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(Msg. 1) Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 5:24 pm
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HI all. I have been on a low carb diet before, but it was for a very
short period of time, before events in my life meant I could no longer
continue it. I want to try a low carb diet again, but I have these
questions:
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.
2)I have read on many web sites that alcohol is very bad for weight
loss, since the body preferentially burns the alcohol before the
fat.But is this really true? I mean, i see a lot of alcoholics who are
pencil thin.If a person only consumes one or two glasses of vodka a
day, and then eats a very small amount of food, surely he will lose
weight, especially if he has a busy life schedule which means he walks
about a lot? Under normal circmstances ,my alcohol consumption is very
low, mainly because I have a strong aversion to it's taste, but right
now due to a stressful life, I am wondering whether eating a small
amount of food and one or two small glasses of vodka is really all that
bad for weight loss?
I know my alcohol question is very unusal, and it's goes 100 % against
the 'you need to change the way you eat for life, and watch your whole
lifestyle, and not just go on a crash diet etc etc' message, but since
this is a free message board I feel I have the right to ask this
alcohol question, even though I will ineviatably get flamed.
Don't get me wrong I don't advocate an alcohol weight loss diet ( on a
side note,with all the plethora of diets, has anyone ever written an
alcohol diet?!), but for the period of time I will be drinking more
alcohol than normal I wanted to know if it will have an especially
negative effect on my diet, even if i keep my calories low.
Thanks for reading this post and i hope you can over-look the unusual
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Why dont you dont try working on the what is causing you all the
stress in your life? Are you using alcohol and food to get you throught
the stress? Are you a comfort eater and drinker? Simply removing or
minimizing your stress can have a weight loss affect on you. Give up
the booze too as it is a depressant so you may find consuming alcohol
counterproductive in dealing with your depression.
Laureen
zaman_2....TakeThisOut@yahoo.com wrote:
> HI all. I have been on a low carb diet before, but it was for a very
> short period of time, before events in my life meant I could no
longer
> continue it. I want to try a low carb diet again, but I have these
> questions:
> 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.
> 2)I have read on many web sites that alcohol is very bad for weight
> loss, since the body preferentially burns the alcohol before the
> fat.But is this really true? I mean, i see a lot of alcoholics who
are
> pencil thin.If a person only consumes one or two glasses of vodka a
> day, and then eats a very small amount of food, surely he will lose
> weight, especially if he has a busy life schedule which means he
walks
> about a lot? Under normal circmstances ,my alcohol consumption is
very
> low, mainly because I have a strong aversion to it's taste, but right
> now due to a stressful life, I am wondering whether eating a small
> amount of food and one or two small glasses of vodka is really all
that
> bad for weight loss?
> I know my alcohol question is very unusal, and it's goes 100 %
against
> the 'you need to change the way you eat for life, and watch your
whole
> lifestyle, and not just go on a crash diet etc etc' message, but
since
> this is a free message board I feel I have the right to ask this
> alcohol question, even though I will ineviatably get flamed.
> Don't get me wrong I don't advocate an alcohol weight loss diet ( on
a
> side note,with all the plethora of diets, has anyone ever written an
> alcohol diet?!), but for the period of time I will be drinking more
> alcohol than normal I wanted to know if it will have an especially
> negative effect on my diet, even if i keep my calories low.
> Thanks for reading this post and i hope you can over-look the unusual
> nature of my post and help me out.Bye my friends and companions in
> weight loss. |
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> 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.
Creating a CALORIC DEFICIT will cause you to lose weight, the type of
food is irrelevant...carb/protein/fat
> 2)I have read on many web sites that alcohol is very bad for weight
> loss, since the body preferentially burns the alcohol before the
> fat
Alcohol is not a good fuel source. It is a TOXIN to the body and is
dealt with as such. Alcoholics are generally thin because they
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zaman_2756 RemoveThis @yahoo.com wrote in news:1111011870.107788.205920
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> HI all. I have been on a low carb diet before, but it was for a very
> short period of time, before events in my life meant I could no longer
> continue it. I want to try a low carb diet again, but I have these
> questions:
> 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.
If you're eating for comfort, you'll fail. If you approach this whole
thing as a loss, you'll probably fail. Readjust your attitude.
