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"Gordon Burditt" wrote in message ... I have been on the simplest low-carb diet for the last year. I have lost 40 pounds. I don't count calories. I count carbs. It strikes me that counting only part of the food you eat is going to cause problems (or at least not much success at weight loss) for people who follow the letter but not the spirit of the rules. Gordon L. Burditt All I know is that my low carb diet worked for me, with no bad effects. After 1 year; I went from a size 18 shirt to a 16 1/2. My waist went for 56 inches to 46. My HBA1C went from a reading of 10 to 6.3. My fasting glucose went from 220 to 110. PJ |
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1800 is kind of high for women, I'd recommend 1500 calories. How
many miles do you plan to walk daily? "Brisk" is pretty relative... Cygnus The Bringer of Balance Linda Mathes wrote in message ... I am starting my diet today (September 1st) and would like to know if the chart below is somewhat correct. I used this formula many years ago but my memory isn't the best. Are the numbers in the left column correct? If not, could you please correct them and repost? Sorry if this is off topic. Linda 1200-1800 calories per day = Lose weight 2100-2600 calories per day = Maintain weight 2800- +++ calories per day = Gain weight. I'll be on the 1,800 calories per day diet. I'll also be walking briskly for 30 minutes a day. Thanks for all input. |
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1800 is kind of high for women, I'd recommend 1500 calories. How
many miles do you plan to walk daily? "Brisk" is pretty relative... Cygnus The Bringer of Balance Linda Mathes wrote in message ... I am starting my diet today (September 1st) and would like to know if the chart below is somewhat correct. I used this formula many years ago but my memory isn't the best. Are the numbers in the left column correct? If not, could you please correct them and repost? Sorry if this is off topic. Linda 1200-1800 calories per day = Lose weight 2100-2600 calories per day = Maintain weight 2800- +++ calories per day = Gain weight. I'll be on the 1,800 calories per day diet. I'll also be walking briskly for 30 minutes a day. Thanks for all input. |
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"Peanutjake" wrote in message ...
I have been on the simplest low-carb diet for the last year. I have lost 40 pounds. I don't count calories. I count carbs. Here is my diet. No potatoes No rice No pasta No Tropical fruits No fruit juices 1/2 the bread I used to eat. Diet sodas Splenda instead of sugar. I avoid as much as possible, everything made from wheat. Seems a lot of nice food to miss out on just to lose weight. If you count calories rather than carbs you can eat what you want, no restrictions. |
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"Peanutjake" wrote in message ...
I have been on the simplest low-carb diet for the last year. I have lost 40 pounds. I don't count calories. I count carbs. Here is my diet. No potatoes No rice No pasta No Tropical fruits No fruit juices 1/2 the bread I used to eat. Diet sodas Splenda instead of sugar. I avoid as much as possible, everything made from wheat. Seems a lot of nice food to miss out on just to lose weight. If you count calories rather than carbs you can eat what you want, no restrictions. |
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I have been on the simplest low-carb diet for the last year.
