Diet Alone - Unlikely Leads to Significant Weight Loss

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On Apr 15, 2:47*pm, Doug Freyburger wrote:
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Billy wrote:

I think it's time to bring out the bright light and the rubber hose

Nothing sinister.

Drat. *I was so looking forward to the rubber hose. *The entire latex
outfit for that matter. *Spot light, dancing pole, loud cheesy music,
latex outfit. *Oh wait. Michael not Michelle. Never mind.

Must be the other meaning for it. *You ate a legume in week 4? *Whack!

I hope I can continue getting your full support.

Of course you can. By the way, what did you eat on the night of the 8th
of April?
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- Billy
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On Apr 15, 11:57 pm, "
wrote:
On Apr 15, 2:47 pm, Doug Freyburger wrote:

wrote:
Billy wrote:

I think it's time to bring out the bright light and the rubber hose

Nothing sinister.

Drat. I was so looking forward to the rubber hose. The entire latex
outfit for that matter. Spot light, dancing pole, loud cheesy music,
latex outfit. Oh wait. Michael not Michelle. Never mind.

Must be the other meaning for it. You ate a legume in week 4? Whack!

I hope I can continue getting your full support.

I hope your realize a lot of that 8lbs, probably most of it, that you
lost in the first 5 days is just water and it always happens when you
start LC.

On Apr 16, 9:10*am, "
wrote:
On Apr 15, 11:57 pm, "





wrote:
On Apr 15, 2:47 pm, Doug Freyburger wrote:

wrote:
Billy wrote:

I think it's time to bring out the bright light and the rubber hose

Nothing sinister.

Drat. *I was so looking forward to the rubber hose. *The entire latex
outfit for that matter. *Spot light, dancing pole, loud cheesy music,
latex outfit. *Oh wait. Michael not Michelle. Never mind.

Must be the other meaning for it. *You ate a legume in week 4? *Whack!

I hope I can continue getting your full support.

I hope your realize a lot of that 8lbs, probably most of it, *that you
lost in the first 5 days is just water and it always happens when you
start LC.- Hide quoted text -

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Yes, I did. Extra water I no longer need, maybe? I'm feeling good. I
play hockey and commute to work every day with my bike (1h20). I feel
a bit more energy than before. I no longer need a nap in the
afternoon. I don't feel light-headed at all.

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Extra water I no longer need, maybe?

The body converts glucose to glycogen to store it. Glycogen is stored
by dissolving it in water. Use up the stored carbs, drop the water it
was dissolved in as well.

Fat is very dense at 3500+ calories per pound with little water. Dry
glucose crystals may be 4 calories per gram but by the time you dissolve
it in water it's down to 1 calorie per gram. That makes fat at least 7
times as dense for the energy stored. That's why water loss can be so
fast compared to fat loss.

I no longer need a nap in the
afternoon. I don't feel light-headed at all.

Buh bye insulin swings.

On Apr 16, 2:04*pm, Doug Freyburger wrote:


Buh bye insulin swings.

Buy bye, and never come back!

I impressed myself just two seconds ago: Someone just offered me two
donoughts for free. And I said "no!!!!!!!!!". I can't believe I did
that. I would have normally said, "Just two?".

On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 08:39:27 -0500, pamela
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A primate study, 18 female rhesus macaque monkey - on a high-fat diet
for several years - then returned to a lower-fat diet (standard monkey
food) with a 30 percent reduction in calories. During the next month of
observation - no weight loss, but a decline in activity. Further
reduction of food calories in the following month resulted in even less
physical activity.

Three monkeys on a normal diet were trained exercise 1 hour daily, and
these treadmill exercising monkeys did loose weight.

Then I'm glad I'm a human and not a monkey. My energy level has
increased tremendously since losing weight -- without spending hours
on a treadmill.

By the way, it's "lose," not loose." ;-)

Much of this sounds familiar to readers of Taubes' "Good Calories, Bad
Calories". I went from 240 pounds to 175 pounds following a summer of
Low Carb plus about 1,000 miles of bicycling in 2004.

I went from 270 pounds to 215 on a controlled carb diet with virtually
no additional exercise, since I have disabilities from a 1998 stroke
1998 and cannot walk fast enough to get my heart rate up. I've
maintained my weight just by controlling what I eat. It can be done
despite testing on three monkeys.

---
Peter

And I have gone from 292 to 211 over a period of years with low carb.

Marengo wrote:
|
| By the way, it's "lose," not loose." ;-)
|
|
| I went from 270 pounds to 215 on a controlled carb diet with virtually
| no additional exercise, since I have disabilities from a 1998 stroke
| 1998 and cannot walk fast enough to get my heart rate up. I've
| maintained my weight just by controlling what I eat. It can be done
| despite testing on three monkeys.
|
| ---
| Peter

Unlikely..... not certainly not.

FOB wrote:
And I have gone from 292 to 211 over a period of years with low carb.

Marengo wrote:
|
| By the way, it's "lose," not loose." ;-)
|
|
| I went from 270 pounds to 215 on a controlled carb diet with virtually
| no additional exercise, since I have disabilities from a 1998 stroke
| 1998 and cannot walk fast enough to get my heart rate up. I've
| maintained my weight just by controlling what I eat. It can be done
| despite testing on three monkeys.
|
| ---
| Peter

On Apr 17, 4:51*pm, "FOB" wrote:
And I have gone from 292 to 211 over a period of years with low carb.

Marengo wrote:

|
| By the way, it's "lose," not loose." *;-)
|
|
| I went from 270 pounds to 215 on a controlled carb diet with virtually
| no additional exercise, since I have disabilities from a 1998 stroke
| 1998 and cannot walk fast enough to get my heart rate up. *I've
| maintained my weight just by controlling what I eat. *It can be done
| despite testing on three monkeys.
|
| ---
| Peter

Marengo, you and millions of others prove that whatever studies and
all these weight-loss experts in the media don't really matter, after
all. What does matter is what YOU did. You've known success with what
YOU did. Almost every time I talk about my weight-loss success to
someone, he has at least one piece of advice to give me. I tell him
right away that I don't care about what he has to say, unless I know
for a fact that he is talking by experience, not just parotting what
he heard on TV.

On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 15:33:06 -0700 (PDT), "
wrote:

On Apr 17, 4:51*pm, "FOB" wrote:
And I have gone from 292 to 211 over a period of years with low carb.

Marengo wrote:

|
| By the way, it's "lose," not loose." *;-)
|
|
| I went from 270 pounds to 215 on a controlled carb diet with virtually
| no additional exercise, since I have disabilities from a 1998 stroke
| 1998 and cannot walk fast enough to get my heart rate up. *I've
| maintained my weight just by controlling what I eat. *It can be done
| despite testing on three monkeys.
|
| ---
| Peter

Marengo, you and millions of others prove that whatever studies and
all these weight-loss experts in the media don't really matter, after
all. What does matter is what YOU did. You've known success with what
YOU did. Almost every time I talk about my weight-loss success to
someone, he has at least one piece of advice to give me. I tell him
right away that I don't care about what he has to say, unless I know
for a fact that he is talking by experience, not just parotting what
he heard on TV.


Yep. The proof, as they say, is in the pudding.
---
Peter