Wed, Dec-26-12, 09:17
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Senior Member
Posts: 146
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Plan: atkins
Stats: 212/197/175
BF:
Progress: 41%
Location: Canada
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Researchers are always looking for the smoking gun, the missing link, the panacea. The fact is that no matter how much we learn we will never understand the intangible nature of how the body works. There's the Sufi proverb where three men go into a darkened room for their first encounter with an elephant. One touches the elephant's back and thinks the elephant is like a temple. The other touches a leg and thinks the elephant must surely be like an oak, while the third fellow touches the trunk, and thinks the elephant is like a big snake. All those elements were right, but put together they did not make an elephant.
The empirical evidence of my own journey through LC is that I FEEL better. I was quite against eating large quantities of meat before and was a vegetarian for many years. As a vegetarian I caught 3 or 4 colds a year, some of them lasting for a month. Red meat was always the enemy. Even when I got back on meat I avoided eating red meat as much as possible. Even though I allowed myself to get fat, and ate my share of junk, I also ate a pretty balanced diet. I still gained weight, I still felt like crap. Long story short: Since starting LC I feel smarter, stronger, more energetic, and I've lost weight with ease. None of us are going to live forever, and I would take ten years of feeling like I do now over 20 of how I used to feel. No doubt, as in all things in life, balance is key. Except love, one can never have enough of that; with bacon coming a close second.
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