Low-carb has very little to do with weight loss, except that lots of high-
carb foods are calorie-dense. So don't sweat the carbs. Eliminate all the
simple carbs to start with, then go on from there as you feel inclined.
Come up with a few simple, tasty meals you can eat day in and day out and
eat them. Don't make eating an adventure or a comfort blanket.
Choose a day a week when you relax the rules. Allow yourself one dessert a
week on that day.
Lift weights so the weight you lose won't be as much muscle as fat.
> 2)I have read on many web sites that alcohol is very bad for weight
> loss, since the body preferentially burns the alcohol before the
> fat.But is this really true? I mean, i see a lot of alcoholics who are
> pencil thin.If a person only consumes one or two glasses of vodka a
> day, and then eats a very small amount of food, surely he will lose
> weight, especially if he has a busy life schedule which means he walks
> about a lot? Under normal circmstances ,my alcohol consumption is very
> low, mainly because I have a strong aversion to it's taste, but right
> now due to a stressful life, I am wondering whether eating a small
> amount of food and one or two small glasses of vodka is really all that
> bad for weight loss?
> I know my alcohol question is very unusal, and it's goes 100 % against
> the 'you need to change the way you eat for life, and watch your whole
> lifestyle, and not just go on a crash diet etc etc' message, but since
> this is a free message board I feel I have the right to ask this
> alcohol question, even though I will ineviatably get flamed.
> Don't get me wrong I don't advocate an alcohol weight loss diet ( on a
> side note,with all the plethora of diets, has anyone ever written an
> alcohol diet?!), but for the period of time I will be drinking more
> alcohol than normal I wanted to know if it will have an especially
> negative effect on my diet, even if i keep my calories low.
> Thanks for reading this post and i hope you can over-look the unusual
> nature of my post and help me out.Bye my friends and companions in
> weight loss.
>
Planning to go on a drinking binge doesn't have much to do with health.
Using alcohol to handle depression is stupid, and planning to use alcohol
to handle depression is *really* stupid. Allot yourself a couple of drinks
over the week and you'll be fine.
Hugh
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You are probably incorrect in assuming that eating low carb will cause
depression, a lot of people find the opposite to be true. And you are NEVER
supposed to eat 100% protein, you are supposed to get a good percentage of
your calories from fat.
Some people do find that just cutting out things like potatoes, pasta, rice
and bread cause them to lose weight. It depends a lot on how much you have
to lose and whether cutting these things out will reduce your overall
calorie consumption enough. Low carb works mainly by reducing
appetite--calories still count.
And that is applicable to your alcohol question. The calories count and if
you drink too much you may be tempted to eat something you shouldn't or even
more of something that's okay. Alcohol really is a poor way to relieve
stress even though lots of people do it.
In news:1111011870.107788.205920@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com,
zaman_2756.RemoveThis@yahoo.com <zaman_2756.RemoveThis@yahoo.com> stated
| HI all. I have been on a low carb diet before, but it was for a very
| short period of time, before events in my life meant I could no longer
| continue it. I want to try a low carb diet again, but I have these
| questions:
| 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. 2)I have read on many web sites that alcohol is very bad for
| weight loss, since the body preferentially burns the alcohol before
| the fat.But is this really true? I mean, i see a lot of alcoholics
| who are pencil thin.If a person only consumes one or two glasses of
| vodka a day, and then eats a very small amount of food, surely he
| will lose weight, especially if he has a busy life schedule which
| means he walks about a lot? Under normal circmstances ,my alcohol
| consumption is very low, mainly because I have a strong aversion to
| it's taste, but right now due to a stressful life, I am wondering
| whether eating a small amount of food and one or two small glasses of
| vodka is really all that bad for weight loss?
| I know my alcohol question is very unusal, and it's goes 100 % against
| the 'you need to change the way you eat for life, and watch your whole
| lifestyle, and not just go on a crash diet etc etc' message, but since
| this is a free message board I feel I have the right to ask this
| alcohol question, even though I will ineviatably get flamed.
| Don't get me wrong I don't advocate an alcohol weight loss diet ( on a
| side note,with all the plethora of diets, has anyone ever written an
| alcohol diet?!), but for the period of time I will be drinking more
| alcohol than normal I wanted to know if it will have an especially
| negative effect on my diet, even if i keep my calories low.
| Thanks for reading this post and i hope you can over-look the unusual
| nature of my post and help me out.Bye my friends and companions in
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> HI all. I have been on a low carb diet before, but it was for a very
> short period of time, before events in my life meant I could no longer
> continue it. I want to try a low carb diet again, but I have these
> questions:
> 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.
