Doug Lerner wrote:
|| On 9/14/04 10:32 PM, in article ,
|| "Ignoramus13229" wrote:
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||| In article , Doug Lerner wrote:
|||| On 9/14/04 8:42 PM, in article ,
|||| "Roger Zoul" wrote:
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||||| Doug Lerner wrote:
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||||||| I
||||||| think it would be very hard to eat low cal and keep carbs at,
||||||| say, under 30 gm per day!
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||||| Why?
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|||| Because with very low carbs the only foods left are higher fat,
|||| thus higher calorie, foods.
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||| There are also vegetables, of which you could eat a lot! For
||| example, cabbage, 5 g of carbs per cup. Or spinach, which is nearly
||| calorie
||| free, etc.
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|| It's hard to imagine munching on spinach and cabbage as main snacks
|| for
|| years at a time though. But your point is well taken.

Years at a time? If the objective is to low weight (the main reason for a
low cal diet) then there is no need to do it for years at a time. Perhaps
you need to lose the notion that low carb means high calorie. It's not true.