at christmas I started a new diet which follows the atkins principal but slightly different, no gluten, no sugar, no dairy and no acids
after removing the bread and pasta from my diet, and concentrating on fruits and vegetables for the first 4 weeks, I went from 170 pounds to 130 ... the weight literally fell of, and thats without any excercise at all ...
I have since added some things back into my diet and occasionally eat bread and pasta, but I find that like kath said, I just don't feel like those things as much any more. pasta is too heavy ... I choose rice over pasta and cornchips over cookies ...
my biggest problem was sugar, coming off the sugar was like quitting a drug LOL I had sugar shakes for days at a time, and eventually would give in and drink a powerade or eat a lolly.
since adding some things back into my diet, i've put back about 10 pounds, but it doesn't seem like i'm putting on any more.
the principal of atkins is that your body uses the carbs you eat first, before it burns energy from your body - so if you eat a big bowl of pasta, your body is working hard to get rid of it and will never start working on that ass! of course you will put weight back on if you put carbs back into your diet, the weight was lost because you didn't eat them!
now i wish i could pick an excercise I like ... i've tried lots of types of excercise and i hate feeling like i'm excercising. my latest fad is yoga, i've just completed a course on digestive yoga, to help the body process food better ... we'll see how long this lasts!!!
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