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Weight Loss Forum / Low Carb / January 2004CNN
Low carb is off the chain. It is really just getting bigger and bigger. I personally think this is just the beginning. The only problem I see for those of use that are low carbers is the price of meat. Beef is so expensive already and now we are going to have a bunch of new buyers with the craze. I guess I am posting this in hopes someone will tell me more buyers could mean more cattle farms will crop up and keep prices lower. Unfortunately, I don't think it works that way. Hope everyone had a good holiday. I have not been here for a month or so. Curt  Signature211/don't know at the moment/185 . . 6'2" Started low carb May 18, 2003...this time Highest weight 250 Curt, Don't get too excited until you see this low carb media frenzy still apparent in April. The flurry of media attention right now and the boom in products are part of the January Diet thing that happens every year after the holidays when everyone makes a new year resolution to lose weight. Ask anyone at a health club what happens to 80% of those dieters and exercises by February. The media schedule diet features and the supermarkets stock up with diet foods every year around this time. It's almost like another holiday--Thanksgiving, Christmas, and January Diet. Unfortunately, when it's gone you won't be seeing anywhere near so much focus on it. It is nice that the focus is now on low carb rather than low fat, but whether it is a fad or not will only be seen if the products stay in demand after the January blitz. Didn't someone post here recently that the Subway low carb thing was only scheduled to run until Feburary? -- Jenny - Low Carbing for 4 years. At goal for weight. Type 2 diabetes, hba1c 5.2. Cut the carbs to respond to my email address! Low carb facts and figures, my weight-loss photos, tips, recipes and more at http://www.geocities.com/jenny_the_bean/ Looking for help controlling your blood sugar? Visit http://www.alt-support-diabetes.org/Newly%20Diagnosed.htm > Low carb is off the chain. It is really just getting bigger and bigger. I > personally think this is just the beginning. The only problem I see for [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > Started low carb May 18, 2003...this time > Highest weight 250 I agree January is a joke, but when I see stores open up that are "low carb only" and McDonalds, Subway and a host of others jumping on the bandwagon, this is way more than January. This is huge! It is going to the moon, IMHO. I just don't want beef prices to go even higher. They are bad enough as it is and I get tired of chicken. Although I am eating a pork roast at the moment. Curt > Curt, > [quoted text clipped - 43 lines] > > Started low carb May 18, 2003...this time > > Highest weight 250 >Ask anyone at a health club what happens to 80% of those dieters and >exercises by February. By march 1, attendance drops over 50% at the aerobic stations and 75% at the lifting stations. http://www.allthesky.com/eclipses/lunareclipse01a.html Lift well, Eat less, Walk fast, Live long. :: On Wed, 7 Jan 2004 11:47:33 -0500, "Jenny" :: <lottadatacarbs@hotmail.com> wrote: [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] :: By march 1, attendance drops over 50% at the aerobic stations and 75% :: at the lifting stations. Got any ideas as to why the % is greater at lifting stations? Too hard? >:: By march 1, attendance drops over 50% at the aerobic stations and 75% >:: at the lifting stations. > >Got any ideas as to why the % is greater at lifting stations? Too hard? Got better than ideas, Got data. http://www.allthesky.com/eclipses/lunareclipse01a.html Lift well, Eat less, Walk fast, Live long. > >Ask anyone at a health club what happens to 80% of those dieters and > >exercises by February. > > By march 1, attendance drops over 50% at the aerobic stations and 75% > at the lifting stations. This has nothing to do with low carb. Curt Signature211/?/185 . . 6'2" Started low carb May 18, 2003...this time Highest weight 250 It is kinda a funny thing at the Gym that I go to!!All of us regulars tend to reschedule our workout times as the place is packed!!We all say to one another 6 weeks tops" and that is usually what it takes to weed out the uncommitted!As a sidenote it sems to me that during this time most of the equipment gets misused and abused,as training sessions are a lot less thorough! Just my opinion, Sally I guess I am posting this in > hopes someone will tell me more buyers could mean more cattle farms > will crop up and keep prices lower. Unfortunately, I don't think it > works that way. There's always chicken, pork, fish, turkey, duck, deer, rabbit, squirrel.... :) > Hope everyone had a good holiday. I have not been here for a month > or so. Curt Noticed. You were missed. Signaturerevek As much fun as it is seeing rabid libertarian attack weasels scrap with crazed lefty assault ferrets, it's swallowing half the newsgroup again. David Bilek Man, good to see you still here. It is always nice to come back and hear from one of the first people that welcomed me here. Yeah, I had some deer meat a few weeks ago. It was excellent. Squirrel....well, I don't know. :) Enjoy, Curt > I guess I am posting this in > > hopes someone will tell me more buyers could mean more cattle farms [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > Noticed. You were missed. > Man, good to see you still here. They'll