Sat, Feb-09-02, 20:27
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Senior Member
Posts: 1,212
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Plan: My own (based on a compil
Stats: 333/260/224
BF:
Progress: 67%
Location: Hampshire, England
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Just for the record, there are two types of metabolism: one can cope with carbohydrates, the other cannot. For those who can, a calorie-controlled diet is the answer to shifting those few (and it always is just a few) extra pounds. For those who cannot, the inability to do so is caused by a deficiency in the enzyme chains which break down carbohydrates. The problem for this second group is that the world keeps shouting at it to take the cure which is effective for the first group, that is low calories, low fat and high carb. This cannot and never will solve the weight problems of the second group, for which the only cure is a low intake of carbohydrates. And this is why it is a way of life, not just some diet.
These are medically and scientifically proven facts. If you like, I am able to quote chapter and verse the research studies which led to this information being discovered.
So let us have no more of this nonsense about gaining weight being linked to over-eating. The vast majority of members here have continued to gain weight while eating fewer and fewer calories (because they were told by the world at large that if they are gaining weight then however few calories they are eating, it is still too many, and that in order to lose weight, they must eat even fewer). Round about the time most of us have been on a semi-starvation diet for long enough to feel weak and dizzy, we start noticing the real truth, instead of what people tell us is fact.
For many of us, it seems incredible after all we have been through that the true remedy is so simple and so painless, and I see many posts from new members saying they can't believe how well they can eat and still lose weight, when previously they ate so little but still gained it.
And make no mistake about this, either. The folks here have immense willpower - far more than their critics who tell them to apply self-discipline to their eating.
I am prepared to accept a considerable range of opinions here, provided they are expressed politely, but one thing I absolutely will not tolerate is the imputation that people who are overweight deserve to be, due to their self-indulgence.
Andy
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