I don't understand what "Blaine's Low Carb Kitchen" is doing on FitTV. He seems like a good guy, and he makes some dishes that look like they taste good, but--how do I say this--his low-carb diet does not look as if it's working all that great. Most of what he cooks, while being "low carb" doesn't seem very healthy when viewed through any other lens (calorie, fat, etc.) On TV, he just made chicken nuggets in his deep frier.
Now I used to be a big guy, 6 feet and 240lbs, none of it muscle: bigger than Blaine looks to be on TV. Over years I've lost some weight and gotten more fit by eating better and working out regularly (down to 190). But I look at him and think: wait a minute, this guy looks like me.
Maybe that makes people feel good to see a hefty fellow who 'looks like them' on the tube eating deep fried nuggets under the guise of it being "healthy," but that doesn't seem like the kind of thing FitTV is about. I don't look like a Ken Doll, never did and don't want to, but I look to FitTV to help me get and stay fit, and I don't know how Blaine's show affects that goal?
I'm not being rhetorical when I post this: can someone tell me how they think Blaine's show fits into FitTV's focus? I'm trying to keep an open mind on behalf of big guys everywhere...
I guess I just don't "get it" as to why Blaine is on Fit TV so much. It seems as if he's on in the AM and the PM. His recipes aren't that great and he IS overweight--not the best sales pitch for his "diet."
Maybe the show is about getting people that look like him to change their eating habits, is all I can guess....
I am so happy other people feel the way I do about Blaine. I am a food consultant, an aerobic instructor and an all around health fanatic and this show drives me CRAZY! First of all why is it on ALL THE TIME! Second, I thought this country was getting over the nutritional fiasco known as the "low-carb craze". Fit-TV was the heck! You are better than this!
All I have to say is that I lost 20 lbs. last year and I ate carbs the whole time. I have no interest in Blaine's show. If you love spaghetti, rice, bread, etc. you can go ahead and eat it, just watch your portion size. If you deprive yourself of carbs and you like carbs, you'll just binge on them and gain the weight back.
A show that encourages people to fry their food has no business on FitTV.
I said the same thing!!!! Is he kidding! Yes, he makes some good dishes but that made him sound like he dosn't know what he's talking about! Also, it doesn't seem like he is losing more weight.
alas....people...go out please and read atkins or protien power...or something...there are an awful lot of ppl who have been literally saved by a low carb lifestyle....I myself have been one of those ppl...my blood fat levels fell to levels they had never been while reducing my carbohydrate intake...I have never been overwieght...but was at a huge risk of heart attack....yes low carb is what saved me from this possible outcome....I am really dissappointed....its seems that people really think that low fat is what is the answer ...look at 30 years of low fat diets ppl...we are the fattest we have EVER been...think about it...
While low-carb dieting may be a good way to go if you are morbidly obese AND you undertake this type of diet on the advice of your physician and a licensed dietician, people should realize that "diets" don't work and there are many foods that contain COMPLEX carbohydrates that are good for you! Plus a lot of the store-bought low-carb products contain all kinds of unhealthy additives in them. Diets don't work, life style choices do! I would advise anyone with dietary and medical questions to visit the web site of Dr. Andrew Weil, an integrative medicine practitioner and graduate of Harvard Medical School, who can give you hard facts on low-carb dieting and anything else you want to know about healthy living! You can find him at www.DrWeil.com.
Guad thank!!! Guad someone is saying something about Blaine.. I cringe when his face comes on saying how food has to taste good first.... Oh please like it would kill that guy to eat some raw veggies? First of all he FRIES everything in OIL!!! Um hello???? No offense Blanie your a sweety and it may be working for you.. However I find that if you eat FAT you get FAT.. Low carb whatever.. just do what common sense tells you and quit eating FAT!
I personally did Michael Thurmans 6 week body challenge.. Its been 3 years and the weight is stilloff give or take about 5 to 78 pounds and thats because i didnt exercise for almost 8 months. I also ate crap like donughts However as long as I ate protien 5 times a day I still look good! Ilost a total of 33 pound and I got slimmer than I ever did in high school.
Well neither my family doctor nor my nurtitionist think that Atkins/whateverthelatestfad diet are any good. I have been on 3 diets in my life 2 from doctors. The way I eat now runs circles around both of them. I have cut fat I use only traces of olive oil nuts and seeds, I eat only complex carbs, I eat plenty of fresh fruit and veggies, sometimes steamed, non fat dairy and very lean or vegtable protein. I am never hungry. I don't have to deprive myself of a food group and I have lost 27 pounds in 9 weeks. Any diet that takes away a food group robs your body of nutrition. You are starving yourself. In case you don't know Atkins is in bankrupcy and the fad is dead. Plus the long term effects are yet to be seen.
