From: Jerry Mitchell (jmitch12@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Thu Aug 23 2001 - 21:57:29 MDT
Only because you eat carbs as well. When your body is presented with the
option of metabolizing carbs or fat, it goes for the carbs and stores the
fat. If you remove the carbs, it doesn't have a choice. If it didn't work
that way, explain losing 50lbs over 3 months?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-extropians@extropy.org
> [mailto:owner-extropians@extropy.org]On Behalf Of Samantha Atkins
> Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 6:08 PM
> To: extropians@extropy.org
> Subject: Re: DIET: Low carb report
>
>
> "Mitchell, Jerry (3337)" wrote:
> >
> > I agree, I tried this and went from 250lbs (I know... shhh)
> down to 200lbs
> > in about 3 months! I was almost never hungry and got to eat
> all the great
> > foods I love. My breakfast a lot of times was a nice bacon
> and cheese omelet
> > with a bacon side (I LOVE bacon). My wife made some no carb
> chocolate mousse
> > for when I got those sugar cravings. I cant rant or rave
> enough about how
> > great this works! I'm shooting for 180 where Ill hold.
> >
> > I don't get hungry between meals much at all anymore,
> mainly because I'm not
> > going through that non-sensical carb/sugar cycles. All
> energy is coming from
> > that steady state fat source.
> >
>
> Hmmm. This sounds nuts to me. All that bacon, cheese and
> assorted fat can play hell with your cholesterol levels. It
> might work ok for you now but it would clog me up really fast.
> My metabolism turns that stuff to body fat.
>
> - samantha
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