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[DrummerDeanna]

Originally Posted by Patti

Carbs in and of themselves are not "evil". There are, however, bad carbs and good carbs. Bad carbs are white sugar, white flour, white rice, white pasta and basically anything processed. Fruits are not necessarily bad for you as they contain many nutrients and antioxidants, as well as fiber. Fruit juices are not good for you overall. They contain too much sugar and the fiber is processed out of it. Fructose (the sugars found in fruit) processes through your body more slowly than sucrose (white sugar), so it doesn't cause the blood sugar spikes that sucrose does.

I heard on the news last night that someone (I didn't hear who) just completed a nine year study of low fat vs. low carb diets. Low carb diets caused the most early weight loss, but after nine years almost all the people doing low carb had regained the weight, where far fewer low fat people regained the weight.

And one other thing....Curtis, you are probably not eating enough to build enough muscle mass effectively. You need more calories than you are currently getting. Just make them "good" calories. If you don't enough your body will think it's starving and start breaking down muscle to get nutrients.

Former personal trainer here, if you're wondering...or even if you're not!

Yep - my problem is the love for the bad carbs...

BUT I refuse to take part in any diet that requires me to cut out any of the food groups - I try to portion and get the recomended servings of the groups - but hey whatever floats people's boats....

For now I'm trying very hard (okay not that hard) to cut the bad carbs...but pretty much I think it's a lost cause seeing that the holiday's are upon us - so I'll just kick it into high gear after Christmas

The good thing is since I work out I'm not really gaining any weight - just not losing - I'd rather maintain than gain -so I'm not too freaked out about my less than stellar eating habits...

*goes off to warm a pasta dish )