10:00AM
3 eggs--240 calories
1 Tbs butter--60 calories
2 slices American cheese--120 calories
10:30AM
60-minute yoga class
2:00PM
8 ounces of shrimp with mustard--240 calories
2 ounces of pork rinds--90 calories
1 small square Flax Z Snax Low-Carb Brownie with walnuts and whipped cream--165 calories
5:30PM
60-minute spin class
7:15PM
13-ounce sirloin strip steak--780 calories
2 small squares Flax Z Snax Low-Carb Brownie with walnuts and whipped cream--265 calories
TOTAL CALORIES: 1960
CURRENT WEIGHT: 255.0
NOTE: I have a new challenge to share with everyone today that I think will be quite an illuminating experience. As you know, I've been writing down my daily menus for nearly a year here at this blog to show what this particular low-carber actually eats on a daily basis. Some days have been better than others, but I have been quite transparent about what goes in my mouth and how much exercise I'm engaged in.
Today, I challenge YOU to do the same. That's right, I'm encouraging other low-carb dieters to be willing to share their daily menus online as well at their own menus blog. I'm going to start compiling a list of these low-carb menu sites on the side panel here so everyone can benefit from the variety of voices about what low-carb living means to different people. Are you brave enough to put your low-carb menus out there for everyone to see?
If you want to take this challenge, then simply e-mail me at livinlowcarbman@charter.net with the URL of your new menus blog and I'll add it to my new list on the side panel. With so many people professing they know the best way to do a low-carb diet, it's time to see how you do it. This should be a lot of fun and I look forward to seeing how other low-carbers eat. List your portions, calories, and current weight each day so we can follow your progress.
Anyone up to the challenge? :)
Thursday, November 20, 2008
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Ok, I'll bite...
Why would I want to participate in a challenge like this?
1. I don't have a blog nor do I want to keep one - low carb or otherwise.
2. I haven't set myself up as an authority on low carb by creating a public blog to that effect.
3. I haven't written a book in order to encourage or inspire or otherwise act as a testament to weight loss success, nor do I anticipate writing one now or in the future.
4. I don't refer to myself as "Living La Vida Low Carb" when I'm not and when instead I am shaming the low carb way of life by eating crappola low carb products at every chance in place of eating the "real deal" fresh unadulterated foods like protein, veggies, fats, fruits, nuts and *gasp* even whole grains if I tolerate them. (Much like how Atkins Nutritionals shamed Dr. Atkins original "pre-death" work through the development and promotion and deliberate influence toward consuming products on the lc wol.)
5. I don't feel the need for narcissistic approval nor do I have the need for drama (from those disapproving).
So are you saying that unless we feel like putting up, we should be shutting up?
Besides, you would prolly just quit that challenge too after a couple of weeks, so why should we waste our efforts that way?
Hello, there!
Does this mean you and other fellow "low-carbers" will critique me?
This sounds interesting!
Lora
So are you up to the challenge or not, pooti? Sounds like you're just making excuses to avoid the tough position of actually doing this. :)
So we don't have to set up a blog site, why not just reference a thread on your BBS, where we could all update our menus each day?
You can set up a menu journal at my forum if you'd like. :)
Pooti said it better than I could. She even added some things I hadn't thought of. :-)
252.4
253.6
253.4
254.8
255.0
Doesn't look like a one-day fluctuation to me. Please cut out the products, Jimmy.
Are we going to include those people that are extremely low carb, dare I say, NO carb?
Obviously not on the BBS as they are Pariah, they would need a blog of there own.
Yes/No?
Howdy, Jimmy.
I'll join in. Monday would be a good start-date for me.
I already have a blog, which sorely needs attention, but perhaps I'll just start posting menus on your forum - as mentioned by SnowDog.
I don't fancy myself a narcisist but I hope posting my menus will possibly be helpful to others. And, who knows, perhaps it will even help me identify problem areas that need improvment.
Time will tell. It almost always does. :-)
Be well,
Harry
If you do zero-carb, then start your own blog. :)
Jimmy said:
So are you up to the challenge or not, pooti? Sounds like you're just making excuses to avoid the tough position of actually doing this. :)
Jimmy, what didn't you understand about my lack of desire to start a blog?
I would not be averse to entering my menus on a daily basis on some general thread that is set up for that purpose but I have no intention of taking the time to enter into foods into Fitday, Dailyplate or Mastercook, whatevah because it's too time consuming for me right now. If someone else wants to run my numbers off my quantities that would not be a problem to me.
