on my normal diet.
> Because of
> this, it is extraordinarily easy to stick with it, and the
> adjustments have
> been minor, particularly since every third day I eat carbs.
>
> Given the quality of the results I've had, I will probably
> make lean meat
> and veggies my standard diet until something better comes
> along; my body
> seems quite happy with this diet. I'm normally skeptical of
> these things,
> but only because most dietary changes appeared to generate adverse
> consequences to my body and/or my lifestyle.
>
> Cheers,
>
> -James Rogers
> jamesr@best.com
>
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