Ground Buffalo Tastes Great
I just made a hamburger from 150g ground buffalo with onions, and boy is it good! I highly recommend it. The stuff I bought has enough fat to taste good, and has about 1.7 cal/g, which is similar to 10% fat ground beef. That's the best burger I've had in a long time. I think there's just more flavour to it than ground beef. Probably the quality is higher too. Better than steak.
Did spinning and strength tonight. Had to buy a dry shirt before starting the strength session. I notice I'm a maniac in spinning, the only guy drenched and drinking 1.2 litres of water during the class. I'm setting the resistance higher than everyone else, especially during the climbs and sprints. I'm sure I look like a lunatic. I'm starting to worry about it. Well, I can act like a reasonable human being when I lose the weight. Or I can start early.
posted by stephenhow @ 10:00 PM
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One of the most popular diet fads in American history, the company founded by Robert Aktins is filing for bankruptcy. Gee, I wonder why? Who could put up with a diet like that? Seriously, people were limiting themselves to like 25g (100 cal) of carbs per day."
Atkins - the corporation - is losing money because the manufacture of low-carb candy bars, pancake mix, and the like is a STUPID BUSINESS. This has nothing to do with the principles behind lower carb consumption. Eat veggies and meat and you're low-carbing. You don't need to buy prepackaged foods at all.
The rigorous carb-restriction you're so ineptly describing is the early "induction" phase of the Atkins plan for low-carb dieting. There are other plans like Protein Power or South Beach that are not this severe, but they all have an introductory phase which exists for one purpose: to induce ketosis.
- It is necessary *for most people* (especially those who are insulin sensitive - read: obese) to restrict carbohydrate intake to low levels in order to induce ketosis. What do you think you're doing by restricting your overall caloric intake? You are attempting to induce ketosis, which is the chemical process of metabolizing fat for energy.
I suggest you get some keto test strips and start testing yourself to try to understand your body's response to the food you're eating. You should also get smarter about your plan for weight loss, due to the dismal failure and yo-yo weight loss that results from fasting/starvation/calorie restriction.
True fat loss will not kick into high gear for any person until ketosis begins. Importantly, it is the carbohydrate restriction that triggers ketosis. Not calorie restriction. By broadly reducing ALL of your calories, you are taking what has time and again proven to be a failure-prone "shotgun" approach and as a result making yourself suffer needlessly.
By ingesting proportionally large amounts of carbohydrates, you are sabotaging your own weight loss.
In my many years of exercise and weight loss attempts, the *ONLY* and yes I mean *ONLY* combination that has ever worked consistently is low-carbing + exercise. It is quite easy, in fact, to restrict calories while doing low-carb, if that's your bag. I hope for your sake that you will try it.
Reading your post I see you manifesting all of the "moronic" and unnecessary side-effects that make calorie-restriction diets a failure. You're suffering constant hunger and discomfort, energy spikes and crashes, and inadvertently causing *worse* hunger pangs by eating the wrong foods. Then you lose motivation, have a *binge* night, and wonder why you can't make real progress...
I have lost 8+ pounds in the first two weeks of eating low-carb. This is mostly water weight. Carbohydrates cause water retention. People sometimes feel miserable during the "induction" phase because they are getting off the heroin-like addiction to sugar that almost everyone has.
Did it work for me? I have lost 20+ pounds and kept it off for more than a year. There have been no necessary hunger pangs or self-torture, there have been no energy swings. I have better sleep and more energy.
I used to be a sugar, caffeine, bread, pasta-addicted zombie. I couldn't sleep through the night or pry myself out of bed when it was finally time to go to work. I would fall asleep in the middle of the afternoon for no reason. Sound familiar ...?
I'm glad Atkins works for you. I do believe for some people, it's been a revelation, and the only effective program that's worked.
I'm doing just fine on my exercise and eat right program. I'm joking about the 'restriction' and the 'binging'. If you read closely, the 'restriction' was limiting myself to 2000 calories that day. I actually broke down and ate a banana, and went over. Also, the 'binge' was eating a few more sausages and pitas, and going up to 2650 calories for the day. Mostly, I do complain that the 2 hr workouts eventually get me tired, and then I take a rest day.
Ok, everybody is different. I can't push my program on to others, just as much as I don't want one pushed onto me. I respect people who have tried various approaches, and found through experimentation, effort, and discipline that Atkins works. But, maybe I do find the faddish aspects to Atkins a little over-the-top.
I'm glad to have your point-of-view.
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