way to go! Your sweetie said she's moving in the smaller direction, too. Very impressive, considering it's the middle of winter and it's impossible to *really* move (if you ask me)
No kidding - everyone I know who's tried (myself included) has had success with losing weight by cutting down on carbs, especially starches.
For me, that's meant no sugared drinks, and as little as possible of bread, pasta, potatoes, and rice. Atkins is strict about fruits as well, but I just can't do it. There's too much to love about a big plump strawberry or a really tart apple.
I've done this mostly by eating the same things I usually eat but cutting out most of the starches and substituting additional vegetables.
everyone I know who's tried (myself included) has had success with losing weight by cutting down on carbs, especially starches.
Ayup, and that's exactly what I'm doing. That, walking more, and doing some reasonable amount of portion control. Little things like stopping in the middle of a meal and going "am I full yet?" More often than not, the answer is "not yet, but very soon."
For me, that's meant no sugared drinks, and as little as possible of bread, pasta, potatoes, and rice. Atkins is strict about fruits as well, but I just can't do it. There's too much to love about a big plump strawberry or a really tart apple.
Let's see.... no sugared drinks (okay, some honey in my morning tea), very little bread, no pasta, no potatoes. Some rice. I've managed to completely cut fruits out of my diet. I have a renewed friendship with chef salads. As expected, there is a whole range of things that are now just "too sweet". Perhaps that's the way it should be.
13 pounds in 2 months, so far. There's a ways to go, but for the first time ever, I'm seeing material progress towards my weight goal.
I've also found that if the answer to the full question is "no", waiting a few minutes without eating anything might change the answer to "yes". Hunger feedback loop is full of noops.
Honey is better than cane sugar. Likewise, brown rice better than white. If you can't cut out grains entirely, check out quinoa - it's easy to prepare and has a really nutty flavor.
Cobb salad is really good too, and tastier than the standard chef salad.
Who knew? For all these years, I was always totally puzzled about why every Greek diner in NY had "dieter's special - hamburger with cottage cheese and no bun" on the menu. Turns out they were right.
I have a friend, an uber-geek-of-all-trades, who did some research about this because she really needed to lose weight. What she told me she had found out was, that there's a genetic condition very common in the USA, that predisposes people to hypoglycemia and to becoming overweight from starches. People who fall in this category will be overweight and put themselves at risk of developing hypoglycemia (and possibly progress to diabetes) unless they strictly control their starch eating. She said that a majority of overweight people in the US are overweight because they have this genetic trait, but that the medical profession is generally uninformed about it because there are no drugs that can do anything about it so there's no advertising.
She went low-starch and it immediately starting improving both her moods and her weight. But if what I remember her telling me is true, then this is something that will work wonderfully for some (perhaps even most) overweight people, but not work at all for others.
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Date: 2003-02-11 01:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-02-12 08:49 am (UTC)No kidding - everyone I know who's tried (myself included) has had success with losing weight by cutting down on carbs, especially starches.
For me, that's meant no sugared drinks, and as little as possible of bread, pasta, potatoes, and rice. Atkins is strict about fruits as well, but I just can't do it. There's too much to love about a big plump strawberry or a really tart apple.
I've done this mostly by eating the same things I usually eat but cutting out most of the starches and substituting additional vegetables.
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Date: 2003-02-12 10:20 am (UTC)everyone I know who's tried (myself included) has had success with losing weight by cutting down on carbs, especially starches.
Ayup, and that's exactly what I'm doing. That, walking more, and doing some reasonable amount of portion control. Little things like stopping in the middle of a meal and going "am I full yet?" More often than not, the answer is "not yet, but very soon."
For me, that's meant no sugared drinks, and as little as possible of bread, pasta, potatoes, and rice. Atkins is strict about fruits as well, but I just can't do it. There's too much to love about a big plump strawberry or a really tart apple.
Let's see.... no sugared drinks (okay, some honey in my morning tea), very little bread, no pasta, no potatoes. Some rice. I've managed to completely cut fruits out of my diet. I have a renewed friendship with chef salads. As expected, there is a whole range of things that are now just "too sweet". Perhaps that's the way it should be.
13 pounds in 2 months, so far. There's a ways to go, but for the first time ever, I'm seeing material progress towards my weight goal.
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Date: 2003-02-12 10:29 am (UTC)Honey is better than cane sugar. Likewise, brown rice better than white. If you can't cut out grains entirely, check out quinoa - it's easy to prepare and has a really nutty flavor.
Cobb salad is really good too, and tastier than the standard chef salad.
Who knew? For all these years, I was always totally puzzled about why every Greek diner in NY had "dieter's special - hamburger with cottage cheese and no bun" on the menu. Turns out they were right.
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Date: 2003-02-12 09:13 pm (UTC)She went low-starch and it immediately starting improving both her moods and her weight. But if what I remember her telling me is true, then this is something that will work wonderfully for some (perhaps even most) overweight people, but not work at all for others.