New Weight Loss Website Focuses on the Whole Person – Not Just the Diet
A unique online forum provides interactive support for all food plans - including low carbohydrate and low fat lifestyles. Members have a healthy social conscience while providing support and humor through ups and downs of everyday life.
(PRWEB) August 22, 2005 -- For most of us, being overweight is a result of
overeating and eating too much of the wrong foods. Why do we make these bad
choices? How can we stop the cycles we find ourselves in? How many times can we
go through this: Starting a diet?
Doing well for a few days. Losing
hope. And finally binging again and weighing more than when we started. The
cycle seems unbreakable.
For the folks at www.LowCarboNostra.com,
success comes from choosing the right diet plan and finding the right group of
friends to cheer you on… and cheer you up when you feel like you might fail. At
www.LowCarboNostra.com, the diet – or as they would call it,
“Way Of Eating” (W.O.E) – can be low carbohydrate or low fat. The individual
chooses which works best for their body and their lifestyle.
“Low-carb
has had its ups and downs in the past few years,” says Galatea DeLapp, owner of
LowCarboNostra.com and long-time Atkins dieter, “but it is a safe and easy way
to lose weight for many dieters - especially for life-long yo-yo dieters and the
seriously obese.” DeLapp lost 70 lbs on the Atkins diet. Most of the members
have had similar success with low-carb diets. “Many people at our site are also
having great success following lower calorie plans like Weight Watchers - we
have an equal mix of low carb dieters and low calorie/low fat dieters. We
support all plans.”
LowCarboNostra.com is a bulletin board website, with
separate sections to deal with different issues. There is a light-hearted
Italian “Godfather” theme to the board: for example, the “Witness Protection
Program” is a place to post before and after pictures, so named because “it can
be hard to recognize members of LowCarboNostra - especially if they became a
traitor to Mr. Fat's organization and made a hit on him.” There are areas
devoted to recipes, current research on dieting, exercise, menus, and other
basic weight-loss topics. Although you can browse the site without registering,
you must register in order to join in the discussion board conversations.
For the regulars, the most helpful part of the site is the “Boom Boom
Room.” This fourm is where people come to laugh, vent, and share about life's
events. “We are a smaller group than a lot of these Mega Diet Boards with 30,000
members,” DeLapp points out, “we know each other and help each other through the
emotional issues that have caused us to overeat in the past.” In the Boom Boom
Room, there is always a new “Welcome New Member' or “Happy Birthday!” posting
each day. Recently, the board waited with anticipation for the birth of one
member's new baby. “There is a wonderful social conscience with this group,”
says DeLapp. Successful dieters post about clothes they no longer can wear and
then send them to other members for the cost of shipping. When members are
hospitalized, the site sends flowers. A current weight loss challenge has
members sending a cow to a Africa through Heifer International. “As the
challenge group 'loses a cow,' we commit to sending $1.00 for every pound we
lose to purchase a cow for an African family in need."
“It's a unique
atmosphere. We're like a family – which is why we chose the Godfather theme. We
came together through our choice of diet, but have bonded well beyond that,”
DeLapp says with a smile, “There's more to life than losing weight… and we have
the best of both worlds at LowCarboNostra.com.”
Please visit www.lowcarbonostra.com
for more information on low-carb diets and weight-loss support.
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Source : http://www.prweb.com/releases/2005/8/prweb275316.htm