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Date Posted: 11:22:48 05/22/02 Wed
Author: Daddy Bill
Subject: Re: Protien Power/Daddy Bill
In reply to: Melanie 's message, "Protien Power/Daddy Bill" on 07:54:46 05/15/02 Wed

Hi, Melanie -

I guess you haven't checked back in awhile. I was waiting for your answer to the spreadsheet question, which version can you use? This spreadsheet will total all your food values, (put everything in there each day!) I still use mine religiously, every day, 365/yr.

To expound on the Low-carbing, Protein Power WOL, I have tried about every type diet there is in my almost 70 years, and NOTHING works as well as low-carb for me! I have been using this WOL, WOEating for almost two years now. I have been down to my ideal weight for almost a year, and have no desire to ever get off this WOE. Of course, everyone is an individual. Not everything works for everyone, but the success rate of Low-Carb is the highest of all diets.

When overweight, we all dream of the "Magic Pill" that will someday solve all our problems, making us a hard body, but the current medical establishment is still stuck in the myth that low fat is the only answer. I doubt if we can expect anything new from them anytime soon. Since the
American people are now 66% obese after fifteen years of low-fat eating, (we were only 40% before the low-fat myth was started), it seems obvious to all but them that low-fat does not work.

It has been said that any scientific test that has the sults that �low-fat� has, that it would be deemed as a total failure without question. Not so with the low-fat believers! They claim we are ALL cheating. (The clincher: No one seems to be able to provide any scientific evidence that low-fat dieting has ever been thoroughly tested in a double-blind comprehensive test. Evidently, the whole idea is based on intuition, (eat fat, get fat). But �intuition� is not scientific and provides all too many false notions.

I wavered on low-carbing at first. When Atkins book came out around 1970, I gleaned the basics from a friend�s description of the diet, but didn�t bother to read the book. I thought that �all the meat and fat� would be unhealthy, so I soon gave up. Problem: I did not know the total truth.

In October 2000, I decided to check out the low-carb diet and checked out the Internet. The Protein Power book�s description caught my eye and I bought and read it cover-to-cover. This book gives the medical reasons why low-carbing works and why it is healthy! The authors, Doctors Eades, have been doing their version of low-carbing for more than ten years in their clinic with outstanding results.

We ate almost no carbohydrates for hundreds of thousands of years! -

If nothing else makes sense, the fact that our ancestors ate this diet for the major part of our prehistory, should. They had no choice. Our �hunter-gatherer� ancestors� only sources of carbohydrates were the more healthy fresh fruits that were gathered, (berries, fruit off the trees, etc., in season). There were no refined carbs to be had, (that is a fairly recent, man-made addition.) During the winter, and even through thousands of years during the Ice Ages, the only food available was animals that they hunted. Almost zero carbs! If that was unhealthy, humankind would likely have never survived! The fact that we are still here in great numbers proves that our diet was indeed healthy. In fact, we are more adapted to low-carbing than to any other nutritional system.

How do you stick with it? First of all, you owe it to yourself to learn all the FACTS you can. The more you learn, the more myths you can discard, and the more power you will have to make your own decisions. Get one of the Books and read it first hand. Read it again and mark the parts that apply to you. (I obviously like Protein Power.) Read the labels on the back of the foods you buy.
Soon you will learn what foods are high in carbs, and which foods that you like should be included. Try to include a good variety, else the boredom of too few food types may be
discouraging.

Thanks to Laura Richards: Check out the hidden carbs in foods! Manufacturers are allowed to �round off� carbs when they think they are about one carb or less per serving. Thus, they will often claim zero carbs. This is especially critical in serving sizes that are small. (Note: fat, protein, and carbohydrates have nine, four, and four calories, per gram, respectively. [Alcohol has seven.])

Example: a one-ounce serving of a famous brand of Extra Sharp cheese claims zero carbs. It has 120 total calories, and 90 fat calories. Therefore, there are 30 calories left for proteins and carbs. There are six grams of protein claimed, so 6 x 4 = 24 calories of protein, so there are six
calories missing! There is really 6/4 = 1.5 carbs in one ounce! (I took this off an actual package of extra sharp cheese, and I have to wonder how they are getting by with it!) I still love cheese, but I keep track of all these extra carbs.

Don�t rely too much on hearsay. There are many nay-sayers who invariably haven�t a clue as to the facts relative to low-carbing. Even the people on this site are made up of people who are in all phases of the diet, and some are bound to have opinions that may be incorrect. (That is why you need to read the book, so you will have a better chance of knowing the difference.)

From my point of view, this WOL should not be treated as a temporary thing to suffer through. (My apologies to other readers on this site doing this, but I feel that the any �challenges,� �no cheat,� etc., that are being bounced around the site are counter-productive. It infers that the diet is a torture that needs to be suffered through until a weight goal is reached. What then? Go back to the old WOE and gain it all back? Plus five or ten more pounds? For this WOL to work long term, JUST DO IT!)

Sweet addiction -
Many claim that the carbohydrates that we developed, especially the refined sugar inventions that followed the discovery of agriculture five-to-ten thousand years ago, have become an addition. This may be so, because many report
withdrawal symptoms when they start low-carbing. It is certainly true that as we stop eating sweets and other high carb foods, we tend to miss them less and less. Some claim that even artificial sweeteners cause a continuing craving for sweets, and avoiding them is to their best interest. You may wish to try either way and see for yourself.

Finally, don�t be discouraged if you give in to a special treat. We all do it. Try not to go �all out� and binge. It is not a sign that you have failed, (even if you binge). A rare treat won�t erase all you have gained. You may feel guilty, but the next day go back to the WOE and try to avoid the things that caused the �slip.� If you get really hungry for something sweet, try a favorite fruit. I often find that an apple that has 20 or more carbs will taste wonderful, and will cause a pound or two whoosh (drop).

Let me know which spreadsheet type: Corel Qpro, MS Excel, or MS Works you have. Usually a spreadsheet program comes bundled with your word processor. If you don�t have either, you might want to obtain one. They are nice to have available.

Daddy Bill

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