re my new diet it works great in article pitt uucp geb cs pitt edu gordon banks writes keith is the only person i have ever heard of that keeps the weight off without any conscious effort to control eating behavior most of us have to diet a lot to keep from going back to morbid obesity i attribute my success to several factors very low fat except when someone else has cooked a meal for me i only eat fruit vegetables and whole grain or bran cereals i estimate i only get about to percent of my calories from fat very little sugar or salt very high fiber most americans get about grams to are recommended i get between and sometimes i ve heard of people taking fiber pills it seems unlikely that pills can contain enough fiber to make a difference it would be about as likely as someone getting fat by popping fat pills tablets are just too small unless you snarf down hundreds of them daily my clean your plate conditioning works for me eating the last takes half my eating time and gives satiety a chance to catch up so i don t still feel hungry and go start eating something else i don t eat when i m not hungry unless i m sure i ll get hungry shortly and eating won t be practical then i bike to work miles a day year round fast i also bike to stores movies and everywhere else as i ve never owned a car i estimate this burns about calories a day it also helps build and maintain muscle mass prevent insulin resistance diabetes runs in my family and increase my metabolism even so my metabolism is so low that when i m at rest i m most comfortable with a temperature in the s f and usually wear a sweater if it drops to cycling also motivates me to avoid every excess ounce cyclists routinely pay a premium for cycling products that weigh slightly less than others but it s easier and cheaper to trim weight from the rider than from the vehicle there s no question in my mind that my metabolism is radically different from that of most people who have never been fat fortunately it isn t different in a way that precludes excellent health obviously i can t swear that every obese person who does what i ve done will have the success i did but i ve never yet heard of one who did try it and didn t succeed i think all of us cycle one s success depends on how large the fluctuations in the cycle are some people can cycle only pounds i m sure everyone s weight cycles whether or not they ve ever been fat i usually eat extremely little salt when i do eat something salty my weight can increase overnight by as much as ten pounds it comes off again over a week or two keith lynch kfl access digex com f p s q x f f q f f p q s q p f w q p x
