How did you do on the Adkins Diet?

[JerZ]

Originally Posted by JerZ

And of course there's the "net grams" thing. Subtract sugar alcohols, which make you shart and throw up, and you can eat a deeeeeeeeeelicious faux ice cream bar...subtract 18 sugar alcohols from those 22 carb grams. That's only TWO carbs.

Oh bwah ha! Back to first grade with me. That sould have read "...from those 20 carb grams."

[Opsimathia]

Originally Posted by JerZ

Yes...and that was when there wasn't even so much sugar, and that sugar wasn't always HFCS.

Back in the day, every hot dog, bacon slab, etc. didn't have sugar...I wonder why we need "sweetness" in our meats? I think we're just *that* used to constantly tasting sugar.

Well it changes the flavor and makes you crave more. Marketing!

I think it covers that off taste that can come with cheap meat production. The modern meat raising methods affect the taste greatly to me. There is barely any flavor in modern meat compared to more traditionally raised meats. Did you notice that ever? So strange.

[texdav]

i used it to lose some weight when it waqs popular and it works. But the probelm is tht is not goig to be a life style eating chnage you stick withthat emans staqying at that weight. It is just what is says if you rad his origanl book.detrved from sutdies in pople who went on hunger strikes and adopted to lose fat quickly.

[CAVA1990]

Originally Posted by Opsimathia

Not really. He frowns on bacon with nitrates and there is WAY too much bacon on those things too. And that bacon has sugar in it too. I remember having to hunt for the proper bacon that was nitrate and sugar free.

I was thinking more of one you could make yourself with the bacon of your choice. However, you're right about the nitrates as I'm not convinced there are any that are truly nitrate free. If it's cured in celery powder, it's got nitrates.