But I ask you again, what is the purpose of this? This isn't a game nor a competition to me. It's called life. It's how I live. I have no desire to hold my life out for criticism or scrutiny. What's in it for me? Why would that appeal to me?
I have no pony in this race, Jimmy. Again, I'm not callin myself the "LoCarb Man" or woman for that matter, nor do I have a blog or website, nor am I participating in a buttload of affiliate marketing programs where it would benefit me to build traffic on my website or blog.
So tell me, Jimmy, why do I want to take your challenge? I'm still reeling from your "no-sweets for 30-days challnge" (which I didn't take but sure as hell participated in reading about your daily success with it...that is until about day 17 or 18...or somewhere around there. I thought you'd finally seen the light. Apparently you had and it was a train.
I'm curious why this makes you so angry, pooti. If you don't want to participate in this challenge, then that's fine and your prerogative. I just don't understand your hatred and disgust for me in virtually every comment you leave at this blog. We've never met, so I don't get where you're coming from.
And why do you somehow think I'm some kind of role model or bastion of perfection for low-carb just because I have a blog about the subject? Isn't the very purpose of a blog to share your experiences on whatever is happening in your life?
Jimmy, you said, "And why do you somehow think I'm some kind of role model or bastion of perfection for low-carb just because I have a blog about the subject?"
Well, one of the reasons may be that when I Google low+carb+man, YOU come up as three of the first five choices. Like it or not, you represent low-carb to the rest of the world.
Because of your major presence on the Internet, lots of people read (and believe in) your blogs. When you did the 30 in 30 Challenge, many, many people were in it with you. When you did XXXkins, bunches of people followed your lead. When you did this 30 Day "Sweets"-Free Challenge, lots of us followed in your footsteps.
It's sort of like being a pastor, Jimmy. The rules are there for everybody, but the pastor is held to a higher standard than the congregation. Maybe that doesn't seem fair, but that's how it works. And in the world of low-carbing, for a lot of folks you are the pastor. We have an emotional investment in your success or failure. When a pastor fails, it makes it harder for his congregation to follow the Lord. When you modify the basic principles of Atkins and gain a bunch of weight as a result, it makes the rest of us think that we can make excuses, too, and in the long run it makes it harder for the rest of us to believe that low-carbing really works.
THANKS, but I never asked for that role. I am and have always been just one man who blogs about his journey on a low-carb diet. If people are looking for perfection from me, then I'm sorry to disappoint. I just live my life and blog about it so that others can learn from what I've experienced...good, bad, or otherwise. I'm grateful that people read my blogs and that they register so high on Google. But I'm still just a guy who struggles just like everyone else. Nothing more, nothing less.
Jimmy the science speaks for itself. Sweet and carb == insulin secretion/response. Insulin plus glucose == fat gain. Not to mention a host of other negative effects. Do you honestly think those frankenfoods and processed junk are circumventing these facts because they say low carb on the label?
Get real Jimmy. Your pre-diabetic condition coupled with your serious weight fluctuations make it obvious to me that you are doing this all wrong. Follow the science. It is on your side. Prepackages low carb foods and diet sodas are not. Either you are willing to accept the facts or not. But don't stop making excuses about your diet when the facts show it is not HEALTHY.
