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I’ve worked in the field for over 30 years and I have not yet found a low carb high protein diet that works because just as soon as you go off it, you gain it back.

Think about what you just said! No matter what kind of diet you are on, you are going to gain the weight back as soon as you go back to your old way of eating! Major DUH! The key to successful weight loss is to make a permanent lifestyle change. Any effort to lose weight through a temporary change in diet and exercise is doomed to failure.

Thank you. Your statement is a true eye opener. It illustrates my point on these diets completely. The medical evidence from so many different directions, some sound and others not so much, is that the short term results of these types of diets are radical with quick weight loss being mostly water, and not a lot of actual fat loss. It leads to a thought that continuance will breed greater success. In the mean time, the health hazzards that spring up over time with the use of these diets, medium to long term, make them a questionable tool. If the health conditions mentioned, even the most common one mentioned, diarrhea which is reported to start in most patients that get it in about two weeks, start, then the patient will discontinue the diet. Hence the regaining of the weight lost. I got it at about that time when I tried the diet myself. I lost weight on the Atkins, until the diarrhea got so bad that I was unable to function normally.

What I said about the diets still applies, and is backed by too many competent medial sources, the effect of these diets can be negative and dangerous. I will not recommend them until the medical evidence indicates that they do not cause possible problems. Until then, eat balanced and exercise properly with a well rounded program. Weight loss has become so much of a business that it propagates its need. Stride to get healthy first. The weight loss will take care of itself.

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