Posted by Larry Hoover on October 12, 2003, at 9:40:05
In reply to Re: Carbohydrates and weight » Larry Hoover, posted by NikkiT2 on October 12, 2003, at 9:12:58
> Really initeresting post larry.
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> Do you have any suggestions on what to do when you eat a vegetarian diet??I am a *serious* carnivore. Off the top of my head, that presents quite a challenge. Do you do dairy/eggs? That would be where I'd be leaning.
> I have serious carb cravings on most ad's it seems, and I know i eat too much carb.. but when theres no meat in my diet, it seems really difficult to cut down on the carbs - a bowl of pasta sauce is pretty dull after all!! Plus I eat alot of fruit and pulses, and so many vegetables I like seem high in carbs.
They are.... that's the energy storage form for plants.
> A year ago I lost 35lbs doing a low fat / low cal diet (8g fat a day, 800 cals) for 10 weeks.. but that made me really ill (major constipation, and an infection of my stomach lining from not having enough food in stomach) but nothing else I have tried has been succesful.
Calorie restriction does lead to weight loss, whether or not it is fat-restricted as well. However, on isocaloric diets (same total calories), high-fat dieters lose more weight than low-fat dieters. There is a general belief that a calorie is a calorie is a calorie, but it doesn't look like it's true, after all.
Here's a link to another thread, and if you stay with it, I post a number of links throughout that get into the details quite thoroughly:
http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/subs/20030903/msgs/257786.htmlQuite frankly, the emperor (low-fat diet) has no clothes.
> And I *really* need to lose weight! I know I need to exercise, butSorry, no buts.... ;-)
> theres not many choices for that in my life (live in Central London, so not nice area to walk around really, can't afford gyms, and no swimming pools!!)
Get a stationary bike? A universal gym?
> Thanks for any advice
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> NikkiAnother thing is to make sure you get enough omega-3 fatty acids. Metabolic syndrome, Syndrome X, insulin resistance, whatever you want to call it, can be blocked by restoring omega-3 fatty acids to the starving body.
Lar
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