Atkins Thread
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BuddyLee
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Yes but you are making a lifestyle change. If you ever decide to get off the diet you may bloom up fairly easy. If your in for the lifestyle change then go for it otherwise
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Originally posted by PFgal
Get out of my threat, nitwit.You obviously haven't researched the diet, or you'd know that Atkins doesn't restrict you from carbs for life. I eat anywhere between 30-40 carbs per day, take a multivitamin, and am doing just fine and dandy!
Yes but you are making a lifestyle change. If you ever decide to get off the diet you may bloom up fairly easy. If your in for the lifestyle change then go for it otherwise
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willie
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BL, how much of the book did you read?Originally posted by BuddyLee
Yes but you are making a lifestyle change. If you ever decide to get off the diet you may bloom up fairly easy. If your in for the lifestyle change then go for it otherwise
JabbaJawz
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I've been doing it for a while now, and yes, it is a lifestyle change. But, consider this ---- ANY diet is a lifestyle change. If the people that are doing Weight Watchers stop what they're doing and eat like hogs they'll balloon up too.
Originally posted by BuddyLee
Yes but you are making a lifestyle change. If you ever decide to get off the diet you may bloom up fairly easy. If your in for the lifestyle change then go for it otherwise
I've been doing it for a while now, and yes, it is a lifestyle change. But, consider this ---- ANY diet is a lifestyle change. If the people that are doing Weight Watchers stop what they're doing and eat like hogs they'll balloon up too.
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czygvtwkr
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Back on the diet starting tomorrow.
Buddy Lee, you have misinformation that the Atkins diet critics have been spreading. Dr Atkins was a cardiologist (heart doctor) and did not blindly follow someone elses theories, he did valid research and came to his own conclusions. So many doctors just memorize text books, hell if thats all it takes to be a doctor anyone could do it.
Buddy Lee, you have misinformation that the Atkins diet critics have been spreading. Dr Atkins was a cardiologist (heart doctor) and did not blindly follow someone elses theories, he did valid research and came to his own conclusions. So many doctors just memorize text books, hell if thats all it takes to be a doctor anyone could do it.
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czygvtwkr
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QUOTE]Originally posted by PFgal
Same here. We've been doing low-carb, but need to get ourselves in to ketosis so we're starting induction again tomorrow. [/QUOTE]
Been to the grocery store loaded up on vegggeis. I know I know all those veggies are bad for my heart.
Same here. We've been doing low-carb, but need to get ourselves in to ketosis so we're starting induction again tomorrow. [/QUOTE]
Been to the grocery store loaded up on vegggeis. I know I know all those veggies are bad for my heart.
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czygvtwkr
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Just thought I would put up the benefits of the Atkins diet the way I do it for people like Buddy that think its unhealthy.
1) No junk food (potato chips doritos twinkies)
2) No fast food
3) No more "manufactured" foods everything is natural like man (and beast) was ment to eat
4) No refined carbs like white flour, I still eat a limited amount of whole grain flour
5) No refined sugar, like in soda and twinkies
6) The amount of meat I eat is no more than before I was on the diet
7) I eat many more natural veggies (french fries were a veggie at one time but they are not natural any more)
8) I drink much more water and less unnatural drinks
The benefits include weight loss, lower blood pressure, lower resting pulse rate, more energy.
I defy anyone short of an organic only vegan to say my diet is less healthy than theirs.
1) No junk food (potato chips doritos twinkies)
2) No fast food
3) No more "manufactured" foods everything is natural like man (and beast) was ment to eat
4) No refined carbs like white flour, I still eat a limited amount of whole grain flour
5) No refined sugar, like in soda and twinkies
6) The amount of meat I eat is no more than before I was on the diet
7) I eat many more natural veggies (french fries were a veggie at one time but they are not natural any more)
8) I drink much more water and less unnatural drinks
The benefits include weight loss, lower blood pressure, lower resting pulse rate, more energy.
I defy anyone short of an organic only vegan to say my diet is less healthy than theirs.
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Shutterbug
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Not to make any enemies here, but I did weight watchers and lost weight and have maintained it for over 6 months. I eat what I want, when I want...it's all a matter of portion size. I don't have to cut out an entire food group. My doctor even agrees that Atkins can be bad.
I just worry about you guys doing something that may be harmful. My cousin did Atkins and lost 150 pounds, only to gain 75 back once she ate a slice of bread.
Besides, all of the low carb foods they have out now taste like crap.
Just my two cents....hope I didn't make anyone mad.
Not to make any enemies here, but I did weight watchers and lost weight and have maintained it for over 6 months. I eat what I want, when I want...it's all a matter of portion size. I don't have to cut out an entire food group. My doctor even agrees that Atkins can be bad.
I just worry about you guys doing something that may be harmful. My cousin did Atkins and lost 150 pounds, only to gain 75 back once she ate a slice of bread.
