Shock Horror Arrrgh.

**Pleater** · 14th January 08, 10:41 AM

Sorry, lads - you have to bite the salad - its the carbs. Cut out the carbs and your kilts will miraculously expand almost overnight.

It might come as a shock to those who believe the media and medical professionals - but its the carbs that make your clothes shrink.

After years - decades even, of failed diets, I did Atkins by the book and lost 12 inches off my waist. Plus I taught myself to make and remake kilts, and found XMTS - which can't be bad, can it?

**turpin** · 14th January 08, 10:57 AM

I lost 30 pounds in 3 months on Atkins 9 years ago. I found 10 of them within 2 years but managed to keep the rest off until about a year ago, when 15 more snuck back home. Pleater is right, though, they snuck back in company with chocolate ice cream, bread, potato chips, and Little Debbie Swiss Rolls.

I'm in the middle of a 4-week gastric cleansing. Last week was white meats, fruit, veggiies, nuts, and gluten/wheat-free grains. This is week 2, nothing but fruits, veggies, rice, and protein powder - it gives the gut a chance to rest and rejuvenate and eliminate bad gut bacteria and dietary allergens. I still have to watch the portions, but I'm hoping this will kick-start a fat loss.

My first kilt was a 36 waist, most recently 37.5. It's always easier to make a big kilt small than a small kilt big.

**Nighthawk** · 14th January 08, 12:07 PM

Me personally, I switched to a whole foods diet two years ago. I love it. No processed crap. No preservatives. I dropped 140. I feel better than I did in high scool. I don't so much think it's the carbs as it is the amount. Not to mention the garbage that comes with all the carbs...

**davedove** · 14th January 08, 12:25 PM

Originally Posted by Nighthawk

Me personally, I switched to a whole foods diet two years ago. I love it. No processed crap. No preservatives. I dropped 140. I feel better than I did in high scool. I don't so much think it's the carbs as it is the amount. Not to mention the garbage that comes with all the carbs...

I believe it's mainly the processing. I watched a show once that made the claim that between the time wheat goes from the field to a loaf of bread, it loses over 90% of it's food value. In other words, it's mostly refined calories.

**Nighthawk** · 14th January 08, 05:30 PM

Originally Posted by davedove

I believe it's mainly the processing. I watched a show once that made the claim that between the time wheat goes from the field to a loaf of bread, it loses over 90% of it's food value. In other words, it's mostly refined calories.

I don't know exactly- all I know is that it worked wonders for me. I ate like a danged horse over the holidays, and I remember now why I stopped eating processed food. Blech...

**Bugbear** · 14th January 08, 07:52 PM

Originally Posted by Nighthawk

Me personally, I switched to a whole foods diet two years ago. I love it. No processed crap. No preservatives. I dropped 140. I feel better than I did in high scool. I don't so much think it's the carbs as it is the amount. Not to mention the garbage that comes with all the carbs...

NightHawk, I do eat flesh, but that doesn't count. I guess I eat one cup of long grain rice with meat in it every day and that's the main meal, then I go out in the garden and stick my face in the plants and graze. Then I chew on dry oatmeal the rest of the day.

**Chef** · 14th January 08, 07:53 PM

For the last few years I have always kept to a schedule for my workouts that put on weight during the winter while I was lifting heavy. Starting April 1st I would go lighter with more aerobics and burn fat.

Worked perfectly for 5 years. Added about 7 lbs but cut my body fat to around 12%. The I ran into this year. it was a tough one for several reasons. So I put the weight on during the winter..but I wasn't lifting very often. Then I didn't get to my spring workouts but I kept eating. then I was home on Bute taking care of family matters. Didn't feel much like cooking so I ate at the pub or had a take-away most nights. And voila almost three stone heavier than I should be than I was. Now that I'm back I've lost half of it. The weight loss slowed down a bit over the holidays (didn't gain any though) and now its started to pick up again. I have about 17 to go. Thank god kilts are adjustable.

Originally Posted by turpin

I'm in the middle of a 4-week gastric cleansing. Last week was white meats, fruit, veggiies, nuts, and gluten/wheat-free grains. This is week 2, nothing but fruits, veggies, rice, and protein powder - it gives the gut a chance to rest and rejuvenate and eliminate bad gut bacteria and dietary allergens.

What regime are you using? it sounds interesting.

**Bugbear** · 14th January 08, 11:19 AM

No, I live off grapefruit, oatmeal, and cactus.

**Nighthawk** · 14th January 08, 12:08 PM

Originally Posted by Ted Crocker

No, I live off grapefruit, oatmeal, and cactus.

Mmmmm.... Cactus... I sat on one of those once.

Me mum was cleanin' me bum for days!

**Howard Clark** · 14th January 08, 06:53 PM

For me it is all those wonderfully delicious and totally nutritionally void holiday goodies that are around, and get eaten, because they are there...

I did better this year than last though. I only put on 8# this year between Thanksgiving and now. Getting it back off is always the hard part.

It really is simple; calories in, calories out. If they are not equal, then your weight changes.