Atkins diet

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Posted by: wendy99

Is anyone here on weblife on the Atkins diet?

Wendy

Posted by: edward

I think the Atkins Diet is over hyped. Just exercise on a daily basis and eat a semi-healthy diet, while drinking only water (no soda, sweet fruit drinks, etc), and you will loose weight while also remaining healthy.

Join a gym if you can, otherwise just improvise with what you have at home. Do crunches, go for a jog or a brisk walk, bikeride, or rollerblade every day.

Posted by: wendy99

All I can say is that if you eat everything moderately you will lose weight. Most of all carbs. Eating large pasta dishes everynight leads to being extremely overweight.

Wendy

Posted by: betrdanevr

Unfortunately, that changes over time. LOL

I had the Atkins Diet book many years ago and went to look for it again about, oh, five years ago. Right next to it on the book shelf was a very interesting alternative called The Carbohydrate Addict's Diet. Here's a link to their web site:

http://www.carbohydrateaddicts.com/

I tried this for a few weeks and found it much easier to "live with." The interesting thing about this diet plan -- and it works! -- is that you are allowed one "reward meal" per day, and you choose which one, be it breakfast, lunch or dinner. You can eat virtually ALL the carbohydrates that you want during this reward meal, but the meal MUST be started and finished within ONE HOUR. So that means no snacking and no snacking while you're cooking!

Terri

Posted by: wendy99

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no snacking while you're cooking!

That rule is impossible to follow.

Wendy

Posted by: cashtide

Whatever happened to the standard, old-fashioned, USDA Approved Healthy Diet Pyramid?

Why are so many people flocking to these new diets like atkins or south beach?

Do they really work better than following the pyramid recommendations and moderate exercise?

C

Posted by: wendy99

In my opinion they do. The triangle is too general - it doesn't work for everyone.

Wendy

Posted by: cashtide

Hmmm. OK. Looks like I need to find some more info.

Thanks.

Posted by: forwardone

I`m on the `Seafood` diet.

I see food and I eat it!!

Geoff

Posted by: cashtide

My problem is that I am trying to put on weight.

Yeah, Yeah I know. Some of you probably don't see that as a real problem, but no matter what I do, what I eat, how much I eat, or when I eat it, I can't break 77 Kg.

My ideal weight is 82 Kg and I was thinking that if I try the atkins or south beach diets and "break all the rules" maybe that will work.

Whaddya think?

Posted by: karin_brenig

The *worst* kind of food, by any diet, should be *best* for you.

So how's about french fries and scrambled eggs with ketchup and coke for breakfeast.
Two pizzas for lunch, maybe rounded off with another coke.
A frosted cake or two with your afternoon coffee (should be sugar in it)
And then pork rost with gravy and mashed potatoes for supper.
Squeeze in some icecream after that, if you can.
And then, before you go to bed, have a beer and some cheezits.

Posted by: candy

The Atkins diet when it was first introduced in the 1960's did a lot to focus attention on the nutitional value of foods not just their caloric value. There must be something to the concept since it has over the years spawned a lot of spin-offs. South Beach, The Zone, and Pellicionne Perscription all focus on limiting carbs especially highly refined simple carbs and sugars. Even Linus Pauling (VIt C and the Common Cold) was for reducing sugar consumption which was skyrocketing with the soda generation.
Personally I believe in the meat, potato, one green and one yellow fruit or veggie meal plan. Limiting things made with refined white flour and sugars.

Posted by: wendy99

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Originally Posted by karin_brenig

The *worst* kind of food, by any diet, should be *best* for you.

So how's about french fries and scrambled eggs with ketchup and coke for breakfeast.
Two pizzas for lunch, maybe rounded off with another coke.
A frosted cake or two with your afternoon coffee (should be sugar in it)
And then pork rost with gravy and mashed potatoes for supper.
Squeeze in some icecream after that, if you can.
And then, before you go to bed, have a beer and some cheezits.

You should be able to gain 5 pounds/day on that diet.

Posted by: forwardone

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Try this on for size: When 160 overweight Boston-area residents each were randomly assigned one of four diets -- Atkins, Weight Watchers, the Zone and Ornish (a fat restriction diet) -- only 25 percent stuck with their diet the whole year.

On average, participants weighed about 220 pounds and were 30 to 80 pounds overweight.

Dansinger said the 25 percent who dieted for a year lost 15 to 20 pounds, but those who bailed early lost less or packed on pounds.

Common Sense
Dansinger said participants had the most trouble with the more "extreme" diets such as the carb-cutting Atkins diet. No diets stood out as the best, Dansinger said.

However, any weight-loss diet reduces the risk of heart disease, said Dansinger, a doctor at Tufts-New England Medical Center.

For one trainer, who has worked for the L.A. Weight Loss and Jenny Craig diet programs, dieting is about common sense.

"It doesn't matter" what diet you try, said Erica Evans, aerobics director at Gold's Gym in Downtown Crossing. "In general, diets don't work. You need a lifestyle change."

Geoff