Today’s lunch: an 18-ounce tenderized veal cutlet, rolled in a mixture of 2 eggs (beaten), 4 tbsp melted butter, white pepper, and fresh oregano—pan-seared in chorizo fat and wrapped in 8 strips hickory smoked bacon. With a raw red and green pepper medley.
Let the pound-shedding begin!
Tried Atkins for about 2 months. Gave up pasta, sugar, breads. Lost 20 lbs. Despite my new stunningly sexy appearence (and all the attn GASP real cheekbones garnered), I have never been more miserable in my life. Gave it up. Three days later, I had gained back 10 lbs (and I didn’t eat any more than usual).
Low fat is doable. Low carb diet means giving up every single thing I take enjoyment in while eating (especially since, unlike Jeff, I can’t cook to save my life). Food is about sustenence but also about pleasure – I was only a little overweight but hated every single minute of the diet and now understand why so many fat people are really pissed off, most of the time.
“Society”. But but but society made them fat….
Low carb does require massive willpower. But it works, and eliminating carbs has health benefits beyond weight reduction, such as preventing diabetes.
You can do pretty well by elminating carbs from all snacks and all but one meal. If you’re in ketosis for 16 hours a day, you’re very likely to lose weight.
I think the nutrionists laughably mistaken emphasis on low-fat diets (your body can and will MAKE fat from excess carbs by using insulin to bind glucose into triglycerides; it has to because glucose poisons your blood with acidity) for the last 30 years is largely responsible for all the morbidly obese people with diabetes we see today.
Then again, I have a feeling you both would find my taste in and attitude toward food disgustingly utilitarian.
OTOH, they do make a wide assortment of carb-free ice cream desserts now.
Considering my well-known love for meat, I see Atkins as the only way to go!
Atkins was the easiest diet I ever did. The only things hard to give up were pasta and pizza. I guess soda was rough, too. But eating meat all the time? Heavenly.
I lost 45 pounds. Then I got married to a woman that’s literally afraid of meat on the bone, and wary of the other varieties, and I gained back 30 pounds.
Spamword: works. Atkins certainly does.
You have to give up soda? I kept on with my Diet Dr. Pepper.
I lost about 30 lbs the first time, allowing myself pizza on Friday and a Guinness every night. But since then I’ve put back on 20 lbs—mostly because I got a little too lax with the carbs.
Incidentally, I agree with TallDave’s assessment: I felt much better physically on the low-carb diet; alternately, you can count your calories; that worked for me, too.
I hope to lose 15 lbs.
I recently got my gf to start low-carb (she’s 115 and wants to get down to 105). She’s pretty good about it, and is always asking “Can I eat this? Can I eat that?” A few days after she started she was craving carbs, and asked if she could have rice. I told her rice is forbidden. She responded with “But Dave, I have to eat rice, I’m Chinese!”
I told her she’s American now, and made her a burger instead.
re: Low-carb: How can you give up FRUIT? It’s so good for you.
Not onyl is it tough to go with too few carbs, but there’s very little fiber w/o fruits and whole grains. Ouch.
I’m looking to lose about 15-20 lbs. I’ve done it every year for the past 8 years (gained over winter, lost over summer). But this year, I’ve been trying for about 6 weeks, and I’ve lost maybe 3-5 pounds. And that’s WITH a large amount of exercise (running and biking). It’s as if my body refuses to cugh up the pounds this time. What gives?
Fruits contain good carbs and antioxidants. I’m eating fruit now—mostly berries. Almonds are also good (a couple of oz. daily).
Mmmm. Veal. I’ll have the same. Oh, and an order of fries.
Actually, I’ve been low carb for 2 1/2 years now after being on diabetes meds the previous 10. Being a meat eater, it’s been pretty easy. But a diet won’t ever work if you can’t stay on it.
Sw: hell? Can you say that in a spamword?
Like Jeff said, fruits aren’t too bad. The carbs in them are mainly fructose, which (iirc) is an odd-sided sugar molecule that can only be broken down in the liver. That means it gets converted to glucose relatively slowly. It’s the grains (esp refined) that you really need to avoid.
Funny you mention almonds—I just ordered 25 lbs of them.
I’m hungry. I eat. I need to lose a few pounds. I run(or swim) more.
It isn’t that hard guys.
Although after 40, you have to run a bit more.
