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Well, I've gone from 242.5 to 215.5 pounds in less than two months, and most of it is due to the slow carb diet. That, and walking 3 miles or more most nights. How has it been? Over all, the best experience I've had losing fat. There have been a couple of days when I dropped a couple of pounds seemingly overnight and felt a little wasted the next day, but it happens. Over all, my energy level is up, I feel better, I look better, and I could swear my hair is growing in thicker as well. The tough parts, oddly, are the once-a-week mandatory misbehavior days. See, with the slow carb regimen I really don't crave sugar, starches or alcohol, so it rather takes the fun out of misbehaving. But I do it anyway, it's part of the diet. And I suffer for it. The day after a misbehavior day, my weight usually increases by several pounds. I have little energy. Emotionally, I sometimes am depressed for a day or two afterwards, not binge-eating guilt or anything like that, just over...

As my readers have likely figured out, I like food. Maybe too much. In the wake of my divorce, my weight climbed to 242 pounds, an all-time high. I didn't look good, didn't feel good, and was diagnosed with hypertension. Something had to be done. So I did it. And I've lost twenty pounds in a month. I plan to lose another thirty. How did I do it? Initially, I eliminated alcohol,salt, sugar and caffeine from my diet. Completely. I started eating mostly fresh veg, with very little meat or poultry. This generated some serious short-term weight loss. Unfortunately, after a few weeks of that, my energy level plummeted to the point where I was unable to function. So I had to make a change. Happily, I came upon a blog that claimed you can lose twenty to thirty pounds in a month on something called the "slow-carb diet." It's a simple diet. You eat 3-5 times a day, every meal has a protein such as eggs, meat, fish or poultry, a serving of legumes (beans, lent...