I didn't mean to suggest that this gentleman's wife is abusing food. She is a diabetic and I don't believe I would call it abuse. For her she can probably eat like "normal" and doesn't experience sugar fluctuations and for a diabetic who has been sentenced to "life" with this affliction, it feels good to feel "normal". I'm a nurse and I always felt that out of all the diseases I could think of I don't think diabetes is something I could cope with. I think it's really neat actually that she has found this "loophole". Unfortunately for those of us who don't need to resort to this "loophole" it can become trouble.
As far as the carb blocker goes, I have used almost everything available to man including this product and from personal experience, I can tell you that it does nothing more than somehow encapsulate the fats and carbs and whooshes them right out of your system. You go to the bathroom more often and the food is never even absorbed or recognized by your body. I never abused food. I always had a fairly balanced lifestyle. When I was young I was a great weight and build, blonde, good looking. I was athletic. If I wasn't riding my bike down the bicycle path I was in our backyard swimming pool. I took figure skating and on and on and on bla bla bla. I ate good home cooked meals and lots of vegetables. I never grew up with soda pop and we always had lots of veggies and fruits in the house. After many years, life happened, I stopped all that activity and my metabolism slowed and heavy metal toxicity hit..... need I say more? Enough about that. When you continue eating your "normal" diet of "xyz" and take carb/fat blocker, your body whooshes the extra calories out of your body in their encapsulated form. Your body doesn't recognize the "yz" calories, only the "x" and thinks you are eating less even though you are still eating "xyz" calories. Being the efficient machine that your body is, it says to itself, "hmmm if we are only going to get "x" calories from now on instead of "xyz" then we'll have to become more efficient at processing what we are given." It goes into starvation mode and your body continue to function in a seemless mannner. A month or three or four goes by and your body is now a well oiled machine with only "x" calories. Then all of a sudden you stop taking the carb or carb and fat blocker. Now all of a sudden the whooshing effect stops and all the "xyz" calories are once again being recognized by your body. Now your body says, "I don't know....... we did perfectly fine with "x" for so long and we don't really need "yz" anymore. Tell you what....... we'll store them just in case she does this to us again!" Now you gain back the weight. It's what happens with ALL forms of calorie reduced diets and forms of deprivation. And that's exactly what carb and fat blockers do even though you can't see it happening. I know because I went through this and after all was said and done I developed hindsight and researched the ingredients and realized what was happening. Well that and I examined my stool carefully. So I apologize for this being lengthy but I didn't want any more misunderstandings. I don't recommend this product for those reasons. If you are going to take it for a week and then stop and then exercise the heck out of yourself, that may be another story. There's my humble opinion for what it's worth from a soon to be 42 year old who has been through the diet mill. Best of Luck to all Doris ----- Original Message ---- From: Carol Ann <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, April 8, 2007 5:46:28 PM Subject: Re: CS>Carb Blockers hmmm. I am not sure sure I agree totally. After reading this thread I went and bought a bottle while I was at the store for sumten else. anyway, I am not what anyone would consider "overweight", yet, I could stand to lose 10-14 lbs easily as I know I would feel better. What has happened is that my body likes the weight its at.....dosent seem to want to budge regardless of what I do, it seems to have settled at 145lbs. (5' 7"). A few of these extra lbs are in the wrong place. I think the use of such a product to accomplish a short term goal, wherein the body can get a jumpstart and then readjust to a different weight is reasonable. To use it to abuse food however is another matter and I would concur with you Doris. Cinder Ella <[email protected]> wrote: Again Dee, I don't know if you'll be reading my original response to this as the topic has changed in the last couple of days to Carb blockers, but this gentleman's wife will probably be taking these carb blockers for the rest of her life and she doesn't have to worry about what happens when she stops............. which will ultimately be weight gain. Don't do it. Doris __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
