Hunger is a good thing.

I'd rather be fat than feel rotten from lack of sleep.

In m,
JC Der Koenig stated
| That's why you're fat.
|
| --
| Do you ever wonder what life would be like if you'd had enough oxygen
| at birth?
|
|
|||
||| on Sat, 21 Aug 2004 14:38:35 -0500, PJx wrote:

Sorry I don't have any jpegs, but I'm 5' 2.5" tall and weigh 109 pounds. I
eat 3 meals + 2 snacks averaging around 2000 calories per day. It's
working very well for me.

on Sun, 22 Aug 2004 04:05:06 GMT, "Diane Ball" wrote:

"JC Der Koenig" wrote in message
om...
Of Bev-Ann, the one that thinks a person should never go hungry. It would
be
nice to see how that's working out for her.

-----
Bev

In a well-nourished person, physiological hunger is almost always a symptom
of either swiftly fluctuating blood sugar levels or of a hormonal imbalance
of some sort--usually high progesterone or cortisone.

The beauty of controlling carbs is that you can eliminate the blood
sugar-caused hunger and for many people this can be the first time in many
years that they have not been driven by relentless physiological hunger.

If you haven't experienced that kind of hunger, count yourself lucky. Once
experienced, it is never forgotten.

-- Jenny - Low Carbing for 4 years. Below goal for weight. Type 2 diabetes,
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"carla" wrote in message
...
Daniel Hoffmeister wrote:
Crafting Mom wrote:
Bev-Ann wrote:

Why? What reward might you get?
I'm one of the many that hasn't felt more than one or two hunger
pangs since starting LC and I really don't see what possible
benefit there could be to going hungry. It would only slow down
one's metabolism.

I don't believe there is anything wrong with having a technically
empty stomach for a while. Just because food is affordable and
abundant does not necessarily mean we *must*, at all waking hours,
have *something* in our stomach. I actually am starting to trust my
biology, that when I eat something, my stomach will process it and
empty accordingly, and the correct signal (hunger) will be
demonstrably different from a craving.

I am always amused by some dieters who are so anxiously concerned that
they might be hungry, as though simply being hungry were some
unbearable misery. Maybe it's my farm upbringing, but there's a
special pleasure to working up an appetite and sitting down to a good
meal when you're really hungry.

To defend some of the dieters you find so amusing, I think that it is
perfectly legitimate for someone just beginning a diet to fear that
dieting
will cause some discomfort, because discomfort makes it harder to stick
with. Although there are folks who will dispute this, it takes some will
power to get through the initial stages of a diet, before one's appetite
adapts to smaller quantities of food, and looking for ways to make that
easier is just not an unreasonable goal. When someone is committed to
weight loss, though, that person will fight through the initial discomfort
and will then get the benefit of developing control over his or her
appetite. I wouldn't minimize the accomplishment that represents.

--
carla
http://geekofalltrades.typepad.com/geek

So you believe the two are mutually exclusive?

--
You take stupid to a new level. -- MFW


"FOB" wrote in message
m...
I'd rather be fat than feel rotten from lack of sleep.

In m,
JC Der Koenig stated
| That's why you're fat.
|
| --
| Do you ever wonder what life would be like if you'd had enough oxygen
| at birth?
|
|
|||
||| on Sat, 21 Aug 2004 14:38:35 -0500, PJx wrote:

Post some jpegs so we can all see how well it's working.

--
You take stupid to a new level. -- MFW


"Bev-Ann" wrote in message
...
Sorry I don't have any jpegs, but I'm 5' 2.5" tall and weigh 109 pounds.
I
eat 3 meals + 2 snacks averaging around 2000 calories per day. It's
working very well for me.

on Sun, 22 Aug 2004 04:05:06 GMT, "Diane Ball" wrote:

"JC Der Koenig" wrote in message
om...
Of Bev-Ann, the one that thinks a person should never go hungry. It
would
be
nice to see how that's working out for her.

-----
Bev

No, you're the one who linked them. I am still fat but I am losing, but I
am doing it my way which does not include going to bed hungry.

In ,
JC Der Koenig stated
| So you believe the two are mutually exclusive?
|
| --
| You take stupid to a new level. -- MFW
|
|
| "FOB" wrote in message
| m...
|| I'd rather be fat than feel rotten from lack of sleep.
||
|| In m,
|| JC Der Koenig stated
||| That's why you're fat.
|||
||| --
||| Do you ever wonder what life would be like if you'd had enough
||| oxygen at birth?
|||
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|||||
||||| on Sat, 21 Aug 2004 14:38:35 -0500, PJx wrote:

You first.

on Sun, 22 Aug 2004 18:38:07 GMT, "JC Der Koenig"
wrote:

Post some jpegs so we can all see how well it's working.

-----
Bev

Ok.

Now it's your turn.

--
You take stupid to a new level. -- MFW


"Bev-Ann" wrote in message
...
You first.

on Sun, 22 Aug 2004 18:38:07 GMT, "JC Der Koenig"
wrote:

Post some jpegs so we can all see how well it's working.

-----
Bev

At the rate you're going, you'll still be fat when you die.

--
You take stupid to a new level. -- MFW


"FOB" wrote in message
...
No, you're the one who linked them. I am still fat but I am losing, but I
am doing it my way which does not include going to bed hungry.

In ,
JC Der Koenig stated
| So you believe the two are mutually exclusive?
|
| --
| You take stupid to a new level. -- MFW
|
|
| "FOB" wrote in message
| m...
|| I'd rather be fat than feel rotten from lack of sleep.
||
|| In m,
|| JC Der Koenig stated
||| That's why you're fat.
|||
||| --
||| Do you ever wonder what life would be like if you'd had enough
||| oxygen at birth?
|||
|||
|||||
||||| on Sat, 21 Aug 2004 14:38:35 -0500, PJx wrote:

Hmm...my newsreader must be acting up. I don't see your jpegs anywhere...

on Sun, 22 Aug 2004 20:04:27 GMT, "JC Der Koenig"
wrote:

Ok.

Now it's your turn.

-----
Bev