When I first started the Atkins diet I would walk into a fast food restaurant, order a sandwich and throw away the bread. This seemed like an awful waste to me. I started ordering my sandwiches and asking them to hold the bread. I got no odd looks, just a plastic bowl from Wendy’s and Burger King with the makings of the sandwich without the bread. Not only was I not wasting bread but the sandwich was served to me in a container that made it less messy to eat.
I’m mentioning this because I was eating with some friends at a Wendy’s the other day and one of them who was also doing the Atkins diet remarked how she would have never thought about ordering the sandwich that way. Hey, the Burger King motto for years was, “Have it your way.”
For those of you interested, I’ve lost the twenty pounds I wanted to lose in eight weeks. I had to increase my carb intake just to avoid losing the weight too fast. I’ve also switched over to the South Beach diet and I’ve added a three mile walk to my daily regimen.
The South Beach diet allows carbs as long as these foods have a low glycemic index. Potatoes, white flour, white rice and sugar are still taboo but a lot of fruits and whole grain pastas are allowed. Overall I think it is a more nutritionally sound diet.
About Larry D. Burton
I'm a 55 year old controls engineer who just likes tinkering with stuff.
Finished high school at a local institute of learning. Decided it wasn't a good time to be a healthy, physically fit 18 year old with no college experience. Entered college and started working toward a degree in animal husbandry.
1975-1976
Discoverd that I was not going to be a very good husband of animals so I left school to figure out what I might be good at. A local beverage company took pity on me and paid me to go from place to place making sure their on tap beverages were maintaining their high quality.
1976-1979
Got out of quality control and into vending. Learned about control systems and refrigeration also learned that vending machines are heavy and vending doesn't pay all that well.
In 1977 I found myself married
1979-1981
Dedicated myself to installing and maintaining commercial refrigeration equipment. Found myself on the roof of a local grocery store one night in the middle of an ice storm replacing a compressor and figured it was time to get back into school.
1981-1986
Got my but back into school at night and changed jobs to keep the mechanical and electrical systems of a local coporate hospital in working order. The job expanded to unstopping drains and burning lab samples and amputated body parts.
1986-now
Finished school and took on a job designing, installing and maintaining industrial control systems. Along the way I picked up a bunch of computer skills that became very useful connecting various industrial controllers to one another and moving the data into coporate databases. I now operate Dallas Bay Technologies, a one man shop specializing in technology solutions for industrial problems.
