[The Little Bowl] I’m so close……I can taste it!

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Hey! I was mentioned on another person’s website! Diabetic Mediterranean Diet Blog Thanks Dr. ! I have been wandering around his site, there is a wealth of excellent information. I will be reading every word! That’s the first time (that I am aware of) that someone else thought what I had to say worth noting. I am tickled about that. In reading other blogs and forums I have come face to face with what made me leave low carb groups, blogs and forums….the intolerant crap from the staunch czars of low carb. You know the ones, they reek with smugness and can barely respond to a post without reprimanding. I think if I read another answer with “have you READ the book…Atkins says….†I will scream. Paleo’s do it too. For some reason, following particular diet regimes produce cult like behaviour. You must be one of us and worship the AUTHOR of whatever diet plan one takes on. I see this on CR (Calorie Restriction) also. What is it about eating and food that makes people become such self righteous bores? My purpose in life is not to become a LC Evangelist. I am not following any LC book to the letter, I am not toting LC Bibles under my arm. I have read most of the books and understand the principles, but that is not why I am low carbing. I am doing it because of how I feel inside. I really like feeling good. It can’t get anymore basic than that. Whatever I can do to keep my carbs low within the foods that are available to me, is alright. Sometimes I have to eat processed foods, sometimes I don’t. My philosophy is do the best you can with what you have. I left an Atkins group this morning. Ugh, for the snobbery, especially with wrong and misleading information. Another chastisement for “not eating enough†to a new low carber and going on about the starvation mode which is simply not supported in any research on metabolism and starvation that I have read. Oh well. Better to stay in general low carb places, where there is tolerance for opposing ideas. Anyways, I did get on the scale this morning, a day late, but that’s ok. I lost! Two weeks in a row with a loss! Loving it. In 8 more pounds, I am at the half way mark of 75 pounds lost! *little wiggle dance*. When I wasn’t losing weight, I was chastised for eating so little, eat more they all said. I ate less instead and lost weight. Hmmmm. To eat more, one has to have exercise to offset the calories over the BMR. I try to explain that I am extremely sedentary, that I am middle aged, that I my BMR is pretty low and I cannot eat MORE to lose weight. One more pound and I am in the 230’s! Sigh. I feel FABULOUS! I’m so close…..I can taste it! --

Posted By elisaannh to The Little Bowl at 6/23/2010 06:02:00 AM