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Sorry,Carlo. Atkins is just not a healthy diet. You may lose weight on it, but the body needs complex carbs just as it needs fats, minerals, amino acids and other enzymes to metabolize. Best way to be healthy is to have a varied diet and keep the portions sensible. Counting calories and furning fat through cardio exercises is still the way to go.
First exercise to accomplish is pushing....away from the table.

Sorry,Carlo. Atkins is just not a healthy diet. You may lose weight on it, but the body needs complex carbs just as it needs fats, minerals, amino acids and other enzymes to metabolize. Best way to be healthy is to have a varied diet and keep the portions sensible. Counting calories and furning fat through cardio exercises is still the way to go. First exercise to accomplish is pushing....away from the table.

Have you actually read the diet or are you just going by what you think? This way of eating is more balanced than you think.

After the first two weeks you add in carbs until you stop losing weight and then you reduce them by 5g/day or there abouts until you reach your goal. If people would read the book they would see that it isn't NO carb diet but a controlled carb diet.

I understand your position my dearest buddy.. but this strange twist in everything we have been taught appears to have a physiological change that transforms fats into energy thus burning it off..

Once the induction stage of the diet, which is very restrictive, passes things get rational again. Once you achieve your goal, as has been explained by others you are required to eat fruits and veggies..I know, I know.. it's not for everyone.. :o)

Best way to be healthy is to have a varied diet and keep the portions sensible.

Your post sounds like it was cut and pasted out of some FDA food pyramid article. All these tired cliches that pretend to say important things without actually saying anything.

I guess it all depends on what your idea of a varied diet is. If your idea of a varied diet includes cakes, pies, cookies, chips, pretzels, hydrogenated vegetable oils, high fructose corn syrups, candies, donuts, muffins, pastries, etc., then count me out. That kind of "varied" diet was making me fat and was slowly killing me.

Those are really the only foods I have eliminated from my diet for I still eat pasta, bread (fresh bread only, not that supermarket crap), and potatoes - just not as much as before. And I eat tons of vegetables and berries, more so than I ever did before. So contrary to your perceived notion of what a low-carb diet is, it is much more than a "meat, egg and cheese" diet. In fact, under no circumstances does a genuine low-carber, who follows the guidelines, ever "gorge" on high-fat, high-protein foods. This is not an "all-you-can-eat-meat" kind of diet, no matter how much the naysayers like to say so.