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Ignore these low carb lies
7th September 2007
A week last Friday I wrote to you about 'The Threat of Zombie Eating.'
If you didn't get that email, no I didn't mean that it's dangerous to eat Zombies.
That much is obvious.
The Undead are not advised as a main meal, or even a snack. Unless, of course, you wish to become one of them...
No, my letter was about the struggle to stop yourself automatically reaching for the snacks that give you instant gratification... white bread, biscuits, big bowls of white pasta, cakes, cereals... all the high G.I stuff that acts like sugar...
You get a blissful high, until your blood sugar crashes and you're left ravenously hungry.
The food industry makes a LOT of money out of these high carb, high G.I products.
They package them as 'low fat' and encourage us to diet by munching bowls of cereal in the morning... bowls of pasta for lunch... and lots of 'low fat' spreads, crisps, and other modified foods.
Thing is, it's often been shown that high protein breakfasts keep you sated for longer. Fact.
Not that the mainstream press agreeBut as soon as you say this, you get the naysayers in the press crying out:
'Ah, you're another evil-doer, peddling these low-carb crash diets that mean you have to eat cheese, cream and steak ALL DAY FOREVER'.
Not true, of course.
Yes, lots of the advertising for low carb diets tries to hook people with promises of eating unhealthy food AND losing weight... lots of surf-n-turf meals and cream.
They slightly exaggerate the speed of the diet, too. Again, it's advertising. Not ideal, but it's the way of the world.
The truth is, these diets merely have a 2-week period where, yes, you cut out a lot of food groups and lose a lot of instant weight.
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This is so you kick the cravings, re-set your eating habits, and go through cold turkey. It's also to motivate you by seeing instant success.
You're not expected to stay on these for any unhealthy length of time. Or lose the same amounts of weight thereafter.
Over the next stages of nearly all decent diets, you will introduce fruits and juice, brown rice, brown bread, brown pasta and all the vegetable groups.
Contrary to most people's knowledge, a classic low carb diet would see you eating at least one carb (like potatoes or brown bread) per day.
And no, the dinners are not all dangerously high fat.
In fact, low-carb meals include things like grilled chicken with a large salad... or grilled fish with green beans or leeks... fresh tomato soup... garlic mussels with brown bread...
So LESS refined sugar, processed foods and fatty snack... and MORE nuts, grilled meat and vegetables?Hardly an unsustainable or 'dangerous' diet is it? Besides, 'low carb' is a false generalisation. It's not about cutting out carbs, it's actually about recognising the glycaemic index of certain foods.
Most of us eat too many high G.I foods in too many meals. But if you can control those types of food, you can carry on eating decent big meals - including treats like cheese and chocolate - and still lose weight.
Yes, the advertising still feels the need to point out the famously 'bad' things you can eat on these diets, like cheese, cream, red meat, and wine.
Looking at them, you think you're going to be stuck on some high fat diet with ONLY those things.
They don't always mention that after the initial diet period, you'll also be eating lots of yoghurt, nuts, vegetables, fruits, and grilled meat.
Or that you WON'T be losing weight eating cakes and biscuits, crisps and sweets.
Why? I suppose most people react to big, controversial promises that make them thing they can eat only rubbish and become as thin as Kate Moss.
No matter, you and I know the truth.
So here's something you should read right away. It's a really user friendly G.I diet that's every bit as good and healthy as the Montignac Diet, which I've written about in the past.
It's not really a low carb diet because you are encouraged to eat carbs. You just have to be careful about which ones...
Go to this site and see:
The Chelsea DietUp your intake of GOOD carbsThe Chelsea Diet is not really a diet in the traditional sense. It's a new way of thinking about food so that you can carry on eating and enjoying life.
It shows you the 'good carbs' that help keep your metabolism in balance and cause you to lose excess weight rather than store it as fat.
It really is that simple.
The guy behind it is Dr Michael Spira. His ideas aren't welcomed by multi national slimming companies which push calorie counting, slimming pills and starvation diets.
An industry that's been the MAINSTREAM diet solution for over 20 years, while Britain has seen obesity SOAR.
The evidence shows that something isn't working.
This is why, whatever your preconceptions, I'd urge you to take a look at what he Dr Spira to say. I think you've find his diet secrets fascinating.
Click here:
The Chelsea Diet
If you're keen to try low G.I right away... ie. TOMORROW... then check out some breakfast diet secrets I've put together from the conclusions of low G.I experts... |
6 simple breakfast diet tips- Eat your evening meal earlier. You will burn more of it off while you're up and active than while you sleep.
- Get up fifteen minutes earlier, and take longer over breakfast.
- To get vitamin C, try grapefruit or lemon juice or kiwi fruit. A kiwi fruit contains five times the amount of vitamin C in an orange.
- Squeeze the juice freshly yourself and drink it right away. It loses vitamins almost instantly.
- Eat only 100% wholegrain bread with low-fat yoghurt and a cup of tea or decaffeinated coffee.
- Or for a more luxurious breakfast eat scrambled eggs with bacon or smoked mackerel (no toast) If you opt for this, have a low-fat lunch, based on 'good' carbohydrates like fresh vegetables.
So there you have it: ways to control your carbs every morning without eating too much fat - or ONLY eggs as a replacement.
If you want to take it seriously, I would recommend you give a respected diet a decent go for a month. Like I say, the Chelsea diet is one to try:
The Chelsea Diet
Yours as ever,
Ray Collins
The Good Life Letter
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