Doesn’t work that way for some of us, Sparkle. I already do several hundred pushups and crunches daily, and I life weights. But I was diagnosed with mild pulmonary hypertension, which flares up when I try to go too aerobic. Gotta watch my diet.
Also, found out my biological dad—and that whole side of the family—had trouble with diabetes. So the low-carb thing really helps.
Dave —
Where do you get your almonds? Cheap? I pay way too much buying them at the supermarket.
Goldstein lies!!! There is no such thing as an 18 oz. veal cutlet. You mean a scalloppini from the leg? Maybe if it was 2” thick. Yeah, you’d be tenderizing that sucker all right. Or did you mean a veal chop?
Turing word: “world,” as in, “That’s the biggest veal cutlet in the world.”
Chop, cutlet…who cares what it’s called? It was a pound and a half piece of milk-fed, exercise-deprived baby cow dipped in spiced chicken embryo and wrapped in pig flesh.
Veal, butter, chorizo fat, bacon…?
That’s not your stomach rumbling; it’s your arteries whimpering.
Turing = design, as in Don’t you have a little trepidation that you’re meddling with nature’s design?
I lost 40 lbs. on the Atkins diet, and have kept it off for 2 1/2 years. The first two weeks were a tad uncomfortable, but not that big a deal. As for fat, why does everyone think that you eat a pound of butter a day? And by everyone, I mean TSI. You still have to be sensible.
As Dave said, there are medical benefits, too. You stabilize your blood-sugar levels, and your cholesterol actually goes down, not up, as the naysayers predicted.
Heh. Spamword, “without.”
Sounds delicious to me! Atkins is the way to go. I suffered greatly under various low fat diets. Losing the 40 lbs on Atkins was the easiest weight loss I ever did.
It stayed off for over two years until I began to get too lax with the carbs and gained back part of it. But it is not too hard to get back on the regimen when I want to lose again.
Did you low-carbers take supplements? Calcium? Potassium? Multi-vitamin?
Please advise…thanks.
Jeff- Almonds- Sam’s Club – my GF eats em religiously and Sam’s sells a massive plastic container full of almonds. Don’t ask me actual price- I dont know- but she swears Sam’s is the best value she’s found for folks who eat alot of em.
Giving up grains was impossible for me. I was on a low fat diet for years and years (not really a diet, I guess, more of a lifestyle) and only ate red meat on occasion. I found the influx of meat from atkins really upset my stomach quite a bit, as it really wasn’t used to red meat =x
“You have to give up soda? I kept on with my Diet Dr. Pepper.”
I can’t stand that nutra-sweet aftertaste, and real soda pure carbs. Technically caffiene is banned in Atkins, not because it changes your blood sugar but because Atkins felt like it made you crave carbs. I can’t remember if he had actual evidence or if it was just a hunch.
Regardless, I kept right on drinking coffee and still lost the weight.
Guiness: Good choice. Tastes great, and I think it’s lower in carbs than almost any non-lite beer.
Yeah, Guinness is relative low carb. Diet Dr. Pepper, blisfully, doesn’t have that aftertaste of which you speak. It is a glorious creation.
Slick —
I take Centrum Carb Assist as a supplemnent.
Jeff,
I’ll have to check my mail to find where I got the almonds. I’ll forward you the sales slip when I find it. Yeah, in bulk they were pretty cheap as I remember, and they were good quality. I freeze about 20 lbs, and take them out 5 lbs at a time.
I like mine crispy but totally unseasoned, so I have to get raw almonds and cook them (which is tricky).
slick,
Yeah, I take a bunch of supplements.
Dr. Pepper ain’t bad for diet, but I still get a hit of that tang.
I would guess the Sam’s suggestion above is probably just as good as where I got mine. I go shopping very rarely (my food all comes from Peapod.com).
Hmmmm.
Atkins is a great diet, but if you’re on a ultra-low carb diet you should be getting regular blood workups to check for kidney function. Ultra-low carb diets are really hard on the kidneys.
That’s not true. Lots of people mistake ketosis for ketoacidosis, but they’re very different conditions.
Hate to tell you—but you’re getting older.
Try Diet Cherry Vanilla Dr. Pepper. It’s my new alternative to Diet Coke.
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I tried atkins but it didn’t work for me
Atkins is the best low carb diet.