Livin' La Vida Low Carb

In answer to your question, I am not super-skinny, and I even still retain a bit of a "spare-tire" belly, because I tend to stuff myself, probably to calm anxiety. However, it is far safer to stuff oneself with low-carb, as there is no risk to overall health, and I can quickly return to lesser weight at will by avoiding carbs for a few days. I am not very motivated regarding exercise, have alot of social anxieties about that, and maybe am just too lazy, hence I am more dependent on diet to maintain health.

In 2000, I went on a low-fat diet "for my health". A few months later, I was 20-30 lbs heavier and my body was out of control. I was deeply shocked and angry about this sudden turn of events. I was eating low-fat, but lots of sugar and carbs. Someone turned me onto low-carb, and in less than a week, I was back at my proper weight of 180-190, my triglycerides and fasting blood glucose have since tested excellent. Since then I have discovered a community of people out there who have had similar experiences, some much more intense, like Jimmy Moore. But I knew right away that I had found the great dirty secret and hidden truth of the entire modern disease profile.

When eating low-carb, one can eat more calories than before and still lose weight. This has been demonstrated many times by many people. In this way, you avoid the terrible "starvation effect" of low-fat, low-cal diets, which are simply starvation diets, and also shows that calorie counting is simplistic and ineffectual. Caloric units of different foods do not have the same metabolic effect on the body at all. You can stuff yourself on low-carb, and your triglycerides, blood glucose and insulin levels will still remain at a very healthy, low level, as they are meant to do naturally. Meanwhile, your appetite also drops and you have much more energy. All risk markers improve, some dramatically. It is win-win-win.

Try it if you don't believe it, many other already have. It's not magic, great amounts of refined carbs have only entered our diets in the last century, hence all the "mysterious" health problems which are characteristic of this past century. We should have been following this path all along, but the medical/government beaurocracies were blindly determined to force their wishful thinking policies on us all, and we all passively and trustingly went along with whatever they told us. Fifty years later, we are all far sicker.

The point is, EVERYTHING we are now being told about nutrition is wrong, and instead directly causing the problem. The AMA and ADA are death-cults funded by the very deep pockets of Big Pharma and the Big Sugar/junk-food industry, who are in turn protected by the government and the ignorant masses who are held in thrall by them. Overweight, diabetes, high cholesterol, heart disease, in short, the entire metabolic syndrome is all caused by dietary sugar, flour and starch, not fat. No, diabetes is not genetically inherited from our parents, it is their bad eating habits which are behaviorally inherited. The plethora of dangerous health medications we are now taking are completely unnecessary for most people.

Yes, there is alot of research now coming out to support all these claims, and refute all the claims of the misguided medical system, which the medical beaurocrats are doing their best to hide from you all. Sorry for ranting. See the links below for more information.

http://rjr10036.typepad.com/askdrvernon/

http://www.proteinpower.com/drmike/

http://weightoftheevidence.blogspot.com/

http://www.kimkins.com

Jimmy's blog

and plenty more on the web.

Great story from Jimmy - a few points to add:

1) It is true that low-carb does not work for all people, but it does work for most people. In addition to excess weight, it reverses all known symptoms of metabolic syndrome almost immediately, including high triglycerides, atherosclerosis, type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure, energy, mood and digestive problems (this has been demonstrated definitively by US researchers Jeff Volek and Richard Feinman). You can do "whatever works for you", but for most people, low-carb will be the primary way to health, since the over-eating of sugar, flour and starch is the primary reason for the modern epidemic of metabolic syndrome and heart disease.

2) Young people with health problems or not should be encouraged to pursue low-carb also, not "maybe", but "definitely". You should check with your doctor, but only if your doctor is supportive of low-carb. If they are not, you must find a new doctor. A doctor who is ignorant or prejudiced against low-carb is partly to blame for your health problems, and doing you more harm than good. Doctors are not magicians, and mostly just repeat what they were taught in medical school. Most doctors today are very, very wrong about nutrition, because what they were taught in med school was very wrong.

3) As another major benefit, most practicers of low-carb find that cholesterol and blood pressure medications, and even insulin injections, are rendered unnecessary by the diet. You should only use a doctor who understands how to safely reduce or eliminate your medications after starting low-carb. The future will see the growth of a new class of doctors who will specialize in removing people from the medications which a misguided and corrupt health system has prescribed.

THANKS, Paul! It has been an incredible journey to better health for me and I've enjoyed the experience more than I could have ever imagined. Your low-calorie, exercise regimen works for you and CONGRATULATIONS! That's the key to permanent weight loss success.

Find what works for you, follow that plan exactly as prescribed, and then keep doing it for the rest of your life. If people would simply implement this three-pronged strategy to their obesity, then it wouldn't take long to eradicate that from our societal lexicon for good!

THANK YOU for giving me a voice here at Orato!