I dont know where to start. But jimmy, man, I am on your side completely this time. it is a wonderful thing where we all have a forum to disagree with each others. but some people are way too harsh in their take on whatever jimmy is doing or not doing! Guys, i want to scream sometimes! Where or who gave you an idea to follow jimmy as a herd of blind lambs. I believe in role models, but how about being a role model for yourself! you could draw inspiration from others or be motivated by them , but were does this idea come from that jimmy or whoever following a cirtain lifestyle becomes a role model for you. You guys have to find your own ways in life, therefore we are all given this journey called life! Why do people cling to the notion that they need to follow, be led, or told what to do. may be thats conservative side of me talking. I delivered newspapers at 4 am in the morning, worked in chemical lab, did construction work to afford college. i worked my fat ass off to aford tuition and not rely on government hand outs. i did come from russia, but did it legally. And I am all better for it. I developed marketable skills that are needed and wanted by my unicersity and students I work for. And i dont think i would have done it by relying on someone or taking someone lead. One of my favorite politicians Churchill once said "if you are in your 20 s and allready a conservative, you have no heart, but if you are in your 30s and still liberal, you have no head! I belive in people and free market. i believe people ought to educate themselves and familarize themselves with intrinsic details of a particulat diet before embarking on one. will you make mistakes, absolutely, but you will learn from them and become better for it, it is my strong conviction. jimmy is one of many of the low carb folks, and he does a tremendous work by interviewing great people that we all have a chance to listen to for free. Mind you, some poeple charge for it, and not cheap. Where else would you get a chance to listen to such great low carb icons as Dr Eades, garry Taubes, richard Feinan and others. why not learn from them, read their work and try it for yourself. Only those that walk the road will ever concur it. La Tsu said it thousands of years ago. If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. it is understood that a lot of people invest in Jimmy, and i am one of them , but holding him to some special priveledges or nominate him as a pastor like leader is way too much in my opinion. Jimmy just shows us what one man journey looks like on a daily basis. it is not a book manual or a testiment, it is his experiences and his own journey, guys create your own. So if jimmy does something wrong we should all follow him, be like blind misleading the blind, or crusify him because he is the man we hold responsible for babysitting us? Wake up guys, there is a reason that average advertisenment company aims their ads at an average american consumer who they beleive has an averaga market iq of a 5 th grader. And then we all blame Mcdonalds for getting us fat! Wake up people! I am sorry for my typos, I am really bad at that, and thats why I dont use those skills, so dont blame me for that! Thanks!
1) Jimmy hasn't "set [himself] up as an authority on low carb."
2) Jimmy IS a testament to weight loss success--he had lost 180 lbs. and has kept off 150+. How is it that he is not?
3) Jimmy IS Livin' La Vida Low Carb--again, how do you figure that he is not? He DOES eat protein, veggies, fats, fruits, and nuts. He's added some low-carb products. And so what?? Maybe it's caused some weight gain. Maybe not. Maybe Jimmy's experimenting to see how his body responds to different food products. Some of us can lose weight on 50 grams of carbs/day, others can't. All the hoopla about the horrors of eating low carb desserts is bordering on ridiculous. And now Jimmy is a failure for not living up to your expectations? Sheesh.
4) "We have an emotional investment in your success or failure." Ummm, why??
Jimmy, yes you are right I have animosity for you even to the point of thinking you pitiful. Why?
Well Stargazey said it very well except I don't think of you as a pastor. I think of you as a terrible example of low carb!!! But unfortunately you have great readership and it grows all the time and OMG!!! I get so sad that some newb would come to your site and take away the idea that your way really IS "the low carb way".
Why? Well hell, you tell people often enough how you've lost 180lbs! That's enough to convince everyone how successful you are, right? But you aren't! You are still a fat "skinny" person. You havent' changed anything except a number on a scale. Your diet is atrocious for the most part. Forget being an angel or hedonist or whatever the Eades call them...I'm just talking basic low carb nutrition!
Your presence and voice on the web is huge Jimmy and you do have a big responsibility that comes with it to represent your woe with honor. I'm not saying you have to be a saint Jimmy. You are human. But dayum, a diet coke once in a while is such a far cry from pounding down 10 or more diet cokes a day!
Exercising for 30minutes-an hour a day, 3-5 days a week is sooooooo different than what you do. You have huge obsessive behavior you either can't or won't see for yourself and I get soooo sad to think that other people inexperienced in this lifestyle will think you are the poster child. To hear all your sycophants talk, you are pretty close to walking on water!
And the worse thing? You have access to some of the brightest and best minds the lc wol has to offer and what do you do? You delight in pounding down 3 servings of your nutn crappola cuz it will irk your detractors!
So that's why I'm mad Jimmy. I'm really disappointed in you now that I've really come to know of you from your blog and journals. It's apparent you have soooooo much growing to do and it angers me that you think in your pride that your have your personal answers and know it all!
:(
Maybe by speaking out I will alert just one person not to follow you "plan" that I'm going to refuse to call low carb any longer. What you do generally has no resemblance to it.
Since you started the challenge you have lost 8.4 pounds. Started Oct 27 at 263.4 and as at today you are 255 - 25 days later. So only 25 more pounds to get back to 230. I'm hoping your weight keeps coming down.
Its never too late to continue on with the challenge even though you caved Nov 13.
As you no doubt recall, Saul didn't ask for the role of first King of Israel, either. And Saul of Tarsus didn't ask for the role of missionary to the Gentiles. Nevertheless, God selected each man for his position.
