People Are Out Of Their Minds

[kiobe]

I was discussing, after being asked of course, my weight loss with a long time friend and when she heard that I was on Atkins she launched into a very serious lecture about the dangerous road I was going down. Her doctor told her that the diet was the most dangerous way of eating he could think of and that people on this diet would end up with stage 2 diabeties. The only thing that bothered me about the lecture was that it was about 15 years late, and pointed in the wrong direction. Why didn't she pull me aside years ago when I was 60 lbs overweight, when I looked like ****, when I complained about constant headaches, when I ate and ate and ate everything I saw. It was an odd time to come forward to correct my behavour especially when I have never felt better and finally look my age, not 10 years older.

[OzLover]

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Isn't it amazing the reactions you get when you mention Atkins!! I've asked my friends the same thing...why didn't you say anything when I was fat & miserable & so down on myself. Never have gotten a good answer!

Have a great weekend!
Glenda

[kate58]

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I was that friend, to my shame.

Every time I have seen an item about Atkins on TV it shows something like a frying pan with about half an inch of fat in it and some bacon zizzling away. Never a nice salad with some chicken or anything like that. Yet the latter is much closer to the truth.

I believed the myth for ages. Even told a friend who was starting Atkins that she was mad and would damage her health. That she needed to eat veg, that all that fat would be very harmful, etc etc. All the crap I had somehow picked up from the media. And like I was some authority on nutrition when I was standing there about 100lbs overweight!!

She was very patient and tolerant with me to her credit. Just told me to read the damn book and then come back to her. So I did - and what a revelation! Boy am I happy that she didn't just tell me to shut up and go away. Which she would have been perfectly entitled to do.

[TitianWasp]

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I was discussing, after being asked of course, my weight loss with a long time friend and when she heard that I was on Atkins she launched into a very serious lecture about the dangerous road I was going down. Her doctor told her that the diet was the most dangerous way of eating he could think of and that people on this diet would end up with stage 2 diabeties. The only thing that bothered me about the lecture was that it was about 15 years late, and pointed in the wrong direction. Why didn't she pull me aside years ago when I was 60 lbs overweight, when I looked like ****, when I complained about constant headaches, when I ate and ate and ate everything I saw. It was an odd time to come forward to correct my behavour especially when I have never felt better and finally look my age, not 10 years older.

Ha ha - add that to my Misconceptions stories: http://www.atkinsdietbulletinboard.c...misconceptions

[VGrace]

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Isn't it amazing the reactions you get when you mention Atkins!! I've asked my friends the same thing...why didn't you say anything when I was fat & miserable & so down on myself. Never have gotten a good answer!

Have a great weekend!
Glenda

I am SO going to use that comeback,its so true!

[ttdriver]

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Yanno, I love that "dangerous road" thing. I tell people, "yeah nothing "dangerous" about being fat and out of shape, is there?"


Betty

[Sherri]

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LOL, good one Betty!

[scaleskl]

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I Have A Close Friend At Work Who Constantly Tells Me About The Dangers Of Atkins. I Tell Her That She Can Talk All She Wants While I Am Shrinking.....and Laughing All The Way To The Scale.