"Have you thought about a few Stillman days? "
Can you break this down for me?

Also...why no diet soda?

And is it true that alcohol (hards) has no carbs?

Thanks for your help!

B U M P.....

Mmm Adey, your questions look like they have been taken from other posts? Context can matter, but I will try my best.


Are you asking what Stillman is? or why someone would have recommended it?


Diet soda is not necesarrily a Everyone is different (this applies to artificial sweeteners, caffeine and low carb bars among many other things ) I try to avoid it; it gets in the way of the water I could be drinking in its place. The citric acid in soda's can cause problems for many (stalling). YMMV (Your Milage May Vary) and of course, all things in Moderation.



Some alcohol has no carbs, and some does (whiskey); there's a great carb counter located on this site under "Low Carb Tools"; Remember that while alcohol may be low on carbs your body would rather burn alcohol before it burns carbs or stored fat, so while it may not knock you out of ketosis it will slow your fat loss. It will also dehydrate you and lower your inhibitions, making it more likely you'll cheat or stray from LC.

HTH
Nat

FYO - Here is a link to The Stillman Diet , this should explain it...

http://members.tripod.com/~Dietman2/stillman.html

has anyone done this? I would love to get some more insight on it. It mentions milk of magnesia, can we take that? thankyou luverly people... Doods.

In August, a few of us did a low-carb project/study .. that involved having one Stillman day a week. Some of us are going to have a go at another project, starting in the next week or so, that will involve 2 Stillman days per week ... for 4 weeks. Scroll down to the My Journals forum, and click on Group Projects ... read through some of the threads there, and you'll get an idea how we're planning to do it. We've modified the original Stillman diet, made iit a bit stricter, and more low-carb ... the original Stillman diet was created in the early 70's ... and includes ketchup and other sugary condiments.

Maybe you might like to join us? I'm looking forward to the discipline ... last time around, I lost 4.5 lbs in 4 weeks, which is a big deal for me .. it broke a 2-month long stall!!

Doreen

Thanks Doreen. Yep, i think I would be interested in joining you on the Stillman diet a few days a week. I will read the threads. The ketchup thing did strike me as strange! Doods.

Thanks for the answers Faith.
Yeah, I got my questions from reading up all over the board.
I will use the link in order to educate myself about the 'Stillman diet ' or days.
Thanks

*lol* You're welcome.

P.S. The name's Nat ....... "Faith" is from the quote in my signature "Faith Manages"

Nat

LOL!
Well usually I try to ward off the dumb blonde jokes....but after me calling you 'Faith' from your quote....

Thanks Nat.....I better slow down and read these posts better!

HAHA!

No problem (from one blonde to another )

N