tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12333976.post114445781873419556..comments2024-02-18T15:43:14.717-05:00Comments on Moved to LivinLaVidaLowCarb.com/Blog: Low-Carb Not Dependent On Business SuccessJimmy Moorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08590225257991702645noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12333976.post-1144625783886563542006-04-09T19:36:00.000-04:002006-04-09T19:36:00.000-04:00Some very good low-carb companies went out of busi...Some very good low-carb companies went out of business because the big businesses put out their own products to cash in, which drove the little guys out of business. Then, when low-carb in no longer profitable, the big guys stop producing their products. Net result: no products.<BR/><BR/>Keto was a really great low-carb company who is now out of business. It's almost impossible to find any Keto product now. It's sad because they had some damn good quality stuff.<BR/><BR/>And yes, I do buy stuff online a lot now, especially my favorite chocolate without sugar alcohols.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13390991269990163088noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12333976.post-1144604180112248492006-04-09T13:36:00.000-04:002006-04-09T13:36:00.000-04:00About 35 years ago, when I was originally put on a...About 35 years ago, when I was originally put on a "high protein diet" (which was essentially the same as a low carb diet, only there wasn't nearly as much emphasis on vegetables and fiber - because after all, it was the 70's), about the only special products available were saccharine, and artificially sweetened jello, along with a few "dietetic" cookies, marketed to diabetics. Basically, I got along just fine on the same real foods I eat now - meat, eggs, selected dairy products, nuts, veggies, and selected fruits.<BR/><BR/>Low carb doesn't mean anything different now from what it meant back then, it was just <I>marketed</I> differently a few years ago. The entire purpose of advertising is to convince you that you can't live without something that you previously didn't even know existed. This is exactly why those of us who eat low carb could do just fine, even if every commerically produced low carb product were suddenly removed from the shelves tomorrow. It's only the poorly thought out products that didn't really fit the definition of low carb that have fallen by the wayside - the ones that didn't really fill a <I>need</I>, only a <I>desire</I> to continue eating the same things that made us so overweight to begin with, while trying to make us think we were still eating low carb. <BR/><BR/>~~~~~~<BR/><BR/>I'm not sure where they're getting the idea that low carb causes low energy for exercise either, because I certainly didn't have any energy for exercise when I was eating all that low fat/high carb garbage, and weighed so much more than I do now. On the contrary, within an hour or two after a starchy or sugary meal, I'd be ready to lie down for a long, long nap, and wake up with what I would term a "sugar hangover". Not a headache as such, but certainly a disoriented feeling from the blood sugar crash.<BR/><BR/>Now, five days a week I spend 30 minutes on the eliptical machine, and that's just the warm-up for my real exercise - 50 minutes of swimming laps, half of which are freestyle, and the other half breast stroke.<BR/><BR/>When I was so much heavier (and eating so poorly) I could barely walk a city block or climb a flight of stairs without getting out of breath, but now I can do 1 hour and 20 minutes of exercise and not even feel winded.<BR/><BR/>This is the condition I'm in after having lost only about 1/3 of the weight I need to lose - can you imagine how much better shape will I be in when I finally lose the rest of it?!<BR/><BR/>~~~~~~~~<BR/><BR/>As far as "long term effects" of a low carb lifestyle are concerned, have they even considered that any adverse health effects they might eventually see (notice that they're concerned about something they haven't even seen yet) are actually the result of all the years of eating a diet which simply wasn't suited to the individual's metabolism, which resulted in the enormous weight gain? And that perhaps switching to eating foods better suited to the individual's metabolism (and thereby losing weight in the bargain) is what is keeping the health problems from surfacing so quickly?<BR/><BR/>There are undoubtedly some people who do just fine on a low fat, high carb diet, with no lack of energy, no weight gain, and no ill effects - and for those, I say bravo, good for you, keep eating that way. But I fail to see why they think we should <I>all</I> fit into the exact same mold.Caliannahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00055882170095208056noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12333976.post-1144535781668140442006-04-08T18:36:00.000-04:002006-04-08T18:36:00.000-04:00I totally agree with you. My 74 pound weight loss...I totally agree with you. My 74 pound weight loss and 9 month maintenance on low carb was not done with manufactured products. I started eating healthy REAL food like meat, veggies and fruits. I understand why so many companies went out of business trying to make subsitute foods. I don't want low carb junk food - what I want to eat now is whole, real food with nutritional value. I've learned a lot livin la vida low carb over the last 2 years. I'll never go back. I feel great and have energy and blood work is now fantastic. To those people who say you can't live like this I ask what makes them think meat vegatables and fruit are so hard to live on? Giving up sugar and junk carbs gave me a new life.Darleenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16355370785963284588noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12333976.post-1144491398622298202006-04-08T06:16:00.000-04:002006-04-08T06:16:00.000-04:00Thank you Jimmy. I really just shake my head over ...Thank you Jimmy. I really just shake my head over the articles that come out in the media. I have to wonder if the authors of these articles are fat and jealous or just brain dead. They can't possibly be as stupid as they come across. They had to graduate from a college as bad as some of that low carb junk food that was on the makret for awhile. I am extremely grateful to the internet, through this medium we are able to share informatin in ways that couldn't have happened when Dr. Atkins first brought low carb to the national attention. I am grateful every day for your blog and other like it which keep me going. This is the medium that will eventually force a change in thinking, I just don't think we will see it as soon as I would like.TESShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04354025359300489391noreply@blogger.com