On Wed, 26 May 2004 17:00:39 -0700, Dawn Taylor
wrote:


As some suffering from serious insulin resistance -- made worse by
years of yo-yo dieting -- I was never successful on a low-fat,
low-calorie diet. I felt like I was starving to death, my blood sugar
was so low I wanted to commit murder and my mood swings were deadly.
And my weight loss was sloooooooow. Deathly slow. Even with
starvation-level calories, which for me had to be well below what was
recommended or else I couldn't drop a pound.

A low-carb diet, on the other hand, has equalized my blood sugar,
eliminated my mood swings, elevated my mood and I don't feel like I'm
starving to death. And I've lost weight at a nice clip -- at a
considerably higher calorie level than on a low-fat diet.

My 78 year old mother has diabetes. I gave her the South Beach diet
book for Christmas. On her last visit to her doctor, he took her off
one of her meds and told to stay on the diet because it was working.