Atkin's low carb diet

[Lucky °®ÈË]

Does anyone have the overview or the basics of the Atkin's Diet in Chinese? I am finding it difficult to explain the diet to my wife. Right now to her the diet sounds like a sin and she forbids to stop eating rice! I would really like her to have a better understanding of the diet. Twice I have lost 30 lbs on this diet at different times of my life. (This time the doctor said if I lose 30 lbs I will be able to overcome sleep apnea, thus the importance.)

[DennisLeiqin]

Does anyone have the overview or the basics of the Atkin's Diet in Chinese? I am finding it difficult to explain the diet to my wife. Right now to her the diet sounds like a sin and she forbids to stop eating rice! I would really like her to have a better understanding of the diet. Twice I have lost 30 lbs on this diet at different times of my life. (This time the doctor said if I lose 30 lbs I will be able to overcome sleep apnea, thus the importance.)

Chinese have a difficult time understanding the differences between carbs and protein. They have this (assumed urban legend) idea that Americans are fat because we eat too much meat. Problem is, when Chinese continue to eat their diets high in rice and noodles and become sedate like most Americans, diabetes often becomes a problem. I know several Chinese who've developed diabetes since living here.

 

Sorry, but you're going to need another Chinese who understands how our bodies coverts excess carbs into sugar and that excess sugar is then stored as fat. My wife took a nutrition class given in Chinese by the county health dept where she learned about carbs and protein...still, she can't give up her rice and noodles.

 

I have sleep apnea and sleep with a CPAP. Please insist that your doctor prescribe a sleep study. Snoring and sleep disorders cause a lack of oxygen to your blood. Your heart must work hard to supply oxygen thus potentially shortening life. Apnea is a serious problem, yet easily treated without medication or surgery. Get that sleep study!

 

Good luck.

[tsap seui]

I don't know nuthin' about rithmetic and diets...and I assume you already know about the sleep studies by professionals, if you are talkin' about SA. Overweight is not the only cause of SA, it is a cause though. If you haven't taken a sleep study please listen to what Dennis says.

 

I too sleep with a CPAP, sorta awkward at first with love makin' but now when I put on my mask, the wife puts on a mask too....usually a Chairman Mao or (my personal favorite) a Richard Nixon mask and we have at it like wild dawgs in heat.

 

Dennis, do you know where I can get a pair of readin' glasses that will fit over a CPAP mask? The VA gave me all the SA stuff but after all the hot n' sweaty, and holdin' each other durin' the afterglo stuff I like to wind down with readin' me some Clive Cussler, etc before slippin' off to PTSD nightmare land.

 

Good luck with the diet and a Chinese wife buddy.

 

tsap seui

[DennisLeiqin]

I don't know nuthin' about rithmetic and diets...and I assume you already know about the sleep studies by professionals, if you are talkin' about SA. Overweight is not the only cause of SA, it is a cause though. If you haven't taken a sleep study please listen to what Dennis says.

 

I too sleep with a CPAP, sorta awkward at first with love makin' but now when I put on my mask, the wife puts on a mask too....usually a Chairman Mao or (my personal favorite) a Richard Nixon mask and we have at it like wild dawgs in heat.

 

Dennis, do you know where I can get a pair of readin' glasses that will fit over a CPAP mask? The VA gave me all the SA stuff but after all the hot n' sweaty, and holdin' each other durin' the afterglo stuff I like to wind down with readin' me some Clive Cussler, etc before slippin' off to PTSD nightmare land.

 

Good luck with the diet and a Chinese wife buddy.

 

tsap seui

Got me back...good laugh!!

 

Depends on your mask. I use a Mirage Ultra Nasal mask and have learned that I can keep my glasses on, under my mask, while I watch TV.

 

Yeah, wearin' a CPAP ain't the sexiest bedtime thing, but kinda wish I had brought it with me on my first trip to China. I do believe that after hearing me snore, that young lady realized what a lifetime of torture awaited her if she decided to immigrate with me.

[tsap seui]

Wasn't tryin' to get you Dennis, just comiserating with you about the CPAP. yessuh, that would be a tough decision to make. Wear the mask and look like a clown or scare her away with the snoring. I don't know how Wenyan put up with me. I only got the CPAP in March. She was having to sleep through a buzzsaw that stopped, then caught it's breath, and then starting cutting logs...over and over....mixed in with a bozo screaming, jumping out of bed and running full force into the wall because he thought he was on fire inside a crashed Huey and was trying to run away.

 

She's stayed with me though, through thick n thin n' all the crazy nightmares....the girl is either in love...or plumb crazy like me.

 

I thought you gave the OP some good advice....that SA is nothing to snore at....so to speak. It's serious business.

 

tsap seui

[sweetnov]

Ask your wife to check this out. It explains how Atkin's diet works in details.

http://baike.baidu.com/view/582682.htm

[Lucky °®ÈË]

Thank you Dennis and Chop Suey...ya'll be here all week, right?

 

I had the sleep study done on May 14. I didn't get the follow up appt. until about a week ago. He said I slept 4 hours and woke up 60 time due to sleep apnea. He also said I feel asleep in 15 min. I hardly believe that! He said I had mild sleep apnea. A friend of mine at work woke up 400 times a night!

After forcfully filling him in on other details he agreed I had two problems. I have insomnia and sleep apnea. I am 5' 8" and weight about 195. The said to me if I loose approx. 30 pounds I would not have to deal with the sleep apnea...don't know if it is true or not. Jun 15 I have the appt. for the study with the CPAP,,,,wish me luck!

 

Sweetnov...thank you very much for the link! My wife said she will ready during her quiet time as she sais it contained allot of knowledge to be assimilated.

 

Thanks everyone!

[Joecy]

 

Does anyone have the overview or the basics of the Atkin's Diet in Chinese? I am finding it difficult to explain the diet to my wife. Right now to her the diet sounds like a sin and she forbids to stop eating rice! I would really like her to have a better understanding of the diet. Twice I have lost 30 lbs on this diet at different times of my life. (This time the doctor said if I lose 30 lbs I will be able to overcome sleep apnea, thus the importance.)

Chinese have a difficult time understanding the differences between carbs and protein. They have this (assumed urban legend) idea that Americans are fat because we eat too much meat. Problem is, when Chinese continue to eat their diets high in rice and noodles and become sedate like most Americans, diabetes often becomes a problem. I know several Chinese who've developed diabetes since living here.

 

Sorry, but you're going to need another Chinese who understands how our bodies coverts excess carbs into sugar and that excess sugar is then stored as fat. My wife took a nutrition class given in Chinese by the county health dept where she learned about carbs and protein...still, she can't give up her rice and noodles.

 

I have sleep apnea and sleep with a CPAP. Please insist that your doctor prescribe a sleep study. Snoring and sleep disorders cause a lack of oxygen to your blood. Your heart must work hard to supply oxygen thus potentially shortening life. Apnea is a serious problem, yet easily treated without medication or surgery. Get that sleep study!

 

Good luck.

 

 

Yep, protein and carbs are confusing. And no way to give up rice. Can't stand the idea of cold salad and ice water in winter, even the house is heated....