Why Can't I Lose Weight?
An Article by Atkins Center writer Sheila Buff.
Sunday, February 20, 2011
The Low Carb Connoisseur
Why Can't I Lose Weight?
An Article by Atkins Center writer Sheila Buff.
Saturday, February 19, 2011
Low-Carb Humor
Here is some of the Low Carb Humor out there on the internet
Cartoon from offthemarkcartoons.com by Mark Parisi
A must see low-carb cartoon collection from shinyhappyhead.com
Bread has been proven to absorb water. Since the human body is more than 90 percent water, it follows that eating bread could lead to your body being taken over by this absorptive food product, turning you into a soggy, gooey bread-pudding person.
(A well-dressed woman and her teenage daughter are out to lunch at one of my tables. I have already brought them their drinks.)
Customer: *waving me over* “Miss! I asked for a diet soda.”
Me: “Oh, I’m so sorry. I must have picked up another server’s order by mistake. Let me get you a new one.”
(I fill a diet soda myself and deliver it. Before even tasting it, she speaks up.)
Customer: “No! This isn’t diet soda! I’m on a very strict diet and I can’t have carbs!”
Me: “I filled it myself. I assure you that it is diet.”
Customer: *poking the drink with a straw* “Then what are these? I can see the carbs everywhere!”
Me: “You can see the carbs, Ma’am?”
Customer: “Yes! Are you blind? Can’t you see the bubbles?”
Customer’s teenage daughter: “Oh my God, mom! ‘Carbs’ mean carbohydrates, not carbonation!”
Low Carb Humor Gifts
Cartoon from offthemarkcartoons.com by Mark Parisi
A must see low-carb cartoon collection from shinyhappyhead.com
Bread has been proven to absorb water. Since the human body is more than 90 percent water, it follows that eating bread could lead to your body being taken over by this absorptive food product, turning you into a soggy, gooey bread-pudding person.
(A well-dressed woman and her teenage daughter are out to lunch at one of my tables. I have already brought them their drinks.)
Customer: *waving me over* “Miss! I asked for a diet soda.”
Me: “Oh, I’m so sorry. I must have picked up another server’s order by mistake. Let me get you a new one.”
(I fill a diet soda myself and deliver it. Before even tasting it, she speaks up.)
Customer: “No! This isn’t diet soda! I’m on a very strict diet and I can’t have carbs!”
Me: “I filled it myself. I assure you that it is diet.”
Customer: *poking the drink with a straw* “Then what are these? I can see the carbs everywhere!”
Me: “You can see the carbs, Ma’am?”
Customer: “Yes! Are you blind? Can’t you see the bubbles?”
Customer’s teenage daughter: “Oh my God, mom! ‘Carbs’ mean carbohydrates, not carbonation!”
Low Carb Humor Gifts
Now try Comedy Central's Nick DiPaolo - Food Poisoning
& Nick DiPaolo - Obese People
On my Low-Carb booklist
"According to USA Weekend, over a quarter of the adults in the U.S. have tried a low-carb diet. Many people have enjoyed lasting success. Others have felt mystified or deprived and given up!
Whether you’re a first-timer or a “try, try-againer”, this book helps you get with the low-carb program and stick with it! Building on the success of Low-Carb Dieting For Dummies, it gives you loads of nutritional information plus more than 100 sumptuous low-carb recipes like Crunchy Brunch Oatmeal Pecan Waffles, Caribbean Chicken, Chile Spiced Broccoli, and Lemon Torte with Raspberries. Low-Carb Cookbook For Dummies includes:
- A complete nutritional analysis for each recipe so you can’t go wrong
- Lots of recipes for dishes with 5 carbs or less
- Recipes that de-carb no-nos like Southern fried chicken and Philly cheese steak sandwiches
- Recipes for soups, seafood, and meat dishes, including pork chops, lamb and steaks (with a steak chart so you can chart a low-carb course)
- Recipes for great desserts, including chocolate specialties and cheesecake
- Vegetarian recipes and crock pot specialties
- Terrific wrap recipes using lettuce, tortillas, or crepes
- Guidelines for eating low-carb when you’re dining out or brown-bagging it
- Mini-courses on low-carb math and on low-carb nutritition and the glycemic index
- A shopping list for stocking a low-carb kitchen
- The scoop on different kinds of carbs and artificial sweeteners
- Tips on using spices creatively for variety and flavor
- Advice on incorporating exercise, including taking the first step (and lots more steps) with a pedometer
- Tips for reducing stress (a common cause of bingeing)
Half Ton Man, a thought provoking story
Patrick Deuel, and his fascinating sub-plot 'enabler' wife, are a story you may want to absorb into your body as you evaluate your own relationship to food. The film Half Ton Man has an equally thoughtful follow-up msnbc.com Fitness article online titled
Half-ton man loses 573 pounds in one year
'I look a little more like a human being'
Eat Meat or Not? Which is best for me or you?