May you take your God-given position seriously, Jimmy.
So many people make comments that hurt. I weigh almost 400 pounds jimmy weighs 250. I would give anything to weigh that much. He is still human but he is still my inspiration. Its like a bad tv show if ya dont like it then change the channel. I like the Jimmy Moore show. Im tuning in.
Hi Jimmy,
Thank you so much for staying level headed and right on topic with your responses to such criticism (dare I say hostility?) in this thread.
Keep it up. We support you.
Erika
Pooti, let me get it right, you are following Jimmy's blog and follow his website just to alert one fool or as you put it ( an unfortunate low cqarber who looks up to Jimmy for an example of the low carb lifestyle). Let me congratulate you on being a crusador to save that one poor, uneducated, misgieded fool. You did it, Pooti. You are it, a Savior for that fool. I think Obama might have a great post in his cabinet for you to lead the way! He too believes that other people can and will tell the rest of us how to and not to live our lives. I didnt mean to open that can of worms, but ..... Pooti you my friend need to chill. You made my blood boil, which is not very easy to do, only my ex could do it better then you Pooti did. What drives you to call Jimmy pitiful and have annomosity for a man you never met or dont know at all> and it very obvious you dont. So let me educate you for free by the way, on who Jimmy is and what he does. Since you like to save other people lives and prevent that wondering fool from Jimmy, I thought I might save you from being that fool. Jimmy lost 180 pounds, gained 30 or so back, but considering he undertook bodybuilding some of it is definitely muscle tissue. So for the past 5 years or so the man was able to sustain his tremendous weight loss. pooti for your information, Jimmy is only in 5 percent of people who were able to sustain their weight loss after 5 years. Are you, just wondering? Ok, Jimmy created a wonderful, informative website where people can come daily and listen to great icon of low carb world, and at times not low carb as well. Off course Jimmy made millions of dollars doing it, thats why he cahnges all those luxury cars every day, given sometimes transmission goes out on his Ferrari, but oh well. So all these wonderful people, like DR Eades, Dr Feinman, whi I happen to know personally, Dr Barry Sears, and so on go on Jimmy podcast and give thir time and effort to educate people on Jimmy' site. pooti how come you dont have your website where these people can come to you and you can be a crusador there? I tell you why, because it is to find a little splinter in Jimmy's eye, but very hard to find a whole tree in yours, pooti. I have a little suggestion, create your website and educate people there, you have the power, and I know you have a brain, and you can make just as many millions as Jimmy did, and drive frrari too! Last, but not least, never assumed or nominated himself as low carb one and only, there are many others. I hate liquor stores or Mcdonalds or casinos for that matter. Should I start going around casinos and try to save fools there or go to Mcdonalds and shut them down. I lived in a country like that, called Soviet Union. So pooti, do not try to improve or save other people from themself, they didnt ask you for it. And do not try to change or educate Jimmy, he didnt ask you for it either. Pooti I am amazed at people like you, really am. I hope you dont take it personally, I dont know you, but listening to you reminds me why I escaped the communism regime and came to this great country. So I could lead my life the way I beleive it should and have free will. So pooti let others enjoy a freedom of being free.
I have noticed something very intresting, and being an observant by nature it also makes sense. Is it me only or do people with the harshest tongues and lifesaving tips on this comment are the ones that do not even have a photo in their profile? I hate to be presumptious or to assume anything, because assumption is a mother of all screw ups to say it mildly, but after all it is just an observation. I do and can be sarcastic at times, not all of us are perfect, but sometimes a picture is worth a thousands words. I would love to see some of those peopl pics in their profile. it is only fair, most uf us do. I wonder, or presume may e they have something to hide, is it possible? I dont know, may be I am just a bit heated over what pooti had to say. Dr Eades once said that he cant stand for a momentpeople that try to save the world by telling other how to live their lives, and I totally agree with him. Pooti just boiled my blood, and I would love to see who is hiding behind that comment. Just curious thats all, simple human nature! And pooti I appologize if i came out a bit too how do i say it , strong about your cooments but you really stand against what I believe,but do not take it personally. I just do not like when other people put tags on the rest of us or tell us how to live our lives or what to eat or what to wear or what to say. I lived through that experience. And I have a lot of arguments with a lot of liberals, who are by the way are my close friends. And lots of them believe in government control over food industry,and it scares me. Thats a very first step toward socialism, and believe me you people it aint fun, and until you live through it, you wouldnt know it. It is a wondeful thing to be free! So pooti I hope you understand. Lets just agree to disagree without being offensive. Just a suggestion. It has been proven in cognitive psychology that thoughts can carry a lot of negative energy around them and raise cortisol and make us fat. We are here to reduce stress not raise it. There, i finally said my peace! By the way I am starting my own low carb menu and it is on Jimmy link under Vadim'menu. I know Jimmy has a thick skin, otherwise he wouldnt be exposed to these comments, and so do I. So everyone welcome to take a peek and critisize me. I will take it politely, promise, even from you pooti. I do believe in good nature of human beings, I just believe some peole are missing something and do not feel loved. lets spread the love, instead of negative energy. Oh, feels good, I said my peace, and I am at peace. Love you all guys, stay strong!
