On Nov 19, 2:35*pm, Doug Freyburger wrote:
FOB (removethis) wrote:

I would suggest that you not consider "going on a diet" but rather changing
the way you eat permanently. *You have to do it forever though not perhaps
as strict as at first. *There are certain things I just don't eat, I think
of them as poison to me. *Sugar in all its forms, flour-which encompasses a
whole lot of things, potatoes, rice. *You have to connect them in your mind
with "not food".

With a diet where you're rarely hungry there has to be a price
somewhere. *This is it with low carbing. *There's food which we can eat
in sufficient quantites that we are rarely hungry. *And there's unfood
that if we eat it bad things happen.

When thinking in terms of a diet people often think about it lasting
until the loss phase is over and then the hunger ends.

With low carbing we have a bit of hunger at the beginning and then it's
a process to find foods that make us more hungry not less and then don't
eat them. *It's mentally different. *The mental work is the majority in
so many projects.

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.
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.