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Information on losing weight without constantly being hungry. This site is focused on high protein and low sugar & starch diets, especially Dr. Melvin Anchell's book, The Steak Lovers' Diet, which promotes the Meat Diet.

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Introduction

2004 was a big year for me... By "big" I mean I probably gained thirty-plus pounds. I'd been hovering around two hundred pounds for a few years, but since I'm not exactly a small man to begin with, I wasn't too worried. Later that year, however, I had a photo of myself taken at my niece's baptism.

Egads... I looked awful!

On the way home, I stopped by a local mega-mart and purchased a bathroom scale because I had to know.

Two Hundred and Thirty-Five Pounds...

Yeah, I should've known. I'd been "upsizing" my wardrobe over the past year or two, but being larger-framed to begin with and not owning any full-length mirrors, it wasn't obvious to what extent the damage was being done.

Since Christmas was near, I knew there was no point in starting any kind of program until after the holidays were over. Tradition dictates a New Year's resolution, but I would've started about that time, tradition or not.

Unlike a lot of people, I didn't actually set a firm target weight for myself. I was more interested in looking good, rather than an actual number. Due to my build, I've always had a "high" BMI, so that wasn't a good indicator, either. So, I thought I'd just see what happened.

When January 1st rolled around, I had a fridge full of fruit, vegetables, fish, and chicken breasts. My cupboard was loaded with rice cakes, sugar-free granola bars, rice, beans, and pasta. Several low-fat/low-calorie cookbooks had been purchased, and I was all set.

Two months later, I was sick of the diet. Not only does low-calorie food taste completely bland, but I was spending almost all of my time in the kitchen because I was so darn hungry all the time. Sure, foods high in water and fiber fill you up quick, but they don't last very long at all. Coupled with the recurring bouts of diarrhea from all of the aforementioned fiber and water, I came to the conclusion that the "standard" weight-loss diet wasn't going to work for me at all. Time to do some more research.

Eventually, I came across the web site of one Dr. William Campbell Douglass. Dr. Douglass is a strong advocate of low-carb lifestyles, which held great appeal for me. However, I wasn't so sure about keeping my body in a state of ketosis (or in my willpower to do so).

What I did discover, however, was that Dr. Douglass had written the introduction for a book titled The Steak Lovers' Diet by Melvin Anchell. Unfortunately, this book appears to be out of print, but I was able to get it from one of Amazon.com's used book dealers.

Now this was a diet. Eat all the meat you want, with the core part of the diet being to avoid sugar in all its forms. Carbs aren't off-limits, just the sugary, "empty" carbs.

You know what? It works! I began losing roughly one pound per week (considered a safe level my nearly all doctors and dieticians), and today, I'm weighing in at 180, losing fifty-five pounds in a year.

So, how am I doing? I'm sticking to the prescribed diet, feeling great, and although the rate of weight loss has dropped off, I'm still dropping a pound or more every couple of weeks, meaning I'm approaching my ideal weight, which I'm guessing to be around 170–175.

This site is going to be a supplement to Anchell's book. I'm going to add SLD-friendly recipes, expand on topics he covered in the book, and punch holes in low-cal and vegetarian myths about eating habits.

So, before all the existing copies are sold out, get your copy of this book!

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