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  • 11 Sep 2010 7:20 AM
    Message # 416744
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    I am amazed that this seems to be the answer and that it's mostly easy. Not totally, but compared to my struggles at weight watchers it is a breeze. I initially lost 20kg with them, and then regained it, tried again, and just couldn't go more than a few days before losing the plot. 

     I DO remember that when I ate the recommended 2 sugar "points" plus fruit I lost weight more easily, but this is so much better. I like the analogy of a little bit of heroin for a junkie... it just wouldn't solve on their addiction would it!

    I am so impressed by the books, and am reading them very thoroughly.... the biochemistry chapters are a challenge, but I have son doing 2nd year biochem at university and can now converse with him on the topic, so I must be absorbing it!   

    I am aware I am in the honeymoon phase, all fired up, and will need to watch out over the long haul... we have had a big earthquake here in Christchurch, NZ and I noticed a few emotional/stress cravings over the last few days, but mild and manageable.


  • 18 Sep 2010 9:31 AM
    Reply # 420508 on 416744
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    Hi Julie, hope everyone is OK after the quake. Can't imagine how you held it together during/after that and didn't give in, but kudos to you.
  • 19 Sep 2010 7:03 PM
    Reply # 421059 on 416744
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    Julie McNaught wrote:I am amazed that this seems to be the answer and that it's mostly easy. Not totally, but compared to my struggles at weight watchers it is a breeze. I initially lost 20kg with them, and then regained it, tried again, and just couldn't go more than a few days before losing the plot. 

     I DO remember that when I ate the recommended 2 sugar "points" plus fruit I lost weight more easily, but this is so much better. I like the analogy of a little bit of heroin for a junkie... it just wouldn't solve on their addiction would it!

    I am so impressed by the books, and am reading them very thoroughly.... the biochemistry chapters are a challenge, but I have son doing 2nd year biochem at university and can now converse with him on the topic, so I must be absorbing it!   

    I am aware I am in the honeymoon phase, all fired up, and will need to watch out over the long haul... we have had a big earthquake here in Christchurch, NZ and I noticed a few emotional/stress cravings over the last few days, but mild and manageable.



    Hi Julie

    Hope things are returning to normal or as normal as anything is these days, I think people on this chat forum are really inspiring and well dont to you.  Keep it going.

    Kind regards

    Debra

  • 21 Sep 2010 1:15 AM
    Reply # 421860 on 416744
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    Thanks folks! We got off very lightly with the quake compared to others, so VERY lucky. 

    I realize I keep expecting weight to fall off me faster than it is, and that I still have to watch my intake of white flour, pasta, rice, potatoes etc  and eat slightly smaller portions of carbs across the board. 

    A book I read before Sweet Poison that is useful to understand your hunger and satisfaction signals is called "The Don't Go Hungry Diet" by Dr Amanda Sainsbury-Sallis, another Australian. It probably should be called "The Don't Go TOO Hungry Diet" because she gets you to go a little hungry before eating. She doesn't particularly want the reader to avoid any food group, but to eat what you feel like, but as we know, sugar doesn't work so well with this! However the gist of her book could provide an additional bit of info for those who need to work on getting a bit more hungry between meals and eating to a somewhat less full level. She describes the Famine Reaction and the Fat Brake, which I'm sure you would all recognise especially once off sugar. I've found it handy to re read. But I rate David's book far more highly!  Also have read "Good Calories, Bad Calories" by Gary Taubes, which seems a bit out of date already as far as the fructose connection goes, but it's still a worthwhile read on the history/science of nutrition and weight loss. A solid read though! But it's the reading of these books that convinces me David is on the right path.  I'm impatient to get off 20 kgs, but I have to work intelligently with this. No more stupid diets! Yay!


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