Lovin' It Low Carb

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I am a writer and Low Carber who lives in Southern California. With this blog I am joining the many voices that are speaking out in support of the Low Carb Lifestyle. I hope you find my blog inspiring and informative.

If you want to read more about me, and how I fell in love with the Low Carb Lifestyle, scroll down past my signature.

Lovin’ It Low Carb
Ramona Denton

lovinitlowcarb@gmail.com
Los Angeles, California
August 2009

My Bio

I read the original Dr. Atkins Diet Revolution in the 1970’s when I was in high school, tried the strange diet, and enjoyed some wonderful results for a short time. I didn’t manage to stay on Atkins as a teenager, however, because I really wanted to fit in and eat what my friends and family ate: cheap carbs and fast food and soda. Lots of soda. So, my first experience with Low Carbing failed.

After my experience with Atkins as a teenager, I have always enjoyed reading about health, nutrition and fitness. I tried many of the diets, supplements and exercise plans I read about, and I even incorporated some healthful practices into my lifestyle longterm. But, I failed to lose any significant weight and keep it off. Middle age and escalating health challanges caught up with me as I entered the 21st century: 38 years old, 5′2″ tall and about 290 pounds. I was obese, exhausted, sick and in pain. I had done everything my doctors said to do. And they had run out of things to try.

I realized that a whole lifetime of calorie-restricted, low-fat diets and doctor-prescribed treatments and medications had utterly failed me. I also realized, for the first time in my life, that I actually had a choice! I had chosen to do what the doctors said. I could choose not to. So took my courage in my hand, and decided: instead of just following doctor-prescribed treatment programs, I would design my own health plan using all the information I could find related to health and healing.

I started by reading the latest edition of Dr. Atkins’ New Diet Revolution and started Low Carbing again. I believed that Atkins had the right idea. And, I knew then that Low Carbing was the nutritional truth I had been looking for. If I wanted to be as healthy as possible, I should eat Low Carb for the rest of my life. But Low Carbing was still just in my head. It was an idea, maybe even a belief. It was a diet I followed. I followed it very well sometimes, and at other times not so well.

While I was struggling to embrace Low Carbing more wholeheartedly, I started cooking. Learning to cook, by the way, was one of the best things I have ever done for myself! Not that I’m a chef or anything, but I can make food that is good for me, and that I love. And thank goodness there are so many wonderful Low Carb cookbooks out there now. As I started eating higher quality foods that I really enjoyed, I started to really love Low Carbing! I see now how critical this was. Do you do what you want to do, even if you think you shouldn’t? Do you do what you think you should do? Or, do you do what you love to do? I needed to fall in love with Low Carbing. And I did.

And yet, there was still one thing missing.

While reading about Low Carb diets, I really got to wondering why so many Low Carb experts boldly declared that fat does not cause obesity, but then limit their own fat intake. Why were so many Low Carb diet books still recommending only the leanest proteins, and limiting high-saturated-fat foods like red meat to a few small portions per week? I believed Atkins. But, I still felt like I needed permission from at least one other expert before I could really let go of my lipid-hypothesis-tainted roots and eat more fat. And I finally found it.

The book in which I found the cold, hard facts to support everything I wanted to believe about Low Carbing is: Good Calories, Bad Calories by Gary Taubes. As I read GCBC, I was absolutely delighted to find almost every skeptics’ question I could think of about Low Carb diets and High Fat consumption, answered thoroughly and intelligently. I became more fully convinced then ever that Low Carbing with adequate fat intake, is the nutritional plan that will yield the highest health benefits for me.

Since I increased my fat intake, I have lost about 40 lbs. For the first time in more than ten years, my health is steadily improving. My chronic pain is gone! I feel better almost every day! Nothing is going to derail me now. I’m Low Carb for life. And I’m lovin’ it.

Read my review of Good Calories, Bad Calories – By Gary Taubes

Lovin’ It Low Carb
Ramona Denton

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