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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Agback" data-source="post: 1073490" data-attributes="member: 5328">I have had really good results with a low-carbohydrate diet. Not high-protein: low-carbohydrate. I recommend Protein Power by Dr. Mary D Eades (MD) and Dr Michael R Eades (MD) as setting out a good program, but the book is rather badly organised.Three years ago I walked three miles every day, but I weighed 127 kg (280 lb). It helps that my shoulders in a business suit brush both sides of a standard-width doorway, but I had a forty-seven inch waist. I bought a dog and added forty minutes to an hour every day of walking the dog, and started being more sensible about what I ate (in a conventional low-fat high complex-carbs sort of way). I was often hungry, always craved sweet or starchy foods, and tended to get distracted and crabby coming up on mealtimes. I lost about a pound a month for two years, and then gained four pounds by just thinking about Christmas.So at the beginning of the year I weighed 117 kg (257 lb) and was feeling discouraged. Noting that a lot of people seemed to be having success with low-carb dieting I picked up Protein Power by Eades and Eades.I eat ham and eggs for breakfast every morning, cold meat, cheese and a very mixed salad with French dressing for lunch, and have grilled, baked, pan-fried or stewed meat, poultry, or offal, steamed vegetables (not starchy ones, but green leafies, cauliflower, broccoli, pumpkin, zucchini etc) dressed with butter, and a glass of wine for dinner every night. (You could add in seafood as well: I don't because I don't like the taste.) I use only olive oil, peanut oil, butter, bacon fat, and beef dripping for cooking, and olive oil for making dressing.  I no longer eat any cereal, pasta, bread, cake, rice, potatoes, bananas etc.I'm eating things I like, and all I want of them. My blood pressure, pulse rate, cholesterol, LDL, and elevated liver enzymes are all back down in the range they were in when I was  high school swimming champion. I'm down to 5 kg above recommended weight for height, and will make recommended before the beach season starts in October. I plan to be back in 32" jeans by Christmas.So try low-carbing. It's easy and it works. It isn't expensive either. I eat less cheap starchy staples these days, but I more than recoup my expenses because I no longer buy much prepared food. Instead I buy greengroceries (which are cheap, even in the drought) and prepare them myself.In case after all this anyone interested in knowing what my build is like is still reading, I am 5' 10.5" tall, have a 49" chest, 38" waist, 38" hips, 18" neck, 15" bicepses, and 24" thighs (pure, well-defined muscle). I span 6'4" and I'm 22" across the shoulders. Random strangers start up conversations on the assumption that I used to play Rugby. I weigh 96 kg (210 lb), of which 21% is fat (ideal for men my age is 16% fat). You can judge my probable back hair from the fact that the 'Ag' in my nick is the chemical symbol for silver.Regards,Agback</blockquote>

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