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Originally Posted by Carne!
i didnt read the whole thread so apologies if this was touched upon- but in the PaNu interview Harris gets into the problem with 'fake' foods for a little bit. But Moore puts the kibosh on it saying that "some of us can't live without those foods." That type of mentality ( i cannot LIVE without it) may be a key as to why he can't lose all the weight.
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Hey, I once felt that way myself! Until I learned that I *could* live without that stuff. But it didn't happen overnight. Heck, I'm still not perfect at it! But mostly I eat *real* food these days. And even if I occasionally break down and have a LC sweet treat I make it myself so I can control the ingredients and make it as "real" as possible. And I try to do it rarely, not daily.
But what I can't understand is why Jimmy seems so blind to the possibilities. I've done more and more reading of nutritional writers and bloggers, and it all led to the realization that 'real food' was where it was at. I can't believe that Jimmy has been unable to come to that conclusion himself considering all the LC and paleo and nutritional experts he has had access to via his podcasts.
To be honest the fact that he is still obese does not really bother me all that much. The man once weighed over 400 pounds. Clearly he, like most if indeed not all of us supersizers, had to have had a seriously trashed metabolism.
Back in the late 90s, when I was active on the alt.support.diet.low-carb usenet there was a fellow who was active there named Lee Rodgers, who called himself 'Dietman'. He had started out at *well over 600 pounds* and even with low carbing he "only" managed to get down to about 450, and could never get below that. Even though he knew all sorts of things about low carbing his body was just so seriously trashed. He gained back over 50 pounds just from stress and sorrow eating when his dog died. I mean it is *easy* to do.
Funny I had not thought about Lee for years, but this brought him back to my mind and I googled him, and found his website is still up:
http://www.lowcarb.org/
It was probably the granddaddy of all the lowcarb sites. From reading his personal story there I see he did eventually gain all the weight back and then some, and eventually ended up having weight loss surgery. No updates to his story since 2007 so I don't know what's up with him now. But as an example of how we all see ourselves differently, he includes a link to a photo of himself in college when he *only* weighed 325 and thought he was in pretty good shape! And yet, you know, he DOES look in pretty good shape in the photo.
As a supersizer myself I know how hard the battle is. I think I've learned so much about low carb over the years, but that still does not mean I know what it takes to make my own particular body give up its fat stores. The fact that Jimmy started at over 400 pounds, and has still managed to keep off as much as he has all these years, makes him a "success" in my eyes.
Well we'll see. I'll be seeing him on the 2010 Low Carb Cruise, so guess I will get to see with my own eyes what his weight situation is then. But these things are so relative. I mean people who meet me for the first time see a "fat lady" and have no idea that I'm down 100 pounds from what I once was and actually feel pretty good about myself. But I'm still FAT. Maybe I always will be despite my struggles. Well I'll see what the endocrinologist says in the morning about my thyroid dosage. I still have hopes for that.