Tacos are making me lose weight, why?

Larry G wrote:
:: "FOB" wrote in message ...
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::: In ,
::: Larry G stated
:::: x-no-archive: yes
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:::: I'm not on a low-carb diet, but I should be. What I am doing is
:::: adding more protein to my diet than normal to balance out the
:::: carbs I do eat. I'm overweight, I'll leave it at that for my
:::: weight, hehe.
:::
::: Balance out the carbs? That doesn't make any sense.
::
:: Well, what I mean is add more protein in with my diet, but not
:: necessarily eliminating carbs. Let's say I have a burger and fries.
:: Usually I'm the type of person that would let the burger sit there
:: and eat the fries. When I started eating the burger and forgoing the
:: fries, suddenly my weight began to stabilize or even drop. It goes
:: back to same old, same old gaining when I cut back on the meat
:: again, for example.

if you eat more of the meat and leave more of the damn fries, you're
shifting the ratio of fat/protein/carbs in your diet. Eating fewer grams of
carbs will tend to lower your diet as you're lowering your total carb
intake.

Still, unless you control carb intake carefully this may or may not lead to
eating less and weight loss.

::
::: The spaghetti is much higher in carbs, and they are probably higher
::: glycemic
::: carbs, than the tacos. The principle of low carb eating is that
::: carbs increase your hunger, limiting them decreases your hunger so
::: you naturally eat less. You may also react differently to the
::: spaghetti because it is made from wheat which affects many people
::: adversely.
::
:: That's what I was thinking. Thanks for confirming.
::
::: It's impossible to burn enough calories cooking to make a
::: significant difference. If you want more regularity you should be
::: eating fiber containing vegetables--green leafies, green beans,
::: summer squash, eggplant,
::: mushrooms, celery, peppers, asparagus....
::
:: Cool. Right now I'm eating more salads. Baby steps, you know.

Ditch the tortillas unless you're going to use the LC kind.

::
:: Larry

JC...I would love to take you up on your offer.
Too bad you're down there and I'm up here. Get a life

I was overweight...But, now I'm 280 pounds at 6' 4"
You wouldn't be full of **** after I get through with you, cause I'd kick it
outta ya, you f***** moron.

----- Original Message -----
From: "JC Der Koenig"
Newsgroups: alt.support.diet.low-carb
Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 3:11 PM
Subject: Tacos are making me lose weight, why?


If someone was of normal weight and told me that they only crapped once a
week, I would still tell them they were full of ****.

Perhaps you take it as an insult or as bullying because you have low
self-esteem. Now's a good time to get over it.

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


"Larry G" wrote in message
...

Your demeanor suggests that you feel it's okay to insult fat people
because they are large.
Either you feel it's okay to bully fat people or you don't.


"JC Der Koenig" wrote in message
...
If someone was of normal weight and told me that they only crapped once a
week, I would still tell them they were full of ****.

Perhaps you take it as an insult or as bullying because you have low
self-esteem. Now's a good time to get over it.

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


"Larry G" wrote in message
...

Your demeanor suggests that you feel it's okay to insult fat people
because they are large.
Either you feel it's okay to bully fat people or you don't.

Id say because they're mostly meat. If you could JUST eat the filling
and leave the taco shell on the table, you'd REALLY lose weight. Most of
the carbs are in the shell.

Same with the spag. Eat the meat sauce and leave the pasta out--again,
most of the carbs are in the pasta. It has more carbs, by far, than the
taco shell. Absolutely useless carbs, too--pasta made from white flour
is as nutritious as wallpaper paste.

The BM once-a-week thing....doesnt sound healthy. What about taking a
fiber supplement daily? and....do you drink enough water?

Im betting making sure you get a definite 64 oz.(that's just 4 16
glasses!) of water daily, plus two or three fiber caps....you could fix
that situation.

Plus, speeding up the metabolism of food is a weight-loser, in itself.
Food that takes a week to go from mouth to toilet is moving WAY too
slow.

To poop is to live! The more you poop....the more you LIVE!

best of luck-

LassChance

"You're full of ****."~der Konehead

Pot. Kettle. Black.

sigh....welcome, Larry. We must overlook der K's extraordinarty
rudeness. He suffers, I believe, from Tourette's Syndrome.

LassChance

Tried to send ****head JC a private e-mail, but it came back.
So, I'll put it public
=====================================
Look **** head.
You gotta ****en problem and wanna solve it, let me know
I'll accomodate you...Notice, I took this private.
You ****en jerken off..
Tell me how you wanna meet?

"Lass Chance" wrote in message
...
Id say because they're mostly meat. If you could JUST eat the filling
and leave the taco shell on the table, you'd REALLY lose weight. Most of
the carbs are in the shell.

Same with the spag. Eat the meat sauce and leave the pasta out--again,
most of the carbs are in the pasta. It has more carbs, by far, than the
taco shell. Absolutely useless carbs, too--pasta made from white flour
is as nutritious as wallpaper paste.

The BM once-a-week thing....doesnt sound healthy. What about taking a
fiber supplement daily? and....do you drink enough water?

Im betting making sure you get a definite 64 oz.(that's just 4 16
glasses!) of water daily, plus two or three fiber caps....you could fix
that situation.

