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What food item can best explain this man’s physique? D’oh!

Welcome to Episode 73 of the Internet’s hottest low-carb podcast, “The Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show With Jimmy Moore!” Today, our host Jimmy takes a look at those little hoops of pure evil–aka donuts–and the merchants of death who are peddling them!

A little over the top, you say? Well, when one prominent Krispy Kreme franchisee decided to make a marketing target out of of weak-willed dieters, then that seems awful low to us! Let Mr. Jimmy tell you all about it as only he can!

Then, be sure to check out the conversation points for today’s show below and then share your thoughts! While you are there, click on an excellent donut alternative from our sponsor Atkins Nutritionals. Delicious AND nutritious–SWEET!

LINKS MENTIONED IN EPISODE 73
- Visit our sponsor–Atkins Nutritionals
- Yep, there is such a thing as low-carb doughnuts!
- Atkins diet causing Krispy Kreme stores to close
- Krispy Kreme franchisor says Atkins diet reason for profit losses
- Sugar cannot be a part of a healthy lifestyle
- Jimmy Moore’s “sugar is rat poison” visualization method
- Some of the damaging effects of sugar consumption
- The 100-calorie food marketing gimmick
- Half of Americans are eating lower-carb
- E-mail Jimmy Moore ANYTIME

Did you miss something Jimmy said today? It’s all good! For a full transcript, please follow the next link!

Transcript of Episode 73

This is Episode 73 of “The Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show with Jimmy Moore.” Welcome back to the show as we dive into another exciting excursion into the amazingly healthy low-carb lifestyle. It literally changed my life forever by helping me lose nearly 200 pounds and it make a real difference in your weight and health, too! Stick around a while and you’ll see why there’s no healthier way to live than livin’ la vida low-carb. Regardless of your diet of choice, though, there is most certainly one food that is arguably the worst possible thing you could ever eat. We’ll find out more about what that is in just a moment.

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We all have our favorite foods, don’t we? Especially those of us who are on a healthy eating plan like livin’ la vida low-carb, we are able to enjoy some of these delicious foods as part of our eating plan, including tender and juicy cuts of meat, fine cheeses, fresh salad greens with full-fat dressings, butter, coconut oil, eggs with the yolk, and so much more. Some of the so-called health “experts” out there have described the low-carb diet as “extreme” and “dangerous” for allowing such foods to be freely consumed as part of a healthy diet. But this has always amused me because the foods choices on most other “diet” programs such as low-fat/low-calorie programs are a lot more limited in their food choices than low-carb is and not nearly as appetizing or, what’s the word, uh, natural? One taste of fat-free cheese or skim milk would gag anyone. The food choices you get to enjoy on low-carb are so incredibly delicious and satisfying even while you are losing weight and getting healthy. BONUS!

But there is one food in particular that you should absolutely avoid completely when you are on the low-carb lifestyle or ANY weight loss plan for that matter! The worst possible food you could eat when you are livin’ la vida low-carb is (drumroll please)–A doughnut. Gasp! (Psycho theme) Not only are they chock full of so much carb-heavy sugar and white flour you’ll be out of ketosis before you swallow your first bite, but they can be extremely addictive, too. Have you tried just eating one of these, especially when the “hot and fresh” sign is lit up and you just HAVE to pull in to pick up a dozen or two? Impossible! As the top baked dessert in America today, it’s hard to avoid this innocent-looking junk food with a hole in the middle that can literally destroy your low-carb progress. With doughnut shops on every corner, these little morsels of carbiliciousness show up in all sorts of places–the office, at church, at parties and even in your own home! But listen to me–don’t succumb to the temptation to have even ONE of these bad boys. It’s just not worth blowing your low-carb plan by giving in to this empty pleasure. Plus, you’ll feel so guilty after taking one bite that you won’t mind eating two or three! Why wouldn’t you? You’ll convince yourself that you’ve already blown it, so what’s it gonna matter? Does this sound like your rationalization for eating something like a doughnut you know you shouldn’t have? It’s exactly what I told myself for so many years whenever I would go on a diet. “Just this one time,” I would always tell myself. That’s the biggest, fattest lie we keep telling ourselves opening the door for us to mess up! When you give in, that is proof positive that you aren’t being serious about bringing your weight and health under control and that’s a dangerous position to be in.

