On Mon, 9 May 2005 14:08:07 -0500, John Nitrox <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

>At 11:41 AM 5/9/2005, John K. Luedeman wrote:
>>But Dr. Atkin's diet works!  Good luck.  But the steak is better and
allowed
>>along with alcohol.
>
>         As long as you stay away from Mr. Barleycorn, the weight loss is
>amazing: the unfortunate thing is that too much alcohol can get you out of
>ketosis which can stop the weight loss if you combine it with no
>exercise.  .

Mr. DPTNST has the secret word there -- EXERCISE!

Every one of the fad diets come with eating 1/10 of what I normally
gorge TOGETHER with 10 times the exercise I normally don't do.  :-)

No exception.

That's the immuntable PHYSICS of dieting.  You need to take in LESS
calories than your body needs in one day, and you need something to
stimulate your body to start eating on ITSELF -- your excess fat, and
when the fat is exhausted, starting eating on your muscles -- that's
where weight loss comes to a grinding halt.  :-)

Been there.  Done that.  But only once, a couple of years ago, when
I more or less stopped eating altogether -- with the help of a one-a-
day prescription pill by our family quack.

When I got to the point of losing no more (it seemed), I went to the
hypo-suction quack and ask how much of my spare tire he could suck out.

That was when he told me "about 2 pounds" because the spare tire was
all "muscles" -- sort of the marbled filet mignon in steaks.  :-)
That was when I came to the realization, which all non-quacks and
even some quacks admit that if you're FAT, chances are your FAT CELLS
were already in place years ago!  You can't get rid of those cells
that soak up fat as soon as you let it.

That's why so many have gone through the YO YO diet syndrone.  Lose
some, gain some;  lose some more, gain some more ... ad infinitum.

EAT LESS, and EXERCISE.

Write a book about Diet of Worms.  Guaranteed to work, because nobody
can eat enough worms to make the calories needed for the day.  Then
prescribe the SAME EXERCISE as Atkin or any other diet quack does.

VOILA.  Another miracle diet that works!

You can also sell "worm recipe" books on the side.  Of course worms
are high protein also, especially garden grubs.  :-))


>If there is a way around this I'd like to know what it is;
>maybe that emeritus is giving you more time to get exercise diving though
I
>noticed that Feeeesh had plenty of time to dive even before he achieved
>emeritus status.

Da Feeeesh had given up diet and resigned to the gain of about 1 pound
a year the past 30 years (may be 3/4 lb a year the past 40 years).
Whenever I die, I would have come to the realization I had LIVED many
more year-equivalent because of the time I didn't bother to exercise
for the sake of exercise.  Exercises doing SCUBA or other ENJOYABLE
sports are fine.  But NOT the kind of time-wasting exercise running
on tread=mills, doing push-ups pull-ups, jogging around boring streets,
etc.

There are many much more INTERESTING and rewarding things to do in life
than EXERCISE of the BODY!  :-)   Exercise of the MIND -- now that's an
entirely different matter.
>
>         Strike is (was) on one of the glycemic index diets but they are
>also is a no alcohol diets,

Strike and "no alchohol" diet is an oxymoron of the extreme kind.
Strike's diet was accompanied by his swimming miles, not eating and
generally following MY GENERALLY DIET plan.  He could have eaten
anything he wanted (less than his daily calorie requirement) and
would have worked the same!

But I think Strike put much of his glycemic index back at the Long
Bar in Raffles when Bjorn and I watch him down several pitchers of
beer.  :-))


>and if I hadn't drunk alcohol I wouldn't have
>gotten fat in the first place.

Trust me!  Drink all the alcohol you want, and eat whatever you want,
as long as the TOTAL daily carlories is LESS than 1500 (or whatever
you want to set it) and use Atkin's exercise book, or the banana-diet
exercise book, or the high-starch diet exercise book, and you'll
lose weight.

During the 30 years that I put on about 1 pound a year, if I had
drunk my ANNUAL consumption of alcohol everyday, (but eat nothing),
I would have lost weight.

No question about it.  It's a matter of physics and physiology!

I think that was the actual reason the former Trumpetfish maintained
his trumpetfish physique until the Cos99NEDfest!  :-)

La Poisson.