No time to read?

There's a great documentary on hulu.com (free) called 'Fat Head.' If you don't have time to read, check it out.



'Fat Head'

 http://www.hulu.com/watch/196879/fat-head

How do we become fat no more?

Gary Taubes's Why We Get Fat

     It is very simple. Stop eating digestible carbs. That's it. The principles are explained in the recent book, 'Why We Get Fat.' Digestible carbs are things like sugar, soda, fruit juices, cereals, whole wheat anything (that's right!), fruit (that's right!), beans, potatoes, corn, products made with flour, etc.
     Simply speaking, your body can only digest a certain amount of carbs and it will turn the rest into fat. If you stop eating carbs, you stop making fat and your body will start to burn fat for fuel.
     There's no need to avoid eating fat. There's no need to count calories. There's no need to eat meat. There's no need to exercise!
     For those of you who have been around the block, this sounds a lot like the Atkins Diet. It is. However, it would be unfair to call it the Atkins Diet since the diet existed before Atkins by over 100 years. There's aspects of it in other diets too such as the Paleo Diet, The South Beach Diet, The Carbohydrate Addicts Diet, Protein Power, etc. Let's just call it the Traditional Low Carb Diet. Every diet has their own little spin for marketing purposes (and also their own findings and biases), but the basic principle is the same: stop eating carbs and you will lose weight!
     Like any lifestyle change, you will need support and we will be here for you. It's been working for me and my co-workers, so why not make it work for even more people. Feel free to ask questions too!
     The book is available at the Seattle Public Library and there's an electronic version of it too. The book is a simplified version of his orginal book, 'Good Calories, Bad Calories,' so if you want to get that one instead, it's just as good, but it's longer. Read either book and let me know what you think.
  

The Beginning



A snapshot of my weight/fat loss journey. I am currently at 182.

 At the end of last year, I made a goal of losing 30 pounds. I am 5' 10 1/2" and was 205. My goal was to make it down to 175. I was doing fine on my own. As I was losing weight/fat, a few co-workers noticed that I was losing weight/fat and then told me about other co-workers who were having problems and I thought it would be more fun to lose fat together. Then, more co-workers got involved. Then, I got to thinking: there are probably even more people out there who are doing this alone and if they could connect to our common energy, that maybe we could all get something out of it. Most of us are following a classic low carb diet, but not all of us. This blog hopes to bring together all us Seattleites (and beyond) and share our weight goals, our progress, our frustrations, our food diaries, our recipes, so that we can all be FAT NO MORE!