A little mental image for you
Marll
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Just reread this passage in Dr. Atkins New Diet Revolution today when giving someone that's had no success on everything up and and including starvation diets. I stongly believe this passage and is a great mental image for low carbers:
THE TWO PICTURES:
"In the first picture I am standing behind a huge table heaped with food. My expression is a mixture of pride and anticipation, and no wonder. There are mounds of seeds and nuts, platters of fish, a lobster in drawn butter, well-seasoned fish, turkey and duck and certainly a juicy steak. You'll spy an omelette that would do any breakfast table proud. There's no lack of variety here. I see vegtables in abundance, fresh green salads drenched in healthy olive oil dressing overflowing their bowls, and peeking out through the foliage, blueberries, strawberries and raspberries topped with whipped cream. There's a variety of cheeses, and since this is a picture of the food that you'll be eating after you've lost your extra pounds and have reached the Lifetime Maintenance phase of Atkins you will notice a glass of wine, pan fried sweet potatoes, a platter of melon and slices of peaches and plums. Finally developments in creating controlled carbohydrate substitute ingredients make it possible to also place a pleasing array of controlled carb bread, cheesecake, ice cream and cookies on the groaning table.
It's a mouth watering spread, and I'm hovering over it with a hungry eye. To my mind the food I've just envisioned is quite luxurious. If you believe that weight loss requires self-deprivation, I'm going to insist on teaching you otherwise. I equate healthy eating with gastronomic pleasure, and soon, you will too."
"My second picture is of you. I'm very hopeful that it resembes the future you. The you in this picture I'm conjuring up is finally the weight you've always had as your goal, or fairly close. You feel great - full of energy. Your skin is glowing with health. If you've been exercising, your toned muscles show it. The you in this picture isn't worried about weight loss anymore. You no longer need to spend your time planning the stages of a new diet, constantly concerned about your eating, feeling guilty when you break promises you've made to yourself. After all, you've found a nutritional approach that will last you for a healthy and vigorous lifetime and it's become so natural you hardly have the think about it anymore. It's second nature.
This is an obvious win-win situation. It offers you the pleasure of eating and the promise of being healthier than before. The major reason for turning it down would be skeptisism. 'How could anything be so perfect?' you might ask. If that's it, here's my answer: Read this book. When it's all boiled down, what I'm going to show you in New Diet Revolution is how to eat what's in the first picture and look like the second. Delicious eating and lifetime health. Not a bad bargain!"
THE TWO PICTURES:
"In the first picture I am standing behind a huge table heaped with food. My expression is a mixture of pride and anticipation, and no wonder. There are mounds of seeds and nuts, platters of fish, a lobster in drawn butter, well-seasoned fish, turkey and duck and certainly a juicy steak. You'll spy an omelette that would do any breakfast table proud. There's no lack of variety here. I see vegtables in abundance, fresh green salads drenched in healthy olive oil dressing overflowing their bowls, and peeking out through the foliage, blueberries, strawberries and raspberries topped with whipped cream. There's a variety of cheeses, and since this is a picture of the food that you'll be eating after you've lost your extra pounds and have reached the Lifetime Maintenance phase of Atkins you will notice a glass of wine, pan fried sweet potatoes, a platter of melon and slices of peaches and plums. Finally developments in creating controlled carbohydrate substitute ingredients make it possible to also place a pleasing array of controlled carb bread, cheesecake, ice cream and cookies on the groaning table.
It's a mouth watering spread, and I'm hovering over it with a hungry eye. To my mind the food I've just envisioned is quite luxurious. If you believe that weight loss requires self-deprivation, I'm going to insist on teaching you otherwise. I equate healthy eating with gastronomic pleasure, and soon, you will too."
"My second picture is of you. I'm very hopeful that it resembes the future you. The you in this picture I'm conjuring up is finally the weight you've always had as your goal, or fairly close. You feel great - full of energy. Your skin is glowing with health. If you've been exercising, your toned muscles show it. The you in this picture isn't worried about weight loss anymore. You no longer need to spend your time planning the stages of a new diet, constantly concerned about your eating, feeling guilty when you break promises you've made to yourself. After all, you've found a nutritional approach that will last you for a healthy and vigorous lifetime and it's become so natural you hardly have the think about it anymore. It's second nature.
This is an obvious win-win situation. It offers you the pleasure of eating and the promise of being healthier than before. The major reason for turning it down would be skeptisism. 'How could anything be so perfect?' you might ask. If that's it, here's my answer: Read this book. When it's all boiled down, what I'm going to show you in New Diet Revolution is how to eat what's in the first picture and look like the second. Delicious eating and lifetime health. Not a bad bargain!"
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