Besides, all of the low carb foods they have out now taste like crap.
Just my two cents....hope I didn't make anyone mad.
Nickel
curiouser and curiouser
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Your cousin gaining 75 pounds from eating a single slice of bread seems a little far-fetched, are you sure that single slice of bread didn't tempt her back to her old ways, when she was downing carbs left and right? That would make her gain half the weight back.
Atkins is perfectly healthy, for those that use it correctly. You're not giving anything up for the rest of your life. In essence, it's like weight watchers, but instead of limiting all portions, you're just limiting your carb intake.
I think what PF meant was that the reason a "diet" works is because you change your habits for good. The point of weight watchers is to watch portion sizes, so you're still doing it...if you were to return to eating however much you want, you'd probably gain the weight back.Originally posted by kayellesee
Not to make any enemies here, but I did weight watchers and lost weight and have maintained it for over 6 months. I eat what I want, when I want...it's all a matter of portion size. I don't have to cut out an entire food group. My doctor even agrees that Atkins can be bad.
I just worry about you guys doing something that may be harmful. My cousin did Atkins and lost 150 pounds, only to gain 75 back once she ate a slice of bread.
Besides, all of the low carb foods they have out now taste like crap.
Just my two cents....hope I didn't make anyone mad.
Your cousin gaining 75 pounds from eating a single slice of bread seems a little far-fetched, are you sure that single slice of bread didn't tempt her back to her old ways, when she was downing carbs left and right? That would make her gain half the weight back.
Atkins is perfectly healthy, for those that use it correctly. You're not giving anything up for the rest of your life. In essence, it's like weight watchers, but instead of limiting all portions, you're just limiting your carb intake.
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Shutterbug
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I was exaggerating about the slice of bread. You're right, she probably started eating like she did before. And you're also right about doing Atkins correctly probably isn't that bad.
I just like WW because I could still eat bread. I don't know what I'd do if I couldn't eat that!
I was exaggerating about the slice of bread. You're right, she probably started eating like she did before. And you're also right about doing Atkins correctly probably isn't that bad.
I just like WW because I could still eat bread. I don't know what I'd do if I couldn't eat that!
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czygvtwkr
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Staying on it could be harmful in the long term.
Well what did man do before boxed processed foods, eating the foods that nature provided for us as they were ment to be eaten is harmful? The controversial high-protein, low-carbohydrate Atkins diet is a mass experiment into public health based on "pseudo science", a leading nutritionist said.
I have seen what "nutririonists" study in school, they only regurgerate what they have read in books written by real scientists.
Extreme "faddy" diets that cut out entire food groups were unbalanced, untested and could pose serious health problems, she warned.
Again the food groups that I have cut out are fast food, junk food, and sugar...cutting these out is really bad for me?
Well what did man do before boxed processed foods, eating the foods that nature provided for us as they were ment to be eaten is harmful? The controversial high-protein, low-carbohydrate Atkins diet is a mass experiment into public health based on "pseudo science", a leading nutritionist said.
I have seen what "nutririonists" study in school, they only regurgerate what they have read in books written by real scientists.
Extreme "faddy" diets that cut out entire food groups were unbalanced, untested and could pose serious health problems, she warned.
Again the food groups that I have cut out are fast food, junk food, and sugar...cutting these out is really bad for me?
BuddyLee
Football addict
Originally posted by SmallTown
So what do you recommend, Buddy? Surely not the FDA "Food Pyramid" which is about to be yanked because it is making everyone fat.
Forget the diets and just get your asses on a treadmill
How's about the ole fashioned way. Eat healthy and exercise your lazy a$$es or they will continue to stay fat.
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czygvtwkr
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Kay it was probably more like eating a loaf at a time, eating a can of cake frosting, sucking down some doughnuts. No offense but if you go back to eating like a hog your going to be a hog no matter what diet you were on. If she had been on weight watchers and then ate like that she would have gained the weight back.
I purposely went off the diet to try to gain some weight back just to see what I could get away with. In 6 months of eating everything except sugar (including a whole large Papa Johns Pizza in one sitting on occasion) I gained back 10 lbs in 6 months not to mention 10 lbs to me is far less than a 5 foot tall woman, I am 6'4" with a large frame. Heck on induction I can loose close to 10 lbs a week.
Kay it was probably more like eating a loaf at a time, eating a can of cake frosting, sucking down some doughnuts. No offense but if you go back to eating like a hog your going to be a hog no matter what diet you were on. If she had been on weight watchers and then ate like that she would have gained the weight back.
I purposely went off the diet to try to gain some weight back just to see what I could get away with. In 6 months of eating everything except sugar (including a whole large Papa Johns Pizza in one sitting on occasion) I gained back 10 lbs in 6 months not to mention 10 lbs to me is far less than a 5 foot tall woman, I am 6'4" with a large frame. Heck on induction I can loose close to 10 lbs a week.