i went in to my local healthfood store today to get ACV, and when talking to the guy i knew he was in there the last time i was in he just so happen to ask me if i had ever been in there befor.. i couldnt resist my self but to say..

"YES! i was i was in here in January 50 lbs heavier.. " he goes.. ohh i thought you looked kinda fimular.. (probly just saying that... ) anyway he asked me "how have you lost so much weight.. did u get that gastro bipas done.." i said.".NOOOO".. and proceded to tell him i have been doing Atkins.. he instantly started lectureing me.. how bad it is for me.. when right in front of me was a counter full of "atkins" brand products. i asked him why is it he is selling this stuff if he is so aginst it and he said.. "beacuse it sells" i wanted to strangle him.. so i proceded to list off all the things i eat in 1 day.. and he said.. "oh that couldnt be atkins... i would just say you are eating healthier.. "
so i said.. okay... than im eating healther grabed my change and said.. thanks.. and walked out the door..

just kinda burns me up that he is so un edjucated and was thinking just beacuse im doing "atkins" means that all i eat is MEAT.. sigh.. and he works in a healthfood store..(ownes it) i told him he needs to edjucate himself better befor trying to give out information.!

sorry had to rant

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Hmmm..I'm wondering if he thought getting a stomach by-pass was "healthy."

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people can be so dim witted in their predjudice against atkins dieting... You could pound their heads with a hammer and they still would not understand just how much healthy stuff we actually do eat.

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i dont think he was saying that the bipas was healthy.. i think he was sugesting beacuse i lost 50 lbs in 6months.. that i just "had to have done some drastic measure to loose"

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Gilly- LOL!
I was just being a smart mouth when I wondered if he thought a by-pass was "healthy."

Going off on Atkins the way he did made me think that if you'd told him you'd had the by-pass he wouldn't have said anything bad about that.

But then again, prolly not.

You're right about the main thing, though. I sure wish these folks would read the book before they spout off. If only they knew how ignorant they are making themselves out to be.

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he told me to break it down for him how i was eating.. and i started listing off like 2-3 difrent days menu and he was jaw droped... he said that dont sound LC.. (beacuse i listed so many veggies... )and i told him that i have been doing this since January.. you dont stay at a LOW amount of veggies and stuff for ever... he said ohh...
then he said.. well have you thought about adding in some hole grains... i told him once i get closer to my goal i will.. but right now i need to avoid them for the most part..

i realy made my self sound like i had some sort of degree compaired to him sitting there sounding ignorant... i have 1/2 a notion to write out a months worth of menu for him of what i eat and take it in and show him excatly what i eat... proly would just say agin.." just sounds like you are eating healthier than LC" what ever he wants to think it dont matter I am eating healthier and i am healthier.. that is all that matters...

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Gilley, that's hilarious! Sounds like you really put him in his place and he deserves it.

See, I could never open a low carb store. We thought about it seriously but I just couldn't bring myself to sell all the junk and then at the same time be wanting to tell people the RIGHT way to do low carb. I'd run myself out of business!

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He probably thought you were going to say you ate Atkins products. (In which case, he probably would have been right, sadly.)

I don't even say I do Atkins anymore. The way Atkins Nutritionals pushes their products, it's not a sound diet. I just low-carb.

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