unusual low carb diet questions

01:09:05 Mon, 21 Mar 2005misc.fitness.weights
Marengo at Marengo <marengo.DeleteThis@thelink.net> writes:
>||1)I don't feel i can do a diet where i can eat a very small amount of
>|| carbs, day in day out.Even if this carb restriction is only for the
>|| initial phase of the diet. My life at the moment is, to be frank,
>|| very stressful and the depression which i will suffer rom
>|| restricting the carbs will make it unbearably stressful. However
>|| what i think i can manage is to severely cut-back on my carbs, but
>|| this cuttting back will not be as 'systematic' as I read a low carb
>|| diet should be. Let me explain, i think i can manage to eat mainly
>|| protein foods, but my intake of carbs on some days will be way more
>|| than the small amount i should eat, according to the diet books.
>|| Will eating mainly proteins,with also some carbs still cause weight
>|| loss or, will the carbs completely negate the benefits from eating
>|| mainly protein? I mean, on some days i will eat almost 100 %
>|| protein, but on other days some carbs will creep in, due mainly to
>|| life-stress and comfort eating.


I don't know what your goals are, but the words "severely cut-back on my
carbs" give the impression that you might be on the wrong track. Severe
dieting is intrinsically problematic in lots of ways (particularly
health-wise and in your ability to maintain it, not to mention how
depressing it can be to your self-esteem when you encounter problems):
my suggestion is that you try a milder version.

Have a look at my diet page (link in my sig below); this is what I did
and it worked, and is still working for me, two years later.

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Martin Thompson wrote:
|| 01:09:05 Mon, 21 Mar 2005misc.fitness.weights

|| Marengo at Marengo <marengo RemoveThis @thelink.net> writes:
||||| 1)I don't feel i can do a diet where i can eat a very small
||||| amount of carbs, day in day out.Even if this carb restriction is
||||| only for the initial phase of the diet. My life at the moment is,
||||| to be frank, very stressful and the depression which i will
||||| suffer rom restricting the carbs will make it unbearably
||||| stressful. However what i think i can manage is to severely
||||| cut-back on my carbs, but this cuttting back will not be as
||||| 'systematic' as I read a low carb diet should be. Let me explain,
||||| i think i can manage to eat mainly protein foods, but my intake
||||| of carbs on some days will be way more than the small amount i
||||| should eat, according to the diet books. Will eating mainly
||||| proteins,with also some carbs still cause weight loss or, will
||||| the carbs completely negate the benefits from eating mainly
||||| protein? I mean, on some days i will eat almost 100 % protein,
||||| but on other days some carbs will creep in, due mainly to
||||| life-stress and comfort eating.
||
||
|| I don't know what your goals are, but the words "severely cut-back
|| on my carbs" give the impression that you might be on the wrong
|| track. Severe dieting is intrinsically problematic in lots of ways
|| (particularly health-wise and in your ability to maintain it, not to
|| mention how
|| depressing it can be to your self-esteem when you encounter
|| problems):
|| my suggestion is that you try a milder version.
||
|| Have a look at my diet page (link in my sig below); this is what I
|| did
|| and it worked, and is still working for me, two years later.
||
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|| Martin Thompson bin RemoveThis @tucana.demon.co.uk (use "martin" not
|| "bin") London, UK Home Page:
|| http://www.tucana.demon.co.uk Diet Success:
|| http://www.tucana.demon.co.uk/diet.htm Mobile Phone Ring
|| Tones: http://www.ringamoby.com
||
|| "Everything I do and say with anyone makes a difference." Gita Bellin

You edited your quotes wrong; I did not post what you have attributed to me
above. That was zaman's post; you deleted my response and his signature.
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