have to drag me away in chains. I'm hooked for life. :) It is always nice to come back and > hear from one of the first people that welcomed me here. Yeah, I had > some deer meat a few weeks ago. It was excellent. > Squirrel....well, I don't know. :) Very similar to rabbit. A bit tougher, usually, but I like the flavor better. -- revek Technical support is how much a minute? Only one other industry charges $3.99 a minute to talk to you, and at least you get some degree of pleasure out of that! >I guess I am posting this in hopes someone will tell me more >buyers could mean more cattle farms will crop up and keep prices lower. >Unfortunately, I don't think it works that way. Right now with the "mad cow scare" in the US, the bottom should fall out of the market, if it hasn't already, and beef should become much cheaper. At least until people feel "safe" again. Connie ***************************************************** My mind is like a steel...um, whatchamacallit. > Right now with the "mad cow scare" in the US, the bottom should fall out of the > market, if it hasn't already, and beef should become much cheaper. At least > until people feel "safe" again. > > Connie Well, that would suit me fine. Get those prices down! I love a good steak. Curt Except that the news I have seen says that retail and restaurant sales of beef have NOT dropped off. In news:20040107134010.22081.00003222@mb-m17.aol.com, ConnieG999 <connieg999@aol.com> stated | Right now with the "mad cow scare" in the US, the bottom should fall | out of the market, if it hasn't already, and beef should become much [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] | ***************************************************** | My mind is like a steel...um, whatchamacallit. > Except that the news I have seen says that retail and restaurant sales of > beef have NOT dropped off. Give it a little time. But even if domestic demand doesn't fall off too much, exports have virtually stopped. There was a 2-billion pound shortfall predicted because our exports were so strong after that mad cow in Canada hit the world's headlines and they couldn't sell their beef anywhere. Pastorio > In news:20040107134010.22081.00003222@mb-m17.aol.com, > ConnieG999 <connieg999@aol.com> stated [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > | ***************************************************** > | My mind is like a steel...um, whatchamacallit. >>I guess I am posting this in hopes someone will tell me more >>buyers could mean more cattle farms will crop up and keep prices lower. [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > market, if it hasn't already, and beef should become much cheaper. At least > until people feel "safe" again. The bottom is about to fall out of the wholesale market. Cattle raisers are selling off their stocks before the bottom hits. The combination of mad cow and seriously curtailed exports will mean significantly lower prices. Pastorio Bob this makes no sense to me. If cattle raisers are selling off before the bottom hits then I think we need to see deals on beef now. I am seeing nothing like that here. I would like to have a steak, but the prices are outrageous for anything good. I guess I could buy a chuck roast and slow cook it, but I would rather have a Porterhouse med. rare. I hope we don't export much, and we have a glut as you suggest. I am on a budget. Curt Signature211/?/185 . . 6'2" Started low carb May 18, 2003...this time Highest weight 250 > >>I guess I am posting this in hopes someone will tell me more > >>buyers could mean more cattle farms will crop up and keep prices lower. [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > Pastorio > Bob this makes no sense to me. If cattle raisers are selling off before the > bottom hits then I think we need to see deals on beef now. I am seeing > nothing like that here. I would like to have a steak, but the prices are > outrageous for anything good. I guess I could buy a chuck roast and slow > cook it, but I would rather have a Porterhouse med. rare. You're not taking into account the time lag between when the producer sells the live cattle to when it's plastic wrapped in your grocer's refrigerator. > I hope we don't export much, and we have a glut as you suggest. I am on a > budget. Yeah, short term thats great. But then longer term people get out of the volatility of cattle production or keep smaller herds. Then, when people get their panties out of a twist and start buying beef again, you're back to high prices. Does anybody else remember all the hoohaa about alar? Martha SignatureBegin where you are - but don't end there. > Bob this makes no sense to me. If cattle raisers are selling off before the > bottom hits then I think we need to see deals on beef now. I am seeing > nothing like that here. You won't see it at retail for 30 to 45 days. They're feeding cattle grain before slaughter and then carcasses are broken down to primal cuts and cryopacked. The packs can have up to a 45 day shelf life. The distribution chain is a lot longer than one would think. > I would like to have a steak, but the prices are > outrageous for anything good. I guess I could buy a chuck roast and slow > cook it, but I would rather have a Porterhouse med. rare. > > I hope we don't export much, and we have a glut as you suggest. We won't likely have a glut, but we also won't have that 2-billion pound shortfall. Pastorio |
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