Low Carbohydrate Cooking

[Enverex]

Have been on the Atkins diet for 2 weeks now and I am not massively overweight (about 3 stone off what I should be, at worst) and with only minor excersize I have list 10lbs already.
One thing, before, I was ALWAYS hungry, now I am never hungry, infact I almost have to force myself to eat, which is useful.

[Elmo]

i did a study on the effects of both high carb low protien and high protien, low carb diets, and to be really quite honest, you'd really be better having a balanced diet. Your body needs carbs for energy, once it uses up all your reserves it starts on using up protiens instead. This is bad. Protiens arent an effective or safe way to make energy, they produce toxins in ur body and can potentially become very ill. So then you say once you lose the weight u'll switch back to normal. You cant do that unless you want to balloon... your body's been starved of carbs for so long it goes into overdrive and stores as much as possible incase you starve it of them again. The reason you lose weight on the aitkins diet is because protien fills you up. you dont need a lot of protein to make you feel full, so you dont eat as much. Which, in theory, sounds great... but where is your energy coming from? think about it.

So, as i said, the only safe way to lose weight effectively is to have a healthy balanced diet.

[windog]

Elmo, an interesting viewpoint but again flawed by lack of knowledge of the Atkins process. You do not " go back to normal " you progressively increase your intake of carbohydrates to a level whereby you maintain your weight. this way you do not burn your protien (muscle), and at the same time do not " balloon ". I must say I am inerested in exactly what really constitutes a "ballanced healthy diet " these days, and how much of that intake really should be carbs. It seems to me of origin we actually should be eating a relatively low carb diet, the two major natural sources of carbs, rice and potatoes, we have only had for about 300 years, most others are in some way processed, bread, pasta etc, and the advent of incease in the availability of these sources seems to co-incide with the increase in obesity. To me it seems our bodies must have developed from a diet of protien (hunted animals) with such carbs as were available coming from fruit and vegetables, a relatively low source, and it is only as we have become increasingly able to process foods that we have begun to eat more carbohydrate. I would be interested in hearing your views on this