ABC NEWS REPORT: Looks like LOW CARBS wins...barely?

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Always Learning - 16 Jul 2008 23:46 GMT

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Diet/story?id=5389423&page=1

This report wasn't written in a way that you could easily see which
diet came out as the 'best long-term' but it does point to the part
where low-carbers always say you'll lose MORE weight on their plan.

As a personal aside I noticed Low-Carb was the hardest BY FAR diet to
stay on because I was raised in a culture where HIGH CARBS was 'the
normal way to eat all day every day'

However I must admit that I seemed to have lost nearly 50% more weight
using a low-carb diet. My biggest part was staying on a Low-Carb diet
for more than about 6-8 weeks. After that I had a hard time stay
interested in the diet. After a while I'd cheat as a 'treat' for
losing weight and eventually go back to full-carb dieting again slowly
gaining all that lost weight back again.

Is their a diet that exists which allows you to eat all 'kinds' of
food without being restricted to either low-fat/carb?

I'd sure like to know....

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FOB - 17 Jul 2008 00:18 GMT

I've been low carbing for five years. I eat a great variety of food, you
just need to be a bit creative about cooking. Recipes are often posted
here, especially if you ask for ideas. There are a number of wonderful low
carb cookbooks, Dana Carpenders's are among the best. Lots of familiar
dishes can be redone to make them low carb.

As for the way you were raised, you can change your habits. Perhaps not all
at once, but after you have done something long enough it becomes part of
your own personal culture. Six to eight weeks isn't long enough. You need
to add new delicious low carb creations to your repertoire all the time and
really, if you just dump the breadstuffs, rice, pasta and potatoes you are
well on your way. My attitude toward those things is just I don't eat them.

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Kaz Kylheku - 17 Jul 2008 23:18 GMT

> http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Diet/story?id=5389423&page=1
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> As a personal aside I noticed Low-Carb was the hardest BY FAR diet to

If a diet is easy to stay on, maybe you haven't restricted the calories.
Dieting for weight loss is not easy, regardless of what you eat. If it's easy
to stick with, maybe you aren't really on a weight loss diet.

> stay on because I was raised in a culture where HIGH CARBS was 'the
> normal way to eat all day every day'

High carbs with little fat, or fat-loaded carbs? What, no mayo in the
sandwich? No sour cream on those potatoes? No butter on that corn? No cheese on
that cracker? No oil in those fries? No ice cream, just sherbet?

> However I must admit that I seemed to have lost nearly 50% more weight
> using a low-carb diet.

Maybe it was harder harder to stay on because you better restricted
the calories, which is also why it worked while you were on it?

> My biggest part was staying on a Low-Carb diet
> for more than about 6-8 weeks. After that I had a hard time stay
> interested in the diet. After a while I'd cheat as a 'treat' for
> losing weight and eventually go back to full-carb dieting again slowly
> gaining all that lost weight back again.

If you just add carbs and don't subtract something else to compensate, it means
you're consuming more calories.

How can you even claim you're ``dieting'', if you're gaining weight?

Okay, you may be dieting, but you are not dieting for weight loss.

If you're on an eating plan on which you're gaining weight, then if whatever
you are doing can be called dieting, it can only be weight gain dieting.

> Is their a diet that exists which allows you to eat all 'kinds' of
> food without being restricted to either low-fat/carb?
>
> I'd sure like to know....

Yes there is. Eating less (fewer calories). But you know that already.

You sound like you want to know whether there is a magic eating plan which
allows you to eat however /much/ you want, of anything you want, yet still
lose.

Oh, and, let me guess, without a lot of exercise.

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trigonometry1972@gmail.com | - 22 Jul 2008 22:33 GMT

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I'll suggest small amounts of carbs are to be reintroduced to
attain a maintence mode for long term low carbing. Coconut is a great
help. Personally I've never be a big fan of high carb foods.
Even ice ceam is has a nice feel is nonetheless sickenly
sweet to me. I much prefer sour cream, shredded coconut
and a modest amount on fresh fruit.

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