Essays

I hope you enjoy and benefit from the essays I provide here, read them over and over again if you find they help you.

But please beware that after more than 15 years of participation with countless online lowcarb groups, my single overriding impression is that lack of information or “support” is not the reason why so few seem to be able to reach, and more importantly sustain, long-term weight loss with any eating plan. In fact, I’m not the only one who has identified that "chronic researching" is often a part of the denial and procrastination dance of addicted eaters. (For more on this see the Essay “Information You Don’t Need”)

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8 Secrets of Lowcarb Success
A Bad Idea-Combining Lowfat and Lowcarb
A Better Diet for CRLs
A Journey Without A Roadmap
A Slave to the Scale
Abiding Abstinence
Acceptance vs Surrender
Am I An Emotionally Addicted Eater
Ambivalence After Getting To Goal
Attitude is NOT Everything
Awkward vs Regret
Believing vs Doing
Bored-Need Recipes
Changes in OTHER People
Compliments
Dang That Dr Phil
Deciding to Become A Purist
Deprivation Pain and Agony
Do I Really Have to Give Up Caffeine
Dont' You Ever Get in a Rut with Food
Four Ps of the Journey
Fruit and the Lowcarb Diet
Getting Lucky on Lowcarb
Getting Other People to Understand This
Going Into The Pain
Growing Up Emotionally
How Fast Will I Lose
I Get Discouraged Too Fast
Information You Don't Need
Inner Hard Drives
Is This Cheating
Just Stay Busy With Non-Food Actvities
Maintenance-Let the Testing Begin
Overstaying Induction and the KIND of Carbs We Eat
Relief Binges and Holidays
Should I Add This Wonder Food
Simple, No Dragon Feed Recipes
Telling Other People Off
The 10 Habits of Highly Successful Lowcarbers
The Click and The Plan
The Eve of Going Gold Standard
The Lowcarb Honeymoon
The Methadone Phenomenon
The Obsessiveness Trait with Weight Loss
The Power of Choice
The Usual Questions from a Beginner
The Value of Stalling
The Veggie Rule
Tough Love For a Lackadaisical Lowcarber
Tricky Social Situations
Tweaking Too Soon
Wanting the Want to Go Away
Weight Loss Layers
What is This I Hear About Tweaking
Working On Our Issues
Yes But Disease