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    People Magazine lied about this woman's low carb & intermittent fasting weight loss diet!

    Posts: 459 Member
    edited November 2024 in Social Groups
    Here's the true story!

    https://intensivedietarymanagement.com/patient-profile-gina/

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      It's a shame they got her story so wrong. But it doesn't make sense, since they published that one of their other "winners" used a low-carb approach: http://people.com/bodies/half-their-size-2017-weight-loss-winners-share-their-success-stories/stacey-bentley-43/
    • Posts: 1,159 Member
      This blog and this thread so important , it's very difficult not to shout this info from the Rooftops.

      Thanks for posting!
    • Posts: 3,863 Member
      I was the same way, I started doing just low carb and began stalling so I started eating 2 meals a day but that wasn't enough so now I'm eating OMAD (One Meal A Day) with one complete fasting day and I'm losing again :)
    • Posts: 3,376 Member
      no real surprise that the rag lied - everything she did flies in the face of the conventional mainstream religion... um 'wisdom' about the 'correct' way to lose weight. Congrats to her for finding her way, in spite of her doctors!
    • Posts: 502 Member
      Uh, People Magazine probably lies about its street address. So no surprises on this particular topic.
    • Posts: 374 Member
      brendagaudette wrote: »
      I was the same way, I started doing just low carb and began stalling so I started eating 2 meals a day but that wasn't enough so now I'm eating OMAD (One Meal A Day) with one complete fasting day and I'm losing again :)

      What is your macro breakdown for your one meal? what time are you eating at? I am very interested in this but want to make sure I am getting enough in at my one meal.
    • Posts: 555 Member
      I so badly want to post a link to the article in the MF but I am scared
    • Posts: 255 Member
      Is low carb and IF a common combination?
    • Posts: 555 Member
      codename_steve wrote: »
      Is low carb and IF a common combination?

      I would not necessarily say common but definitely not unheard of. Some people try it and they really have to force themselves to create a fasting window but, on the other hand, you have people that are doing it unintentionally because they are simply not hungry. Some people incorporate it to break plateaus and some people like IF because it's just easier for their lifestyle. So I can't say if it's common or not but definitely no secret that it's being done.
    • Posts: 116 Member
      Can I have the cliff notes version of the article because it's been removed.
    • Posts: 3,376 Member
      edited January 2017
      from the Fung website:

      Hey – what happened to this weeks (Gina) post?

      by Jason Fung | posted in: Health and Nutrition | 1
      We posted a story about Gina this week, and after this blog post, People Magazine contacted her and asked that this story be removed. I do not want Gina to get into trouble, so I have removed it.

      People strikes again - not only by not telling the truth but by suppressing the truth as well... no wonder trust in the media has completely tanked!

      For @jassnip - the gist of the response to the People article was that they mis-represented everything about her diet - transforming it from a combined keto/IF diet that worked back to a mainstream eat multiple times a day with truckloads of 'good' carbs standard mainstream crap-shoot.

      eta to italicize the quote from Jason Fung's site
    • Posts: 116 Member
      Why the heck, if they incorrectly reported what she did, would Fung have to pull the post? I hate liars!
    • Posts: 555 Member
      Darn it I linked to the article on the MF
    • Posts: 5,036 Member
      edited January 2017
      ccrdragon wrote: »
      no real surprise that the rag lied - everything she did flies in the face of the conventional mainstream religion... um 'wisdom' about the 'correct' way to lose weight. Congrats to her for finding her way, in spite of her doctors!

      Even Consumer Reports still utters the ADA "eat your carbs" mantra. (Possibly due to the spell of the Teicholz-phobic CSPI ....)
    • Posts: 3,863 Member
      Scochrane86 wrote: »
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      What is your macro breakdown for your one meal? what time are you eating at? I am very interested in this but want to make sure I am getting enough in at my one meal.

      I don't count anything, I just make sure my plate is full of mostly low carb high fat food...Last night I had a pizza wrap made with a low carb wrap, Hamburg, sausage, mozzarella and pizza sauce with sour cream on the side...I posted a picture on the OMAD forum.
    • Posts: 3,863 Member
      brendagaudette wrote: »
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      I don't count anything, I just make sure my plate is full of mostly low carb high fat food...Last night I had a pizza wrap made with a low carb wrap, Hamburg, sausage, mozzarella and pizza sauce with sour cream on the side...I posted a picture on the OMAD forum.

      I usually eat between 4 and 6
    • Posts: 7,140 Member
      Diet Doctor has the article too
      https://www.dietdoctor.com/gina-really-healed-obesity-metabolic-syndrome
    • Posts: 459 Member
      Thanks Sunny - They just removed the name of the magazine.
    • Posts: 459 Member
      MyriiStorm wrote: »
      It's a shame they got her story so wrong. But it doesn't make sense, since they published that one of their other "winners" used a low-carb approach: http://people.com/bodies/half-their-size-2017-weight-loss-winners-share-their-success-stories/stacey-bentley-43/
      Maybe it's because it was a brief blurb instead of a full page article?
    • Posts: 163 Member
      Yeah, it is so hilarious. People claimed she was doing small meals through out the day (normally that was 6 a day) but in reality she was doing 2 a day.

      I tried that small meals throughout the day and it was the most spectacular failure of any diet I've ever tried. And that's pretty bad coming from me because I even lost weight on Weight Watchers despite being so spectacularly hungry all the time that I was eyeing up my children for possible meals;)

      For People to claim the absolute opposite of what she said is such awfulness. No wonder Americans are having an obesity epidemic.
    • Posts: 208 Member
      I read this too...shameful and sad that her story was reported in the way it was.
    • Posts: 7,140 Member
      fastforlife1 wrote: »
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      Maybe it's because it was a brief blurb instead of a full page article?

      Omg! It was there when I read it earlier.
    • Posts: 5,600 Member
      cedarsidefarm wrote: »
      Yeah, it is so hilarious. People claimed she was doing small meals through out the day (normally that was 6 a day) but in reality she was doing 2 a day.

      I tried that small meals throughout the day and it was the most spectacular failure of any diet I've ever tried. And that's pretty bad coming from me because I even lost weight on Weight Watchers despite being so spectacularly hungry all the time that I was eyeing up my children for possible meals;)

      For People to claim the absolute opposite of what she said is such awfulness. No wonder Americans are having an obesity epidemic.

      I felt like I was the only one that couldn't do the 6 meals a day thing. I don't know how anyone can do it, really. It's constantly eating, and I never felt full!
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