docsoliday1
DIS Dad #834 Cubs, Dolphins fan forever
- Joined
- Mar 12, 2008
I've been able to maintain it with two jobs (one full, one part time) and commuting an hour each way and working out. I did the south beach (very similar to atkins). The reason this one works and that didn't for me is simple...I appreciate the offer and might take you up on that. I lost weight on Adkins, but couldn't maintain. I also lost weight eating fruit & veggie smoothies and working out in the gym daily. Once i started the 2nd job, I gave up both of those.
I can buy whatever meat I want and doesn't have to be the leanest cuts like atkins/sb want and because you're supposed to get a higher fat content, everything tastes GOOD. Turns out the whole net carbs for a lot of atkins products is bogus also...many use malitol and it's almost as bad as sugar even thought they claim the net carbs are okay. I didn't know that and bought quite a few atkins treats thinking it was okay and sugar free candy thinking it was okay. I stopped losing weight for about 3 weeks and then I did some more research and found out about malitol. Stopped the atkins stuff and sugar free candy and started losing again immediately.
Sorry...just realized I was going off on a tangent there. Suffice it to say this is different (and for me very sustainable) compared to any other diet I've ever done.
If anyone wave: CJ) is bored and needs something to do...watch the magic pill on netflix. It shows several cases of people who've done the LCHF (Low Carb High Fat) diet and the astounding health benefits they've gotten also. As I mentioned before, I did a lot of research before I started and the science behind this is sound. It's not coincidental many of the health problems we have now-a-days and the obesity problem coincides with when the "healthy" diet/healthy heart food pyramid came out.
Spoiler alert if you're going to watch that -- cancer needs sugar to survive and grow. LCHF doesn't give the cancer food.