Atkins Diet

On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 at 19:52:21, Dally wrote:


Did you lose your weight by changing just one thing?

Yes, ten years ago I lost 50 lbs by giving up butter.
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Annabel Smyth wrote:
in carbohydrate and saturated fats, and very good for you. I'd rather
eat olives than nuts because you can't eat so many olives!

I've been known to polish off a great quantity of Greek Kalamata olives.
In fact, one day, I bought a gallon jar of them from the European
grocery.... well, the fact that I found out that I was pregnant the next
day kind of explained the craving :-)

(That was more than 3 years ago, and my child loves olives hehe)

Nuts, when eaten slowly, I find make me full rather quickly, they tend
to sit heavily on my gut.

Annabel Smyth wrote:
in carbohydrate and saturated fats, and very good for you. I'd rather
eat olives than nuts because you can't eat so many olives!

I've been known to polish off a great quantity of Greek Kalamata olives.
In fact, one day, I bought a gallon jar of them from the European
grocery.... well, the fact that I found out that I was pregnant the next
day kind of explained the craving :-)

(That was more than 3 years ago, and my child loves olives hehe)

Nuts, when eaten slowly, I find make me full rather quickly, they tend
to sit heavily on my gut.

Annabel Smyth wrote:
But I don't find it easy to eat "small" meals, this is the problem.
Trust me, I know what works for me.

I agree with you. As a former bulimic/binge eater that just doesn't
work for me. My metabolism may well be "kicking in", but my drive to
eat too much overrides that, bigtime ;-)

I find it easier to space out my meals, then when I am hungry, to eat a
"regular sized" meal (400 calories or so), and savour it, and then I am
sated for a nice long while. And don't feel the urge to binge.

YMMV of course, I know several people who fare better on the "think
about a snack every 2 hours" model, but I can't... I just like to not
have my day revolve around food.

Annabel Smyth wrote:
But I don't find it easy to eat "small" meals, this is the problem.
Trust me, I know what works for me.

I agree with you. As a former bulimic/binge eater that just doesn't
work for me. My metabolism may well be "kicking in", but my drive to
eat too much overrides that, bigtime ;-)

I find it easier to space out my meals, then when I am hungry, to eat a
"regular sized" meal (400 calories or so), and savour it, and then I am
sated for a nice long while. And don't feel the urge to binge.

YMMV of course, I know several people who fare better on the "think
about a snack every 2 hours" model, but I can't... I just like to not
have my day revolve around food.

On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 at 10:06:07, Crafting Mom
wrote:

YMMV of course, I know several people who fare better on the "think
about a snack every 2 hours" model, but I can't... I just like to not
have my day revolve around food.

Also, I find, if I do snack, I don't know whether I am truly hungry, or
whether I just want to eat. If I'm seriously hungry and there's an hour
or more to go until supper then yes, I will have something, but if I go
and do something else, or have a drink of water, the sensation goes away
and I realise it was only appetite, after all, not hunger.

Think how hungry you can get walking round a supermarket, but if you
give in and buy a sandwich or pork pie or something, very often once you
are out in the fresh air again, you don't really want it..... at least,
that's what I find!
--
Annabel - "Mrs Redboots"
90/70/89 kg

On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 at 10:06:07, Crafting Mom
wrote:

YMMV of course, I know several people who fare better on the "think
about a snack every 2 hours" model, but I can't... I just like to not
have my day revolve around food.

Also, I find, if I do snack, I don't know whether I am truly hungry, or
whether I just want to eat. If I'm seriously hungry and there's an hour
or more to go until supper then yes, I will have something, but if I go
and do something else, or have a drink of water, the sensation goes away
and I realise it was only appetite, after all, not hunger.

Think how hungry you can get walking round a supermarket, but if you
give in and buy a sandwich or pork pie or something, very often once you
are out in the fresh air again, you don't really want it..... at least,
that's what I find!
--
Annabel - "Mrs Redboots"
90/70/89 kg

"Crafting Mom" wrote in message
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I've been known to polish off a great quantity of Greek Kalamata olives.

Yup, you *can* eat so many olives... It's not that they are unhealthy
anyway... Actually, my grandfather eats them as his *daily* veggie for
lunch. I don't mean a few of them, I mean a whole plate of them, in place of
the regular veggies, once a day. Though given his current age (75) and his
health (no known disease, whole hair stock, slim, walks without problems,
normal blood presure), I don't think I could blame him for his diet.
I would not eat them that often, it would get boring, but I could certainly
lunch on olives once in a while. High quality olives just taste so good
Mmm... Might be an idea for one of my "substitution meals"...

"Crafting Mom" wrote in message
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Annabel Smyth wrote:
But I don't find it easy to eat "small" meals, this is the problem.
Trust me, I know what works for me.

I agree with you. As a former bulimic/binge eater that just doesn't
work for me. My metabolism may well be "kicking in", but my drive to
eat too much overrides that, bigtime ;-)

I used to think that too, but my treatment program for my bulimia & binge
eating *required* eating 6 times a day - 3 meals and 3 snacks. It's been
very helpful for me but of course YMMV.

Jenn

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"Crafting Mom" wrote in message
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Annabel Smyth wrote:
But I don't find it easy to eat "small" meals, this is the problem.
Trust me, I know what works for me.

I agree with you. As a former bulimic/binge eater that just doesn't
work for me. My metabolism may well be "kicking in", but my drive to
eat too much overrides that, bigtime ;-)

I used to think that too, but my treatment program for my bulimia & binge
eating *required* eating 6 times a day - 3 meals and 3 snacks. It's been
very helpful for me but of course YMMV.

Jenn

Same here, Jenn -- I can completely relate to what Crafting Mom and Annabel are
saying -- I felt exactly the same, had the same problems with controlling intake at
meals -- and was very worried and skeptical when my nutritionist said the first thing
that had to change was eating my one or two meals a day. I didn't want to always be
thinking about food either and as it's been expressed, I was worried I wouldn't be
able to stop eating at those "small meals." I didn't have much experience with small
meals! :-) But what happened is that eating more often and smaller meals became a
very good tool in regulating blood sugar (sure I knew that diabetics had to eat every
couple of hours to help keep blood sugar on an even keel, but I never translated that
to my own needs) -- and none of my fears came to fruition. I didn't have the
overwhelming urges to overeat, and I credit that partly to more regulated insulin
production and also the psychological knowledge that I'd be eating again in a couple
of hours, so I didn't have to overeat now (all happening at a subconscious level, I
think).

Also, I was relieved from the psychological game of "OK, to make up for overdoing it
last night, I won't eat till suppertime" -- which usually led to a repeat of the
night before in uncontrolled eating and snacking (because how much damage could I do
in one meal? Turns out, a lot). It also helps that with five-six "meals" a day, I'm
not eating too many calories at one time, and apparently my body is using instead of
storing them.

Today, if I've had trouble with overeating or eating foods that I don't normally
include in my food plan (junky sugarfree stuff or really going bonkers on nuts, which
I can eat an amazing amount of), I can trace it to having gone too long without
eating. Of course and as always YMMV but I wanted to speak specifically to this
subject since I spent so much time on the other side of the fence.

Mary
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