Yes You read that right! The Low Fat Diet Myth really is a Myth. How did the low fat diet myth get etched in our twenty first century culture? It happened back in the 1970s. A study which by today’s standards is classed as poor science failed to find a link between cholesterol and death […]
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Another Atkins OWL Update
I had a bit of a shock yesterday. I’ve spent the last two weeks hovering just under 13 stone (182lbs or 83kg). I’ve been doing a little less exercise although on the whole I’ve been keeping to the eating plan pretty well. So the shock was I got on the scales and I had lost […]
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Here’s a belated update about my personal dealings with the new Atkins ketogenic diet. Brief recap: It’s a ketogenic diet and in theory I’m on 20 grams of carbohydrates per day, I might stray a little up to 25 but I’m not bad. I don’t have to be because it’s one of those ways of […]
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The New Atkins Diet For A New You, 2 weeks in. At this point I could have lost 15lbs, but I haven’t. I’ll come clean about that later… At this point I could be spotty and miserable from all the meat, but I’m not. At this point I should be coming off induction and moving […]
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This isn’t really me. I don’t smoke and I don’t wear a beret. The shape is similar at least from my point of view. I don’t want to make anyone unwell so there’s no before and after pictures here. So my wife has loaded up the fridge with all the things we need for the […]
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I have an agenda here talking about Atkins diet foods. To understand it fully I have to roll back about 30 years. At that time I was 10.5 stones (147lbs), I was well in to my rock climbing phase and I was out 3 or 4 times per week rock climbing in my home county […]
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The Low carb diet as put forward in the Dr Atkins diet revolution was given a rough ride back in the 1970s and 1980s. Was it really a fad diet or should we really consider it as a lifestyle. I’ve been researching diets and weight management for a long time, it’s an on-going thing for […]
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Laughter Is The Best Medicine Laughter Is The Best Medicine How many times have you heard someone say that? Well funnily enough there has been a lot of research in to just that. It’s an ongoing thing because we never trust what just feels right. And rightly so, it might feel right to live of […]
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In my previous post I looked at how we are judging people and everything at all times. That included judging other people and judging ourselves. So if I recap, our conscious minds are pattern matching engines that search for memories and thoughts that match the situation that we are in. For example if a car […]
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Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels When Kate Moss said that she lived by the motto “Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels” it caused outrage from people who weren’t skinny (but wanted to be) and people who feared for other people who may be drawn towards being anorexic or any of a number […]
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