I have lost 40 pounds. I don't count calories. I count carbs. It strikes me that counting only part of the food you eat is going to cause problems (or at least not much success at weight loss) for people who follow the letter but not the spirit of the rules. Gordon L. Burditt All I know is that my low carb diet worked for me, with no bad effects. But you DIDN'T eat ten pounds of turkey a day, did you? You had enough sense to limit your total intake even if the diet didn't tell you to. (And I believe some low-carb diets DO tell you there are limits on things besides carbs.) There's no such thing as a diet that will work if you are allowed to eat an unlimited amount of any food, and you actually DO eat huge amounts of it. There are unwritten rules. If you obey the unwritten rules (and the written ones), you'll likely have success with your diet. If you don't, it won't work. And it may be fairly easy for most people to obey them. But advertising that a diet allows you to eat "as much as you want" of any food is just false advertising. (Although it may work fine if you don't really pig out on "free" foods.) People with normal appetites may have no trouble staying within the unwritten rules. People with large weight problems may not have "normal" appetites, and that's why some of them have a large weight problem in the first place. As an extreme and ridiculous example, I know of no diet that says you can't drink some insane amount like 20 gallons of water a day. Yeah, I know, that's ridiculous, nobody can commit suicide by drinking too much water (unfortunately not true!). Well, there have been some incidents with fraternity initiations that at least put lives in danger, if not actually killed someone. I don't recall the amount of water that actually sent them to the emergency room. Low carb diets have a fairly good reputation for being at least reasonable nutritionally (unlike some faddish single-food diets) and a good portion of people actually lose weight on them. If it works for you, great! It's not what my doctor recomments, but he doesn't claim his recommendation is the only way to lose weight. I don't object to low-carb diets. I object to the claim that there are NO limits on protein or specific foods containing mostly protein, like turkey and chicken. And not all low-carb diets say there are no limits on such foods. However, the record of one person losing weight is unconvincing (even if it's not a lie). I think the weight-loss industry can, given enough time, produce a success story for just about any diet, unless it's actually poison. Even then, they might actually be able to prove weight loss in one subject eating only unleaded gasoline for 30 days (although they'd probably kill thousands in the process.) After 1 year; I went from a size 18 shirt to a 16 1/2. My waist went for 56 inches to 46. My HBA1C went from a reading of 10 to 6.3. My fasting glucose went from 220 to 110. This is great progress, especially the HBA1C. Congratulations! Gordon L. Burditt |
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I have been on the simplest low-carb diet for the last year.
I have lost 40 pounds. I don't count calories. I count carbs. It strikes me that counting only part of the food you eat is going to cause problems (or at least not much success at weight loss) for people who follow the letter but not the spirit of the rules. Gordon L. Burditt All I know is that my low carb diet worked for me, with no bad effects. But you DIDN'T eat ten pounds of turkey a day, did you? You had enough sense to limit your total intake even if the diet didn't tell you to. (And I believe some low-carb diets DO tell you there are limits on things besides carbs.) There's no such thing as a diet that will work if you are allowed to eat an unlimited amount of any food, and you actually DO eat huge amounts of it. There are unwritten rules. If you obey the unwritten rules (and the written ones), you'll likely have success with your diet. If you don't, it won't work. And it may be fairly easy for most people to obey them. But advertising that a diet allows you to eat "as much as you want" of any food is just false advertising. (Although it may work fine if you don't really pig out on "free" foods.) People with normal appetites may have no trouble staying within the unwritten rules. People with large weight problems may not have "normal" appetites, and that's why some of them have a large weight problem in the first place. As an extreme and ridiculous example, I know of no diet that says you can't drink some insane amount like 20 gallons of water a day. Yeah, I know, that's ridiculous, nobody can commit suicide by drinking too much water (unfortunately not true!). Well, there have been some incidents with fraternity initiations that at least put lives in danger, if not actually killed someone. I don't recall the amount of water that actually sent them to the emergency room. Low carb diets have a fairly good reputation for being at least reasonable nutritionally (unlike some faddish single-food diets) and a good portion of people actually lose weight on them. If it works for you, great! It's not what my doctor recomments, but he doesn't claim his recommendation is the only way to lose weight. I don't object to low-carb diets. I object to the claim that there are NO limits on protein or specific foods containing mostly protein, like turkey and chicken. And not all low-carb diets say there are no limits on such foods. However, the record of one person losing weight is unconvincing (even if it's not a lie). I think the weight-loss industry can, given enough time, produce a success story for just about any diet, unless it's actually poison. Even then, they might actually be able to prove weight loss in one subject eating only unleaded gasoline for 30 days (although they'd probably kill thousands in the process.) After 1 year; I went from a size 18 shirt to a 16 1/2. My waist went for 56 inches to 46. My HBA1C went from a reading of 10 to 6.3. My fasting glucose went from 220 to 110. This is great progress, especially the HBA1C. Congratulations! Gordon L. Burditt |
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I have been on the simplest low-carb diet for the last year.
