Change Your Diet Now

"The path will show itself. The next step shall be revealed. We do not have to know what it is. We will know in time. Let go and trust that."


Who wants to discuss dietary changes on a rainy day? This is a good day to sleep in, lie in bed endlessly and read...or perhaps do your stitchery. Most of us do not want to deny ourselves comfort food on a cold, rainy day.

"Imagine losing weight with a diet that lets you have bacon and eggs for breakfast, heavy cream in your coffee, all the meat you want and maybe a salad." No wonder why Robert C. Atkins MD called it the Diet Revolution. I have the pleasure of looking at a yellow copy of the 1972 printing of a Bantam Book by Robert C. Atkins and Ruth West Herwood. Not only is it the original, first printing but it is signed by the man himself. I had the distinct privilege of working with him as the Director of the Atkins Center for Complimentary Medicine in NYC. We talked and walked daily, did a 12 noon radio show and dined.

Why do I bring this up here? I do not know. Perhaps I am nostalgic or perhaps the world should realize if they do not know that this man is the Father of Low Carbohydrate Lifestyle. On April 12, 1973 this man responded and replied to criticisms of his diet in testimony before the U.S. Senate Select Committee of Nutrition and Human Needs. His formal statement was printed in the first edition on page 299. How many of those committee members alive today realize that he was correct? His diet is the most well known diet. If you google diets there are more than 250 different names of diets. Perhaps the Zone and South Beach Diet are the most common today. There is the Makers Diet. Yet remember this--all diets are derivatives of Dr. Atkins Low Carbohydrate Lifestyle. He was revolutionary. I am proud to have known and treated him as a patient. Everyone thinks they know that a low fat diet is a preventative measure against heart disease. Some studies have proved it and some have not. I do know that Bob and I disagreed on the amount of protein and fat that anyone should consume. We never argued about it--only discussed it theoretically and intellectually.

The needlepoint is of the the crocus. The plural is crocudrd or croci. It is the genus of a perennial flowering plant. Botanically it is placed in the iris family (Iridaceae). I know I did it because Rick loves Irises. Did you know there are 80 species of crocus in a variety of colors?


The only thing for today is to be aware of white carbohydrates and limit their intake--just for today.

Until Tomorrow...