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**Doug Freyburger** · November 20th, 2012, 11:36 PM posted to alt.support.diet.low-carb

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Doug Freyburger wrote:

One of the mental hurdles is how Atkins is designed. *It starts out far
more restrictive than necessary or that's beneficial in the long run.
Then it starts a fully customized process to find your own body's levels
of what needs to be restricted and what does not. *There is the
temptation to think that since it starts restrictive, restrictive must
give better results. *What restrictive does is make ot more likely to
fall off. *If it were true that more restrictive gave better results
every plan out there would tell you to be more restrictive.

It's not - One bite can't hurt.

It's not - One bite won't hurt.

It's - One bite will hurt.

The puzzle is "One bite of what?" and the answer is different for each
person. *That's why Atkins is a process not a menu.

I generally agree, except for the one bite will always hurt.

The always part is about 1) when in the process and 2) who it's for.

There are a lot of us who do have some bites of
a wide variety of foods occasionally and without
falling of LC. Yes, for some people, they may have
some instant reaction that results in cravings. But it's not
true for me. When traveling, for example, I often
will sample all kinds of local cuisine, without restricting
it to LC.

Later on you are an example of what the process teaches. Some have
specific foods that do trigger binges some don't - That's the point of
climbing the carb ladder. Some have specific glycemic load above which
binges happen some don't - That's one of the many points of moving up in
carb quotas to eat more carbs for better long term results. But there's
no way to know that at the beginning and if you never learn you don't
know what benefits you're skipping.

Thing is when you start you can't know your end point. It's like
someone who has never tried the Atkins elimination process saying they
have no problem eating wheat. Someone who's eaten wheat all their life
has no idea how their body reacts going without wheat, thus early on one
bite of wheat hurts. Someone who's eaten high carb all their life has
not idea how their body reacts going low carb, thus early on one bite of
high glycemic load food hurts.

You're not near your starting point any more. You have gone through
that learning process. You know, now, that one bite of almost any
arbitrary food does not hurt you, now, knowing what you know now. But
day one you had no data of how your history and body would turn out.