I've been thinking about this for awhile, as during my day-to-day life I have observed the squinty eyes, the wrinkled brows, and the curled lips of my low-fat friends. These are some of the things that have made me giggle at them, as they scowl down at their own plates of "food" while simultaneously giving me the stink eye. It's especially striking when the friend in question doesn't know (or in one case, BELIEVE) that I've lost 90 pounds, and am effortlessly keeping it off.
1. Whupping sour cream onto my shell-free taco salad with gleeful abandon. Evidently I should be leaving off the cheese and sour cream, and eating the shell.
2. Putting heavy cream in my coffee. Anything but skim milk will undoubtedly be the end of my size 9 jeans. You know, the ones I'm wearing right now.
3. Chunks of avocado. In any application. Under no circumstances should avocados be ingested. And, you can make perfectly tolerable guacamole out of PEAS. To be eaten with low fat corn chips, naturally.
4. My plate(s) at the breakfast buffet. Yeah, I'm gonna have some melon, like you, but not until after I've finished these eggs and bacon! Enjoy your dry toast.
5. My plate(s) at the dinner buffet. Yes, I am going to eat the skin on the roasted chicken. Yes, I am going to put that butter on the broccoli. Enjoy your white rice.
Ah, low-fatters. . . don't you just want to pat them on the head and give them a rice cake lollipop? They're so cute sometimes!

Stacie
222/132/130-35
No low-fatters were harmed in the creation of the preceding post. At least not by anything other than their own eating habits.

Stacie,
Really good one!

Kimberly

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Stacie, ROFLMAO!! Very cute, especially since I just bought a SIZE SIX pair of jeans. Granted, they're stretch, but it's a big testament to Low Carb!

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5'1" ~ 59 years old
Highest weight: 165
Atkins 7/10/2004
160/126/125
RE-DO, January 2008:
167/162/135

Yup. Got my own personal quart of cream in the judge's fridge, and the calorie people 'bout have a bird when they see me dosing my coffee each day. Except, I'm the one who's slim and has stayed that way for years, now. ... and they're not.

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ROFLMAO!!! Great post!

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Ohhhhh, how funny and how true.

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Started LC 1-10-04

302/199/160, 103lbs down, 39 to go, simply remarkable.

Restart- 8-19-07
242/226/160


405 points to date ( HOLIDAY CHALLENGE )

OH so very ture...and way too funny!!!!

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232/190/130
My other journal http://www.lowcarbeating.com/bb/showthread.php?t=1130

It seems that the latest arguments by low-fatters always start like this:

"Yes, the Atkins diet works, you will lose weight, BUT:"

a) You will just gain it all back.
b) You won't be as healthy as if you lose your weight with low-fat.
c) You will smell funny and look greasy.

The interesting thing about this is the premise at the top. "Sure, the Atkins diet works..." That tells you that we won the biggest part of the argument. The rest of it is just sour grapes. Just nod your head and say, yup it does work.

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Each day I wake, I have a cup of coffee. I pour some fat free hazel nut creamer in my coffee and enjoy the flavor. For breakfast I dip into a hearty bowl of oatmeal, a hint of maple and a glass of orange juice. I consume my metamucil in the OJ. For lunch I dip into a low fat lean quisine pizza chased by grapes, raisins or a big green apple. For snack I have some low fat doritoes with a diet dr pepper. Dinner I eat my honey ginger chicken with a potato and some sweet baby carrots or....corn!
When I have been good all week, I will make fat free rice crispy treats.
I do not have to measure or count each morsel I put into my mouth. I count the fat only. I don't bother with calories because I avoid a lot of high sugary things (except for the treats once a week). I have a ton of energy and feel completely undeprived compared to how I felt eating meat, cheese, and (gag) eggs day in and day out. I eat the whole grains and natural sources of sugar for the most part and watch my low carb friends cheat when we go out for lunch. They break down and order bread sticks, or possibly a small dessert. At the end of the month, we all mount our scales and they get frustrated as they are still in a stall (going on 2 months compared to my 1 time 1 month stall) and lookie lookie!!! I lost 3 pounds. Yes!
I have been able to drop 45 pounds eating LOW FAT!

Though I understand your candor, I also believe in the end, each diet has the same results only proven that low fatters remain on their formula longer and are able to keep the weight off. Now there are a few exceptions, a lot of dedicated low carbers on here that have maintained their loss....props to all of you...but weight loss can be done in any form...no one diet is right...it all depends on the person.

(you may ask why I come here? The recipes are pretty good..i just modify them. I also like to compare my results to that of those on here...fat free vs low carb)

This post was TOO funny! I have done low fat several times and always lost weight, but I was starving. It definitely wasn't anything that I would make a way of life. My mom and sil are doing Weight Watchers right now. They sort of look down their noses at my low carb woe. I went to lunch with them one day and almost laughed out loud at the differences in our food. They were splitting a plain grilled chicken sandwich with a side of broccoli and I was having a huge, wonderful salad full of chicken, cheese and regular dressing. Who was hungrier??? Anyway, great post - loved the part about the rice cake lollipop!

ladybug: that's great for you. there's no question that different diets will have different results for different people, and NO ONE should trash someone else's healthy diet.

On the other hand, when someone is minding their own business and gets accosted by someone else who "thinks they know better", that does get quite annoying.

I hope that everyone keeps in mind what this site has ALWAYS been about: positive motivation and factual information for those who find that a controlled carb lifestyle is best for them.

Negativity is counter productive and not in keeping with the spirit of this site.

LB, a low fat restricted calorie diet worked okay for me when I was much younger; albeit it required constant vigilance and toleration of moderate hunger pains. But, after I crossed the line of menopause, that kind of diet only slowed the rate of gain and left me with raving cravings.

I guess my take is that different diets work for different people, but also that different diets are more effective at different times of life.

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Back to GOAL!!!
start weight: 176/goal range: 137-134/now: 138
Reached goal in Aug. 2003 - 4rd year of maintenance.

I agree, Teelbee, what worked for me when I was younger definitely doesn't work for me now. Before I went LC, I was eating a variant of LB's diet and had no energy at all and was hungry all the time. Also, eating that way was inching me closer and closer to the Type II diabetes that runs in my family. The whole grains that I was eating in abundance turned out to be the source of my IBS symptoms.

I think that this only goes to show that we are all individual in our dietary needs and need to respect and support each other in whatever works for that person. The constant dissing of this way of eating or that way of eating is tiresome and counterproductive in the long run.

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