Plus, speeding up the metabolism of food is a weight-loser, in itself.
Food that takes a week to go from mouth to toilet is moving WAY too
slow.

To poop is to live! The more you poop....the more you LIVE!

best of luck-

LassChance

Larry G wrote:

Spaghetti makes me want to eat more and more even if I'm not hungry...
That's my theory so far. My question is: Is there an Atkins principle or
low-carb reason for the fact that tacos either help me maintain or encourage
weightloss even though mine are laden with fat, and the fact that spaghetti
does not?

I think it also has to do with the fact that it's tortillas rather than
bread.

Half of Atkins is about food intolerances.

Corn and wheat half around the same carb count per amount
and about the same high glycemic index/load. The difference
is the ingredient then.

Wheat makes you want to eat more and more even if you're not
hungry. That's important. It's an addictive behavior
pattern. Food intolerances do trigger addictive behavior
patterns. Corn doesn't do that to you so corn isn't
addictive to you.

Yup, there's a standard Atkins answer to what you've described.
If you were to follow the directions for Atkins eventually
you would discover that wheat is a binge trigger for you and
that you need to be wheat-free from here on. But! The but
is there are a lot of other ingredients other than wheat and
corn. It might be one you of them not the wheat.


I suggest you go wheat free for at least two weeks and see
how you feel. Then add wheat for a week and see if you get
worse. Then back to wheat free for a double check. You may
be amazed at the difference.

"And, if you think it's okay to do it while
not hiding behind your computer screen,...."

LOL. NO chance of that. Zero.

LassChance

Larry G wrote:

But, I'm not an idiot,

uhm, you think you burn as many calories while cooking something as
there are in the food you've cooked.

you are definitely an idiot.

Litttle man... open up your e-mail and we'll make arrangements to meet in
private or gimme your address public, no matter to me
I'm due for a trip... Trust me, I'll be there
I've got the money and I've got the time



"JC Der Koenig" wrote in message
m...
Come to El Paso and then send another email, fat boy.

--
911 is good, but 1911 is better. -- SgtSilicon


"flyinfinn" wrote in message
...
Tried to send ****head JC a private e-mail, but it came back.
So, I'll put it public
=====================================
Look **** head.
You gotta ****en problem and wanna solve it, let me know
I'll accomodate you...Notice, I took this private.
You ****en jerken off..
Tell me how you wanna meet?

"Lass Chance" wrote in message
...
Id say because they're mostly meat. If you could JUST eat the filling
and leave the taco shell on the table, you'd REALLY lose weight. Most
of
the carbs are in the shell.

Same with the spag. Eat the meat sauce and leave the pasta out--again,
most of the carbs are in the pasta. It has more carbs, by far, than the
taco shell. Absolutely useless carbs, too--pasta made from white flour
is as nutritious as wallpaper paste.

The BM once-a-week thing....doesnt sound healthy. What about taking a
fiber supplement daily? and....do you drink enough water?

Im betting making sure you get a definite 64 oz.(that's just 4 16
glasses!) of water daily, plus two or three fiber caps....you could fix
that situation.

Plus, speeding up the metabolism of food is a weight-loser, in itself.
Food that takes a week to go from mouth to toilet is moving WAY too
slow.

To poop is to live! The more you poop....the more you LIVE!

best of luck-

LassChance

Someone has way too much testosterone.

In ,
flyinfinn stated
| Litttle man... open up your e-mail and we'll make arrangements to
| meet in private or gimme your address public, no matter to me
| I'm due for a trip... Trust me, I'll be there
| I've got the money and I've got the time
|
|
|
| "JC Der Koenig" wrote in message
| m...
|| Come to El Paso and then send another email, fat boy.
||
|| --
|| 911 is good, but 1911 is better. -- SgtSilicon
||
||
|| "flyinfinn" wrote in message
|| ...
||| Tried to send ****head JC a private e-mail, but it came back.
||| So, I'll put it public
||| =====================================
||| Look **** head.
||| You gotta ****en problem and wanna solve it, let me know
||| I'll accomodate you...Notice, I took this private.
||| You ****en jerken off..
||| Tell me how you wanna meet?
|||
||| "Lass Chance" wrote in message
||| ...
|||| Id say because they're mostly meat. If you could JUST eat the
|||| filling and leave the taco shell on the table, you'd REALLY lose
|||| weight. Most of the carbs are in the shell.
||||
|||| Same with the spag. Eat the meat sauce and leave the pasta
|||| out--again, most of the carbs are in the pasta. It has more carbs,
|||| by far, than the taco shell. Absolutely useless carbs, too--pasta
|||| made from white flour is as nutritious as wallpaper paste.
||||
|||| The BM once-a-week thing....doesnt sound healthy. What about
|||| taking a fiber supplement daily? and....do you drink enough water?
||||
|||| Im betting making sure you get a definite 64 oz.(that's just 4 16
|||| glasses!) of water daily, plus two or three fiber caps....you
|||| could fix that situation.
||||
|||| Plus, speeding up the metabolism of food is a weight-loser, in
|||| itself. Food that takes a week to go from mouth to toilet is
|||| moving WAY too slow.
||||
|||| To poop is to live! The more you poop....the more you LIVE!
||||
|||| best of luck-
||||
|||| LassChance