Low Carb Craze Over??

[apopson]

The last time I tried this diet/WOL (and did it wrong) ... there were "low carb" products EVERYWHERE!!! Now, there's not really a lot! Although, now that I read labels of the stuff that is still available, I realize that it's all "frankenfoods" and sugar alcohols!

Did the food companies find that the creation of and marketing of the low carb foods were more money than what was selling? Or ...

Is the "low carb craze" really over???

[Sashie]

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hahahah I was wondering the same thing when I started up again. I mean I was able to find shakes, ketchup, dressings, so much stuff! Now I'm doing good If I can find much of anything SF. I know for the most part you can make better things, and honestly I'm trying to stay away from those shakes (arg I'm not a breakfast eater and the shakes were convenient). I never was one for the cookies and all that other jazz.

[Richt]

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I dont think the low carb craze is over at all. I just think that people (ie us) have discovered that these frankenfoods arent all they are cracked up to be. And that we are going to lose weight much quicker if we are eating "real" foods.

Thats my opinion anyway.

Rich

[ttdriver]

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I share Rich's opinion!!

Good riddance to processed lc JUNK.

Low carb will be around forever .. its already been with us since the 1880s! (William Banting) .. and as long as they sell meats, veggies and fruits at the grocery store, we'll do JUST FINE!

Betty

[Heidi3]

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Hey I am thinking we are not the type to get caught up in trends anyway..we will leave that to other "dieters" .... ..I am pretty much convinced that you need to just eat great food..and great food is not prepackaged ....it is the kind you make from whole fresh foods ....

Low carb prepackaged carb crap may be on it's way out.... and from the single bite I took of an Atkins bar I can certianly see why! that was about as disgusting as a food can be....

but healthy eating it for sure always a good idea...and idea that I am (optimistic)sure for all of us here will stick

[tabekat]

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Not as long as at least one Atkineer remains true to the school of Atkins. (I love Harry Potter!)

I also volunteer to be that one Atkineer. heh, heh, heh

[ValidRouge]

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Quote from George Stella's Cookbook:

"Recently, there have been a lot of news stories about low-carb eating going the way of the dinosaur. I've noticed that articles are always quick to cite the dwindling sales of low-carb products. But it's not the low-carb lifestyle that's going away; it's that the people doing low carb know better than to buy any processed foods. It's what low carb has taught us! Just because it says low carb on a package of cookies or candy doesn't mean that it's healthy, and we know it."

I whole heartedly agree with him!

[dotsamantha]

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I think the frankenfood craze may be going downhill (hopefully), because it's nasty. Perhaps enough people who are living this wol have realized that whole foods are the best way and that's why it can appear as though the low carb way is declining. I don't even like low carb candy.

[Momtofour]

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Low carb will be around forever .. its already been with us since the 1880s! (William Banting) .. and as long as they sell meats, veggies and fruits at the grocery store, we'll do JUST FINE!

Betty said it perfectly!

[dreamof145]

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I agree, those of us who are living the low-carb life-style the way Dr. Atkins suggested didn't put emphasis in the frankenfoods. The only ones who were hot/heavy into those products was the companies trying to cash-in on a weight-loss program that actually worked for so many people. I for one, couldn't afford to buy all those fancy-smancy products, so the original plan of eating whole fresh foods was more practical and affordable for me.

Those products are a fly-by-night plan to get people to spend money and of course instead of kicking your habits...you only exchange it for another habit. I'm glad that I didn't put my faith in the pre-packaged low-carb products, but instead taught myself to cook foods that would always be in my budget and on my grocery shelves.

[sallyseachange]

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Here Here To The Lot Of You!

[Binsk]

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Ok, I understand what you're saying guys, but I do love to have a little sugar-free ketchup on my burger. It's very hard for diabetics like me to find some of these products that taste good. Please don't beat me up.

[SugarFreeSheila]

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Is the "low carb craze" really over???

I've heard this question for years. LOL

Atkins is thankfully becoming more mainstream than ever.

[ttdriver]

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Ok, I understand what you're saying guys, but I do love to have a little sugar-free ketchup on my burger. It's very hard for diabetics like me to find some of these products that taste good. Please don't beat me up.

NOTHING WRONG WITH SF KETCHUP!!!

Betty

[killerbombshell]

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I would absolutely say the "craze" is over. I read an article in Time magazine that said at the height of the Atkins diet's popularity in the summer of 2003 (ironically, during one of my many failed attempts to stick with it), 1 in 11 adults were on the diet. There is nowhere near that many people living low carb today and not nearly enough education about the dangers of frankenfoods even if a significantly high number were still low carbing but avoiding them. Either way, the largest producer of products (or the largest pusher of them) was the Atkins corporation itself, now defunct.

The "craze" is over, but those watching their carb intake are definetely still prevalent.

(and Binsk, I live and die by my low-carb ketchup. There are some frankenfoods that just can't be avoided in life, hah!)