Low Carbing In Order To Eat Carbs Again

With summer fruit just around the corner I am going to shed 15 or so
pounds so that I could eat with pleasure the plums and peaches and
nectarines and watermelon that I so love.

Perhaps an unpopular method to my "madness" but was curious if anyone
else goes low carb for a short period of time to lose weight in order
to eat complex carbs and not so complex carbs. Not talking about candy
or cake or ice cream or white bread or baked potatoes but whole grain
pasta and wild rice and rich hearty home baked whole grain breads and
the aforementioned fruit.

With summer fruit just around the corner I am going to shed 15 or so
pounds so that I could eat with pleasure the plums and peaches and
nectarines and watermelon that I so love.

Perhaps an unpopular method to my "madness" but was curious if anyone
else goes low carb for a short period of time to lose weight in order
to eat complex carbs and not so complex carbs. Not talking about candy
or cake or ice cream or white bread or baked potatoes but whole grain
pasta and wild rice and rich hearty home baked whole grain breads and
the aforementioned fruit.


Please keep us posted on how it goes for you.
Since I am on a lifetime maintenance I have been thinking about those
grains and fruits too.
I am sure Atkins mentions these in his new edition.

*

You could go on low-fat for a week and then come back to carbs after you
"fruit out".

doug

On 4/26/04 10:27 PM, in article ,
" wrote:

With summer fruit just around the corner I am going to shed 15 or so
pounds so that I could eat with pleasure the plums and peaches and
nectarines and watermelon that I so love.

Perhaps an unpopular method to my "madness" but was curious if anyone
else goes low carb for a short period of time to lose weight in order
to eat complex carbs and not so complex carbs. Not talking about candy
or cake or ice cream or white bread or baked potatoes but whole grain
pasta and wild rice and rich hearty home baked whole grain breads and
the aforementioned fruit.

Seasonal gorging on fruit was probably a natural thing for humans over the
eons. Why not fatten up for the winter?

wrote in message
...
With summer fruit just around the corner I am going to shed 15 or so
pounds so that I could eat with pleasure the plums and peaches and
nectarines and watermelon that I so love.

Perhaps an unpopular method to my "madness" but was curious if anyone
else goes low carb for a short period of time to lose weight in order
to eat complex carbs and not so complex carbs. Not talking about candy
or cake or ice cream or white bread or baked potatoes but whole grain
pasta and wild rice and rich hearty home baked whole grain breads and
the aforementioned fruit.

LOL

"Cubit" wrote in message
. com...
Seasonal gorging on fruit was probably a natural thing for humans over the
eons. Why not fatten up for the winter?

wrote in message
...
With summer fruit just around the corner I am going to shed 15 or so
pounds so that I could eat with pleasure the plums and peaches and
nectarines and watermelon that I so love.

Perhaps an unpopular method to my "madness" but was curious if anyone
else goes low carb for a short period of time to lose weight in order
to eat complex carbs and not so complex carbs. Not talking about candy
or cake or ice cream or white bread or baked potatoes but whole grain
pasta and wild rice and rich hearty home baked whole grain breads and
the aforementioned fruit.

wrote:

With summer fruit just around the corner I am going to shed 15 or so
pounds so that I could eat with pleasure the plums and peaches and
nectarines and watermelon that I so love.

Perhaps an unpopular method to my "madness" but was curious if anyone
else goes low carb for a short period of time to lose weight in order
to eat complex carbs and not so complex carbs. Not talking about candy
or cake or ice cream or white bread or baked potatoes but whole grain
pasta and wild rice and rich hearty home baked whole grain breads and
the aforementioned fruit.

I've been low-carbing as a means of appetite control. That is the *only*
function of low-carbing which interests me. Because of low-carbing, I've
been able to function on far less calories. Also, low-carbing has enabled
me to do the occasional calorie-budgeting so I can consume foods which are
not low-carb (but still healthy) in moderation. I don't devote an entire
season, but occasions which require me to be flexible, and I'll be able to
have that [rice/fruit/dark chocolate/potato wedge] etc, and then move on as
normal to my "regular" way of eating. I'm not on a temporary diet, but a
permanent way of life. I don't go all out or anything, as in a binge,
but I do a shifterooni to accommodate for the foods which I have on my
"sometimes" list.

I don't believe that _for myself_, it is the carbs that "made me fat", it's
simply overeating that made me fat.