Within the website Acu-cell, in their Vegetarianism section, is a helpful comparison titled "Nutritional pros and cons of Meat-based and Vegetarian Diets". A recommended read!
Alden Smith's opinion is available at DoItYourself.com.
A simple but fair appraisal, stressing nutrition.
in list form... Clear and helpful for reflection, a quick read.
With very few exceptions, the issue of 'meat verses no-meat' on the web is dominated by Vegetarians, Vegans, and Raw-Vegans. The USA, which is historically a meat loving culture, is comparable to Japan in its cultural assumption of fish and fish bi-products. True vegetarians are a radical minority with few commercial consumables, in most of middle America, and in Japan where I live.
The most advertised source of Low-carb products on the internet, Netrition.com, is a US based company out of Albany New York. They cover a wide diversity of dietary disciplines, along with products that supplement muscle-building nutritionalists. The site provides full disclosure of all ingredients for their many products, so consumers have a fighting chance at knowing what to expect before ordering. This would seem a prerequisite, yet there are many on-line sellers, particularly in the legal-gray area of 'supplementation and nutrition,' which provide superlatives but few actual facts.
As an international consumer, shipping costs can be somewhat discouraging, as are the sacrifices needed to give products a shelf-life. All schools of nutritional radicalism, from Raw-Veganism to Paleo-Primal, encourage buying local, fresh produce... label-less real food.
Steak...Why not the best...
Friday, February 18, 2011
Low-carb Vegetarians/Vegans actually Exist
Though it is not the ideal marriage, Atkins-like variations exist in the Veggie-only community. Without the satiating characteristics of fat and protein via meat, one can only admire these sacrificial abstainers and their quest for both beauty and philosophical consistency. This is the book I have ordered to better learn their culinary perspective.
"Rose Elliot is Britain's foremost vegetarian cookery writer and is the author of many bestselling titles. She has written more than 50 books, including Fast, Fresh and Fabulous, Rose Elliot's Vegetarian Meals in Minutes, The Bean Book, Vegan Feasts, and Vegetarian Express. She lives with her husband in Hampshire and London."
Visit sarahcox77 Studiov for an online low-carb vegetarian cooking series from Australia by Sarah Cox.
"Rose Elliot is Britain's foremost vegetarian cookery writer and is the author of many bestselling titles. She has written more than 50 books, including Fast, Fresh and Fabulous, Rose Elliot's Vegetarian Meals in Minutes, The Bean Book, Vegan Feasts, and Vegetarian Express. She lives with her husband in Hampshire and London."
Visit sarahcox77 Studiov for an online low-carb vegetarian cooking series from Australia by Sarah Cox.
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Sugar: The Bitter Truth
"Dr. Lustig is a nationally-recognized authority in the field of neuroendocrinology, with a specific emphasis on the regulation of energy balance by the central nervous system. He is currently investigating the contribution of biochemical, neural, hormonal, and genetic influences in the expression of the current obesity epidemic both in children and adults. "
Statistical Review as a Reality Check
It is hard for me to accept that I have not been 'OK' at my present height 'ever' according to the Belgian polymath Adolphe Quetelet developer of "social physics".
At half my present weight I would be considered 'NORMAL'.
Progress, Concern, and Home Work
After one full week, on this Low-Carb life-style, I am down 5 kilo. A routine scheduled visit to my doctor had him complimenting my loss... yet increasing my blood pressure medication. I have been increasing my exercise (from zero to 'some' on my treadmill) and playing with my body chemistry, so there will be changes. I will go along with the medication this month, as I drop more weight. But my medium term goal is 'to do without'.
Here are the two books I am presently reading in this quest to understand the greater Low-Carb community of Primal/Paleo practioners.
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Melissa McEwen
"Hi! I originally started eating paleo to heal from chronic health problems and well...it worked! This blog is about the intersection between evolutionary biology and food. But also about practical applications, sustainable agriculture, and general tasty things. These days I'm a co-organizer for NYC's Eating Paleo in NYC Meetup Group." – Melissa McEwen
This site is as handsome as the author, well written, graphically titillating, and chuck-full of right-on info. Follow her step by step for an informative journey through the primal jungle, living Paleo. Brilliant!
