Atkins Diet is a JOKE!
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It's stuff like this that makes me not want to try this diet...
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(having said that... I have cut back on the junk food carbs... not even for diet reasons so much, but the truth is I just don't WANT 134.2 oz of Pepsi and a 58 oz chocolate bar when I go to the movies. It ends up half getting thrown out anyhow.)
It's stuff like this that makes me not want to try this diet...
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(having said that... I have cut back on the junk food carbs... not even for diet reasons so much, but the truth is I just don't WANT 134.2 oz of Pepsi and a 58 oz chocolate bar when I go to the movies. It ends up half getting thrown out anyhow.)
The first time I ever heard of the Atkins diet was when this person at work went it. When she told me she can eat all the meat she wants but no vegatables I thought that was the stupidest thing I have ever heard regarding diets. Every morning she would prance around with her breakfast of bacon and egg, no toast. Yeah she lost weight but she had a sickly pallow look to her. I don't care what these low carb diets claim. If you eat less fat and more vegatables you will look and feel better.
I think the biggest benefit of diets like Atkins are that:
1) the dieter gets quick feedback -- i.e., you can see an improvement. This encourages you to stick with it.
2) you become more conscious of what you are eating -- i.e., the content of the food and the quantity.
With Adkins, you can drop some weight quickly to get down to a goal size and then you can stay there by eating rationally. You learn that a couple of pieces of candy won't hurt you -- finishing the bag does.
As everyone has said, maintaining weight is a matter of eating sensibly. A good diet just teaches you to be aware of that.
1) the dieter gets quick feedback -- i.e., you can see an improvement. This encourages you to stick with it.
2) you become more conscious of what you are eating -- i.e., the content of the food and the quantity.
With Adkins, you can drop some weight quickly to get down to a goal size and then you can stay there by eating rationally. You learn that a couple of pieces of candy won't hurt you -- finishing the bag does.
As everyone has said, maintaining weight is a matter of eating sensibly. A good diet just teaches you to be aware of that.
The real problem is that fat people need to change their lifestyle not just go on a fad diet for a few weeks. Once you add fat cells they never go away, they just shrink in size. Once you start eating junk again you look like a tub of lard again. Best example is Ophra. She is a fat women. Every once in a while she goes on a fad diet and looks great. But it just that, a fad diet. Then a few months later she is fat again. Most diets not just the atkins lure you into that false sense of security by giving you those early results. Then people think "I'm cured, I'm not fat anymore". Same thing with lifting weights. You make your biggest gains in the begining then you reach a plateu (hvb, correct my spelling please). Every Jan its the same thing at my club. All these new fat guys in expensive sweat suits, headband and towels around their necks, grunting and graoning and spouting off all this bullshit about the "latest workouts". They are all gone now. By the second week you hear them saying shit about how they are "going light" today because they tweaked a muscle, by the third week they are coming once and week and now most of them are gone. I've been going to the same place for almost twenty years and every year its the same thing. Some will be back in May to try to get ready for the summer.
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mayor bloomberg calls atkins fat:
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/w...eb10,0,6987270.story?coll=ny-ap-regional-wire
mayor bloomberg calls atkins fat:
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/w...eb10,0,6987270.story?coll=ny-ap-regional-wire