Diet's a bit like luggage loading - you have to try stuff until you find the one that works for you. I disagree with Grant's notion that calories in / calories out is incorrect. From my observations, the problem is people who take that approach typically go to extremes and have unrealistic expectations of the speed of weight loss. It can be done but 1 lb a week is probably the upper limit. Anything more rapid is hard to control the urge to eat.
A much more fun program is riding your bike at least 100 miles per week with the tires inflated to no more than 60 psi. Mix in some dirt trails, pushing the bike some, use the bike for utility and social rides. I still have to be conscious of what I eat but it doesn't take a great deal of self control. Beer, sad to say, must be rationed carefully. RE: Colnago - yea, looks like it got garaged or run over or something severe. This was not a JRA failure. dougP On Jan 2, 9:00 am, andrew hill <neurod...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've done a similar diet a few times in the past, easily dropping 15-30 > pounds in a few months. I've never tried "Atkins" per se, but had great > success with Rob Faigin's "Natural Hormone Enhancement", which cycles in the > occasional high-carb meal with a lowish-carb lifestyle (with the weight-loss > range of Mark's carb-curve). It doesn't stress no-grain, though I've been > avoiding wheat for a few years for other reasons than fat loss. > > Over the past couple of years I'd crept back up a bit in pudge, so in > mid-October I started eating Primal, with the goal of being much leaner by my > 40th birthday (which is tomorrow, as it happens. I wonder if Rivendell will > send me a coupon :) I'll probably get this new Taubes book once Grant et al > are stocking it, just for another perspective on this metabolic process, as > I'm trying to fit these results into a mathematical model. I'm a scientist, > and do "believe" the science behind this sort of diet. Grant - if you are > reading this, I suggest checking out Brain Building Nutrition by Schmidt; > it's more than tangentially related. > > So.. In the past 10 weeks or so I've lost about 22 lbs, and I'm now lighter > than I've been in 10 years. It's been significantly easier than any other > "low-carb" diet I've tried. Part of that may be because of some of the > specific recommendations Mark has made about limiting dairy (seems a breve' > latte is low-carb, but also somewhat insulinogenic, for me at least) and > upping good fat intake (coconut oil for the win!). > > Another 10 or so lbs to go, though I'm already getting a lot more notice from > all these superficial Los Angeles types I'm surrounded by. :) > > Andrew > > On Jan 1, 2011, at 5:08 PM, Dave Minyard wrote: > > > > > I just saw this on the website. Good > > Stuff...http://www.rivbike.com/blogs/news_post/318. Say's it might only be > > up today. > > > Happy New Year! > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > For more options, visit this group > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
