I'll drink with that.

resveratrol? more like reversital

Anything to avoid exercise, eh fatties?

KarmicDisaster: There is only about 1 mg of resveratrol per glass of wine, so you are going to need 150 glasses per day. It is a win-win situation.

I was wondering if anybody else looked that up, for it's not mentioned in the article. Granted, that's slightly less than 1 Melchizedek of wine a day.

Overweight. This is what happens when you take a cab everywhere. You can bet'ch'erazz that if you carry 'em all bek, you might get skinny again.

somemoron: I heard on NPR (I think) someone describing the problem with people who have lost weight - The body never really recovers from the 'shock' of losing weight. Their metabolism doesn't return to a healthy state, so in order to keep maintain the same weight, they must eat 400 or so calories less than a person of the same current weight who never was obese to begin with. Perhaps this is a way to help reduce the confusion the body has after significant weight loss, and will allow formerly fat people to keep trim at a higher rate.

One of the glories of losing weight via a low carb diet is that the "shock" or famine mechanism you describe never kicks in because you couple low carbs with high protein. The lack of carbs turns your body's natural fat-burning mechanism to high, but the protein levels convince your body not to kick on any of its starvation defense mechanisms.

I personally lost 100lbs in three months. in the 7 years since I stopped eating that way I shot up about 30 lbs over two years then it all came back off and I'm not at the same weight I was when I ended the diet, but eating whatever the hell I want

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somemoron: Magorn: somemoron: I heard on NPR (I think) someone describing the problem with people who have lost weight - The body never really recovers from the 'shock' of losing weight. Their metabolism doesn't return to a healthy state, so in order to keep maintain the same weight, they must eat 400 or so calories less than a person of the same current weight who never was obese to begin with. Perhaps this is a way to help reduce the confusion the body has after significant weight loss, and will allow formerly fat people to keep trim at a higher rate.

One of the glories of losing weight via a low carb diet is that the "shock" or famine mechanism you describe never kicks in because you couple low carbs with high protein. The lack of carbs turns your body's natural fat-burning mechanism to high, but the protein levels convince your body not to kick on any of its starvation defense mechanisms.

I personally lost 100lbs in three months. in the 7 years since I stopped eating that way I shot up about 30 lbs over two years then it all came back off and I'm not at the same weight I was when I ended the diet, but eating whatever the hell I want

You lost 100 pounds in three months? WTF... How? Did you feel like shiat during that time? Seems like that is a VERY hard shock to the body...

\I need to lose 80, minimum.

Honestly it was the easiest thing I ever did. Every day I got on the scale and was three pounds lighter than the day before. I got to eat all sorts of things I'd all but given up (peanut butter, cheese, hamburgers, bacon etc). More importantly and unlike every other diet I tried, I NEVER felt hungry, (hunger is caused by swings in blood sugar). The worst part of it for me was week and a half of feeling run down, after which my energy rebounded (body switched from burning sugar to burning fat for energy). That and about a week of debilitating stomach cramps, which, it turned out, was an allergic-type reaction to nutrasweet (aspartame) and not anything related to the diet. In fact because of some of the metabolic side-effects (BP dropped from 180/120 to 135/85 w/o meds, My "wind" roughly doubled over two weeks-based on what I was able to do on a treadmill) I felt fantastic as it happened.


I'd recommend reading Protein Power by the Drs Eades as it's one of the best explanations of how the diet works from a metabolic stand point

Cthulhu_is_my_homeboy: Magorn: Honestly it was the easiest thing I ever did. Every day I got on the scale and was three pounds lighter than the day before. I got to eat all sorts of things I'd all but given up (peanut butter, cheese, hamburgers, bacon etc). More importantly and unlike every other diet I tried, I NEVER felt hungry, (hunger is caused by swings in blood sugar). The worst part of it for me was week and a half of feeling run down, after which my energy rebounded (body switched from burning sugar to burning fat for energy). That and about a week of debilitating stomach cramps, which, it turned out, was an allergic-type reaction to nutrasweet (aspartame) and not anything related to the diet. In fact because of some of the metabolic side-effects (BP dropped from 180/120 to 135/85 w/o meds, My "wind" roughly doubled over two weeks-based on what I was able to do on a treadmill) I felt fantastic as it happened.


I'd recommend reading Protein Power by the Drs Eades as it's one of the best explanations of how the diet works from a metabolic stand point

3 pounds a day? That's burning through like 10,500 calories a day. What the hell were you doing to use up that much energy?

here's the freakish part: Less than I was before. Before low carbing, I was at the local gym about 3-4 times week (down from every freaking day a bit before that) to do a minimum of 1/2 hour of aerobic exercise (bike, treadmill or rowing machine) and 1/2 hour of lifting trying to stop getting bigger. When I was at the gym everyday I was about 325, and when I cut it back to every other, I crept up to almost 370 (I was freaking HUGE)

Did the low carb thing just as my job became very busy, and I was only making it to the gym 1-2 times /week and I was absolutely desperate not to get any bigger. Someone I trusted a lot recommended it to me. It scared the hell out of me because as someone who'd eaten a low-fat diet for a long time, it seemed to want me to eat damn nearly every food I considered "bad". I figured i'd give it a week and see what happened. I lost about 20lbs that week and never looked back