Posted on 08/23/2002 5:07:58 PM PDT by Pokey78
For me about 70lbs three years ago in about six months.
Breakfast usually centered around eggs and bacon or sausage, vary the eggs between hard boiled, deviled, scrambled, and fried. Also pre-cooked sausage that you microwave was a big help in busy mornings.
Lunch is easy with any kind of Chef salad, or grilled chicken, or tuna salad or McDonald's or BK Whopper (just don't eat the bun, order two to make up for no fries). Buffets are wonderful. Eat a salad and then practically any meat on the buffet along with green beans as your veggie.
Dinner is usually easy as well as you can have any meat with salad, green beans, etc. Buy a carb guide book, it's surprising how many items are low carb.
Snacks are peanuts, walnuts, pork rinds, etc. Again map out your carb intake throughout the day and you can find a fairly good variety of foods besides the meat.
And yes, occasionally you cheat with a donut or piece of pizza.
I've done a low-carb diet twice. When I'm off it, a bottle of Maalox is my constant companion. On it, I never need an antacid. Two reasons for this I think: 1) The carbs cause acid reflux and 2) I lose so many inches due to weight loss that my pants fit loosely.
Currently, I've lost 11 pounds (170 to 159) since July 18. All I've really done is cut out sugar, starches, and white flour.
Also, I have been exercising more. But the key there is I feel like exercising. No more ups and downs. No nodding away at my desk.
The reason I ended up getting off it before is I lost the weight I wanted to and I started back on the carbs. It's a slippery slope, to be sure.
Do you eat any fruit? I've been operating on the assumption that for the last couple of million years man has eaten a paleolithic diet--meat, fish, vegetables, fruit--and that's what we should eat today (and forget grass seed--wheat). But when I eat a peach or piece of canteloupe my blood sugar goes bananas. If fruit was one of the things that humans evolved on, I wonder why I can't eat it now. Do you eat apples, oranges, peaches, melons, grapes, plums?
Not while you are on Atkins, initially.
You need to look upon his diet as a corrective measure, like wearing a cast until your broken arm heals.
Once you have lost the weight that you need to lose, you must change your poor habits that brought you to Atkins in the first place.
Eating in moderation and avoiding empty calorie foods as much as you can, exercise as you can, etc. You can then usually expand your diet to include more fruits and vegetables or become a calorie counter. Either way, Atkins is a good start for us to drop the weight quickly and feel more confidence in our ability to change our bad habits. But as always, the weight will come back if you fall back into bad habits.
Brilliant Apple lovers will continue in the truth and thrive as their computers actually work without fail. PC lovers will continue their incessant, masochistic complaints about crashes, freezes, viruses and burns of their eternally malfunctioning PCs. According to the Euroweenies, PCs do make good road fill when ground down to granules.
Really? Any evidence to back that up? Thought not...
LOL...is that what you're left with? Why are you on this website, if this is you're level of intellectual analysis most of the topics here will be way over your head.
And where are you getting this nonsense? From the same doctors who don't know jack-sh*t about nutrition, who insist that cutting calories is the only way to lose weight.
There's a great deal of evidence that heart disease is largely genetic.
Anyway, those of us who have lost weight on Atkins, who have more energy on Atkins, who feel better than they ever have have made up our minds.
If you want to eat pig food (corn, grains, potatoes), go right ahead. Atkins flies in the face of conventional wisdom (fat makes you fat), and old habits die hard.
Now, the dam is breaking on the phony food pyramid. It takes a big man to admit when he's WRONG; all I see around here are dwarves.
Eggs have gotten a bad rap, which recent studies are fortunately reversing. Yes, they are quite high in saturated fat, but for some reason, they don't seem to have the impact on cholesterol that was once thought (provided you don't fry them in a stick of butter and slather them with melted cheddar). And they are one of the best food-sources of bio-available protein you can find.
My only caveat is that different people metabolize fats and cholesterol differently, and one should always monitor the health effects of any major shift in eating habits. There is no one-size-fits-all solution (for instance, lean people who exercise a lot do need good carbs in addition to protein, especially after exercise, so that their body has energy reserves it can use to replenish itself without heavily catabolizing its protein reserves, a situation that hinders performance and increases recovery time. But this formula certainly doesn't apply to an overweight sedentary person, where the carbs would end up unused. In fact, there's even a difference between what a bodybuiler trying to build mass needs as opposed to, say, what a long-distance cyclist needs. Moral: there is no diet that is exactly right for everyone and every lifestyle, except that if your diet consists solely of cheesecake and vodka, you will probably die prematurely).
I'm really gonna take advice from folks who believe in "carb addiction". Just as "sex addiction" is really promiscuity, "carb addiction" is simply lack of will power and laziness.
It's no coincidence that the healthiest in our society don't follows that Atkins silliness.
You wanna lose weight, forget about ketosis and its side effects - just get off your fat caboose and exercise.
Sure, Atkins helps one lose weight fast, but so does heroin.
Senator, you've been told over and over and over that athletes who exercise intensely need carbohydrates for energy. "Carbo-loading" is common for marathon runners a couple of days before the race.
For the 90% of Americans who do not sweat til they drop, carbs turn into sugar, which turns into fat. This is incontrovertible.
The evidence is building against you. More and more, even in the medical community, are advising against over-indulging in starchy carbs. Atkins' followers simply amplify that advice, cut them out completely for some period of time until they're down to their desired weight.
This is simply the old "Diabetic diet" on steroids.
There is such a thing as "carb addiction," because there is a sugar addiction. You can dismiss that, but the science is irrefuteable.
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