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Hola...I am new here...hope to hear from you
Hello,
I found this group through the page of Tinakaye. I hope I will receive and bring support to others in similar situation to me. I decided to give the Atkins program a second chance. Last year I tried it and I felt HORRIBLE during the first three days. However I did lose 15 pounds during the two weeks that it lasted. (I went home for Christmas and the diet stayed in my apartment This time I took another approach. It took me almost week to begin Induction. Let me explain... I started the week counting my carbs at 100 grams. Each day I reduced my carbohydrate intake by 20 grams until I reached the 20 g per day that the Induction phase allow. So far I feel great and have not experienced the stomach pains, cravings and anxiety like last time. Like a lot of people outhere I ate my way into morbid obesity. In my high school days I was 150 lbs. By graduation I was 180. Two years into college 200. College graduation 230. A year after that 240. Now, in my second year as a graduate student I hit rock bottom, or should I say, top-scale A whooping weight of 260. It was time to take my life back. I think of myself as an active person, but I love to eat too!! That's what I like about this approach to weigth loss... we can eat!! Well, I will visit frequently this place... I like it...I also plan to include updates in my webpage plaza.ufl.edu/yazaira after a couple of weeks... @--- @--- @--- @--- @--- @--- "When you really want something to happen, the whole universe conspires so that your wish comes true". Paulo Coehlo, from The Alchemist |
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Welcome to the group Yazaira! Sounds like you are on your way to reclaiming
your life! You'll find wonderful helpful and supportive people here, and an occasional snert... don't let them get you down! Priscilla 332/310/175 8/27/03 |
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Hi and welcome to the group Sounds like you have found an approach that works for you.. that's always a good thing. Now keep up the good work, Post and read here often.. It really is a great place. Looking forward to hearing good things from you in the near future. ~Karen~ On 15 Oct 2003 18:42:20 -0700, (Yazaira) wrote: Hello, I found this group through the page of Tinakaye. I hope I will receive and bring support to others in similar situation to me. I decided to give the Atkins program a second chance. Last year I tried it and I felt HORRIBLE during the first three days. However I did lose 15 pounds during the two weeks that it lasted. (I went home for Christmas and the diet stayed in my apartment This time I took another approach. It took me almost week to begin Induction. Let me explain... I started the week counting my carbs at 100 grams. Each day I reduced my carbohydrate intake by 20 grams until I reached the 20 g per day that the Induction phase allow. So far I feel great and have not experienced the stomach pains, cravings and anxiety like last time. Like a lot of people outhere I ate my way into morbid obesity. In my high school days I was 150 lbs. By graduation I was 180. Two years into college 200. College graduation 230. A year after that 240. Now, in my second year as a graduate student I hit rock bottom, or should I say, top-scale A whooping weight of 260. It was time to take my life back. I think of myself as an active person, but I love to eat too!! That's what I like about this approach to weigth loss... we can eat!! Well, I will visit frequently this place... I like it...I also plan to include updates in my webpage plaza.ufl.edu/yazaira after a couple of weeks... @--- @--- @--- @--- @--- @--- "When you really want something to happen, the whole universe conspires so that your wish comes true". Paulo Coehlo, from The Alchemist ~Karen~ 225/190/140ish start Jan17/03 Started at the gym September/03 |
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Sad_Person wrote:
(Yazaira) wrote in message . com... Hi Yazaira, I am an (older) graduate student who has been on this diet for almost two months. While I've seen wonderful health benefits so far - stabilized blood sugar, better sleep, more energy, better overall well-being that is hard to put into words, I have seen one negative side-effect that I hope is temporary, namely more difficulty in sustaining intense periods of thinking and fewer spurts of creativity. Needless to say, concentrated thinking is very central to my life right now as I am trying to finish my dissertation. I am noticing that I am less "brilliant" right now. I think slower and with more difficulty and I don't have as many original ideas. The effect of low-carbohydrate lifestyle on my brain functioning reminds me of the time many years ago when I was on a (tricyclic (sp?)) anti-depressant. I felt then as I am feeling now more dull and less capable of concentration, except that now I am not at all depressed. I want to ask a fellow graduate student about your experiences in this area. Are you noticing any