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A friend, intrigued by this eating plan found this article - it may interest some of you :

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/lifestyle...ve-longer.html

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Well, I've lost over 20 lbs now - feeling no ill effects - so it's just a case of maintenance now.

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Good for you but how will you maintain it without losing more??

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Thanks for your concern - I'll probably drink more Guinness hee hee

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My hubby drank Guiness and never put weight on. I on the other hand only had to look at it and the lbs gathered.

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Hee hee - there's nowt so strange as folk

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Following a recent diagnosis of type 2 Diabetes, I made a few small changes to my diet (I like my food too much to make radical changes) and managed to lose 1 stone in about 3 weeks. Despite celebrating my birthday last month and being treated to magnificent meals over in N orthern Ireland, I have maintained the weight loss. I have, on my return home, (a) made a mincemeat fruit loaf, (b) made a Rhubarb crumble. Despite eating some of these, I still haven't gained ant more weight.

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Low carb diets do work and men particularly like them as they can have bacon and eggs, steak and salad, cheese, butter and stir fries. My husband has put on loads of weight during the summer while he has worked at the market where he can get hot chicken butties and other high carb stuff. On January 1st he will start eating chicken without the buttie and leave the carb trail behind.

He will become thin again. He has done this several times now but always goes back to the carbs cos he loves bread and spuds. However, when he is not eating them he does not crave them that is the way of the ketosis.

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Maybe the major religions knew a thing or two about how the body works, since fasting or partial fasting is built into many of them. A prog on the telly about fasting, said that during the Great Depression life expectancy actually increased.