Of all the diets I have ever been on only low carb diets have ever really worked for me.  Low Fat left me hungry all the time. Low cal left me starving.  Weight watchers was a joke and we won’t even go into how much of a guilt trip they try and put on you if you didn’t lose weight and didn’t buy Weight Watchers products.  I have learned over the last several weight loss journies what works and what doesn’t for me when it comes to my eating habits.

A strict Atkins plan with approved Atkins products didn’t really work for me.  I spent a lot of time buying products that contained crap they said I should avoid and my bowels quite agreed with that advice. I also hated being associated with the die hard idiots that were as annoying as any die hard on either side of the abortion debate.  I looked at his original plan from the early seventies and ran with.

I have incorporated ideas and notions from a few other low carb plans, like trying to eat more fish when I get towards my final weight and how best to maintain my caloric balance or get over weight loss humps.  The one things I have stuck close to is the glycemic index it is updated from time to time removing old data that was inccorect and replacing it with retested numbers.

I won’t say anything bad about other diet plans, save for they didn’t work for me.  If you are wondering why I continue to back low carb even though I have been unable to stay thin, I will tell you that is a valid question.  What you do need to know though is why I went off of it.  Mostly it was money and sometimes the apothy and depression.  A low carb diet isn’t necessaryily a high priced diet, but when you hit tough financial times like we have over the last couple of years you have to make choices.  Feeding two people a low carb meal for $7.00 verse feeding the whole family spaghetti for two days on $7.00 leaves you with a hard decision on how to proceed.  Secondly the depression affects my sweet tooth.  I don’t feel guilty or worry about occassionally going off my diet and having a carb laden feast, but when the apathy and depression get together I might eat the 14,000 calorie cheesecake and not even give a damn about where it settles.  I will tell you this about why I back a low carb diet for myself, I know it works, I went from 315 pounds to 210 and kept it off for a year.  If it hadn’t been for messing up my knee again and the depression that follows injury I would likely still be that weight.  I know this works, which is more than I can say for anything else that I have tried.

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