Fox News this morning, Bridget Quinn had a guest on, a nutritionist who told the world how low carb will destroy us all. Your brain evidently needs 140 grams of carb per day, just to fend off its own impending implosion. And it's no good for long term, because you will die of excessive bacon consumption long before you can enjoy the benefits of your weight loss.
*sigh*
Did you ever notice that they never have on the opposing opinion? There's never a guest who lost weight, kept it off, has not become a moron due to the nutritional lack of Cheetos and Wonder Bread, and has not attended a 12 step program to get cured off the bacon? Wouldn't it just simply be responsible journalism to get someone on who will say it's all bullpucky, I'm more active now than I ever was, I'm healthier now than I ever was, I have an unholy relationship with broccoli now, and I rarely eat bacon? Is Big Brother walking among us in the guise of the Department of Agriculture? Look for the government agents to swoop down among you, comrades, should you dare remove the bun from your chicken sandwich in public, or order a side salad instead of fries. Next time I go to Golden Corral I may put a scoop of mashed potatoes on my plate, in the interest of self preservation.
Do you think They will notice if I don't actually eat it?
Vive la Resistance!

Stacie
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Starting to feel like those guys that lived underground in that Sylvester Stallone/Wesley Snipes movie where all restaurants were Taco Bell. . .

Doesn't this remind you of all the "so-called experts" who said stuff like "humans will blow up if they travel faster than 60MPH" and all that???

What would you think of someone telling you, as they sit in the passenger seat of your car traveling at 75MPH, that you can't physically travel over 60 mph?

WELL THAT's WHAT I THINK OF THESE ****** WHO SAY THINGS LIKE THIS!!!

I have not come close to that level of carbs in YEARS!!!!

And guess what? I'm still able to carry on coherent coversations, run this site, act as the VP of Sales & Marketing for two companies, and take care of a family and house!!!!



Those who say it can't be done better get out of the way of those who of us who are doing it.


Good grief! That makes me see red!

You go, girl!!!
Peg

What really gets me is how there's a tiny smidgen of truth buried under misrepresentation, so even people who should know better might believe this. The brain can't use FFA as fuel, true. BUT it can use ketones, so saying it can't use FFA is factually true but irrelevant. The brain needs some glucose, true. BUT we can make our own glucose via gluconeogenesis, so saying we need to take in 140 grams of carbs is just plain wrong. We may *need* that many (although the figure I've heard is closer to 100), but we don't have to *eat* them. We're glucose factories!

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Laurelyn

it is so disgusting that the news media would rather knock any and all diets rather then report things that would encourage americas population to get healthy.

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I would laugh at this if the rest of it didn't make me so mad!!!

I take real offence to the idea that my giving up potato chips and cookies will turn me into a drooling idiot. What garbage!!!

I tell ya, it really makes me wonder why lc gets people so defensive. Such rabid attacks, yet none of them made by people who actually know what they are talking about. They take generalizations and out-and-out untruths and base their arguement on them, without finding out the real story. And, it doesn't seem to matter that we keep shouting, "We DON'T only eat meat, we DON'T give up vegetables and fruits, we DO eat grains, we avoid sugar because it's BAD FOR US ANYWAY..."

*sigh*

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SDA.. i am adopting your signature line as my own personal mantra..Vive la Resistance! inDEED... sheesh.. where WERE all these dang people when i was living off doritos .. coke and taco bell...?? why werent they screaming for my health THEN? god FORBID i should eat salad and chicken and vegetables... oh my GOD ! what am i THINKing? *L* not to worry...they dont scare me or frighten me.. and although they might succeed in getting rid of low carb stickers.. and even *shudder* low carb junk food... they CANNOT take chicken and veggies and cheese away from me... ha! fools! they cannot intimidate me... they cannot repress me.. they cannot make me eat sugar and flour!
onward and DOWNWARD!
Vive la Resistance!!!! YES inDEED!

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I am sorry, but some of the things said, has made me giggle my fanny off. Ha! I just try to look at it this way, (I) know what works for me, (I) am more worried about how a STROKE from eating how I used to eat, would effect my brain, more than the nonsense mentioned above. So to those who MAY believe in such ****, poor them. Ignorance is forgivable isn't it??? But on the lighter note...mashed potatos on the plate, just for the sake of having them...OMG, that was GREAT!!!

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Highest weight, started lc @ 306 pounds
Current weight, 286.5 pounds
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This is a great post!

As I sit here eating my beef brisket in a red wine gravy over cabbage noodles I somehow can't bring myself to care what some bubble head thinks. Unfortunately every report like this scares a lot of people away from this woe who would really benefit from it. That's the mad making part. I've changed my mind i do care.

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Rob, you win the "quote of the week" contest!!!!!!!!

I hope everyone notes from his sig file how much weight our wonderful moderator Rob has lost while his brain has been starving....

Not wanting to correct you but I think it was Stephensons Rocket "the first train"
and you where gonna die if you went over 14mph (atmospheritic pressure 1bar.)

Oh and is the world still flat?

and the experts didnt think washing hands was a good idea in hospitals a few years ago.

please feel free to add about "EXPERTS"

Lez

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Experts, schmexperts - what I want to know is, who gave these self-proclaimed experts, these harbingers of hysteria, masters of the "Chicken Little Theory", ANY right to decide for the REST of us how we should eat anyway?!!

Not I, says me! So I must do what I must do. Eat luscious foods like the broccoli salad, sauteed in extra-virgin olive oil freshly-picked zucchini and yellow squash, and center-cut smoked pork chop that I had for dinner this evening. POOR ME!!

Char

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Save the Earth - it's the only planet with CHOCOLATE!

Gosh, I might not remember that I actually turned 40.... you see, last night in the suite at Lonestar Park (horserace track) I ate cheese cubes dipped in guacamole, baked salmon, a piece of sausage, marinated mushrooms & broccoli, lobster and crawfish salad, and green beans. Darn! I SHOULD'VE had some of that chip and dip platter, a roll or two, the potato salad AND one of those brownies....for my brain, of course. Man, with the food choices I'm making nowdays, my I.Q. should begin dropping dramatically soon. I gotta get right. Someone tell the chick on Fox I repent!

NOT!

I remember (shockingly enough!) asking a naysayer if they thought a salad with dressing, a chicken breast, green beans and s/f jello was unhealthy. "No" was the answer. I rest my case, dodo.

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I like bacon. Sheesh.

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Hmmm. What constitutes "long term"????

I've been under the deluded impression (probably from lack of carbs) that I've been enjoying my long-term weight loss, since July 1 will mark 6 years that I've been low carbing, and this month marks 4 years that I've kept the weight off.

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