I have lost 40 pounds. I don't count calories. I count carbs. It strikes me that counting only part of the food you eat is going to cause problems (or at least not much success at weight loss) for people who follow the letter but not the spirit of the rules. Gordon L. Burditt All I know is that my low carb diet worked for me, with no bad effects. But you DIDN'T eat ten pounds of turkey a day, did you? You had enough sense to limit your total intake even if the diet didn't tell you to. (And I believe some low-carb diets DO tell you there are limits on things besides carbs.) There's no such thing as a diet that will work if you are allowed to eat an unlimited amount of any food, and you actually DO eat huge amounts of it. There are unwritten rules. If you obey the unwritten rules (and the written ones), you'll likely have success with your diet. If you don't, it won't work. And it may be fairly easy for most people to obey them. But advertising that a diet allows you to eat "as much as you want" of any food is just false advertising. (Although it may work fine if you don't really pig out on "free" foods.) People with normal appetites may have no trouble staying within the unwritten rules. People with large weight problems may not have "normal" appetites, and that's why some of them have a large weight problem in the first place. As an extreme and ridiculous example, I know of no diet that says you can't drink some insane amount like 20 gallons of water a day. Yeah, I know, that's ridiculous, nobody can commit suicide by drinking too much water (unfortunately not true!). Well, there have been some incidents with fraternity initiations that at least put lives in danger, if not actually killed someone. I don't recall the amount of water that actually sent them to the emergency room. Low carb diets have a fairly good reputation for being at least reasonable nutritionally (unlike some faddish single-food diets) and a good portion of people actually lose weight on them. If it works for you, great! It's not what my doctor recomments, but he doesn't claim his recommendation is the only way to lose weight. I don't object to low-carb diets. I object to the claim that there are NO limits on protein or specific foods containing mostly protein, like turkey and chicken. And not all low-carb diets say there are no limits on such foods. However, the record of one person losing weight is unconvincing (even if it's not a lie). I think the weight-loss industry can, given enough time, produce a success story for just about any diet, unless it's actually poison. Even then, they might actually be able to prove weight loss in one subject eating only unleaded gasoline for 30 days (although they'd probably kill thousands in the process.) After 1 year; I went from a size 18 shirt to a 16 1/2. My waist went for 56 inches to 46. My HBA1C went from a reading of 10 to 6.3. My fasting glucose went from 220 to 110. This is great progress, especially the HBA1C. Congratulations! Gordon L. Burditt |
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"Linda Mathes" wrote in message
... I am starting my diet today (September 1st) and would like to know if the chart below is somewhat correct. I used this formula many years ago but my memory isn't the best. Are the numbers in the left column correct? If not, could you please correct them and repost? Sorry if this is off topic. Linda 1200-1800 calories per day = Lose weight 2100-2600 calories per day = Maintain weight 2800- +++ calories per day = Gain weight. I'll be on the 1,800 calories per day diet. I'll also be walking briskly for 30 minutes a day. Thanks for all input. Why don't you just reduce your portion size by 1/3, cut out junk food, and add weight-training to the exercise routine? Caloric intake is so personal using charts seems like a crap shoot (and that chart looks really high, too). --Neil |
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"Linda Mathes" wrote in message
... I am starting my diet today (September 1st) and would like to know if the chart below is somewhat correct. I used this formula many years ago but my memory isn't the best. Are the numbers in the left column correct? If not, could you please correct them and repost? Sorry if this is off topic. Linda 1200-1800 calories per day = Lose weight 2100-2600 calories per day = Maintain weight 2800- +++ calories per day = Gain weight. I'll be on the 1,800 calories per day diet. I'll also be walking briskly for 30 minutes a day. Thanks for all input. Why don't you just reduce your portion size by 1/3, cut out junk food, and add weight-training to the exercise routine? Caloric intake is so personal using charts seems like a crap shoot (and that chart looks really high, too). --Neil |
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