I've lost 120 lbs and kept it off for over a year. I'm a diabetic with perfectly normal blood sugar now and NO medication. I had high blood pressure that was barely controlled by medication and now have normal BP and cholestrol of 192. My triglycerides were astronomically high...well over 1600 and 6 months ago after my last lipid panel they came in at 212. Still high but MUCH better. I also work out every day. But telling a morbidly obese diabetic with extreme hyper tension to just 'eat better and exercise' is nonsense. If you need to lose 10-15 lbs that approach makes sense. If you need to drop 100 lbs it's virtually impossible to lose weight that way.
The Atkins diet works....refined sugar and flours do not belong in our diet.
As for whether or not the Atkins diet works, I don't know anyone who's been on it for twenty years. And as far as I know, no long term studies of it have been done. If those take place and the results stand up with no ill effects, then I'll believe it.
In any case, we've had flour and sugar (of smoe sort) in our diets for a long time. Rampant obesity is a new phenomenon that has more to do with our behavior than just what we eat.
Disagree. I lost that much weight eating better and exercising. Fat people always have to make excuses (I can call people fat because I was one once....kinda like a black being able to call another black a n***er) as to why they can't lose weight. I'll never, ever go along with the notion that eating healthy and exercising is not the way to lose the weight.
I went on the Health Management Resources diet (HMR) (otherwise known as the Healthy Solutions Plan) and have never felt better. It's basically a healthy eating diet along with an exercise plan. Nobody can ever convince me that there's a good long-term way to lose weight other than eating healthy. NO WAY! And, btw, about half my class at HMR was comprised of very very fat people who had once lost alot of weight on the Atkins diet only to gain it back a short time later.
Amen to that.