On Tue, 20 Nov 2001 00:47:59 -0500, Wally Ballou <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
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>most people who begin a low carbohydrate plan (paleo or not)
>and follow it for a reasonable time (sometimes a matter of weeks is
>sufficient), they discover just how incorrect all those "diagnoses" (or
>calumnies...) really were.  To be sure, there ARE people who do have
>problems of that sort, but  for most, it simply turns out to be addictive
>behavior triggered METABOLICALLY by the food...


I  AGREE !

Exactly my own experience.
Lowcarb paleo has been a drastic change to the better for me.
And so easy !

Food crawings ! , eating to much !, feelin
g uncomfortable after eating !
Such things might well be symptoms of a bad diet  - the body telling you
that it is malnourished !  For me those things has all but disappeared.

I am learning to listen more to my  instincts (= food crawings ?). One
strange thing about lowcarb has been mild "crawings" for fat - not feeling
sated before eating 1 or 2 handful of nuts, or some fat cured ham , some
fat sundried black olives - or even drinking a little olive oil.
Probably it is simply my "fatburning" body needing more calories.

Combatting crawings for years on end , must be terrible - and unnatural.

But I am a man  -  Sheryls and others experience indicatate that it might
be different for women.  I tend to believe that women "naturally" grow much
fatter than the prevailing female beauty ideals dictate.

It is not uncommon that women get thinner after their first pregnancy -
which must im
ply some profound metabolic/hormonal changes (caused by
pregnancy?). In ancient times women would have been pregnant early in life,
and then several times after that. In our times this is not so .  Now it is
normal for women to have the first (perhaps only) child in her thirties  -
this is not "natural"  (but understandable and perhaps good in other ways).

It is easier for men to simulate a paleo lifestyle:   hard and intense
physical activity (fighting ?) , being  male paleo-lifestyle components.

Perhaps the gender difference in preferred physical activities - are merely
cultural?.  Women can be fierce fighters - and have often better endurance
than men (and work physically harder than men in some cultures) - but this
is typically considered "unfeminine" in our culture.

So all you  "fat"  women , just start  wrestling  and  mountain-hiking  :-)
You will not necessarily ge
t thin, but you will get strong.
Fat is not "naturally" unattractive ,  but weakness is.


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