It basically will come down to how much you eat overall. If you burn more
than you eat you will lose weight; low carb is an easy way to not eat so
much, done right.
> 2)I have read on many web sites that alcohol is very bad for weight
> loss, since the body preferentially burns the alcohol before the
> fat.But is this really true? I mean, i see a lot of alcoholics who are
> pencil thin.If a person only consumes one or two glasses of vodka a
> day, and then eats a very small amount of food, surely he will lose
> weight, especially if he has a busy life schedule which means he walks
> about a lot? Under normal circmstances ,my alcohol consumption is very
> low, mainly because I have a strong aversion to it's taste, but right
> now due to a stressful life, I am wondering whether eating a small
> amount of food and one or two small glasses of vodka is really all that
> bad for weight loss?
Well, alcohol = 7 cals/gram, for contrast carbs are about 4 cals/gram. But a
lot of the short term 'bad effects' with alcohol is where someone goes out
and has ten pints and a curry; beer has a fair amount of calories over and
above the alcohol, and the curry you then eat when too pissed to consider
the consequences is not going to help you lose weight either.
On the other hand, whatever problems you have right now are probably not as
serious as the problems you might potentially have in five years when you
are an alcoholic with impending liver failure. Drinking to try to cope with
problems is a classic first step down that path. It may lead to pencil thin
people, but that's for much the same reason as heroin addicts losing weight,
not eating because drinking comes first.
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zaman_2756 DeleteThis @yahoo.com wrote:
> HI all. I have been on a low carb diet before, but it was for a very
> short period of time, before events in my life meant I could no longer
> continue it. I want to try a low carb diet again, but I have these
> questions:
> 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. 2)I have read on many web sites that alcohol is very bad for
> weight loss, since the body preferentially burns the alcohol before
> the fat.But is this really true? I mean, i see a lot of alcoholics
> who are pencil thin.If a person only consumes one or two glasses of
> vodka a day, and then eats a very small amount of food, surely he
> will lose weight, especially if he has a busy life schedule which
> means he walks about a lot? Under normal circmstances ,my alcohol
> consumption is very low, mainly because I have a strong aversion to
> it's taste, but right now due to a stressful life, I am wondering
> whether eating a small amount of food and one or two small glasses of
> vodka is really all that bad for weight loss?
> I know my alcohol question is very unusal, and it's goes 100 % against
> the 'you need to change the way you eat for life, and watch your whole
> lifestyle, and not just go on a crash diet etc etc' message, but since
> this is a free message board I feel I have the right to ask this
> alcohol question, even though I will ineviatably get flamed.
> Don't get me wrong I don't advocate an alcohol weight loss diet ( on a
> side note,with all the plethora of diets, has anyone ever written an
> alcohol diet?!), but for the period of time I will be drinking more
> alcohol than normal I wanted to know if it will have an especially
> negative effect on my diet, even if i keep my calories low.
> Thanks for reading this post and i hope you can over-look the unusual
> nature of my post and help me out.Bye my friends and companions in
> weight loss.
You sure seem to have made up your mind what you are going to do in the
negative sense. What the hell does the life situation around you have to do
with your eventaul weight loss? make up your mind if you're going to lose
weight or blame everyone around you for what you are.
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Perre
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On 16 Mar 2005 14:24:30 -0800, zaman_2756.TakeThisOut@yahoo.com wrote:
>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?
Weight loss comes from eating less energy than you expend. Low carb
dietting on the whole works mainly 'cos protein is quite filling, so
you tend to eat less. Ketosis isn't a pre-requisite to losing weight.
Eating a diet high in protein with some fresh veges, and some carbs
some days is probably sound enough so long as you eat fewer calories
than you expend.
