Thu, Jun-19-08, 19:19
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Every moment is NOW.
Posts: 23,064
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Plan: LC (ketogenic)
Stats: 520/381/280
BF: Why yes it is.
Progress: 58%
Location: Ozarks USA
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Quote:
Originally Posted by M Levac
What made us sick, fat, weak and stupid is the high carb diet. It's the diet. So it doesn't make sense to advise to exercise for the purpose of becoming healthy. It doesn't make sense either to advise to exercise for the purpose of losing fat. Diet comes first. The rest will follow and it will follow quickly enough as health improves through diet alone.
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Now that my kid has been on LC for 17 days -- minus two she ate with someone else -- her complexion is clear for the first time in eons, she is already getting smaller again, and today when we left the restaurant she SKIPPED out of the restaurant, and then skipped to the car. I was walking behind her with my mouth open, realizing the difference. This is the kid who whines and doesn't feel like doing ANYTHING when we're eating highcarb (and is cranky, bloated, acne prone, brain-fogged and more).
This is the second time I've shifted her to low carb. The first time she lost nearly 5 pants sizes in like 8 weeks. She was back on typical (HC) eating for six months and gained back maybe 1 pants size (plus some in the tummy/upper body). This time she's losing more slowly -- at least to begin -- but she's clearly losing size in several areas, despite she craves more protein than even *I* can eat at a sitting, isn't losing much but is demonstrably getting slimmer all over and I think taller (she'll be 12 in August). She's bouncing around all excited about getting a backyard pool this weekend, and her attitude is much better.
There is no exercise involved here, just a food change, but thanks to the food change, she WANTS to exercise--naturally, spontaneously, because she "feels like moving". That's just the way it works.
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