When you used the diet do you think you maybe ate fewer calories. I've
always found that it's hard to eat too much meat and the rest of the
foods permitted really restrict the amount allowed -- thus probably few
calories. I'm amazed no green things are allowed.

Today the only thing I've eaten is a small cubed steak, about 6
blackberries and a few almonds -- that was 6 and half hours ago -- and
I'm not the least bit hungry. I might try the steak lovers diet, since I
can't find anything else that works.

BTW, I tried the total elimination diet by Haas of False Fat diet
fame(my daughter has diagnosed food sensitivities) thinking I might
discover if I had some food intolerances too. One of the few permitted
foods is cream of rice cereal -- and lo and behold, when I ate the awful
pamblum I got the worst acid indigestion of my life. This is the stuff
they give to babies because it's supposed to be so easy to digest -- and
I couldn't handle the stuff!

Namaste, Liz

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> Elizabeth Miller wrote:
>
>> Can you summarize this diet plan.  What do you get to eat and how much?
>
>
>
> Yes.  You'll find it in the archives, but it's simple enough to describe.
>
> Two or three meals a day, according to your appetite.  At each meal, eat
> as much as you want of any meat (beef, poultry, pork, fish, seafood,
> lean or fatty, and so on), as long as it's just meat, with no sugar
> smuggled in.  Eat til not hungry.  With your meat, you may have "one
> normal serving" of *one* of these ten non-meat foods:  grapes,
> watermelon, pear, grapefruit, raspberries, blueberries, potato, sweet
> potato, rice, banana.  Anchell is a little vague about what counts as an
> "ordinary serving, but he does say a half grapefruit is a serving; a
> small to medium potato or sweet potato; a medium banana; a slice of
> watermelon about the size of his book (not huge); about 3/4 cup of rice
> or berries.  Black coffee or tea are allowed, and condiments such as
> mustard, if they don't contain sugar.  No cream, no cheese, no eggs.  If
> you like an alcoholic beverage, drink unsweetened spirits, such as
> vodka, whiskey, gin, etc.  No wine or beer.  And that's it.
>
> Why these foods?  I don't know; it's voodoo.  The diet is in fact the
> diet used by Pennington in the 1950s to help DuPont execs lose weight.
> It was written up in NEJM and other periodicals back then.  I think
> Atkins refers to it in his books too.  At the time, Pennington believed
> that the problem was that obese people have an excess of pyruvate, which
> inhibits fat metabolism, so the key is to eat foods that don't cause the
> production of pyruvate.  The problem, however, is that *all* pyruvate is
> a metabolite of glucose, so as far as that goes there's nothing special
> about these foods.  But supposedly Pennington did tests and discovered
> that these foods, in moderation, don't cause pyruvate to become
> elevated, but others do.  So you're not allowed to substitute
> *anything*--no honeydew melon instead of watermelon; no strawberries
> instead of raspberries, etc.  If you left off the potatoes and rice, the
> rest would be paleo (except the coffee and booze, of course), but even
> more restricted.
>
> I've used this diet a few times when my weight has crept up and I want
> to push it back down fast.  Although Anchell doesn't promise fast fat
> loss, I've found it to be pretty effective.  Maybe it's just the
> discipline of eating these particular foods...I really have no idea.  I
> did exchange a few letters with Anchell a couple of years ago.  He's 85
> now and has been following this diet for over 40 years, and says his
> health is quite good.  But Dr. Anchell concedes that he really doesn't
> understand why the diet works.  Nutrition is not his specialty.
> Although retired now, he practiced general medicine and psychiatry, and
> is in fact much better known for his criticisms of sex education for
> young children.  He simply claims that in his medical practice he often
> encountered patients suffering with weight problems, and he would
> prescribe this diet, which he learned about from reading Pennington's
> articles and then following it himself.
>
> So, call it "voodoo semi-paleo".
>
> Todd Moody
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