Compare Atkins Diet with Low Fat Diet
Compare Atkins Diet with Low Fat Diet and Mediterranean Diet, Which One Works Best?
- Low fat diet – Eat little fat and cut their calories.
- Mediterranean diet – Cut calories, vegetable eat.
- Atkins type diet – Replace carbs with protein and fat.
- Which one works best? Find out the answer in this video.
BBC Documentary – The Atkins Diet
Does the Atkins diet really work and is it dangerous? The most controversial diet in history, a new low carb diet revolution from Dr. Robert Atkins, author of the Atkins new diet revolution. Dr.Atkins’s experimental found that you could eat as much as you desire and still lose weight.
In this video documentary from BBC will show you what is Atkins Diet and how it works.
Steve's Original
"Steve's Original is, at its core, about journeys. Our story is the result of years of searching for a healthier way to live; and eat. Our Originals are about the journey that we all take to find a better way to live our lives and fuel our bodies."
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
OPTIMAL DIET
Translated from Polish by the Czech creator of the best Optimal Diet website:"Jan Kwasniewski was born in 1937 in Poland. He graduated from the Military Medical Academy and specialised in Physical Medicine.
For many years he worked in the Military Sanatorium in Ciechocinek as dietician where he introduce famous in Poland and at present all over the world his nutritional method which gives the humans good and long health. This method was named "Optimal Diet" which is the cornerstone to the nutritional theory. The principles of the optimal diet at first shock people because the diet recommends eating large quantities of fats along with a radical cut of carbohydrates. The basic premise is that the dieter should keep the proper proportion among the three fundamental nutrients in food: protein, fat and carbohydrates. He found that the ideal proportion is from 1:2.5:0.5 to 1:3.5:0.5 meaning that with every gram of protein 2.5 to 3.5 grams of fat and half a gram of carbohydrates should be eaten. In another words, optimal nutrition is a high fat, low carbohydrate diet."
PāNu: paleonutrition - emulating the evolutionary metabolic milieu
"PāNu means paleonutrition. The "paleo" here signifies "old" and not necessarily paleolithic. The PāNu approach to nutrition is grounded on clinical medicine and basic sciences disciplined by knowledge of evolutionary biology and paleoanthropology. The best evidence from multiple disciplines supports eating a pastoral (animal-based) diet rather than a grain-based agricultural one, while avoiding what I call the neolithic agents of disease - wheat, excess fructose and excess linoleic acid."
LINDA'S LOW CARB MENUS & RECIPES
From 'Fat Head; You've been fed a lot of bologna' the low-carb website of comedian Tom Naughton... Some recipe options Linda’s Low Carb Menus. Jan’s Sushi Bar, Kelly the Kitchen Kop, Atkins Recipes, Hold the Toast Recipes (by Dana Carpender, who also wrote a low-carb cookbook we use all the time), and Atkins Diet Recipe Videos from Atkins Diet Geek.Mark’s Daily Apple
Mark Sisson is an institution in the Paleo world, a position he deserves and maintains in style.
His dietary position in a nutshell:
- fresh, organic, unprocessed food – no junk!
- daily activity – whether it’s the gym or a walk along the beach, it all counts
- plenty of quality sleep
- plenty of water, no soda or sweetened drinks
- antioxidants galore – the key to limiting stress
- a good fish-oil supplement
- lots of essential fats, reckless amounts of vegetables, and clean protein
- time for fun – don’t take anything too seriously – ethical behavior – because what goes around comes around
- taking responsibility for yourself and your life – openness to new things and ideas
- daily activity – whether it’s the gym or a walk along the beach, it all counts
- plenty of quality sleep
- plenty of water, no soda or sweetened drinks
- antioxidants galore – the key to limiting stress
- a good fish-oil supplement
- lots of essential fats, reckless amounts of vegetables, and clean protein
- time for fun – don’t take anything too seriously – ethical behavior – because what goes around comes around
- taking responsibility for yourself and your life – openness to new things and ideas
Latest in Paleo, The Weekly Paleo Podcast
"This Week in Paleo is a dynamic new blog and weekly podcast. "At the intersection of scientific evidence and evolutionary clues left to us by our ancestors, the Paleo Diet and Lifestyle is a unique approach to nutrition and fitness."
Paleolithic diet
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