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10 pounds! It's a freaking miracle! LOL!

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ORIGINAL: sub4hire



Anyway, I've known people to do the atkins thing. They lost a lot of weight. A LOT. Its real hard for them to stay on it. I've read the atkins book. My Dom tried it last year. Did'nt have a bowel movement for two weeks. Then out of desperation and hemmoroids he got off of it.

If I recall correctly you are to have zero carbs for so many days. Which leads me to ask with all the new atkins products out there. They would actually make you gain weight would'nt they? If not doing the two week with zero prior?
This is something I've been wondering about lately.

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ORIGINAL: ModeratorOne

I will start off by saying I am not going to get into an argument over the Atkins way of eating on this board. I went on the internet and started doing research, I found a few wonderful low carb message boards that I subscribed to and read daily to this day. I created an account at www.fitday.com to track everything I was eating and I decided to really give it my full 110%

The first 3 days I felt like death, on the 5th day I felt like a million bucks. Every part of me felt alive.

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ORIGINAL: iwillserveu

No offense, Moderator One, but were you trying to lose weight? If so your weight loss is here:

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Total caloric intake 1538

I’m not a doctor, but your diet looks extremely healthy. I doubt many follow after eating a slab of bacon because it was good for them.

Go to Subway and see the ad for their new Atkins friendly wraps, however... Bacon, cheese, and egg are not healthier than broccoli, tomatoes, and lettuce.

I’ll say again that despite having little or no carbs, pork rinds are not a good diet food. Beer despite only having 2.2 carbs, is not a diet drink. Because they have heard how few “carbs” are in say, pork rinds, many will not hesitate to eat the whole bag. That is not an attack on you. You eat healthy.

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ORIGINAL: belongtoyou

The problem with me and dieting is this: i dislike MOST vegetables, do not beef or pork, and i am an emotional eater-meaning i eat whether i'm hungry or not.

i have no problems with going to the gym, walking, taking the stairs, i enjoy excercising...

So, perhaps it's not which diet is best for me to follow, (necessarily) but learning how NOT to eat when i'm not hungry, and stop eating when i get full.

i've not mastered this yet; any suggestions?

btw, i'm 5'7 at 198 lbs. (i packed on pounds while in college and haven't been able to lose them).

~rain~

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I avoid oils like canola, corn, soybean etc. That have been refined, bleached and deoderized.

These oils oxidize very quickly and are usually at least somewhat rancid when purchased from the store and just get worse as time goes on. When subjecting these oils to high heats they oxidize and form free radicals even faster.

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Modern oil processing is a different thing entirely. The oil is removed by a combination of high temperature mechanical pressing and solvent extraction. Traces of the solvent (usually hexane) remain in the oil, even after considerable refining. Like all modern vegetable oils, canola oil goes through the process of caustic refining, bleaching and degumming—all of which involve high temperatures or chemicals of questionable safety. And because canola oil is high in omega-3 fatty acids, which easily become rancid and foul-smelling when subjected to oxygen and high temperatures, it must be deodorized. The standard deodorization process removes a large portion of the omega-3 fatty acids by turning them into trans fatty acids. Although the Canadian government lists the trans content of canola at a minimal 0.2 percent, research at the University of Florida at Gainesville, found trans levels as high as 4.6 percent in commercial liquid oil.24 The consumer has no clue about the presence of trans fatty acids in canola oil because they are not listed on the label.

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There is a great product called Smart Balance.

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It is true that some of us do have bowel movement problems

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One other point I wanted to add is if you are going to be doing a lot of exercising, carbo loading isnt the answer, but you may want to have a few more carbs that day or eat some coconut oil. I know it sounds strange but coconut oil (pure unrefined stuff that tastes like coconuts, not the junk you buy at whole foods) will metabolize even faster than carbohydrates. The medium chain triglycerides are transported in the lymphatic system instead of the bloodsteam. They burn cleanly and are used up quickly for energy. This is one of the reasons so many studies show increased weight loss with coconut oil. Thats all aside from it being very healthy.

For more info about coconut oil check out www.wildernessfamilynaturals.com They have the best tasting coconut oil and freeze dried coconut I have ever tasted! The stuff is amazing! Plus its also great for your skin and hair!

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March 18th
BERLIN (Reuters) - An animal rights group said on Wednesday it would go ahead with a controversial advertising campaign that likens the slaughter of animals to the murder of Jews under the Nazis despite threats of a legal challenge.