effects on your thinking either negative or positive? And could you elaborate? It has been long years since my graduate school days, but I still depend on creativity. I have noticed the symptoms you report, but I have been able to eliminate them with caffeine. More important, I notice that, although the "creative spurts" don't happen as before, whenever I sit down to work, the creative insights do come. It is just that now the creativity comes when I concentrate on the subject, as opposed to ideas just springing unbidden into my mind. I find that the creative insights obtained this way are of much better quality. Pre-low-carb, most of my creative insights had to be discarded. I think that is pretty typical, actually. I attended Robert McKees writing seminar last spring, and he reported that writers in the movie and tv industries generally write 10 times the number of scenes that they need for a piece, because only 10% of them are their best stuff. I expect a pullet surprise soon. martin -- Clark for President http://www.clark04.com/ Martin Smith |
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Sad_Person wrote:
(Yazaira) wrote in message . com... Hi Yazaira, I am an (older) graduate student who has been on this diet for almost two months. While I've seen wonderful health benefits so far - stabilized blood sugar, better sleep, more energy, better overall well-being that is hard to put into words, I have seen one negative side-effect that I hope is temporary, namely more difficulty in sustaining intense periods of thinking and fewer spurts of creativity. Needless to say, concentrated thinking is very central to my life right now as I am trying to finish my dissertation. I am noticing that I am less "brilliant" right now. I think slower and with more difficulty and I don't have as many original ideas. The effect of low-carbohydrate lifestyle on my brain functioning reminds me of the time many years ago when I was on a (tricyclic (sp?)) anti-depressant. I felt then as I am feeling now more dull and less capable of concentration, except that now I am not at all depressed. I want to ask a fellow graduate student about your experiences in this area. Are you noticing any effects on your thinking either negative or positive? And could you elaborate? I don't know how much I could elaborate, but lowcarbing during grad school (I'm 44 and got the masters last May) was easy for me. I never felt the "fog" that some people have mentioned here over the past 3-4 years that I've posted to this NG - so don't feel like the Lone Ranger! Others have experienced the same thing. |
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"M.W. Smith" wrote in message ... I expect a pullet surprise soon. LOL Lay a lot of eggs, do you? http://tenderbytes.net/rhymeworld/fe...her/pullet.htm revek |
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Dear Sad_Person:
So far I have not experience brain fatigue. And I am working with my thesis this semestre plus teaching two classes. It is common knowledge that our brain needs pure glucose to function. (Well, at least to me... I work with stroke patients) I think that if you eat more frequent but smaller meals you can keep a constants suply of glucose to your cerebro. If you feel foggy please add some "good carb" to your diet, even if you have to lose pound more slowly. A great snack (and brain food) are nuts. The are allowed after Induction but I do consume during this phase too... (Sorry, but I need to) Make sure that you take a multivitamin because if you are not choosing the right veggies you may be overlooking some vitamins or minerals too. I hope this message helps. Good luck. Yazaira 265/259/140 Member since Oct 2003 http://plaza.ufl.edu/yazaira/dieta/ |
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Hola...I am new here...hope to hear from you
Thanks, guys, for your input. So I'm not the only one experiencing
this. Interesting... The prospective of getting "quality" creative spurts in controlled environment sure sounds encouraging, but I still miss the spontaneous ones that I had all the time. A bizzarre thought comes to mind. Think about the significance of man's entering the symbolic culture 30-40 years ago and the neolithic period (the beginning of agriculture) starting about 10 thousand years ago. These figures are not exactly the same, but they are of the same magnitude. Anyway, they are not precise, and the discrepancy is insignificant compared with the fact that man has existed in his modern biological form for 1.6 million years and in his very modern form = for 100-150 thousand years. WHAT IF ... the emergence of man as a civilized and technological animal (as we know him now) is directly related to his switch to a grain diet. As primitive men ate more carbohydrates, they became sicker and sicker but also more brilliant and creative??? What a scary thought! I hope I'm wrong about this. Would I rather be a healthy and slim dullard or a serious thinker, albeit a sick and obese one? What a choice! |
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