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Old October 5th, 2004, 04:53 PM
Roger Zoul
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Ignoramus7068 wrote:
|| In article , Roger Zoul wrote:
||| Ignoramus7068 wrote:
||||| Jane Brody, author of books like "High Carb Eating" etc, a low fat
||||| advocate, did miss it.
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||| I see. Perhaps she is blinded by the notion that to lose weight it
||| is necessary to reduce calories. Period. While most will find that
||| a true statement, the real issue, afaic, is in how to reduce
||| calories. That's where LC shines, IMO.
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|| Exactly.
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||| Just like you, eating a lot of low-calorie foods with lots of water
||| does not reduce my appetite. If that were the case, I could just
||| eat a couple head of lettuce a day and be happy. NOT!
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|| Same here.
||
|||||| What I can imagine is you becoming bored and wanting to eat
|||||| other things, down the road. It can happen to anyone.
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||||| This is absolutely true, that's why I am not ready to say that
||||| "this
||||| diet is forever" etc.
|||
||| Nothing is forever. However, it could be 80 or 90% of forever.
||| Shooting for perfection is not likely to work. But to realize that
||| if you go off LC for a period of time and then come back to it, or
||| do some other variation of the notion that you devise because it
||| works for you, may allow you to implement an effective strategy for
||| the long term.
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|| All good points, plus, so far, I am very happy on this diet. I have
|| some experience with not eating sweets, it's been almost 1.5 years
|| since I stopped eating them, and I do not miss them at all. So,
|| maybe,
|| my current diet will prove palatable over a long time.

Maintaining a WOE for 1.5 years has got to stand for something! Most can't
hang for 2 weeks!