This week, I finally got around to picking up that major tome by Gary Taubes, Good Calories, Bad Calories. I got it from the library, but now I know I want a copy for my home collection of low-carb info. It's dense with research and argument on the subject of "what makes people fat"--and it isn't as simple as overeating/undermoving. (We all knew that!)

However, opening up the Parade magazine in the Sunday newspaper, I glance at the inevitable weight management article. There, under the headline "Easy Ways to Lose Weight" I find the inevitable assertion: "If you decide to...cut out 200 calories a day, you will be about 10 pounds lighter at the end of a year without feeling deprived." This, my friends, is nonsense on so many levels.

Haven't we all tried it? For one thing, how in samhill do you know how many calories are "enough"--let alone what amounts to 200 calories less??

Let's all turn to our low-carb books--whichever one you want--and go over the basics of a plan that really works for us.

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Barb L.
Atkins since Jan 2003
Maintenance as of 4/05


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