The Atkins Diet

[Guest The Notorious CRD]

I'm starting the Atkins Diet on Monday. I used it once before and it worked tremendously well for me. Anyone else here on it? Any advice or words of wisdom to offer in reference to it?

[Guest Choken One]

first off all...go to the second page...we have a thread of 2 pages there already...

 

second off...

 

FUCK THE AKTINS DIET.

 

Treadmill and Blanced healthy diet is all you need.

[Guest Vern Gagne]

Agreed. Eat right and exercise you'll lose weight.

 

But if you feel it worked for you before, go right ahead. Best of luck by the way.

[Guest Red Hot Thumbtack In The Eye]

Current diet for me is basically the College diet. Ichiban and Kraft Dinner and going for a walk everyday.

 

2 months ago started at about 255lbs, now at about 235 lbs.

 

Good luck on your dieting thing.

[Guest Kotzenjunge]

A girl I know just started it, and she's miserable, lethargic, and very grumpy.

[Guest TheArchiteck]

Never did the Atkins deal, that fatty food stuff seems too good to be true and it just doesn't seem "right" to me.

 

The plan I was on was pretty strict. Very low carbs except oat products and certain vegetables that contains it. Basically only pure carbs not that bleached flour stuff. Also, no added salt. Which means tomato was in almost every meal (high sodium in em). No DAIRY. No skim milk, no 'no-fat cheese' or anything that dripped out of a mammal's tit.

Have to drink like 100oz of water a day, (which is why i haven't drunk pop/kool aid for over a year now...just water, tea and natural juice....ok maybe some vodka every now and then...). Tea was also allowed, with like nutrasweet.

It took about a week for me to get used to the "bland" food. After that, my body adjusted to it and my metabolism was working again. (Have to eat 5-6 portioned meal a day)

Lost like 7lbs the first week.

 

The drawback of it is the cost of the food itself. It's not really simple finding chicken thats not injected with salt juice....when you, thats like an extra 1.50 a pound....and you have to constantly buy fresh vegetables. When I start classes again in the fall, I just dropped it....couldn't afford it.

 

But yea, low carbs/high protien diets work. I just personally feel more comfortable using low fat protein sources instead.

[Guest MaxPower27]

I did the Slimfast diet during hockey season a few times, and that seemed to work.

 

Shake in the morning, meal bar at lunch, snack in the afternoon, good dinner, and some fruit.

 

All day, I drank a ton of water, and pissed a lot.

 

I would go into hockey at about 185, and about a month in, I'd be down to 160, my playing weight.

 

Slimfast = Good.

[Guest Sandman9000]

I'm on a bastardized version. I eat more carbs, but when you work 10-12 hours in a warehouse, you're allowed to.

 

That and I cheat too much. Still dropped a significant amount of weight, however. I still pass for Samoan too easily....

[Gert T 0]

My diet plan was drop out 5 food groups from my diet.

 

1. Beer

2. Chips

3. Candy

4. Fried Foods

5. Cookies

 

I went from 211 to 194 in about 8 weeks, but in all honesty unemployment has been a good diet for me as it gives me more time to work out!

 

And no eating past 6 pm too.

[Guest CanadianChris]

I tried it, and it works for as long as you're on it. I could never stay on it for a really long time, though. I used it to win a weight loss bet at work...lost 30 lbs. in 12 weeks.

[Guest MaxPower27]

My only problem with the Atkins diet was that if you want to keep the weight off, you have to stay on the diet FOREVER.

 

That cut into my peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for breakfast, I got a craving, and next thing I know, I gained all the weight back.

 

The "No bread" is brutal for me.

 

Slimfast > Atkins.

[Guest NaturalBornThriller4:20]

Call me crazy...

 

What is The Atkins Diet ?

[Guest Sandman9000]

It's essentially low/no carbohydrates (complex carbs, such as breads and pastas, vs fruits and vegetables) and tons of protein.

 

I believe what's controversial about it is that Atkins' allows for high fat foods to be eaten along with it, as long as they are low in carbs. I could be wrong, though.

[Guest CanadianChris]

The Atkins Diet severely restricts intake of carbohydrates. You're allowed no more than 20-30 grams a day. However, you can eat as much of anything else as you like.

 

So, you can sit down and have a couple of steaks, a big plate of bacon and eggs every morning, three-egg omelettes stuffed with cheese and ham (and bacon, and sausage...) -- that's what gets people ranting against this diet -- but you CAN'T have stuff like potatoes, pasta, bread, fruit, or anything with sugar in it.

 

So you're looking at having hamburgers without the bun, no desserts, no beverages besides water, whole milk and vegetable juice, and stuff like that, which makes it a) hard to stay on the diet for any length of time, and b) hard to go out to eat anywhere.

[Only The Strong Survive 0]

I did it last summer for about a week or two. Yes, it works, but I'll tell ya, it's a bitch to stay on... I'd say just go with more "traditional" measures.

[The Czech Republic 0]

My diet of choice has been lots of bike riding and less eating and I went from a 36 to a 34 waistline, and still getting thinner! Wow!

[Guest college hobo]

Mother is on Atkins now, and it's working really well for her. Personally I'm for eating consistently and working out.