OT Diets

On Tue, 02 Mar 2004 15:28:09 -0700, Snoop wrote:

I've been on the low carb diet since the end of Sept.. I also started
walking 3-4 miles/day and doing some light weight lifting. I've dropped 26 lbs.
I do eat complex carbs, i.e. veggies but no longer eat bread, drink beer or
consume sugar.
space
I think the main thing is to cut out refined foods like white bread, potatoes
and mainly sugar. I do know that what I was doing wasn't working and this diet
seems to be accomplishing the things I wanted.
Been on the diet about the same length of time. I'm down about 20 lbs.
and really happy about the results. I have few problems with having
crunchy salads seasoned with cheese as my base. Pure delight.

The absolute best thing about the diet is breaking it.
The wife was raised on rice, I on bread. Over the last 38 years she
has made a firm rice convert of me and now what used to be staples in
both our worlds are treated as luxuries. When we go to our favorite
Japanese restaurant we enjoy the rice & tempura dishes so very much
more now that we know they must be an infrequent enjoyment. The odd
sandwich becomes a reason for celebration.
Those normal, ordinary high carb dishes we used to eat every day are
now indescribable pleasures, savored and enjoyed at levels we never
imagined possible.
A diet of almost unimaginable pleasure?
Who would have thought.

Kiyu