Dear Dr. Atkins: Shut up.

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Give me a fucking break. Low carb burgers? Fucking BEER!? What the hell are people on a diet doing consuming that kind of shit anyhow!?

Disclaimer:
Yes, I know that it works for some people and also that Dr. Atkins is in fact deceased, but when a purveyor of disgustingly high calorie grease injected "meals" like Carl's Jr. is jumping on the anti-carb bandwagon, it's just a bit ridiculous. It'd be like McDonald's promoting a health menu or something! Oh wait... :Smug:
 
Heh, remember when KFC started promoting their deep fried battered chicken as a good addition to a low carb diet?

I love food too much. Tonight, I had steak and salad. No carbs. So I had a Heineken and a slice of chocolate cheesecake for dessert. :Smug:

The problem is, I don't exercise enough, I know it. I don't really know what kind of home exercise equipment to get either. Although we have a reasonably sized house, each room is pretty small, so it's not like I can get a treadmill. So I'm thinking about a exercise bike or a small eliptical. It's all pretty expensive too!
 
You know what is funny, In-n-Out has been doing that lettuce wrapped burger for years, calling it Protein Style (part of their "in the know" menu, which is never printed). I just hope they don't sell out to the anti-carb crowd with it, and kill the mysticism of their secret menu in the process.
 
Sometimes I wonder if I should keep track of what I eat and check the nutrion info to see what's going in. I tend to last most of a day on just a Pot Noodle...
 
I go for the animal style In-N-Out burgers. Screw the low-carb crap! :)
 
JayKeeley said:
Don't lie - you're that dude that gets a big mac & fries with a diet coke. :loco:
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Shit, the woman does that and I laugh my balls off every time. Women are weird. Oh, except she wouldn't touch McDonald's with a 12 foot pole, unlike my 10 foot pole that I don't touch it with. (Did I just say my woman has a bigger pole than me?)

Arch said:
I go for the animal style In-N-Out burgers. Screw the low-carb crap! :)
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I go to In-n-Out and ask for my double double animal style while doing this: :kickass:
 
Love the Atkins diet. Being using it for years. Lost 45 pounds, and have kept it off. Granted, I do martial arts and lift weights four days a week, but the protein is great. Any time I can throw down a 24oz BBQed rib eye, and call it "dieting", that's a score.

Zod
 
If I hear one more fast food chain advertising like their greased up shit constitutes a "healthy diet" I'm going to crap on my radio.

Seriously, tobacco companies have to advertise AGAINST their own product but fast food joints can tell you that they'll help you lose weight?
 
I understand that you might find the whole "hysteria" annoying. But it may be worth it. Many of your fellow countrymen aren't all that bright. They need easy-to-follow guidelines if they ever are going to change their terrible eating habits. This is what I wrote in a previous thread over at SOT when someone asked for diet tips:

henrikmain said:
Less carbohydrates (almost none, except for those found in vegetables, and to a small extent fruit)
More fat
More proteins

To put it very tabloid. But it's worked out for, well, a lot of people I know, including me. Not that I've ever been fat, but I went from 80kg to 75kg (I'm 185 cm) by following those steps. In about a month. I know it's a controversial topic, and if you don't follow it correctly, you may be in trouble (for instance if you combine carbos with fat). But if you follow it strictly, your blood sugar will be stabilized, your cholesterol levels will be lowered, and you will also lose weight. This shouldn't be looked upon as a diet, though - more like a permanent life style change.
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From another thread:

henrikmain said:
That's a rather tabloid way to put it, but yes, the Atkins "diet" (I don't like to use the word diet, as it's more of a permanent changing of lifestyle than anything else) has been very successful for a lot of people I know. In my household, we eat food consisting of fat and proteins only, and almost no carbos at all. Not because we're overweight or anything, but we just find the concept interesting. The cool thing is that after changing our ways of eating, everyone in my household has gotten better blood pressure, a lower colesterole (YES! You can eat fat food and get lower colesterole!) and generally better health (and of course, much more stable blood sugar). American scientists recently published proof that shows that low-carbo lifestyles actually do work and are healthy. (It's in Norwegian, but hey.)

http://www.dagbladet.no/print/?/din.../24/391730.html
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It's more the hysteria behind it than the actual diet that bugs me, people just think "carbs are bad" and leave it at that.
henrikmain said:
Many of your fellow countrymen aren't all that bright.
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This is so awesome. :lol:
 
Hehe. I sort of attempted to be funny, but kind of meant it too. And I see where you're coming from - but maybe, when it all comes down, you'll come to the conclusion that the food "revolution" was for the good of your obese, always-expanding kinsmen :p
 
Fuck'em, survival of the fittest! :D

It was funny because it's true, there are a lot of foolish Americans out there. Everybody has their share of stupid people, but the average American just seems foolish.
 
My only knowledge of lutefisk is when Bobby on King of the Hill eats a whole plateful, then takes a wicked mad dump in the church bathroom, and Cotton lights a match to combat the "stinky stinky man," inadvertently burning the place down. Comedy Gold!
 
Nad:

Heart-stopping sandwich of the year
Maxim Magazine has selected its sandwich of the year: the Fat Darrell (invented by Darrell Butler during his sophomore year at Rutgers University) contains chicken fingers, mozzarella sticks and french fries. Maxim lauds it for its "drunken ingenuity."
"So, I'm standing there eating it, and all of a sudden the guy standing behind me says, 'That thing that guy's eating looks pretty good, can you make me one of those?' And, it was like a movie scene, the next 10 people order the same thing. So, I'm like, 'Whoa!' like I think I might be onto something. And the guy is like, 'Hey, man, this is cool.'"
That guy who assembled the sandwich was Abdul Eid, working in an R.U. Hungry food truck, parked in a campus lot in New Brunswick, catering to beer-soaked undergraduates with the late-night munchies.

Eid now runs R.U. Hungry Grill & Pizza, a store he was able to open in part due to the success of the $4.75 Fat Darrell, the flagship of R.U.'s "Fat" line.
 
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