Re: Questions for Atkins....

From: Dr. Andrew B. Chung, MD/PhD (andrew_at_heartmdphd.com)
Date: 08/14/04 

Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2004 02:53:53 -0400

Ignoramus23157 wrote:
>
> Rob, I am sorry that I forgot, how much did you lose, and how long
> have you been maintaining?
>
> My experimence with portion control was a great success in losing
> weight. I got to normal weight in 100 days (47-45 lbs lost). Felt
> great as well. http://igor.chudov.com/weightloss/
>
> I also was outwardly successful in maintenance, in that my weight was
> very stable for the entire period, I have daily logs to prove
> it. Obviously, my weight stability is a result of me being male and
> being of a certain constitution, so I mention my weight stability for
> information and not for bragging.
>
> Aside from portion control, I ate a limited quantity of carbs
> (150/day), no sugar or junk food.
>
> I have maintained for 11 months with nary a hitch.
>
> What bothered me lately is that even though I could maintain, I was
> hungry too often and too much for my taste.

You could choose to befriend it. You have no reason to fear it.

> I would think about food a
> lot, like, say it is 3 pm, I would be sitting and thinking just what I
> would eat for dinner. Almost nonstop. That sort of thing. Again, I
> could handle it, but it was annoying.

This means that food remains at the center of your life... that you are
still living to eat rather than eating to live. I believe that one
reason the 2PD Approach is so successful is it does help people gain the
perspective that what they eat is just not that important.
 
> I realized that I should think of ways to address this problem before
> I snap and lose my diet consciousness and start pigging out etc.

The 2PD Approach is a way.
 
> So, someone suggested reducing my carbs. I dropped bread and noted
> that I was less hungry. I started reading and asking. For now I
> switched to the paleo diet program -- no grains, beans, milk, starches
> and added sugar. Unlimited animal flesh and eggs (unlimited in the
> sense of eat until satistied).
>
> After 3 weeks, my weight is about where it was and I am markedly less
> hungry and food obsessed.

Hunger is a sign of good health. There is concern that suppression of
appetite by hyperketonemia is harmful.
 
> Mind you, I am not "unhealthily thin" or anything of the sort, my BMI
> is 24 and BF% is 15% or so. So, my hunger was not caused by being "too
> thin".

Hunger is not a bad thing though we have all been "brainwashed" into
thinking that it is.
 
> The reason why I relate this story here, is that, I think, portion
> control is not equally easy for everyone. I could easily visualize a
> person with even more sense of hunger than myself.

Or greater fear of it.
 
> The portion control sort of follows from this diet, as I control my
> portions by, pretty much, not eating when not hungry.

If you were on the 2PD Approach, you would refrain from eating
excessively even if you were hungry because you are confident that you
are eating adequately (ie not fasting). That confidence comes from
reliably knowing how much you are eating and knowing others thriving
with the same limits on intake.

> For example, I
> skipped lunch today simply because I do not want to eat. (probbaly
> should get something now).
>
> My portions are not much bigger than before, they are comprised of
> somewhat different food. I do feel that I eat more calories though,
> that's a gut feeling as I have not yet tried entering my current food
> intake into fitday.
>
> Instead of 150 carbs per day, I eat perhaps 80 or so.

With the 2PD Approach, there is no guesswork... no uncertainties... and
food no longer occupies center stage.

  
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