Not this again??

Gary Taubes has brought back the elimination diet. Just when I thought it was safe, after surviving the crazy LOW CARB craze! Clients came to me joyous over the loss of 20 pounds in one month, during those years. Clients were happily eating bacon burgers and cheese omelets, all the while dropping weight. Yeah, they were constipated. Yeah they were listless. Yeah they craved bread and fruit to the point of distraction. But the diet worked dammit!


I tried it for one week. The first morning, I eagerly looked forward to my egg, cheese and bacon platter. I missed my toast. I missed the milk for my coffee. I took my bloated gas filled body to the gym for my workout. I was not as full of energy. I was working hard and running out of steam FAST. I was also really really thirsty.

Lunch was a ½ cup of white iceberg lettuce with more cheese and I more meat. I wasn’t hungry for lunch. I ate it and while my stomach was full, I was not satisfied. The thought of a cheese stick or a hardboiled egg for a snack left me unhappy. Black coffee?

Dinner was more of the same meat and fat and cheese.

I woke up and repeated. One week later: I had lost weight.

I also lost my appetite and my endurance.

I gained a crazed desire for carbs and a very odd body odor.

The experiment over, I went back to normal eating. I proceeded to gain back the 8 pounds I had lost plus 3 more pounds.

Finally low carb eating became yesterday’s diet.

Everything old is new again; enter Gary Taubes. He has a new spin on the same eating plan.

I will not be trying this version.

Fool me once….