Crafting Mom
The post you just read, unless otherwise noted, is strictly my opinion
and experience. Please interpret accordingly.

wrote in message
...
With summer fruit just around the corner I am going to shed 15 or so
pounds so that I could eat with pleasure the plums and peaches and
nectarines and watermelon that I so love.

Perhaps an unpopular method to my "madness" but was curious if anyone
else goes low carb for a short period of time to lose weight in order
to eat complex carbs and not so complex carbs. Not talking about candy
or cake or ice cream or white bread or baked potatoes but whole grain
pasta and wild rice and rich hearty home baked whole grain breads and
the aforementioned fruit.


I have various fruit trees including peach, apricot, plum, fig, cherimoya,
orange and meyer lemon. I always have a bumper crop of fruit, and this
year's apricots, plums and peaches are going to be ready around June. With
the exception of a few strawberries I have not eaten any fruit since the end
of Feb when i started LC.

Since there is nothing to compare to the taste of a sun-ripened apricot
fresh off the tree, I know I am going to be eating some fruit. I plan to
keep up on my daily exercising and try to make sure the rest of my diet
includes the lowest-calorie LC (e.g. salads, fish, chicken) foods possible
in order to compensate.

Onoma
139.5/129/115
LC 2/29/04

High carb and high fat in combination is dangerous. Perhaps you should do
low fat while gorging on fruits.

"onoma" wrote in message
news:tCajc.42111$ab3.15141@fed1read02...

wrote in message
...
With summer fruit just around the corner I am going to shed 15 or so
pounds so that I could eat with pleasure the plums and peaches and
nectarines and watermelon that I so love.

Perhaps an unpopular method to my "madness" but was curious if anyone
else goes low carb for a short period of time to lose weight in order
to eat complex carbs and not so complex carbs. Not talking about candy
or cake or ice cream or white bread or baked potatoes but whole grain
pasta and wild rice and rich hearty home baked whole grain breads and
the aforementioned fruit.


I have various fruit trees including peach, apricot, plum, fig, cherimoya,
orange and meyer lemon. I always have a bumper crop of fruit, and this
year's apricots, plums and peaches are going to be ready around June.
With
the exception of a few strawberries I have not eaten any fruit since the
end
of Feb when i started LC.

Since there is nothing to compare to the taste of a sun-ripened apricot
fresh off the tree, I know I am going to be eating some fruit. I plan to
keep up on my daily exercising and try to make sure the rest of my diet
includes the lowest-calorie LC (e.g. salads, fish, chicken) foods possible
in order to compensate.

Onoma
139.5/129/115
LC 2/29/04

good point.

--
Lori
220/153/144
LC since 1/17/03
Devoted wife of Curtis, Stage 4 Prostate cancer at age 40
http://community.webshots.com/user/lorismiller-date
"Crafting Mom" wrote in message
...
wrote:

With summer fruit just around the corner I am going to shed 15 or so
pounds so that I could eat with pleasure the plums and peaches and
nectarines and watermelon that I so love.

Perhaps an unpopular method to my "madness" but was curious if anyone
else goes low carb for a short period of time to lose weight in order
to eat complex carbs and not so complex carbs. Not talking about candy
or cake or ice cream or white bread or baked potatoes but whole grain
pasta and wild rice and rich hearty home baked whole grain breads and
the aforementioned fruit.

I've been low-carbing as a means of appetite control. That is the *only*
function of low-carbing which interests me. Because of low-carbing, I've
been able to function on far less calories. Also, low-carbing has
enabled
me to do the occasional calorie-budgeting so I can consume foods which are
not low-carb (but still healthy) in moderation. I don't devote an entire
season, but occasions which require me to be flexible, and I'll be able to
have that [rice/fruit/dark chocolate/potato wedge] etc, and then move on
as
normal to my "regular" way of eating. I'm not on a temporary diet, but a
permanent way of life. I don't go all out or anything, as in a binge,
but I do a shifterooni to accommodate for the foods which I have on my
"sometimes" list.

I don't believe that _for myself_, it is the carbs that "made me fat",
it's
simply overeating that made me fat.

Crafting Mom
The post you just read, unless otherwise noted, is strictly my opinion
and experience. Please interpret accordingly.

High carb and high fat in combination is dangerous. Perhaps you should do
low fat while gorging on fruits.

I've been thinking about this too ..
having all natural food days where I eat only fruits and grains ..

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