Posted by Gracie2 on July 27, 2001, at 4:48:31
In reply to Re: High Protein vs. High Carb Diet » 16#, posted by Andy123 on July 27, 2001, at 1:07:49
I've always had excellent results with high-protein diets, and I've tried every diet known to man. Twenty years ago, I lost a great amount of weight on the Scarsdale diet and kept the weight off on the maintenance plan for ten years, which -
in the dieter's world - is greatly successful.
I slipped for all the usual reasons - not being Cher or Goldie Hawn, my looks took a backseat to my kids and aging parents and yadda yadda. My weight rose steadily while I was taking anti-depressants. At the same time, because I had not quit smoking, my GYN took me off the pill and I started Deprol-Medrol injections. My weight ballooned so alarmingly, with no change in my eating or activity patterns, that I quit both the ADs and the shots.
Since then, I have attempted to fight the good fight with my weight. Scarsdale (high-protein, low-fat) is just too restrictive for me these days. The Beverly Hills Diet (all fruit) is a pathetic joke. The Turbo Diet (protein drink and vegetable broth) is nauseating. Slim-Fast didn't work, and I felt starved. I can't take anything with ephedra, because I have high blood pressure
(I tried it anyway, and it made me ill). The Hollywood Diet (fasting) makes you lose water and muscle. A high-carbohydrate diet made me feel like crap, bloated and lethargic.
Atkins actually works for me, but it's a very strange diet...very high-fat. Apparently, the more fat a food substance contains, the less carbohydrates it has. Pure butter, heavy cream, mayonnaise and cheese have almost no carbs. For breakfast, you can fry your eggs in butter, pour thick cream into your coffee and eat all the bacon you want.Snack on pork rinds, Slim Jims, macadamia nuts, cheese sticks, deviled eggs. As long as you eat no sugar, bread, rice, pasta or potatoes, you will lose weight. When I adhere strictly to Atkins - which also means almost no vegetables or fruits - I usually lose a pound a day.
On the other hand, it can't be healthy for you. It's hard on your liver and kidneys. It throws your body into ketosis.
These days I think the best plan is not to determine that you will eat to lose weight, but that you will eat to become healthy and love yourself no matter what your current weight is.
At this point I cannot resist recommending that you check out "Mode" magazine, which encourages women to realize that 6-foot, size-2 women are genetic accidents and more in need of a sandwich than a modeling contract.
Shalom-
Gracie
P.S. to Dr. Bob - thank you for not deleting this thread because it doesn't directly relate to psychiatric medication. It is obvious by now that weight gain is a common side-effect of some ADs and serious in it's demoralizing effect. -G
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