  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;I'm back to eating low carb for a while because I have topped off at my high weight again, gulp of 159 -- and I don't like it! When I severely limit my sodas, homemade lemonade, tea, cookies, popcorn and chips -- and stop eating bread, potatoes and rice -- logically I loose weight.
I am cutting a lot of calories. However, I usually don't spare on the fat. I love eating high-fat foods and prefer the low-carb method of eating to any other when it comes to loosing weight.&nbsp; &nbsp; When I was a teenager, my mom always swore that I could loose weight if I ate a salad and roast beef for lunch everyday. She was on to something twenty years ago already -- too bad she didn't become famous. If you noticed, I didn't say that I am going on the Atkins diet. While the late Dr. Atkins has really promoted and touted low-carb, I don't believe in restricting veggies, and eating fake sugar.
That just doesn't appeal to me as healthy, I'm sorry. I guess if I were 100 pounds over weight, I might look at it differently -- but because I am within 10 -15 pounds of normal -- I choose to go less stringently because I can. Just sadly, I don't ever shed more than 5 pounds before slowly resorting to my old eating habits.
I am a firm believer that we all have a genetic weight that our bodies work to maintain -- and while we can effect it somewhat, we cannot make a twiggy fat or a fatman a twiggy -- without going through extremes -- and I am not a person of extremes -- at least when it comes to physical exersion. Give me mental challenges anyday... &nbsp; P.S.&nbsp; I took the photo above (as all photos in my blog).&nbsp; I found "yellow raspberries" growing wild in our yard.&nbsp; With all the rain we got, they grew like mad -- and now I am making these into blackberry liquor.&nbsp; I think they should call yellow raspberries "champagne raspberries" personally.&nbsp; Aren't they beautiful? 
