Raj Feridun <rferid@NOSPAMyahoo.co.jp> wrote:

> I laugh at the low-carb craze in the USA right now. What a joke. I
> lost 35kg (I'm now 90kg, 182cm tall) about a year and a half ago by
> exercising daily (5km jog) and simply eating LESS period not lowering
> carbs. Now I maintain my weight by continuing to exercise and eating a
> balanced diet. There are no great secrets, shortcuts or quick-fixes to
> weight loss, sorry. 

I have problems with accepting the Atkins diet too--if only because I
lost a lot of weight that I needed to lose about ten years ago, when I
_stopped_ eating land-animal proteins. Within a week or so, I discovered
I'm a naturally fast walker, so I'm not sure if the loss of 12-14 kilos
over the next year or so was due to some magical effect, or the
reduction in the drugs I needed to curb my asthma, or that the
improvement in my asthma enabled me to walk faster so it boosted my
metabolism.

The thought of going on a diet that positively _encourages_ the  eating
of large quantities of protein puts me off (let along the necessity of
taking multi-vitamins and doing urine checks to see if I'm in a state
that's usually considered unnatural--this is one of the checks that
diabetics do to make sure they're in control, isn't it?). 

I'm working around to believing there are Good Carbs and Bad Carbs,
though (partly because I recently made a minor mistake when ordering
from Amazon0>

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