Vadim, you missed one small point.
Jimmy INVITED people to comment on his menus.
Oh and another small point.
Jimmy encourages people to read his site. Are you not aware that the more links to a site, the better and higher the rating? So for everyone he links to and who links back repeatedly to him, he builds traffic.
Drama builds traffic.
Jimmy has a horse in the race Vadim, I don't. But I do have the right through Jimmy's invitation to be frank about him eating crap and being that kind of role model in the low carb world. I'm not telling him how to live his life. He can live as he chooses. But it's very sad that he has a very public persona and yet chooses to set such a poor example. ESPECIALLY after he's had one-on-one access to some of the greatest minds in the low carb world.
And btw, your 5% is wrong. I can't remember who debunked that myth but many more people than 5% lose and keep their weight off over 5 years.
Pooti,
I'm just curious. What exactly is it that you want jimmy to do? Not eat A.S....not have sponsors?...not post his menus?...not have a blog?
Out of curiosity, what is your goal here?
Jimmy please provide the url to the YOUR FORUMS. THank you !
THANKS Bayoubabe! It's listed in the side panel under "Jimmy Moore's Sites" but the URL is here. I look forward to seeing you there. :)
Justin if I had any say over Jimmy's actions, then my desire here would be to "wake him, shake him" up so that he lives up to his potential. So he doesn't squander his responsibility or abuse his readership.
I would have him actually continue as he started when he shook off the sweets and was at least trying to eat low carb. (When, incidentally, he was losing weight again at a beautiful rate).
But the carb monster has him and he won't admit it to himself or anyone else. He thinks he knows better. You could see that it wasn't long before he was subbing his sweet fix for absurd amounts of nuts per day (3-6oz of nuts!)and la tortilla factory low carb wraps (which by the way are full of partially hydrogenated oils even if they do fly under the radar with their labelling, and soy).
I would actually have him read and follow one of the gurus he's been given advice from for longer than 3weeks. That seems to be his threshold. I would see him have victory over his weight and the "demons" of his mind that cause him to binge eat.
I would have him do the head work as well as the physical and habitual work. In other words, I would have him really commit to follow through so that he really could be the role model and success story he's already created himself to be.
I would have him actually be a testament to all the men and women who fearlessly research and promote the low carb way as scientists and doctors.
That's what I would have from Jimmy! Not this egotistical (and yes he has a ginormous ego about his actions and his knowledge) attempt to be the low carb poster boy while main-lining crap at almost every meal and certainly on a daily basis.
Does that mean HE MUST BE PERFECT IN HIS PURSUIT????? Ideally that would be swell. But in reality, no. Perfection isn't required here. An occasional slip wouldn't bother me one iota as long as it wasn't an every day, every meal, rationalization of the "food" that goes in his pie hole.
I don't believe I'm asking for much. I want people (new people especially) who come here to be inspired by Jimmy, to see what the low carb way of eating REALLY is and I'm sorry, flame away, but it certainly isn't - choconothing bars at every turn, acres of nuts per day, American cheese at 2 or 3 meals, Ranch dressing, craisins and salads full of sunflower seeds washed down by 10 or so diet sodas.
I'm sorry but that kind of diet does NOT resemble a low carb diet and is false advertising. It gives people the wrong impression of low carb and if a person is truly trying to advance the agenda of the low carb way of life, then living la vida Jimmy Moore is a JOKE! Cuz it's livin' la vida lies!
I don't care if the guy has a blog, builds traffic or makes money but if he is doin it by espousing a way of living like living la vida low carb, call me a screwball but I actually EXPECT him to be living a healthy and nutritious low carb lifestyle.
