How I gave up my low-fat diet and lost 40 pounds-- and how you can too!: the ultimate guide to low-carbohydrate dieting PDF
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How I Gave Up My Low-Fat Diet Lost and 40 Pounds … how and you can too! How I Gave Up My Low-Fat Diet Lost and 40 Pounds … how and you can too! The Ultimate Guide to Low-Carbohydrate Dieting Dana Carpender ^ To Gayelord Hauser, who started it all 8 Contents Foreword 11 Introduction 15 CHAPTERONE: Here’s What Happened to Me 19 CHAPTERTWO: So What Do You Eat? 27 CHAPTERTHREE: Yikes! Sounds High Calorie! 31 CHAPTERFOUR: But Aren’t Carbs Essential? 37 CHAPTERFIVE: Okay, Explain How This Works 41 CHAPTERSIX: Insulin Doesn’t Just Make You Fat and Tired 49 CHAPTERSEVEN: So How Do I Do This Diet? 73 CHAPTEREIGHT: Protein Is Key 89 CHAPTERNINE: The Basic Low-Carbohydrate Diet 95 CHAPTERTEN: Variants of the Basic Low-Carbohydrate Diet 119 CHAPTERELEVEN: The GO-Diet 127 CHAPTERTWELVE: The Carbohydrate Addict’s Diet 135 CHAPTERTHIRTEEN: The Zone—Hormonal Magic? 147 9 10 CHAPTERFOURTEEN: The Careful Carb Diet 157 CHAPTERFIFTEEN: The Low-Carb Liquid Semi-Fast 173 CHAPTERSIXTEEN: Low Carb for Vegetarians 181 CHAPTERSEVENTEEN: Wrapping It Up 191 CHAPTEREIGHTEEN: The Indulgence 199 CHAPTERNINETEEN: Nutritional Supplements 207 CHAPTERTWENTY: Low-Carb Specialty Products 217 CHAPTERTWENTY-ONE: Plateaus 233 CHAPTERTWENTY-TWO: Enhancing Success 247 CHAPTERTWENTY-THREE: Exercise 259 CHAPTERTWENTY-FOUR: A Word to the Wise 283 APPENDIXI: Internet Resources 289 APPENDIXII: Low-Carbohydrate Cookbooks 293 Bibliography 295 - Foreword I don’t think there’s any such thing as a coincidence. It’s my belief that we get what we need when we need it and sometimes we just get what we deserve. I must have done something right because Dana Carpender came into my life and nothing has been the same since. I must admit, I don’t like to diet, especially if I have to meas- ure, starve, eat things I don’t like, or exercise. (I always say “Every time I feel like exercising, I lay down until the urge pass- es.”) This has been the first diet I have actually enjoyed. I did- n’t—and still don’t—measure, starve, eat things I don’t like, or, most importantly to me, exercise. One more point before I tell what happened to me: It doesn’t feel like dieting because after all those years of living on that dangerous low-fat “safe” diet, I always feel like I’m cheating, not dieting! It was Guiding Light that did it, that infamous afternoon soap opera. I met Dana on a discussion list for Guiding Lighton the Internet. We were all arguing about foods that are good and bad for us, meat in particular. I was saying how I tried to never eat meat because it was so dangerous healthwise, and everyone agreed except this maverick named Dana. This crazy woman was trying to convince me to eat not only meat, but lots of eggs! I have serious kidney disease. No protein allowed! Imagine my outrage after eight years of starving and suffering on a low- fat diet. I had worked all those years on a low-fat diet to get my 11 12 cholesterol down to 413 (from 990), my triglycerides to almost 1300 (from almost 1500), my blood pressure to 140/110, my creatinine (kidney function, normal at about 1) to 5, my blood urea nitrogen to 81, and my HDL to 24. What a reward for eight years of low-fat misery. I was a stroke waiting to happen until Dana completely changed my life. To prove her wrong (My mission in life: To prove any woman wrong), I told her I would go on this silly diet and as soon as I gained five pounds, I would be done with it. I needed an excuse to eat all that wonderful, decadent stuff. Also, con- sidering that my kidney disease causes outrageous cholesterol and triglyceride readings for which, my doctor informed me, there was nothing I could do—I was sure this craziness couldn’t help. Dana gave me a long list of items to eat, and proper vita- mins as well, carefully working around the limitations of my dis- ease. As you recall, I don’t measure what I eat, so I just ate from the list she provided me. I did not ask my doctor about this diet, which I know is a no-no, but he never would have condoned such a thing. My hindsight and blood work tell me I made the right decision. I started to eat all the things my doctor had told me NOT to eat. I really wasn’t nervous because I was certain I would gain the five pounds in a day or two, and the whole fiasco would be over. NOT! I lost a pound a day for twenty days. Dana labeled me “car- bohydrate intolerant.” (I thought I was intolerant only of peo- ple.) I had gotten down to 212 pounds from 250 on low fat over the eight years, but I was stuck at that 212 and couldn’t shake it no matter how many fruits and veggies I crammed down. I was ecstatic about the weight loss, getting down to 192 on Dana’s method. However, I was quite worried about my upcoming blood work in a couple of days. Surely twenty days on a “fad diet” like this—eating three eggs a day, lots of meat, veggies, and piles of real butter and olive oil—couldn’t alter my blood work that drastically, at least not for the better. NOT (again)! Here are my results after this short period of time: My cho- lesterol was down almost 100 points to 337; my triglycerides
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