NHE, Connie's Article and me....

My NHE experiment is over and as with most of these things, it turns out I've learned a ton.

NHE is not for me. I think it works. I think there is something to the carb rush on the carb days. I think if you have the discipline and it works for you, it's a good choice. Not for me.

What happened is that after the first few carb ups I re-developed my taste for sweets. I am not some one who will carb up on barly and whole wheat. Me like donut. I found more and more crap slipping into my diet and I was clearly losing definition. I was experiencing energy ups and downs I forgot about.

Within 3 days, or 2 days after skipping a carb up all was right again. When lo-carbing I tend to get a fair amount of carbs in salad and veggies and don't feel flat. 8)

This ties into an article I was lucky enough to get a pre-look at by Connie in the next issue of CST. Read it well. Be aware that any diet, as it is written in a book, is just step one.

My chices on lo-carb are virtually paleo and pretty clean - nuts. nut butters, meat, fish, salads. My choices otherwise - not so good. :twisted: So I return to the Ellis model as refined by me over the years. Good luck to all.

Bill

[Chuck]

NHE is not for me. I think it works. I think there is something to the carb rush on the carb days. I think if you have the discipline and it works for you, it's a good choice. Not for me.

What happened is that after the first few carb ups I re-developed my taste for sweets.
Bill

Bill,

Your expereience was similar to mine. I have not tried NHE (have read the book though) but in the past have tried DiPasquales Metabolic Diet and Lyle McDonalds Ketogenic Diet which are based upon the same ideas. I had the same probelms you did and after a few months of more and more carbs creeping into the diet I got sick with the flu for a few weeks. I couldn't work out and my diet totally imploded and over the following two years I put on 100 pounds. For me the risks of the carb up are too great; and I did not see the benefits promised in the book. Perhaps some people can do it successfully. My body and personality couldn't. I have discovered over the years that I am like a light switch; I'm on or off. I work hard and play hard, eat strictly or horribly, work out religiously or not at all. It may be a character flaw, but it's me and I have to deal with it.

At this point I am doing Paleo with an Ellis twist (watching calories and more exercise) and having great luck. Mood is even, I sleep well and need less, feel very energetic, am getting stronger and loosing weight. I have lost 87 pounds in the past year. I started working with my 1.5 KB on Sept 18 able to do only one press and I'm up to doing 6 sets of 3 using two 1.5 kb's (followed byadditional sets of 2 and then 1). Other exercises show similar progress.

So I'm going to stay low carb. I find that while staying in the law carb paradigm I can eat a couple of pieces of fruit, a few ounces of nuts, some berries, a couple of salads and two or three vegetables daily. This seems more than adequate and keeps the carbs at about 10%.

[Connie Brown]

I'm glad you posted this, Bill. I was curious about the NHE experiment.

It sounds exactly like what I would have done . Actually I found a way to screw up every diet plan I ever found that allowed any amounts AT ALL of foods made with white powders... hm maybe I chose them cuz they allowed it...

slow whole carbs all the way for me too.

Connie