That should be you're funny, short for you are.

Well laugh all you like, the fact is I am, and I have also published a number of books both written by me and by others. I proofread academic books.
Presumably you mean 'let the doctors do their own work'? For you to suggest I read any book is highly amusing, you must find it quite difficult with the big words if you make such elementary mistakes with the little ones.

I don't eat at MacDonald's so I am not a "Mug", even if I did, I'm still not a "Mug" whatever that's supposed to mean. The majority of low carbers don't eat at MacDonald's, the only suitable protein there are those dried up Macpatties. So I don't know how you are connecting "MacMurder" with this support forum?

willpower has nothing at all to do with what the body will demand. and while our brains can say "no" all we want, our bodies will react violently with the need.

just so you're aware, humans crave certain foods because the body is lacking something within that given food, and since the body cannot tell us "i need vitamin X and mineral Y", we will have a craving for a specific food that holds some or all of the lacking items. for many of us here, that specific item is sugar in one of its many forms. and what's truly sad is that the trends we see today where people are becoming more and more obese is indicative that an addiction to sugar is rapidly becoming the rule, not the exception.


everyone's biochemistry is slightly different. just because you don't know what it's like to be addicted to carbs doesn't mean others here don't suffer from it. do you know what it's like to be allergic to chestnuts? to be throwing up every 2 hours? to be huddled in a blanket, shaking with cold, and still sweating profusely? to not even be able to keep water down? no? guess what, i do. and your lack of experience with allergies to chestnuts does not in ANY way lessen my body's intolerance of them.

my body also cannot tolerate large amounts of carbohydrates. just because yours can does not mean my body is automatically going to start accepting them purely because you say i should.

piet, all you've done here is demonstrated an infinite capacity for hubris, you've been afforded respect by some on this thread which you have NOT earned, and for all your supposed intelligence you show nothing but ignorance about a topic on which we have all become experts. your only interest in all of this is to ruffle our feathers... you're not here to educate yourself, you're not here to share information, you're not even here to offer support. all i can think is that you're here because you literally have nothing better to do. i can only hope that you're not this much of an ass in real life... if so, i'm glad you're a continent away from me.

Because we eat meat. And for some reason, that's bad. I guess.

Also, to me "mug" = "container that one puts a delicious hot beverage into"

Piet, are you calling me a delicious hot beverage?

You must find books a challenge.

Only the ones which have been poorly edited.

Kay

The last time I checked, books had distinct paragraphs.

Spring break....bored children. I'm sure you get the picture.

Sorry for ignoring you, these posts are disappearing into past pages too quickly for me to keep track. I didn't mean to ignore a reasoned argument. So here goes. I'm not actually saying meat causes obesity, more that the fat in meat does, and all red meat is laced with fat. That's why some people only eat low fat meat such as chicken breast. And eating a lot of meat is pretty wastefull as the body needs so much protein, and the rest goes down the sewers. I only really started on about meat because I had thought that was what Atkins was all about. If it's really about eating lots of veg and fruit then I'm with you!

Why do you persist in spelling orangutan with a space between the 'g' and 'u'? That's incorrect in any country.

It would seem that it's spring break and the kiddies are out of school and bored. It has ever been thus on any forum I have ever participated in during any holiday from school.

Troll (trol) verb

To post a message in a newsgroup or other online conference in the hopes that somebody else will consider the original message so outrageous that it demands a heated reply. A classic example of a troll is to post an article in favor of torturing cats in a pet lovers' newsgroup.

Piet still hasn't answered my question. >:-(

Are you trying to score brownie points? I am not a editor so why should I care...

Only if you want to be called such.
As for the Mac thing, I didn't start it, some people here were whining about the sugars in the buns etc. and about fast foods generally, so that seemed to be one of the problems.

don't feel bad, he's ignored both of my posts. i'm thinking kyrasdad has proven too much for him and all he has left are ad hominems for the rest of us .

I'm guessing the same one that told him Dr. Atkins died of colon cancer and that low carbers eat all their meals at McDonalds.