MEAT ONLY?!!!?!!

[PJ24]

Ok...has anyone in here used this method.

My office is having a weight loss contest..I'm not in it but...a man lost 18lbs in 2 weeks by eating only meat.Chicken, fish, steaks, burgers. Maybe a tiny salad here and there w/barely any salad dressing.

He says he eats no carbs and barely any fat.

[not2late]

Originally Posted by PJ24

Ok...has anyone in here used this method.

My office is having a weight loss contest..I'm not in it but...a man lost 18lbs in 2 weeks by eating only meat.Chicken, fish, steaks, burgers. Maybe a tiny salad here and there w/barely any salad dressing.

He says he eats no carbs and barely any fat.

Whatever he's doing, it's not Atkins.

But I think we can look at his attempts to "low carb" as a lesson for us all. We all want to lose weight for a variety of reasons. But we all know that a normal weight is associated with health. So really our ultimate goal is good health (plus all the superficial vanity issues like fitting into a pair of jeans, etc.).

How is it healthy to eat alot of meat for 2 weeks? Well, first off, he's overloading his body with protein. Big deal right? Your body will break down the protein it eats into components for building muscle and sustaining life. It also produces by-products from that process too, which your kidneys remove from your bod. If you're kidneys are compromised by some sort of disease, like diabetes, you'll stress them out and if you stress out your kidneys you'll get very ill (like the kind of illness that causes death). But my kidneys are healthy! Really? Your kidneys are at their peak efficiency and performance when you reach your 2nd birthday. After that, your kidney function declines.

But more important to dieters: your body will store the excessive protein away as fat.

How healthy is it to not eat vegetables? Well, vegetables and fruits contain fiber and vitamins/minerals. Fiber is important in our diet for a number of reasons: it helps lower your cholesterol, it helps keep your intestines healthy by helping it to eliminate the waste products of digestion (which some folks theorizes decreases the development of some intestinal cancers.) Vitamins and minerals are important because they act as "helpers" to the various chemical reactions that keep your body working efficiently. What about vitamin supplements, can't I just take those? No. Vitamin supplements only contain what the manufacturer wants them to contain. So let's say a manufacturer doesn't think potassium is terribly important, he won't put any into that pill. Furthermore you only absorb as certain percentage of the vitamins in the pills. For example, you only absorb about 80% of the folic acid in the folic acid supplements. If you double the dose, the absorption decreases to 50%.

As for fat, he's eating it. If he thinks he's eating "low fat" while consuming steaks, burgers, fish and chicken, he's living in a nutritional fantasy world.

So, whatever this co-worker is doing isn't going to promote good health for him. My inclination would be to put a copy of a good book on basic nutrition on his desk and hope he reads it.

[2big4mysize]

yep that is a highprotein low carb low fat diet and many folk have used it. one plan is the Body For Life and another is called Protein Power.

Dr Atkins breifly discussed them when he talked about how he found the science studies behind the Atkins program. the study put folk on 1000 cal diets of either carbs,fats or proteins and the folk on the fats plan lost the most weight. then he looked at that happened when the folk were places back on higher cal versions of the same foods and the fat eaters continued to lose the most weight the carb folk stopped losing. He said he knew he could make those fat diets taste better and poof the Atkins plan was born.