December 10, 2008
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Diet Answers
You give up yet? This was not an easy one. Although I got all of them after a little thought and a trip to the dictionary to check on an expanded meaning for one of the words.
1. Zone
2. Slim-Fast
3. Weight Watchers
4. Atkins
Cranium does it again. Boy I love that game.
Comments (14)
Never heard of Atkins.
Hi, Dropping by from a xanga friend’s site. I hope and pray your surgery will go well. And you get postive results! I need to have my collapsed hip replaced but I keep seeing people that just had the surgery with all the pain they are having and I am like aaaa I don’t think so. Ha HA! I am a nut my way of dealing with pain. I am MS and deal with numbness a lot. People don’t realize that not feeling is a pain too. Take Care, Sharon
@mksmak - It’s the eat-only-protein-and-not-carbs diet. Dr. Atkins, the guy who came up with it, is dead. It’s not terribly popular anymore.
Just stopping by to let you know I’m praying for you. Gail has you for prayer covering this week and I’ll be part of it! Blessings to you! ~ Chris
@justhopingnow - @JMHardens060703 - @proudmom87 - Thanks to all of you for your prayers. I am such a chicken when it comes to being in the hosp and having surgery. The prayers help and are helping now as we speak. I feel calmer and more at ease with the decisions that we are making.
I’d have the surgery for you if I could…but since I can’t, I’ll be praying. I got 2 easily and the other 2 I had to work hard for. Thanks for the brain exercise.
@JMHardens060703 -
Sigh. I have to say this, because it angers me so much. Not you at all – just the topic at hand.
The Atkins diet, as presented, is not a good picture for most people to follow. But a reduction in carbohydrate intake is the solution to America’s obesity epidemic. Americans eat like cows, and consequently, look like cows. When I quit eating bread and processed carbs of any kind, I lost 25 lbs of fat in six months. The Atkins diet is faulty because a mere reduction carbs will not do anybody any good if you’re getting your protein and fat from bad sources. If you avoid processed foods, and eat only clean meat, vegetables, nuts, eggs, and leafy greens (lots of those), you will lose most if not all of your excess fat VERY fast.
But you have to eat those things in unprocessed forms for it to be beneficial. Atkins was right about carbohydrates, and – as it turns out – everybody knew he was right all along, but nobody wanted to admit it. The high-carb, low-fat diet has created a country where 60% of its populous is obese. The low-carb, high-protein, high-fat diet is what is used by Olympic athletes the world around (and myself) and results in excellent physique, good health, high energy, and high productivity. The results are in and the high-carb diets are garbage. They don’t work, and they leave you hungry and miserable. The idea that eating fat makes you fat is unfounded scientifically, and high-fat diets are actually quite good for you if your fat sources are good ones (saturated animal fats, nuts, and oils are excellent – hydrogenated trans fats, i.e. “plastic fats” are HORRIBLE). Everybody knows though, that eating sweets is what causes obesity. I don’t care if a person eats “low-fat” candy. It isn’t the fat in cookies that makes you fat – it’s the sugar! And this is as intuitively obvious as it is backed up by hard science. The myth of fat consumption causing weight gain has been disproven so many times, it’s hard to count.
Suffice to say, Atkins didn’t give the whole picture in his work. More needs to be said on the matter. BUT, he did most certainly get people thinking in the right direction. Less grain, and more meat, nuts, and vegetables is the proper way to eat.
I’m stepping off my soap-box now.
@MysteriumFidei - Actually, I agree with you completely. I think South Beach was more the rounded Atkins, starting like Atkins, but rounding into a doable everyday thing with all the crap cut out.
@MysteriumFidei - All that you say is true except one thing. You may eat what you call carbs (although vegetables are also carbs just a more complex form) if you eat them in the whole form. If I eat white bread and processed white rice I have trouble with elimination and gaining weight. If I eat whole wheat bread and long grain brown rice both of those problems go away. Also I have an allergy to wheat until I eat whole wheat. My body cannot assimilate or assimilates processed wheat so that I react to it with sinus infections and ear infections (believe it or not at my age) Whole grains do not have the same effect on me. Because whole grains are more difficult to digest and therefore you eat less of them and they move through the system much more quickly they are less likely to be turned into fat. Vegetables have the same effect. If they are cooked to death and drowned in butter or margarine they can contribute to a large waistline. While vegetables that are steamed or eaten raw and lightly seasoned will have little or no effect on the waistline.
@perelandra30 - Indeed you are right. Unfortunately, we don’t have a mill to grind our own flour, &c., so my grain intake is limited to a single bowl of Uncle Sam cereal per day (whole grain and flax seed – nothing else). Vegetables I eat raw, along with nuts and eggs, and I eat cooked meat. All sources for these things are completely unprocessed. And it makes a load of difference. My general rule of thumb is this: if it comes in a package, it’s poison.
@JMHardens060703 - I think the South Beach diet has merit as well, as long as you avoid all the packaged “food” products they sell with the logo on them!
@MysteriumFidei - You can buy a whisper mill online which is what I use to grind wheat berries to make flour. the flax seed I use a coffee grinder that has never ground coffee. i use my food processor to grind nuts in since I have diverticulosis and cannot tolerate too many nut unless they have been ground. there isn not much that comes into this house that is packaged unless it comes from the healthfood store. everything else is prepared by me. vegetables are served raw when they are in season and are steamed out of season. no canned vegetables here. i am never seeing the weight that i saw before.
@MysteriumFidei - Raw eggs? Is that safe?
@JMHardens060703 - even when we had our own chickens and we knew when the eggs were laid and what went into them and how they were cared for i wouldn’t think of eating a raw egg. that is pretty hardcore.
@perelandra30 - Wow! That is great news! I love hearing stories like this.
@JMHardens060703 - If you know where they came from, I don’t see the harm. I’ve been doing it for along time. I eat sometimes up to a dozen eggs per day. When I do cook them, it’s just long enough to solidify the bottom and then I eat them sunny-side up, cool and runny on the top. Eggs are God’s special treat to me.