Until you can make the best choice to completely abandon foods like doughnuts forever, then you will never climb out of that deep pit you are in as a result of your weight problem. Make up your mind right now that this is important enough for you to do that you will commit to refraining from eating anything that could derail you from achieving anything but incredible weight loss success you deserve to have happen to you. Does this mean you’ll never, ever get to eat a doughnut again? Well, that really depends on what your priorities are and how much temptation you think you can handle. If you can eat one and ONLY ONE every once in a while and not let it have an effect on your weight, then go for it. But most of us who have been under the heavy hand of the obesity monster for our entire lives don’t need to put anything in our mouths that will be detrimental to the cause and trigger a binge. Besides, in the end, you’ll never miss ‘em! I sure don’t and have been doughnut-free for nearly four years! WOO HOO! If you knew me, then you would know what a minor miracle this is. I used to be able to eat at least a half-dozen of them very easily when they were served by the boatload at work. That was a whopping 200+ grams of carbohydrates I was putting in my mouth at one single sitting! Yikesaroo! I shudder at the thought of ever doing that again! Thankfully, those days are long gone. If you must have a doughnut, then there are low-carb versions you can bake up in your oven for yourself. Go to the show notes section of Episode 73 of “The Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show with Jimmy Moore” at TheLivinLowCarbShow.com to find a link to a fabulous low-carb doughnut mix I have tried and enjoyed.

You know, we all are very well aware how much companies like Krispy Kreme doughnuts are hurting because of people who are livin’ la vida low-carb. Even the corporate bigwigs at that particular company have admitted many times over the past few years that the Atkins diet alone has caused them to lose profits and has even been responsible for several stores that have been forced to close their doors for good. But none of this has fazed a Krispy Kreme franchisee named Lincoln Spoor who owns the famous doughnut units located in Las Vegas, Nevada. In an interview with Spoor, whose father incidentally was the CEO of Pillsbury when he was growing up, he says he is unconcerned about the financial impact on his business brought on by low-carb plans such as Atkins, Mediterranean, and South Beach which all encourage people following them to “stay away from sugar or stay away from the carbs.” Here’s what Spoor had to say: “There was a time when our corporate franchisor had said the Atkins diet is hurting us. I don’t subscribe to that view. I think what’s happening is people are very smart about what they eat these days. They ration their calories. You do, I do.”

Um, “ration their calories?” What in the world does that mean, Mr. Spoor? Who in their right mind thinks eating ANY doughnuts is a part of a healthy lifestyle? Is Spoor actually trying to convince people that Krispy Kreme doughnuts are indeed part of a healthy lifestyle? Yep, sure sounds that way, but he didn’t stop there. You are not gonna believe what he said next. Listen carefully to this next quote: “We are saying, ‘You know what, I’m rationing my calories or I’m on a diet but you know what, I really want something great. I really want something best of class, so if I cheat, and everybody cheats, then I’m going to cheat with the best.’ That’s what we do. People cheat with our doughnuts. They cheat with Häagen-Dazs ice cream, they cheat with Mrs. Fields cookies, they cheat with In-N-Out burgers.”

Did you hear that? This Spoor fella thinks “the best” food to cheat with is the “great” doughnut? Are you kidding me?! EWWW! I think I’m gonna hurl. And please don’t insult my intelligence by automatically ASSUMING that “everyone cheats” who goes on a diet. Sure, those who are not serious about their weight loss plan will slip up and eat those foods you mentioned, but they are in my opinion technically off their diet when that happens. Especially if those “just one time” cheats become daily ones. Just how often would people need to “cheat with the best” to keep a company like Krispy Kreme in business, Mr. Spoor? Daily? Weekly? Monthly? If it’s less often than daily or weekly, then pretty soon that would begin to catch up to your business and send you crashing and burning like some of your fellow franchisees have. The fact remains that you NEED customers to come to your stores DAILY and ordering lots and lots of doughnuts to keep your business profitable. Otherwise, the decline in sales will merely continue and deservedly so. What keeps you in business are the people who DON’T care about their weight and health who buy dozens of your products at a time to take to their home or office. While some can eat just one doughnut and be satisfied with that, there are many people who are like I used to be when I weighed 410 pounds who cannot stop feeding the sugar and carbohydrate beast that lives within them once it gets started. I could have easily down 6-8 doughnuts at one time and not even think about it back before I started livin’ la vida low-carb. But not anymore. Today, even the thought of one BITE of a doughnut just makes me literally sick to my stomach. Do they still look good? Sure. Do they even smell good? Of course they do. But I KNOW they cannot be a part of my healthy lifestyle change…EVER AGAIN! Once I go down that path, there’s no turning back. But Spoor disagrees.

