Hey Kevin,
A couple of years ago I found one of those gossip newspapers on a bench at work. In the magazine was an article on how Kenny Rogers lost thirty lbs. and "ATE ALL HE WANTED". I said this is impossible, and I am going to prove it. It took great sacrifice because I am a beer drinker (liquid bread= high carbs)
I ate no carbs for four weeks, and because I thought it was nutritionally unsound I started taking centrum vitamins and viactive, DO NOT mistake with viagra.
I ate unbelievable amounts of eggs, bacon, whipped cream and jello, cream in diet root beer and so forth-----I lost 13 lbs. I was not fat but did have the "beer belly" it went away.
I stopped there and added complex carbs and cut down drastically on pasta, potato, bread,sugar---oh yeah eat fresh veg or frozen, try to get canned or jarred anything and it will contain sugar.
no wonder diabetis is on the rise.
My conclusion after this experiment was to eat all kinds of protein foods, fish, pork chicken and beef (normal portions) and with them veg. which are made of complex carbs.
Its so easy in this country to get sugar--ice cream, cookies cake, candy and then throw sugar in your canned foods, sugar everywhere------partys, company, meetings etc. then the other thing refined foods so easy to digest it takes no energy to turn the carb to sugar. your pancreas sees the rush of sugar, turns on the spigot to counter and balance it with insulin-- oops, too much and switches and bang your hungry again.
Buy the Atkins paperback book--study it-- get a grasp of the whole picture then try it if you are convinced. BUT don't make the mistake of staying with the three week no carb startup--some people are so impressed with the loss they want to stay on. Thats not the way the Atkins diet is supposed to work. You are supposed to add the complex carbs/ fresh fruit etc. until you see you are at the maintaining level, then cut back a little.
Wow, hope this is clear, there is still a lot of disputes on this but no studys to back up anything yet.
