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‘Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show’ Episode 317: Russ Lane Helps You Maintain Your Weight For Life


Russ Lane offers his Second Helping web site for weight maintainers

After years and years of life experience, most of us are pretty darn good experts at what we need to do to lose weight, but very few people are good at the whole weight maintenance thing. It can be challenging keeping your weight in check once you reach the weight you are comfortable at (something I know all too well!). And the biggest issue people deal with isn’t even physical, it’s mental. That’s something today’s podcast guest knows all too well as a former 350+ pound man who learned a lot about himself through weight loss and now continued weight maintenance.

In Episode 317 of “The Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show with Jimmy Moore,” we hear from freelance journalist Russ Lane who created a fantastic web site called Second Helping to help people acclimate to a “normal” life after weight loss. It’s an often overlooked aspect of the equation but vitally important to long-term success. That’s why Russ, who ironically works as a food and dining critic, wanted to help people going through this transition.

Listen to Russ Lane discuss his 200-pound weight loss experience, the inferiority complex that happens to people who lose a significant amount of weight, the double standard that obese people have to deal with, the mental challenges that come after weight loss, Russ’ foray into low-carb diets and then switch to something else that worked for him, his challenges of being a food critic, the misunderstood nature of the Atkins diet, why Second Helping focuses on “after” weight loss primarily, why the mental aspect of weight loss is so important, his experience being a part of The Joy Fit Club on NBC-TV’s Today show, the “fate” that brought the contributors at Second Helping together, and a sample menu of the healthy gourmet meals he eats on a regular basis. Russ is an extremely likable guy who you will be encouraged and inspired by in today’s interview.

There are four ways you can listen to Episode 317:

1. Listen at the new iTunes page for the podcast:

2. Listen and comment about the show at the official web site for the podcast:

3. Download the MP3 file of Episode 317 [31:20m]:

How about that Russ Lane from Second Helpings? Tell us your comments about what you heard from him in the show notes section of Episode 317. Be sure to bookmark SecondHelpingOnline.com and visit Russ’ site early and often as you survive one day at a time in weight maintenance. Coming up on Thursday, we’ll hear from fitness expert Shane Doll from Shaping Concepts who believes in healthy low-carb living as a complement to a solid fitness routine. This will be the final podcast of 2009 before we offer up “Encore Week” coming next week. In case you missed my first interviews with the top 5 guests you voted as your favorites of the year, I’ve included a direct link to each of them for you to listen:

MONDAY: Dr. Richard Bernstein
TUESDAY: Mark Sisson
WEDNESDAY: Julia Ross
THURSDAY: Sally Fallon
FRIDAY: Nora Gedgaudas

NOW MORE THAN EVER, WE NEED YOUR HELP TO KEEP THE MESSAGE GOING! If these twice-weekly podcast interviews from the most provocative and thought-provoking diet, fitness, and health experts have helped you in any way over the past few months and years, then help us keep it going by clicking on the DONATE button on the official podcast web site. We love making these exclusive interviews available to you at no charge so that the positive low-carb message can get out there to the people who need to hear it the most. We are so grateful for your generous donations of any amount so we can keep this going all throughout 2010 and well beyond. I have a fantastic group of fresh new expert interview guests lined up for your listening enjoyment and can’t wait for you to hear them! Go to PayPal.com and you can give your gift to the e-mail address livinlowcarbman@charter.net. Your continued financial support and listenership is essential and we THANK YOU so very much for your support!

December 30th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Category: 1
  • Louise D.

    Do you think he buys the low-fat hype? Or is he under pressure from the fat phobes and self-editing? I would think that someone who is familiar with Atkins would not remove egg yolks from his omelette.

    I dunno, Louise. Some people get jaded for whatever reason and Russ stopped doing Atkins for a reason. But he still seems to respect the principles of low-carb living, so I applaud him for that. But I agree…EGG YOLKS in my omelette please! :)

    –Jimmy

  • http://www.secondhelpingonline.com Russ Lane

    Sorry it has been SO long since I saw this! I kept checking for comments and I’m sorry I missed it!

    I switched from low-carb for two reasons:

    First, Low-carb just got too comfortable for me and I needed to shake things up. That has more to do with my personality than the diet’s validity. I never blamed Atkins once — if for nothing else, it was what gave me my start in making my life something I never dreamed of.

    Second, by following Atkins by the book I learned that no matter what you accomplish in your life, someone, somewhere will tell you you’re wrong/evil/stupid/going to die/succumbed to “hype”/doomed to regain your weight.

    I heard it when I ate low carb, then low fat, then Mediterranean. I heard it when I walked two miles a day, then became a gym rat, then ran a half-marathon and recently learned to box. I heard it when I was 350 pounds, I hear it even more now that I stay between 155-165, oddly enough.

    If this process taught me anything — if low carb eating, specifically, taught me anything — it’s that you have to trust yourself and walk your own path. To lead, not follow, in your own life.

    That to me is the real gift of my weight loss and why I’ll always be grateful for my low-carb roots.

    It made me ambivalent around the whole assumption that any one diet has “the power.” Both the weight loss process, and how much I had to defend my choices, taught me that *I* was the one with the power. My diet (any diet), was just a tool at my disposal.

    It seems hard for you to believe that I could have a lot of respect for low-carb even though I don’t follow that method any longer. I don’t want to put words in your mouth, but if that’s the case, I’d love to hear you say more about why that’s so hard to swallow. I’d sincerely like to understand.