Everyday Systems

... but I gained it all back. Thing is, this book says what we all know to be true. We're not fat because we eat beets - it's sweets, seconds, and snacks. My 90 year old father knew to eat well on the weekends and to 'tighten up' during the week.

Reinhard, thanks

I tried Atkins before, I lasted until dinner, then attacked a loaf of bread.

I tried Atkins too. I thought is sounded so good to be able to eat all of that meat and cheese. Didn't even make it 3 full days, couldn't do without fruit!

Yeah, I don't doubt that Atkins can work well short term. I'm sure the cabbage soup diet (to pick a particularly absurd example, though pretty much any diet your hear about will do) is fantastic for about a week. But unfortunately it's not about days or weeks or months or even a year or two. It's about a lifetime. If you've got the long term problem of excessive eating, there's no point in solving a different, smaller problem just because it's easier.

Reinhard

I tried Atkins once. I don't remember even making it through lunch-just the thought of eating only cheese, meat and eggs (which I love, don't get me wrong!) was making me SICK.

Thank God for No S

I never tried Atkins, but I lived briefly with two people that were doing the old version of it.
The sight of all that cheese and meat and eggs in the morning, knowing that they were going to be having the same for the rest of the day, every day was sobbering enough, but when they started to look slim, but green in the face and exhausted all the time, I knew that I was better off it!.
Neither one lasted long on it, they both went back to eating regularly about a month after and, of course, regained all the weight back and then some.

I refuse to believe that, bread, the food that Jesus ate, the staff of life for thousands of years, causes us to get fat. Granted a lot of the chemical crap they try to pass off as bread today is not good. But real bread is great and good for you. Have you noticed all of the low-carb cooking shows have vanished from the airways. low carb = britney spears, a short lived event.

I totally agree. And someone please tell me, with a straight face, that America got fat from eating fruit, carrots, and beets.

The book lets you know right at the get go that you need to adhere to it for life for maintenance. It's just not natural or easy to adhere to such an unbalanced regime for life. No S is the only plan that I feel I can live with because it is not just a diet per se, but a life plan. It is a modified behavioral mindset which yields positive results (i.e. weight loss)