Blaine, I'm sure you're a nice guy, but what's with all the saturated fat? What's with all the fat period?
I understand the nutrition is a part of fitness, so a cooking show or even two different cooking shows are fine, but the show is on all the freakin' time. When I turn on Fit TV, I'm turning it on for inspiration to exercise. If I wanted to convince myself to eat more, I'd watch the Food Network all day. Plus, I don't think that the food on the Low Carb Kitchen is healthy. Shouldn't a fitness channel have shows about healthy food?
What's REALLY confusing about Blaine's show is, first, why it's on in the first place; second, why it gets saturation-level air time!!! I'm sure he's a nice guy, but the premise/gimmick of the show in the first place was to put an overweight man in a program in which he's show how to lose weight ON HIS OWN BODY by cooking/eating low-carb. Well, anyone can see with their own eyes that it didn't work. Time to go, yes?
Instead, the promotion of this man is unceasing. Is he related to some executive??? Why is he allowed so much air time that could go to the really respectable and effective fitness shows? I'm talking about Cathe Friedrich, whose workouts really produce the results that you see on her and her crew.
I really just want to have five minutes with him for trying to tell people that low carb dieting will help them in the long run.
I hate carb avoiders and advise people to read the articles at this site. (IT IS NOT JUST FOR BODY BUILDING, IT GIVES GREAT INFO ON FAT LOSS AND HEALTH.)
Now I know you wrote this a long time ago, but even low fat diets don't work properly. Your body actually needs fat to lose weight. But excess of saturated fats can cause significant heart problems. A low carb diet is probably one of the worst diets ever ever. First of all, once you start a low carb diet you have to stay on it. Problem with that is without sufficient carbs the bodies nervous system begins to break down. Because synaptic nerve endings need carbohydrates to transfer information. You will become more tired and have less energy to burn off fat or other calories consumed. There are even more problems with the lack of dietary fibers. Overall it just leads to more health problems than health gains.
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Originally posted by lsenoj: While low-carb dieting may be a good way to go if you are morbidly obese AND you undertake this type of diet on the advice of your physician and a licensed dietician, people should realize that "diets" don't work and there are many foods that contain COMPLEX carbohydrates that are good for you! Plus a lot of the store-bought low-carb products contain all kinds of unhealthy additives in them. Diets don't work, life style choices do! I would advise anyone with dietary and medical questions to visit the web site of Dr. Andrew Weil, an integrative medicine practitioner and graduate of Harvard Medical School, who can give you hard facts on low-carb dieting and anything else you want to know about healthy living! You can find him at www.DrWeil.com.
i have been wondering why this show has been on all along. i have been begging fit tv and the food network to show a vegetarian cooking show that features healthy food, but that has yet to happen. the low carb craze has been crumbling bc so many people were getting so sick from it. people need vegetables and carbs. my dog had lymphoma and the holistic vet had us elinminate carbs from his diet bc the cancer cells, and regular cells needed them to live. in theory, the cancer was so bad, it was better to lose some regular cells if it meant we could kill the cancer. humans need carbs too, not doughnut carbs, but whole grains, fruits, vegetables, etc. how is this guy on fit tv? it baffles me!
Well, there are many true low carbers out there who feel that Blaine is a breath of fresh air. His diet is working. At the end of each show, what does he do? He weighs himself and his weight is always down. He also tells how his blood lipids improve and he does exercise regularly.I have been a low carber for 4 years. Not only is my cholesterol outstanding so is my triglycerides and blood glucose. I suffered fom migraines atleast 4 times a month. I had itchy skin and hypoglycemic symptoms. Now these nuisances are gone, gone, gone!!! For the first time ever, I did not need a new prescription for my eye glasses. I am not an athelete but I will be participating in a 5K run in November and I have done it with about 40 grams of carbs daily. I feel great. I am fine and my doctors have no complaints over my progress.
Now please believe me, my appetite is nowhere near that of Blaine's but Blaine demonstrates that there is health in fats and protein. Ninety percent of all of the earth's veggies are low carb and he uses alot of them.