Pooti, I swear the more I read your comment the more I start to belive that you are my ex girlfriend trying to get under my skin. Lol, noone was able to tweak me that much. I dont know who you are, you dont have a picture or profile, but you definitely have some answers! I would love to have a debate with you on many issues, it would be intresting. Ok, pooti, seriously, listen to what you are saying. You said if you could, you would do this to Jimmy and that to Jimmy, you would shake him up, you would knock some sense in him, you would do this and you would that. Again, thats what a lot of communists believe. Who asked you to change anything about Jimmy, did Jimmy do that? Why do you feel you have aneed to change people or their diet or anything? Talk to me Pooti, I am listening. There is something going in your life or not going at all that you feel a need to be in other people lives? Come on, I am a very lovng person. What is it, it has got to be something that you are not happy about. And pooti, I would bet a dollar to a donut, that it is you that Pooti is not happy about, and in order to mask the pain you need to get on other people. In psychology it is called replacement mechanism. Because successful people who maded it in whatever capacity, do not ever have a need to change people who are not asking for it. They humbly advise, share their experiences and then let their pupils decide for themself if and what journey they are to embark on. They do not shake anyone, hold them to special priveledge or make them a role model . pooti, you are either my ex who found out I am using this website or Jimmy Moore himself creating different persona to make people to argue and make it fun! I am not a conspiracy theorist, and do not believe Jimmy would create various personas, so it must be that you are my ex. So if you want to talk, just call me. I undestand you are missing me, whats not to miss? But come on now, lol. Ok, all kidding aside I dont hold a grudge against you pooti, i just dont get your way of thinking. And it is fine, thats what makes it fun, i guess. Listen, God bless, but please do not crusify jimmy, he has done a whole of lot for creating a wonderful, informative website and let people decide for themself what they need to do or who they decide to emulate.
One thought keeps running through my mind as I read the comments here - that what Jimmy is doing is closer to the commonly-accepted notions of what low carb is than not.
Most new low carbers drink diet sodas with their meals, use Splenda to sweeten other foods they want sweetened, and certainly use Ranch dressing on their salads and as a dipping sauce for their wings and other meats and veggies. In fact, on some of the more liberal low carb plans - Groves, South Beach, for example - Jimmy's current WOE wouldn't be bad at all.
I'm also aware that there is a contingent of Jimmy's readership that advocates and lives ZERO carb, and that may be in play here. There are many different standards for low carbing. You may recall the debate I had this past summer with Stargazey. It all snapped into focus, towards the end of our discussion, when she revealed she was a zero carber. She may have thought I knew that all along, and she may not have realized it's not something I would do. In the end, I realized she and I were discussing this issue on from totally different perspectives.
Having said all that, it is a fact that for some reason, Jimmy seems to have stalled. A week or two will tell the tale, so I'm curious to see if Jimmy starts losing again.
pooti, I understand your passion, but I must say your tone is extremely harsh. I was a little bent out of shape with Jimmy when he decided to do the no-sweet-taste challenge at the same time he was *****finally***** getting to taking the correct Metformin dosage. I REALLY wanted to see the effect of each separately. After months of stalls and frustration, it just seemed to make more sense to move forward deliberately in a way that you could isolate and track the results. To me, it made more sense to do the Metformin for 30 days, and then maybe stop the Metformin and do the sweet-free challenge for 30 days.
In the end, I had to conclude that this really is Jimmy's life, his site, his experience, and that if I wanted to know the results, I would either have to wait until a time came when he did each separately, OR I would have to do the trials myself. You don't have to guess which option I chose. :-)
Believe it or not, Jimmy's hurdling towards the outcome of this. Only one of a few things can happen:
1. Jimmy will remain stalled and keep the same WOE, and have it resolved by having his Metformin dosage increased to address his standing metabolic challenges,
2. Jimmy will actually move beyond his current stall and prove his WOE is effective after all, or
3. Jimmy will conclude eliminating sweet really is the thing that worked for him and will attempt to go back to it.
I'm interested to see how this evolves.
Hi, Onpoint!
Actually, I'm NOT a zero carber. I had aspired to it earlier this year because I believed Charles Washington and figured it would solve my weight regain problem. Eventually I realized that I couldn't give up eggs and dairy. I now do very low carb, but counting my supplements and fiber, it works out to about 40 carbs per day for me.
