Any negatives to Adkins Diet?

[savedbygrace]

No single diet is good for everybody.

Read "Eat Right 4 Your Type" by Dr. D'Adamo. He explains why different blood types react differently to the same food.

If you're looking for a quick fix to years of excess, get your will and affairs in order first. Some of these diets can kill you if you're in poor shape to begin with.

[vharlow]

Works for my husband and I as well. WE both lost near 50 pounds, his cholestral dropped to 180 and mine as well. Not bad for eating high fat stuff. We've been on it for about 3 or more years. Staying healthy! If you start to cheat, as i have recently, you merely go back on induction for a couple weeks, and get back on track. Maintenance is pretty darn easy!

[Caipirabob]

I'm on something I call the "Pizza Hut/Hagen-Daaz Diet". I eat a pizza (10" or so) every night.

Here's the kicker. I've lost 18 lbs over the past month on it.

If you can say the word "Soy" without losing your lunch freepmail me and I'll tell you what I'm doing.

[Trust but Verify]

Good for you. This is the same way I have lost 105 pounds. It has taken me longer, but I have no regrets. I'm far healthier, in better physical condition, and walking gives me a chance to clear my mind, making for a mentally happier me.

[JoeGar]

Forget it. I injured my joints with the Atkins diet. Do the Weight Watchers thing. I've lost 35 pounds with WW and now have a diet that can keep it off.

[FITZ]

Yes they came back.

[Marie Antoinette]

Thanks, we're on induction so haven't even gotten that far yet! LOL! Guess I should buy the book, huh? There's just so much info on the website, what a public service IMO!

[XBob]

well, at least for a few days, the media mentioned Adkins in a positive light, and that the whole 'sell wheat' food pyramid thing (which has literally killed millions) is backwards.

However, I think, by the end of this week, the media will be pusing the Upside-down government pyramid again. The VA has ahsolutely refused to help me with an adkins diet, (for my type 2 diabetes) and keeps perscribing high carb diets which always raise my blood sugar.

Then, when my sugar and weight and water go up, they blame me for not following my diet. Then they want to push me onto more insulin so i gain more weight, and won't even measure my insulin levels, to show that I am already making too much insulin.

I have come to the conclusion that they are trying to kill me to save VA money. The evidence is there, among the patients I see, every time I go to the VA,the ones with no feet, no legs, no eyes. And those I see are not there from War Wounds. They are ALL from the VA diabetes treatments.

[XBob]

227 - "There's just so much info on the website, what a public service IMO! "

That's true, just too much junk. In the adkins diet, to sum it up -

do a daily food inventory, at your normal diet, which you are maintaining your weight, neither gain nor lose.

Get a book listing carbs and calories.

Keep your calories 500 calories below your normal diet, and keep your carbs below 20 calories per day.

Take a very good multi-vitamin supplament (Daily Diabetic at Wallmart (in their diabetes section, not their supplament/vitamin section), and take some extra potassium daily, and DON'T cut out all your salt. The Adkins high protein diet tends to dehydrate you.

[XBob]

And, most important, when you decide you are 'fed up with meat', or have have lost enough weight, come off very very slowly, as your body will be in starvation mode and much much more efficient, and returning to a normal diet will put weight back on literally 'overnight'.

Add only 5 grams of carbohydrate per day, for one week at a time. So, go to 25 grams daily, the first week, 30 grams daily the second week, etc. And try to keep generally high protein and low carb --- so the most painful part is, NO PIZZA, except one slice for your birthday.

And always drink plenty of non-carbohydrate fluids.