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I posted the following on one of our daughter boards a few days ago. I'm copying it here, because I think it's a perfect example of what removing refined carbs from our diet can do for us. The replies that I had to it were amazing, in just how much our health can be improved by diet.
I'd love to hear from those of you who've also discovered many other benefits from this WOE.
In preparation for some upcoming surgery, last Thursday I had a four hour appointment with my new primary care physician for a complete physical -- and I do mean complete!
When he learned that I used to weigh 213 pounds, he was quite interested in how I had lost the weight. I explained to him that I'd been doing Atkins. Far from telling me that it was bad, he wanted to know more. He asked if I'd noticed any other health benefits from being on the program. So, I listed them for him.
1. I have more energy -- far more! -- than I've had since I was in my thirties. Sometimes, I just have to get up and move, because I don't know what to do with all that energy. My house stays sparkling clean, but back when I was a 213 pound couch potato, the apartment I lived in then usually looked like a pig sty!
2. I've had nearly daily headaches, and debilitating migraines as often as twice weekly, since I was six years old. These have TOTALLY disappeared from my life, to the extent that I hardly remember what a headache felt like. I used to use up ALL of my sick leave because of the headaches, and then have to go into my vacation time, as well. Before I went to my folks for Christmas, I had maxed out my earnings for both vacation and sick leave. (I used up three weeks for the trip to NC, and I'll have no problem fully covering the four to five weeks I expect to be out of work with my surgery.) Let me tell you, my employer is certainly glad that I found Atkins!
3. Also since I was a child, I've had a skin rash called dishydrosis. Basically, it's an inflammation of the sweat glands. As a child, it was bad on my hands (some kids at school refused to play with me because of it) and, as an adult, really bad on my feet. Sometimes it was so severe I couldn't wear regular shoes, and had to go to work in house slippers. The only thing that would clear it up was steroids, but you can't stay on them permanently. The dishydrosis, too, has totally disappeared since I began Atkins.
4. My previously high cholesterol is now in the low-normal range. Triglycerides are perfect!
5. I used to have constant heartburn and acid reflux. I took I don't know how many antacid tablets per day. I don't believe I've needed even one since I started low-carbing it.
The doctor was quite impressed. He even commented that, other than my current problem with my colon (which, I suspect, came about because of a lifetime of eating sugary foods) I was probably healthier than he -- and he was seven years younger! He said, "what you're doing seems to really be working. Keep it up!"
So, what other health benefits have you other members of LCBB found?
I'd love to hear from those of you who've also discovered many other benefits from this WOE.
In preparation for some upcoming surgery, last Thursday I had a four hour appointment with my new primary care physician for a complete physical -- and I do mean complete!
When he learned that I used to weigh 213 pounds, he was quite interested in how I had lost the weight. I explained to him that I'd been doing Atkins. Far from telling me that it was bad, he wanted to know more. He asked if I'd noticed any other health benefits from being on the program. So, I listed them for him.
1. I have more energy -- far more! -- than I've had since I was in my thirties. Sometimes, I just have to get up and move, because I don't know what to do with all that energy. My house stays sparkling clean, but back when I was a 213 pound couch potato, the apartment I lived in then usually looked like a pig sty!
2. I've had nearly daily headaches, and debilitating migraines as often as twice weekly, since I was six years old. These have TOTALLY disappeared from my life, to the extent that I hardly remember what a headache felt like. I used to use up ALL of my sick leave because of the headaches, and then have to go into my vacation time, as well. Before I went to my folks for Christmas, I had maxed out my earnings for both vacation and sick leave. (I used up three weeks for the trip to NC, and I'll have no problem fully covering the four to five weeks I expect to be out of work with my surgery.) Let me tell you, my employer is certainly glad that I found Atkins!
3. Also since I was a child, I've had a skin rash called dishydrosis. Basically, it's an inflammation of the sweat glands. As a child, it was bad on my hands (some kids at school refused to play with me because of it) and, as an adult, really bad on my feet. Sometimes it was so severe I couldn't wear regular shoes, and had to go to work in house slippers. The only thing that would clear it up was steroids, but you can't stay on them permanently. The dishydrosis, too, has totally disappeared since I began Atkins.
4. My previously high cholesterol is now in the low-normal range. Triglycerides are perfect!
5. I used to have constant heartburn and acid reflux. I took I don't know how many antacid tablets per day. I don't believe I've needed even one since I started low-carbing it.
The doctor was quite impressed. He even commented that, other than my current problem with my colon (which, I suspect, came about because of a lifetime of eating sugary foods) I was probably healthier than he -- and he was seven years younger! He said, "what you're doing seems to really be working. Keep it up!"
So, what other health benefits have you other members of LCBB found?
My doctor was against me going on it and I would love to one day be able to show her something even close to the wonderful results that you have had. 
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