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Australian triathlete and Paleo diet supporter Mark Pomery is our guest today on Day 1 of “Paleo Extravaganza Week” here at The Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show with Jimmy Moore!
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I really enjoyed this interview. I gave up trying to encourage people to consider a low carb diet. One overweight friend asked me if I was anorexic. Another called my diet a fat odyssey. Another said I was annoying. Trying to find suitable food isn’t easy but it is fun, like a treasure hunt. Best wishes from Brisbane Australia. Jill
An annoying, fat odyssey, anorexic? WOW, you’ve been complimented. Keep up the great work Jill!
Jill,
I can completely sympathize with how adversarial people can become when you try to advocate a low carbohydrate lifestyle to them. Foods rich in carbohydrates have so ingratiated themselves into our culinary traditions, that to tell some people that such foods like rice, pasta, breads, potatoes, and sweets are deleterious to their health, is like telling them that their religion is utter destructive nonsense. It offends them at the core of their being.
I get the same criticisms all the time, because I lost a significant amount of weight following low carbohydrate principles, and I always get some snide comment at work about me looking emaciated, or that something I am doing is unnatural (when the exact opposite is true). I think every low carber is going to experience this, and the irony is that these criticisms come consistently from coworkers who are overweight or obese, and who have failed to lose weight using the conventional high carb/low fat dietary “wisdom” that has virtually monopolized our discourse on diet and health over the past two decades.
So take heart in the fact that you are not alone. Ultimately the best response is great results, and that is where we in the low carb community ultimately get the last laugh. Remember every established truth, at one time started out as a notion that seemed heretical to the mainstream. Be happy in knowing that while the sheep who criticize you will continually go through cycles of failure, you will succeed, and they will eventually see you as a pioneer for being open to an idea that is really successful. As the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer said:
“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.”
-Lawrence Louis