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Walstib is actually right to a point. Elimination of most carbs works because that's where most of the higher calorie items are grouped. He did not say eliminate them altogether. I have almost entirely eliminated grain products from my diet. I eat corn, but not corn bread. I eat potatoes, but not very much. Lately, I've been eating too much sugar, but that's my fault. My typical diet is coffee and something to get me going in the morning...if I am conscripted to fast food or those nasty biscuit things in the hot deli, 3/4 of the bread will be thrown away. If I can order something, I will get a Mexican omelet with a tortilla instead of toast and trade in the hashbrowns for cottage cheese. For dinner, if I'm someplace where there's a buffet, it's a huge salad followed by almost entirely meat products. If not, I'll get unbreaded seafood or some kind of chicken with two servings of vegetables instead of a veggie and a potato. I rarely go more than two days without eating a big salad of some kind. And by big salad, I'm talking a dinner plate with enough lettuce on it that it's covered plus some of the other fixin's.

Regarding that vegan diet mentioned above: it is absolutely true that most vegetarians are very thin. There's a reason for that. It's because their diet does not provide protiens needed to build muscle or resupply hemoglobin. If you don't replenish your protien levels, your body starts to "eat" its own muscle tissue. How many emaciated, pale, weak vegans will it take before somebody realizes it's not necessarily the best diet? Skinny is not always healthy.

I think balance is the key and each of us needs to find the balance that's right.

 

Simple Carbs get turned into glucose. Excess Glucose gets turned into FAT..

The real trick is to keep your diet low glycemic. Look up the term.. It's really not hard to do. It is a way of life for a controlled diabetic.

Example: 4oz of white baked potato vs. 4 oz of sweet potato. People would think the sweet potato is worse, because it is SWEET. Sweet potatoes are complex carbohydrates, white potatoes are simple carbohydrates. The sweet potato is medium glycemic the white potato is high glycemic. Sweet Potato wins

All meats are low glycemic, because it takes forever for the body to break them down into sugar it needs. The slower the breakdown the lower the glycemic rating.

 

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I used to think the same Injun. How can I survive eating lettuce and carrots? This is a myth. I get plenty of protein in my diet just from different sources than meat.

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Lets see. Biscuits N gravy with taters with cigar ashes dropping off from the stogie. Strong black coffee... yep; truckers diet right there.....

 

I to had this problem about 2 years ago I went from 180 to about 200 in about a 5 month period.. First off cut all soft drinks coffee and tea from your diet.. Water or milk 2 % or less... Then you need atleast 30 minutes of workout a day. Go with about a 8 minute stretch regiment and then atleast 20 minutes of either fast paced cardio ie walking yoga or plyometric (lots of jumping and moving in plyo) or 20 minutes of rigorous weights( this is hard to do on the road but can be done) I suggest light weights you only need 4 dumb bells probably 2 10s and 2 20s maybe 25s.. do a complete upper and lower body with these.. 4 times a week just do normal stuff like calf raises squats and lunges, both side and normal lunges shoulder press tricep hammer curls and do 2 to 3 different bicep curls.. 25 to 40 crunches and 40 to 60 push ups using a variety of different hand placements (wide shoulder width and make a diamond with your thumbs and pointer finger). this sounds like alot but if you do it for 2 months you will see the weight melt off.. and it only takes about 30 minutes a day.. and yes you will need to be outside the truck to do any working out.. Just get use to guys making fun of you.. They won't for long.

for your diet though this is what I did..

1.Cut all soft drinks coffee and tea ( I did drink 1 glass of sweet tea a day)
2.Eat breakfast just a normal breakfast eggs hashbrowns (carbs) meat and toast dont over do it though.. 1 egg is plenty.
3. Snack alot if you are working out your body will demand sugars and starches both.
4. Having said 3.. don't eat chips candy or unnatural sugars. Eat fruits raisins .
5. Eat a good lunch(try to cut fried food) grilled chicken is great for lunch.. get a george foreman and an inverter. grill takes 7 minutes to cook. grill some veggies.
6. Snack some more.
7. Drink plenty of water.
8. Eat a good meal at night Grilled Salmon is great even a Ribeye..
9. Don't eat out if you can keep from it I do most of my cooking in the truck at night before I go to sleep. All my meat is cooked an put in the cooler for the next day except my night meal.. Chicken is good cold..
10. For the first 2 weeks of doing this carry you saftey toilet paper.. YOU WILL NEED IT.
11. Find a Wal Mart to shop at you will save $$$$$$$ in the end.

 

Always prefer low carb because the higher no of carbohydrates helps in increasing fats.
The carbohyadrates are very low absorbent comapred to fibre and other, so the most of the carb not get utilized and get converted to fats, and higher no of fats leads to many diseases like diabetes, blood pressure, cardio, etc.

 

Actually the opposite is true. Simple carbs are turned into Glucose faster than the more complex carbs and proteins. The body uses Glucose to produce energy that the cells need to survive. If the body doesn't need the Glucose it is turned into fat to be used at a later time. Fiber is broken down and used for various other functions that regulate the body. You want to cut out the simple carbs, but not the complex carbs.

The idea is to allow the body to use up the glucose it produces at an equal rate to what you consume. Losing weight involves using up the glucose at a faster rate, which forces the body to turn the fat back into glucose and burn it up.

 

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To answer the question, if you follow what I did which was the "Atkins" diet, it has no long term, or even short term effects on your kidneys. Where people have run into problems is when they dont follow a very important rule in this diet, and in most diets. That is, you MUST drink plenty of water. It is recommended to drink 8 - 8oz glasses of water per day.

Without this water to keep your system cleaned out, you may have problems.

The trick to Atkins is, in the first 2 weeks, to try and cut out almost ALL carbs. This is the hardest part.
After the first 2 weeks you can start adding back in some carbs. like some fruit, sweet potatoes, but NO refined sugar. but you need to cout those carbs and try to keep it at 20 or less.

Doing this you will lose weight fairly quick. At a point (for me it was about every 3 weeks) I would plateau and stop losing weight. When that happens, carb load for a day. Dont go overboard, but eat some taters, rice, bread. Stuff like that, but only for 24 hours, then back on the diet. It really works.