“If you’ve gone off your diet if you’ve cheated a little bit and you’ve done that, it’s worth it. You’re like, ‘You know what? I’ve cheated, I loved it, and I’m glad.’”

How arrogant is it for someone like Spoor to pretend to speak for people who have cheated on their diet?! How does he know that people who cheated “loved it” and are “glad” they did it? I for one would feel so guilty from an emotional standpoint as well as physically sick from consuming all those empty carbohydrates that it could lead me to a binge eating attack that would balloon me right back up to 400+ pounds again. NO THANK YOU! Mr. Spoor looks like he’s a normal-weight man in the picture I’ve seen of him and I have no idea if he has ever suffered with being overweight in his life. But as one man who has struggled with being addicted to sugar and morbidly obese, I realized a long time ago that sugar can no longer be a part of my life. No matter what you say and believe about sugary doughnuts, Mr. Spoor, they simply cannot be a part of a healthy lifestyle. By the grace of God and through the unique visualization method of thinking of sugar as rat poison which I used back during my weight loss in 2004, I was able to take control of my weight and health and am going on nearly four years without allowing sugar to even cross my lips. There are just too many damaging effects that sugar can cause that it’s better to completely do without it and I encourage others who go on a low-carb program to do the same. Repeat after me–YOU JUST DON’T NEED IT!

Being the businessman that he is, Spoor said he is tinkering with some products to try to appeal to people who are on a diet. He said, “We’re working on a 100 calorie doughnut and a reduced sugar doughnut. And the key, of course, is to make it taste as close to our signature product as you can get. You do that two ways: One is by using the new sweeteners that are out there today, and the second is by reducing the portion. You go into any of the stores today, in the candy rack, all those candy bars are a lot smaller today than they used to be and the calories are lower and the sugars are a lower and the fat calories are lower and that’s one way of doing it.” Oh boy, that’s just what I want–a 100-calorie doughnut. NOT! Don’t they call that a doughnut hole? HA! Jumping on the 100-calorie gimmick bandwagon isn’t helping anyone with a smaller portion size, Mr. Spoor. What will happen is people will buy a whole bag of these “diet” doughnuts and rationalize in their mind that they can have more of them just because they’re supposedly better for them. Even a reduced sugar doughnut will still be jam-packed with white flour carbs that turn into sugar in the body. NOT GOOD! Spoor said these new “diet” doughnuts are expected to be out sometime this year along with a whole wheat doughnut attempting to take advantage of the whole grain craze that’s all the rage right now. Sorry to burst your bubble, Mr. Spoor, but none of these products are acceptable for those of us who are livin’ la vida low-carb. You should be ashamed of yourself for promoting your products to people on a diet as a great way to cheat. What far-fetched, warped mind would even think of pushing doughnuts to people desiring weight loss and better health? Only a cold, heartless CEO seeking to fatten his wallet at the expense of the weight and health of his consumers could possible come up with such a maniacal marketing plan. With half of Americans currently eating lower-carb, it’s only a matter of time before even more Krispy Kreme doughnuts stores feel the impact on their bottom line and are forced out of business. Pretending that your company offers products that are for every once in a while to try to drum up support among consumers is a sign of desperation and the clock is ticking to your final days. And Sporr knows it!

That’s it for Episode 73 of “The Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show with Jimmy Moore.” How did you handle your sugar addiction when you started on low-carb? Did you quit cold turkey like I did or did you try to ease into it slowly and eventually greatly reduce or eliminate your consumption of foods like doughnuts? Let’s talk about it in the show notes section of this podcast episode at TheLivinLowCarbShow.com. You can also e-mail me your comments anytime at livinlowcarbman@charter.net. THANK YOU for choosing to listen to today’s podcast and I invite you to come back on Thursday for another uplifting and encouraging episode of the Internet’s #1 low-carb podcast show! So, until next time, keep on livin’ la vida low-carb!

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