Paul Spiegel, president of the Central Council of Jews, said he would ask prosecutors to raise charges of "inciting racial hatred" against vegetarian group People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) for the advertisements called "Holocaust on a plate."

PETA campaign coordinator Matt Prescott said he was aware of the council's views, but added: "We are not willing to end the campaign." He said he himself was Jewish.

The posters, due to be displayed in Stuttgart from Thursday and in 11 European cities at later dates, show pictures of battery hens packed into cages next to historic pictures of emaciated Jewish inmates in Nazi concentration camp bunk beds.

Stuttgart prosecutor Eckhard Maak was quoted Wednesday as saying PETA should think twice because German law foresaw fines or up to five years in prison for anyone found guilty of belittling or denying the Holocaust.

Maak said if the campaign went ahead "then you can expect the police won't shut their eyes," according to an advance copy of an interview due to be published in Thursday's Berliner Zeitung newspaper.

Spiegel earlier told the newspaper the Jewish council would press charges if the campaign was launched. He has urged PETA to drop the "disgusting" adverts, saying they were "a violation of human dignity, especially of the Holocaust victims."

PETA officials say the posters are designed to raise public awareness of what they call the maltreatment of animals before they are slaughtered.

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Press Release Source: Atkins Health and Medical Information Services

Statement on PCRM Activities From Atkins Nutritionals, Inc.

Thursday May 27, 10:52 am ET

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/040527/nyth093_1.html

NEW YORK, May 27 /PRNewswire/ -- The following is a statement from a spokesperson for Atkins Nutritionals, Inc.:

Atkins generally doesn't comment on litigation. But in this case, we must pose some questions before this story gets out of hand. Even today's New York Times article raises the possibility that, as the science certainly would suggest, this case has no merit. Further, PCRM and the complainant suggest that the lawsuit is just for publicity. We should not let the real issue, providing people with a scientifically validated nutritional choice in the face of a worldwide obesity and type 2 diabetes epidemic, be manipulated by this extremist animal rights vegan group.

PCRM, a well-known extreme vegan and animal rights group, has a long history of initiating these kinds of scare tactics that are designed to convince the American public to stop eating animal protein of any sort. Furthermore, PCRM has been featuring Mr. Gorran and his various allegations on its website for quite a while. It has been reported publicly that PCRM has been investigated by Justice Department and the American Medical Association.

We have to ask some questions here: Why does anyone take PCRM seriously and allow this group, with its' animal rights agenda, to divert us all from the real enemy: the obesity and diabetes crisis in this country? Why is PCRM, an organization with less than 5% of its membership actual physicians, even viewed as a legitimate participant in the nutrition debate? Shouldn't the nutrition discussion be focused on science? Atkins was asked for science and for three years we've been delivering it. So faced with science and fact, PCRM has retreated to scare tactics.

Why isn't the nutrition debate focusing on the comments from Harvard's Dr. Walter Willett, one of the world's leading nutrition experts, who recently said that after reviewing all the science on low carb (and these are all studies that followed Atkins protocols), "We can no longer dismiss very-low- carbohydrate diets." Or why aren't we focusing on the words of Dr. Sylvan Weinberg, MD, MACC who in a recent article published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, called for medical professionals to recognize the validity of low-carbohydrate/high-protein diets like Atkins in the fight against heart disease. Dr. Weinberg asserted that it is no longer reasonable to accept or endorse on faith alone the superiority of the low-fat, high- carbohydrate approach to coronary health. And why isn't this discussion including science conducted by Harvard, Duke, University of Pennsylvania, The National Institutes of Health and even the American Heart Association?

As always Atkins stands by the science that has repeatedly reaffirmed the safety and health benefits of the Atkins Nutritional Approach. As recently as last week, two new studies were published in the Annals of Internal Medicine confirming the safety and benefits of Atkins as well as demonstrating, even when compared to low fat diets, that Atkins provides improvements in major cardiovascular risk factors. These findings repeat what has been consistently and without exception seen in 25 other studies over the past three years

PCRM and its cronies do a great disservice to the cause of good health in this country by repeatedly manipulating the media to confuse and mislead the American public.
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Source: Atkins Health and Medical Information Services

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What do you cook with coconut oil? How does it taste? Thanks Dawn