Drinking alcohol is pointless. If you drink when you're depressed
it'll make you worse, and whenever you drink it's empty calories that
do nothing but hinder weight loss.
It sounds to me that you need to come to terms with whatever is wrong
with your life before you will be successful, but it's your life
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> fat.But is this really true? I mean, i see a lot of alcoholics who are
> pencil thin.If a person only consumes one or two glasses of vodka a
This excerpt may help you learn why alcoholics may be thin and it certainly
isn't because the alcohol is directly resposible for making them lose
weight, the weight loss is only one symptom of a fatal disease, (AIDS or
cancer can make you skinny, too.)
http://www.intelihealth.com/IH/ihtIH/WSIHW000/9339/9717.html#symptoms
Symptoms
In its early stages, cirrhosis often has no symptoms. But as liver cells
die, the organ makes less of the proteins that regulate fluid retention and
blood clotting and loses its ability to metabolize the pigment bilirubin.
The resulting symptoms and complications include:
* Fatigue
* Loss of appetite
* Nausea and vomiting
* Weakness
* Weight loss
* Fluid accumulation in the legs (edema) and abdomen (ascites)
* Increased bleeding and bruising
* Jaundice, a yellowing of the skin and eyes
* Itching
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> Alcohol is not a good fuel source. It is a TOXIN to the body and is
> dealt with as such. Alcoholics are generally thin because they
> generally do not eat much.
That reminds me of the Dennis Miller joke about how rock singer and
human garbage skow David Crosby was able to have a heavy cocaine problem
*and* be fat.
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zaman_2756.DeleteThis@yahoo.com wrote:
|| HI all. I have been on a low carb diet before, but it was for a very
|| short period of time, before events in my life meant I could no
|| longer continue it. I want to try a low carb diet again, but I have
|| these questions:
|| 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. 2)I have read on many web sites that
|| alcohol is very bad for weight loss, since the body preferentially
|| burns the alcohol before the fat.But is this really true? I mean, i
|| see a lot of alcoholics who are pencil thin.If a person only
|| consumes one or two glasses of vodka a day, and then eats a very
|| small amount of food, surely he will lose weight, especially if he
|| has a busy life schedule which means he walks about a lot? Under
|| normal circmstances ,my alcohol consumption is very low, mainly
|| because I have a strong aversion to it's taste, but right now due to
|| a stressful life, I am wondering whether eating a small amount of
|| food and one or two small glasses of vodka is really all that bad
|| for weight loss?
|| I know my alcohol question is very unusal, and it's goes 100 %
|| against the 'you need to change the way you eat for life, and watch
|| your whole lifestyle, and not just go on a crash diet etc etc'
|| message, but since this is a free message board I feel I have the
|| right to ask this alcohol question, even though I will ineviatably
|| get flamed.
|| Don't get me wrong I don't advocate an alcohol weight loss diet ( on
|| a side note,with all the plethora of diets, has anyone ever written
|| an alcohol diet?!), but for the period of time I will be drinking
|| more alcohol than normal I wanted to know if it will have an
|| especially negative effect on my diet, even if i keep my calories
|| low.
|| Thanks for reading this post and i hope you can over-look the unusual
|| nature of my post and help me out.Bye my friends and companions in
|| weight loss.
Please read one of the poplar low-carb diet books (Atkins, South Beach,
Carbohydrate Addict's Diet, the Zone, etc.) You have so many
misconceptions about what a low-carb diet is -- and entails -- that I
wouldn't even know where to begin!
--
Peter
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(Msg. 15) Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 9:38 am
Post subject: Re: unusual low carb diet questions [Login to view extended thread Info.]
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Hi again. Sorry for the misunderstanding, i did not mean I used 10,000
calories per day, but meant 10 000 kilojoules, or whatever the other
form of measuring energy is, which is roughly 4 times as large as
kilocalories.
Here is a link to the article concering alcohol and weight loss, the
part which got me very worried was where it said even a small amount of
vodka can lead to about a 73% drop in the metabloic rate:
http://www.thefactsaboutfitness.com/research/alcohol.htm
I'd welcome all thoughts on this article, because I've read some
intelligent people in Google groups saying alcohol does not have that
much of a negative effect on weight loss, as long as you do a lot of
exercise and restrict you other calories.
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