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I read this because it was directly recommend in [b:Why We Get Fat|8727466|Why We Get Fat And What to Do About It|Gary Taubes|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1320563681s/8727466.jpg|13600443] as a more specific guide to low-carb eating. Taube's book does have a light guide in the back, and in retrospect, I probably would have been happier just reviewing that. This is such a...well, diet book. It's an incredibly specific plan with four phases, and careful management and tracking of food, with all kinds of special advice and restrictions. As of note, the science is in the back of the book, and I mostly skimmed it since I had just finished the Taubes book.
This issue here is that I don't need a diet. I already lost 80% of my bonus weight in two months. I had started out just general low-glycemic, which focuses on the quality rather than quantity of carbs. While I wasn't specifically tracking them, I was losing weight on 75-85g of net carbs a day, with my biggest carbs being 1/2 cup each of beans and oatmeal. I also had a general goal of less than 30g total sugar and less than 5g of added sugar; that's the equivalent a glass of whole milk and half of a small apple.
According to Atkins then, I started my diet in phase 3 and did just fine on it. So now for confession time, after reading Taubes, I cut the oatmeal and beans just to see how I would feel, which brought me to a max carb count of 35g, but ahem, I still drink a glass of wine, half a glass of whole milk, and eat a piece of chocolate (72% cacao, 3g sugar) every single day. Yeah, living on the edge there. All of these things are banned in phase 2, and sugar is demonized so much as to be untouchable and to always be replaced by substitutes. I don't eat fake food (especially processed soy), so this is really distasteful to me. Moreover, I'm really having trouble hitting my recommended daily value for fiber without the beans and oatmeal. They're supposed to be subbed in by the leafy greens, but I was already eating kale and spinach by the bunch, so that fiber is not being replaced; specifically, I was hitting 25-30g fiber a day on low-glycemic and am in a range of 13-15g on Atkins. No good.
I think the only thing I've really learned from this is that occasionally being methodical is a good thing. If I have drowsiness, or a sugar craving, or hunger earlier than I anticipated, I think I'll look at the foods I ate or the specific combination to see if I gave myself an unintentional blood sugar spike, but even that I'm taking with a grain of salt. For instance, today I was feeling quite drowsy post-lunch, like half an hour post-lunch, which is really too soon to be the bottom side of a spike (which is usually in the range of two hours), plus my lunch only had 6 carbs. The answer? My daughter woke me up three times last night. Sometimes sleepiness is just sleepiness, you know?
Edit: I ordered a copy of Why We Get Fat in paperback for my MIL, and that copy has a Q&A afterword that my version didn't have. In it, Mr. Taubes says that the only thing fiber is good for is preventing constipation, which you should be able to fix by drinking your broth, so Atkins on, y'all.
This issue here is that I don't need a diet. I already lost 80% of my bonus weight in two months. I had started out just general low-glycemic, which focuses on the quality rather than quantity of carbs. While I wasn't specifically tracking them, I was losing weight on 75-85g of net carbs a day, with my biggest carbs being 1/2 cup each of beans and oatmeal. I also had a general goal of less than 30g total sugar and less than 5g of added sugar; that's the equivalent a glass of whole milk and half of a small apple.
According to Atkins then, I started my diet in phase 3 and did just fine on it. So now for confession time, after reading Taubes, I cut the oatmeal and beans just to see how I would feel, which brought me to a max carb count of 35g, but ahem, I still drink a glass of wine, half a glass of whole milk, and eat a piece of chocolate (72% cacao, 3g sugar) every single day. Yeah, living on the edge there. All of these things are banned in phase 2, and sugar is demonized so much as to be untouchable and to always be replaced by substitutes. I don't eat fake food (especially processed soy), so this is really distasteful to me. Moreover, I'm really having trouble hitting my recommended daily value for fiber without the beans and oatmeal. They're supposed to be subbed in by the leafy greens, but I was already eating kale and spinach by the bunch, so that fiber is not being replaced; specifically, I was hitting 25-30g fiber a day on low-glycemic and am in a range of 13-15g on Atkins. No good.
I think the only thing I've really learned from this is that occasionally being methodical is a good thing. If I have drowsiness, or a sugar craving, or hunger earlier than I anticipated, I think I'll look at the foods I ate or the specific combination to see if I gave myself an unintentional blood sugar spike, but even that I'm taking with a grain of salt. For instance, today I was feeling quite drowsy post-lunch, like half an hour post-lunch, which is really too soon to be the bottom side of a spike (which is usually in the range of two hours), plus my lunch only had 6 carbs. The answer? My daughter woke me up three times last night. Sometimes sleepiness is just sleepiness, you know?
Edit: I ordered a copy of Why We Get Fat in paperback for my MIL, and that copy has a Q&A afterword that my version didn't have. In it, Mr. Taubes says that the only thing fiber is good for is preventing constipation, which you should be able to fix by drinking your broth, so Atkins on, y'all.