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Old 12-21-2001, 06:59 AM   #1
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Question O.K.-someone explain this low carb thing????????

I keep hearing low carb and want to know how you all acomplish this. If I take away my carbs , it pretty much leaves me with ZILCH. What do you people eat? I think I would be willing to try this if I could come up with some reasonable choices. I 'm a pretty high carb type person, and don't know of anything I eat that isn't LOADED with them.
Please give me some ideas on what I can eat.

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You can eat any kind of protein like eggs, fish, red meat, chicken or nuts. Almost any kind of vegetables (except potatoes, and yams). You can have lots of fat loaded dressings or condiments and lots of whipped cream but not milk. You can't eat diet foods that substitute sugar for fat, but you can eat diet jello, and diet drinks (though some people find diet drinks make it harder to lose weight).

So for breakfast you can have ham/bacon and eggs (small piece of toast if you need it). For lunch you can have chicken salad (lots of mayonnaise) on a bed of lettuce with sliced tomatoes, cucumbers and deviled eggs. For an afternoon snack have some mixed nuts and a diet soft drink. For dinner, how about butter pan fried fish, caesar salad and diet jello with plenty of whipped cream topping. Note that its important to have fat in your diet because your body converts fat to sugar for your brain to function. Eat until you are full, but not stuffed. Within a few days you will find your desire for sugar will disappear.

The next day you can have a cheese omlette for breakfast, hamburger with double lettuce and tomato from McDonald's on half a bun (just throw the bottom away and use a knife and fork to eat it [or both halves if you can]) for lunch, and for dinner how about a nice club house salad (sliced tomatoes, romaine lettuce, celery, shaved ham, sliced chicken mixed together with lots of mayonnaise).

After 2 weeks you can add back in some carbos starting with fresh fruits which can be your desert with whipped topping. But you can't make a meal of fruit, it's just a treat.



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put in "gycemic index" in you web search engines... there are several good sites with the listings of they types of food that you can eat and those that you can abstain from... not really a diet but a change in the way you look at food at the best way to lose weight without feeling deprived or to make special accomodations...for faster weight loss eliminate all bread, rice, potatoes, cookies from the very beginning....best wishes

 
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It all sounds good, but how can you be eating all that fat, and still be losing?????? This is so confusing to me. I've been going really low fat. How does low carbing compare to low fat?

 
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It all sounds good, but how can you be eating all that fat, and still be losing?????? This is so confusing to me. I've been going really low fat. How does low carbing compare to low fat?
Eating fat does not make you fat, but eating sugar will. Sugar triggers insulin, and insulin is used to cause energy storage and it increases your appetite for more sugar. Fat is also a less efficient fuel than sugar because fat has to be converted first to sugar before it can be used by your brain. The conversion costs calories and so 1 calorie of sugar is not the same as one calorie of fat. Eating fat also decreases your desire for food (as long as its not combined with sugar!!). Eating fat and sugar really puts on the pounds.

Try it, you might like it and you can lose weight as well. After all, low fat diets have only resulted in more fat people (strange huh?).

 
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