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Re: Help please, I'm desperate (kinda long)From: Alicia (anonymous@obgyn.net)Fri, 1 Jun 2001 15:14:00 -0500 (CDT)
Hi. What I find helps and requires less will power is eating meals and foods that are low/moderate-carb by nature. (I actually follow a plan by Anne Louise Gittleman called Your Body Knows Best.) And not to try to make special low-carb versions of normally high-carb foods. If you can slowly wean your taste buds and your body and mind off of high-carb foods, they'll be no need to make all that special stuff or drink diet sodas or eat special low-carb bars, etc. For example, I suggest a large salad for dinner. Learning to love salads is one of the best eating changes I have ever made. I just get a bag of mixed greens (mesclun) and toss it with one of Annie's Natural Dressings, the sesame one usually, I think. Then I eat baked fish with butter and lemon and garlic. Or I eat a meat or vegetable stuffed crepe. (The only thing that has significant carbs is the crepe but it's such a small part of the meal compared to the filling.) The entire meal is healthy and already low-carb. No special gadgets or ingredients necessary. There are plenty of foods that are low-carb by nature. Beef stews, baked chicken, roast turkey, certain soups. I allow myself the sauces (even if they are a little higher carb) and forego the bread or pasta or rolls or potatoes. After 3 years of this, I find I rarely feel deprived and it's not difficult or expensive to eat this way. I feel like basically it's a "normal" way to live and eat. And it's something I know I can do for the rest of my life. (My hair fell out in clumps on Atkins. Strict low-carb was sooo not for me.) Obviously, if you're trying to LOSE weight you'll have to modify according to what your body tells you. You can do this :)
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