So many people do not get low carb because the masses have rammed the concept Of 'if it has fats it is unhealthy'. I am living testamony that this is not true.
I wrote to my health insurance's newsletter to inform them of my healthy low carb/Atkins diet. I listed all the food that I eat and they commended me on my low carb diet. They also assured me that I was not doing Atkins, I was doing the Medittereanean diet. Well, I never read the Medittereanean Diet book. I got all of my information from Atkins and Protein Power.
Honestly, I was glad to see that there was a show that promoted my healthy lifestyle.
Low carb is not a "craze" it's simply the way folks used to HAVE to eat hundreds of years ago. My grandparents are still living and they ate LOTS of fat and hog lard their whole lives as that is all they had for seasoning and cooking. They are 90 and in perfect health with no clogged arteries; no, not one of them, but BOTH!
Way back, before refined foods were born, the simple fact of EVER eating sugar was truly a treat, not an every day occurrence. Today, America is the fatest nation because of all the quick and refined foods manufactured. Just walking down the grocery isles, I look at all the processed foods and think, wow, how UNHEALTHY all of them are for everyone.
Your body NEEDS fat to absorb the vitamins you eat. Cholesterol is a by-product of eating too much sugar. Diabetes is on the rise because folks eat so much sugar, they wear out their pancreas.
Low carb is truly great. And, no, eating a plate of bacon is not good; but, once in a while, it's certainly better than woofing down a McDonald's Big Mac that's full of God knows what kind of chemicals to make it so "good".
Everything in moderation. And, remember, the pioners only ate mostly meat and vegetables, no processed foods, and sugar was a delicacy experience once in a great while. Common sense is not to overdo anything.
That's exactly what I thought the first time I saw him. I thought, "you've got to be kidding?" This guy is going to tell ME how to cook when he is so obviously overweight! I think that day he was making some type of low-carb/high fat sandwich that didn't seem very healthy. I think the meat he used was very fattening. The problem I have with low-carb diets is that for the most part, people think they can eat high fat and high calories if they just eat low-carb. Bottom line for most average people is this: if you have more calories going in than you are burning, you aren't going to lose weight, it really doesn't matter what percentage is carbs. You can't eat a low-carb diet and consume 2500 calories a day and be a couch potato and expect to lose weight. What would be more beneficial is a cooking show on that shows people portion control, serving sizes and how many calories a day they should be eating based on their activity level. We just need a healthy cooking show that gives tasty, LOW-CALORIE, LOW-FAT recipes, not JUST LOW CARB.
Do you people even listen to anything said on the show? Yes, he's still overweight, but he's LOST over 60 lbs. It's a process, a journey, and he's still on it.
Fat does not make you fat.
Low carb does not mean frying everything.
Low carb does not mean no veggies and low carb is not unhealthy - unhealthy food choices are unhealthy!
Blaine advocates exercise and he's losing weight slowly - exactly how all the "experts" tell you that you are supposed to lose weight in order to keep it off.
Personally, I'd much rather think for my self, than be a sheep in the herd of public opinion. Mark Twain once wrote of public opinion that: "it settles everything, some think it the voice of God".
There are enough "officials" and "experts" in the world. They tend to make ones head spin because most of them disagree in some way. Like in intellectual argument: there will always be a thesis, and an anti-thesis.
If you ask me, Blain is a hero! He's bucking the status quo and that tends to make some people uncomfortable.
And I think that Low Carb tends to make the sugar and grain industries uncomfortable too. Thus the wide spread negative propaganda spewed from the corporate media.
I feel great, and I'm 45 lbs. lighter, my blood sugar is stable (something that was off the wall for me on the chicken scratch diets that the "experts" recommended) my cholesterol came down to a healthy level, and I eat like a King!
If a low fat chicken scratch diet works for you then god bless! Keep paying some expert to tell you whats right for you, if thats your bag.
And in my experience, the low calorie=weight loss idea is bull! I don't count calories, but I can guarantee that I eat way more than 2500 a day, and have, since I started back on the low carb lifestyle 8 months ago. And I eat steak, and bacon, and sausage, and chicken skin, and heavy cream, along with a boat load of raw and cooked veggies every day, and I feel great! and my blood checks out fine! And I don't suffer some rigid exercise routine either: I ride my bike on occasion, walk my dogs, and work in construction.
Oh, and one more thing. I believe that being "Healthy" isn't just about our physical bodies - it's about being fully human, and learning how to THINK about what we FEEL and why, as well.
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