What has turned out to be more important for me is how often I eat rather than how many carbs I eat. Even if I go to practically zero carbs, if I don't wait 5-6 hours between meals, I inevitably start gaining. If I keep my portions small, I can get away with more carbs than I used to as long as I keep strictly to the 5-6 hour rule.
When you and I had the discussion last summer, I don't think I had tumbled to the fact that, for me, meal timing is the crucial variable. (Not that that's true for every low-carber, but in my case it is.)
I should go back and reread our discussions, but I can't remember when we had them!
This challenge has been extremely interesting to say the least!!! I never knew how much power sweets held over us all until I saw this challenge. I am not perfect and make no bones about it. I eat Lindt 85% on a regular basis for instance.
However I am disappointed that you didn't finish the challenge Jimmy since you ARE a role model for many low carbers. If you couldn’t finish it no problem but I think you would do better to realise the power sweet tastes have over you.
You have been consuming sf foods daily since you stopped the challenge despite saying you were only going to have them once or twice a week.
It is GREAT that you have cut out the 8-10 diet sodas you used to drink daily but for your health I think fewer products and more meats would be better.
And Vadim can you please stop making this debate political? Socialism is NOT communism. They are two different political ideologies.
Lynn, lol you are right socialism is not communism, but... Insulin resistence is not diabetes either, but.. A person eats a lot of sweets, and considering he or she suffers from compromised metabolic syndrome, developes hyperinsulinimia. Heperinsulinimia usually, notice, usually will lead to hypoglycemia. Hypoglycemia will lead to odd and comftable symptoms. Odd and uncomftable symptoms will usually lead to eating more sweets, which in turn makes pancreas pump up more and more insulin until one day prediabetes becomes diabetes due to overworked Beta cells which produce insulin. Socialism is like prediabetes in political system. It usually starts with an idea of social distribution, then it leads to more taxation ( similar to more insulin ), more taxation will lead to very uncomftable symptoms,like corporations cutting jobs, will lead to even more taxation to keep socialism afloat, which will eventually lead to very tired social system and eventually to an idea of communism, which means total government control and total redistribution. I do believe it and I lived through it!
Nice points everyone!
And Vadim, I am sorry to disappoint but I am not your ex.
I also decided today that I no longer care what Jimmy does and those who would follow him will have to live their own fates they are dealt.
I will no longer post about his menus.
Okay well I live in a country that is neither socialist nor communist. However like most European countries we believe in helping our poor and sick and giving everyone a fair chance. That has an elelment of socialism in it. Is it like the USSR? No. Is it like the U.S? No. Is it like the U.K? No.My point is there is a middle ground between the two ideologies of communism and capitalism. Anyway....best to leave this off as it is Jimmy's menu blog.
Jimmy I am happy to hear that you may be restarting the sweet free challenge soon. I will join you in the January one.
THANKS for all your comments, pooti! I appreciate your honesty about how you feel--that's what blogs are all about. It's too bad you're leaving, but you are welcome to post anytime. THANK YOU again!
Stargazey, now that's very interesting about the meal-timing, and thanks for the clarification.
THANKS, but I never asked for that role. I am and have always been just one man who blogs about his journey on a low-carb diet. If people are looking for perfection from me, then I'm sorry to disappoint. I just live my life and blog about it so that others can learn from what I've experienced...good, bad, or otherwise. I'm grateful that people read my blogs and that they register so high on Google. But I'm still just a guy who struggles just like everyone else. Nothing more, nothing less.
I am sure Britney Spears never asked to be followed 24/7 by paparazzi recording her every move. This is the price you pay for fame. Yes, Jimmy you have made a name for yourself,or actually your fans have, now you have to take responsibility for what goes along with that. You have “fans”, people respect and believe in you. You have given hope to so many obese people, that it is possible to lose hundreds of pounds without starving yourself.
What you are going through right now is very common. You lost weight, then it began to creep back on. So many people are looking to you to solve this phenomenon. Discovering that AS causes an insulin response just as sugar does is huge! Many people are using this stuff thinking it is OK.
You had people sitting on the edge of their chairs wondering if Jimmy Moore was going to lose weight by eliminating Sweets for 30 days. You did! You lost quite a bit of weight in just over 2 weeks. Then just quit! It’s OK to fall of the wagon, you are a real person, but have some respect for your own challenge and your fans and get back in the game! Quit making selfish excuses! Your fans are not upset that you fell off the wagon, they are upset because you gave up. You let your fans down.
I haven't stopped losing, Dana. :)
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