Carb blocking supplement as an Aid?

Do these Carb blockers work, I travel extensively and not always able to
avoid some carbs?

I'm thinking they could aid on days when I'm away or just help to cut down
on carbs too!

This is not spam, it's a real question!

Also, would this work if I had a couple beers?

"DB" wrote in message
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Do these Carb blockers work, I travel extensively and not always able to
avoid some carbs?

I'm thinking they could aid on days when I'm away or just help to cut
down on carbs too!

"DB" wrote in message
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Do these Carb blockers work,

Personally, I don't believe they work. I've never tried them and don't know
anybody who has.

I travel extensively and not always able to avoid some carbs?

I guess I don't get that. Do you mean avoid or resist?

DB wrote:
This is not spam, it's a real question!

Also, would this work if I had a couple beers?

"DB" wrote in message
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Do these Carb blockers work, I travel extensively and not always able to
avoid some carbs?

I'm thinking they could aid on days when I'm away or just help to cut
down on carbs too!





I don't know for sure, but weren't the "fat blockers" shown to be false
advertising claims? I don't track infomercials, but they seem to be
finally gone.

Wishes sell, often sell better than facts.

Good luck with learning the truth about "carb blockers".

"DB" wrote in message
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Do these Carb blockers work, I travel extensively and not always able to
avoid some carbs?

I'm thinking they could aid on days when I'm away or just help to cut
down on carbs too!

When I have had the occasional carby meal in the past I have taken white
kidney bean extract-based carb blockers, and they have successfully
prevented the usual after-effects (headachy, logy, bloated feelings). In
addition, I've seen no weight changes in the days following the carby meal.
Specificially, I love the Chinese buffets, and would take a couple before I
ate at one. They successfully prevented the obvious after-affects, although
I have no idea whether if they prevented anything with my chemical changes
in my body. I've used them for several years for that purpose, but doubt
that they'd be very helpful to use very often, as they have a tendency to
instill a "I'll just pop a pill and eat it anyway!" mentality that isn't
healthy, and that I had to wrestle with on several occasions (successfully,
thank God!).

That's my experience with the one type that I have used...and have had
varying results with the different brands as well.

--
Sherry
lowcarb.owly.net

"DB" writes:

Do these Carb blockers work,

If anyone had evidence that they work, we'd all be lean and mean by now,
instead of just mean.

My understanding is that they (may) work in a test tube, but they don't
work inside the body because they kick in too early or too late--not in
the right part of the digestive tract to have the desired effect.

I travel extensively and not always able to avoid some carbs?

Travel can be tough; the main solution is to plan ahead and BYOF (Bring
Your Own Food). For on the move, pack jerky, pork rinds, nuts, nut
butters (to spread on the pork rinds), dried berries, canned meat. If
you can keep things in a cooler, that can expand to include boiled eggs,
cheese sticks, veggie chunks and dip, fresh berries and melon, and more.
If you're staying somewhere with a fridge, stock it on arrival with your
usual low-carb eats.

The main thing (for me, anyway) is to go into a trip with the mind-set
that I'm going to be providing my own meals like normal, and not grazing
on the move. If I'm meeting other people for a meal somewhere I'm not
familiar with, so I don't know what low-carb options they have, I eat
plenty beforehand. Worst comes to worst, I can just have a drink and
maybe a salad.



--
Aaron -- 285/254/200 -- aaron.baugher.biz

In article , Aaron Baugher says...

"DB" writes:

Do these Carb blockers work,

If anyone had evidence that they work, we'd all be lean and mean by now,
instead of just mean.

The main thing (for me, anyway) is to go into a trip with the mind-set
that I'm going to be providing my own meals like normal, and not grazing
on the move. If I'm meeting other people for a meal somewhere I'm not
familiar with, so I don't know what low-carb options they have, I eat
plenty beforehand. Worst comes to worst, I can just have a drink and
maybe a salad.

If carb blockers truly worked, they would be one of the top OTC medications
purchased. They aren't--so they probably don't work very well if at all.

DB's comments are right on the money. I've read a lot of books on LCing and all
of them have tips about eating on the road. When I'm at a restaurant for dinner,
I ask the server to subtitute a vegetable or double up on the serving and keep
the baked potato/rice in the kitchen. I've yet to meet a server that didn't
comply with my request.

The bread basket is tougher, as it is communal for the table. I just keep
telling myself that I don't want to become a diabetic and have to shoot myself
with insulin. I simply have to use willpower for the bread.

The only way for me to block carbs is not to ingest them in the first place.

Mark

"DB" wrote:

This is not spam, it's a real question!

Unfortunately the answer is too obvious - If they did work everyone
would already be using them. Everyone doesn't, therefore they
don't work.

Also, would this work if I had a couple beers?

Not working isn't the entire story. They are fiber, starch blockers.
Starch blockers were a popular diet fad back in the late 1980s
early 1990s and they fell out of popularity for the totally non-
shocking
reason that they didn't actually work for most purposes.

They don't block sugar or alcohol but they do bind some fraction
of the starch. The regular carbs in beer are starch so it may have
some effect, but it will do nothing at all to block the alcohol.

Standard issue low carbing, alcohol tends to have twice the effect
after starting low carb. If it used to take 4 beers to get you some
level of drunk before, now it will likely take 2. And with whatever
level of drunk comes reduced resistance to junk food.

I suggest two strategies for dealing with beer:

1) Just have one but make it the best beer available. Quality
instead of quantity. Why have a case of local swill when for the
same price you can have a single bottle of Belgian Ale brewed
by hand by Trappist monks. And with one beer count its carbs
against your quota and be done with it.

2) Try that special zero carb beer. It's the stuff that has had the
carbs removed. It comes in concentrated form - Just add water
and it reconstitutes to normal beer strength. Of course count the
alcohol calories as carbs even though alcohol isn't a carb. And of
course the reconstituted zero carb beer substitute isn't really the
same as normal beer. What substitute ever is? But its' not hard
to develop a taste for the substitute. The zero carb beer concentrate
is sold under the name of Whiskey. Different companies even spell
it differently so it isn't standardardized - Try several types to find
your favorite before settling on one type.

3) The popular option that I don't like - Light beers that have lower
carb counts. and thus light beers that have lower taste. The guy
who suggests a brew hand crafted by Trappist monks isn't the one
to ask about brands. ;^) One thing I know about the lighter beers -
"dry" in wines means fermented to completion and thus lower carb
count. So dry beers will have lower carb counts compared to
regular. Given the choice between a light and a dry, the dry probably
has better flavor per carb gram.

"DB" wrote in message
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Do these Carb blockers work, I travel extensively and not always able to
avoid some carbs?

I'm thinking they could aid on days when I'm away or just help to cut
down on carbs too!


IMHO blocker pills are laxatives in disguise.

"Cubit" wrote in message
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IMHO blocker pills are laxatives in disguise.

They've been effective (although not all are created equal), and have never
had that effect on my system.

--
Sherry
lowcarb.owly.net