Florida YMCA official says low-carb diets are fads

• I saw this Hernando Today article about what a local YMCA fitness coordinator in Hernando County, Florida thinks people should do to lose weight and keep it off.
• This man named Tony Lalas believes diets such as low-carb only disappoint people because they do not work and can make the problem of obesity worse than it already is.
• He made this conclusion based on his observations of various YMCA members he has counseled, including one woman who went on Atkins to lose 30 pounds.
• Lalas claimed livin' la vida low-carb was causing this woman to lose lean tissue mass in her joints, namely her knees, and replacing it with body fat.
• While I am a HUGE fan of the YMCA and write about them positively in my upcoming book about my weight loss on low-carb, I cannot believe one of their representatives would so blatantly dismiss it as ineffective and harmful based on just this one person's experience on it.
• I wonder how many other people going to the YMCA have lost a lot of weight on Atkins and have been incredibly successful at improving their health!
• While I lost my 180 pounds in 2004, I was following a "moderate exercise program" at the YMCA on a daily basis along with my healthy low-carb foods.
• I'm sure he'd say you need to see the harm you are doing to your body on the inside by eating low-carb, but I contend I have made my body BETTER by ridding it of unwanted pounds and my health indicators prove that is exactly what I was able to do.
• Advocating "balance" in nutrition and fitness, Lalas said it is the only way to lose weight and keep it off permanently.
• Pushing the food pyramid on the public has been the answer these "experts" have suggested to solve the obesity problem.
• It is one of the perks of the low-carb lifestyle that I enjoy!