January crash diets are a fat lot of good
January crash diets are a fat lot of good
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Good for him! He'd have a front row seat for when bariatric surgery doesn't work.
I can't find straight info about who regains after surgery, and how much. It's like trying to find out how many people gain dozens of pounds after being put on anti-depressants. For every blog that describes this near-inevitability, there's an official release claiming it averages five pounds! But I know it's a lot of people. |
His message is for individuals wanting help, not industry or government, who may block their ears. It’s one of enjoyment, not deprivation, summed up by “eat more, rest more”. The first priority is to slash insulin, which drives fat storage. Sugar, corn and modern bread are banned but he doesn’t advocate the misery of a high-fat, low-carb ketogenic diet. Potatoes and rice are fine.
First of all, as we here know, it is not a misery and secondly, at least for me, rice and potatoes are binge worthy foods which I imagine drive insulin also and staying away from them, which I have for years, is an essential part of my plan. The assumption that eating low carb keto is a misery is what drives these stupid statements which are just concessions to a belief system about what gives pleasure and what doesn't and the role food has in obtaining that pleasure. My mantra is if you want the results you have to create the causes and part of the cause for me is eliminating rice and potatoes (and other so-called healthy grains) with the result of a healthy weight, lowered blood sugar and decreased body fat. Now that's pleasure. |
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I have seen this in action, and it gets me so upset. One was a coworker about a decade older who was overweight, depressed, miserable, and fending off diabetes/autoimmune. A sadly common combo which would have taken me down had I not explored low carb with such devotion. I backslid over the years, but never more than 15 pounds, and my health didn't crash until I let the carbs creep to nearly 100 a day. So, over the years, she saw my successes, but could never even try it: her nightly pint of gourmet ice cream and spectacular dinner parties were her only pleasures, and she couldn't see how new pleasures would expand her world and make her happier. Her example of what loomed before me if I gave up did help me negotiate all the different twists and turns of my own journey; and the success, both health and weight-wise, I enjoy now. |
Ah yes...a NEW BOOK!! Well, I think the essential message is okay. And most of us who follow an LC way of eating (not "diet") know how many variations there are, and also that there's nothing miserable about steak and butter. :lol:
We also know that it's not mystery and magic. It's finding a way of eating you can live with forever. And many of us have found, even with great success in our histories, that life (and weight) can still have its ups and downs. On the whole, low-carbohydrate has achieved a level of scientific support. And the processed food industry and its government cronies have been held accountable in a much more visible way. Nobody asks me anymore about my weight management success. I've looked about the same (to them) for fifty years. But if asked, I'm happy to suggest Taubes's Why We Get Fat as a great guide. For newbies, perhaps this new book will be helpful. Not too extreme. Mostly truthful. |
Both my brothers, older than I, developed type II diabetes and eventually congestive heart failure as well as degenerative myelopathy.
"Little sister's" advice on eating low-carb was rejected in favor of the diabetic nurse's nutritional advice. They were both on metformin. Both ate sugary foods. One brother, in hospital, was given chocolate cake despite having diabetic on his chart. After discharge he bragged about how good the pancakes and syrup were at breakfast. The other brother routinely ate ice cream and cookies. They thought the metformin would control their blood sugar spikes from the foods they ate. To my regret, both brothers have died. Were their deaths preventable if they had had good dietary advice? I just don't know. A friend wants to lose 30 pounds and is doing IF - but she admits she is not doing well on low carb. When I send her the information about the interaction of carbs and insulin secretion, she just tosses it. It always puzzles me that people don't want to know the physiology of eating. Don't really want information that contradicts what "Joe Blow" told them. |
I'm sorry about your brothers. I have one who has diabetes now, and was doing well on lowcarb advice from his two Paleo leaning siblings. But his job is hectic and his social life revolves around football.
He didn't stick with it. |
Potatoes and rice sound more like misery to me--unless you add in the stuff that fits into the misery of a ketogenic diet. Butter, sour cream, fatty pork...
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I still don't quite agree with this, it makes it sound like yo-yo dieting is why we get fatter on the SAD as the years go by. Studies do show a weight gain overshoot when people/animals are starved and then refed, but it's not to the point of obesity and sort of sorts itself out if people just stop dieting for long enough. That is--if they were eating a diet that wasn't making them fat in the first place. Eating the SAD for years, without dieting--people and animals get fat. If they diet and lose weight, that just reverses the course during the diet--and then when they go back to not dieting, back to eating the SAD, they're back on that course of weight gain that preceded the diet. We don't get fat because we diet--we diet because the cruddy modern diet was making us fat in the first place. |
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I share your mantra, Jean. The definition of pleasure related to food consumption has become so distorted today, that taking away chocolate cake or sweets in general gets emotional reactions. Food taken correctly shouldn't play on one's emotions, but it does. That's the first warning sign. When people I know attempt low carb, I usually am not surprised that when eventually confronted with these myths about the negative aspects of low carb/ keto, they think they have a reason to bail. It's a human reaction to the mindset that they are punishing themselves by withholding the foods they find satisfying. The irony is that any information from the so-called nutrition "experts" questioning low carb provides an immediate stimulus to quit. The "What in the world was I thinking?" reaction. But why? The way food is defined in the 21st century is extremely different today than how it was defined and consumed at any other time in history. We've been stealthily force adapted to processed carbage without even knowing it. It's been so gradual, that most haven't even noticed it, as we constantly adapt to the new normal. |
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My dad and two of my brothers were type 2 diabetics and did the recommended diabetes eating plan and all three died from heart problems related to diabetes. I'm quite a few years older now that they were when they died and the health issues I had are not related to diet. Before I low-carbed, I did the low-fat recommended diet and ended up heavier, pre-diabetic and on statins and 3 other drugs. It didn't take long after I dropped carbs and embraced fat, for me to get off the drugs. I truly believe that if I had continued the low-fat, high-carb eating system I would be dead. |
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I have an "eerie mirror" in a good friend. We are only weeks apart in age, have similar jobs, and juggle a lot of stress. She's miserable, depressed, has an array of issues and medications, and just added a new weekly injection for her diabetes. I went a different path, and I wish she would follow my example. |
I'm sad to read several posts here about siblings who have died while continuing their prescribed (or preferred) eating habits. I have three siblings, one a doctor. Only the doctor, it seems, has fallen into the SAD life, owing to many everyday stresses. He probably knows better, but....
Hope the new year brings new resolve to everyone here! It's not like we're deprived, right? |
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As I tell aghast co-workers: "The food is delicious and I'm not deprived of health or fashion!" |
I've always been curious of the reasons behind those that start LC and stop. Valuable data to get a hold of. I can guess at some of the reasons. Peer pressure. Social eating situations. Spouse support or the lack of.
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I can now walk through the office break room and ignore it all. When you consider many of my co-workers start their day with bagels and toast, meetings usually have pastry, and we often have pizza Fridays, that's no small thing. I ignored DH's off-plan food, much of which I don't like :lol: But still, if I were to fall off my plan, temptations are all around. Not to mention the drive home, when I'm often hungry and exhausted, have so many bad choices that would take me minutes in the drive-through. The sheer weight of adding the extra work of shopping and cooking is enough for some who are used to buying meals faster and cheaper than socks. |
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