Atkins diet.......works for me..anyone else?

[cowboydoc]

Geez yes. I was just treating a diabetic runner when I wrote that and had that on my mind.

 

[wickman]

I think cowboydoc nailed it. I started on Atkins in June and to date have lost #33. I'm not stricly following the Atkins diet now and my weight loss has slowed but I feel good. I'm not craving anything now. I realize that it's all a lifestyle change that I'll need to continue for a very long time. I eat lots of salad and chicken. No rice, pasta or bread. I eat some fruit but not alot. I eat green vegetables. I don't drink as much water as I should and I think the water greatly helps out in the weight loss aspect. I drink decaf coffee now.

I work at a desk all day so my exercise is limited. I have to accept that I have to eat accordingly.

wickman

 

[trailertrash]

mrwurm:
I'm a truck driver and I'm on Adkin's and to be truthful it's a bit of a pita the biggest problem is when you don't have time to stop and eat if you're runnng late which thankfully is only about 99 percent of the time. My solution is I carry a refrigerator/electric cooler in the truck and I pack legal foods(diet legal) in it along with water and, at least in my opinon, regular water becomes boring I have the wife pick up flavored water at the local wally world , it's better for you than soda pop and cheaper to boot. Packed in my cooler I 'll have summer sausage/ beef stick , cheese's ,boiled eggs,sugar free jello, zip lock bags of meats etc.precooked by the wife , different types to prevent boredom, which is a killer of diets and once you get used to the hassle on the road it's not bad and after the initial period you actually quit craving the worst foods, for me this was pre wrapped grab and goes.When on the road if I want say a hot breakfast and my only option is your example of mc'ds I go in and order a side of sausage and eggs and thats all you get no breads of any kind it runs around 2 bucks give or take or if I have a choice of places find one with a breakfast buffet most of your better truck stops have them and it's real hard to screw up bacon or sausage and eggs. They make different size coolers and almost all truck stops carry them and so do a lot of retail stores so you could get whatever size that would fill your needs , BUT if you go this route I suggest that the first time you plug it in try to do it so that you have access to a battery charger and leave it plugged in for say a 24 hour period without starting the vehicle and see how your battery tolerates this , on the road in unfamiliar territory is not the place to find out that your battery is too small or weak to carry it . This is why I point out that there are different sizes. In summary : if you want to lose weight this is probaly the easiest to stick to, and is certainly effective and even on the road is not all THAT difficult. Good luck(60 lbs. and still on it /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif)

 

[Mrwurm]

Thanks for the recommendations

 

[Slamfire]

A guy on another site has developed gout, you'd want to avoid that!

 

[pruntyc]

I know some people want to fight the diet with the gout scare. But I have had gout, and at a time when I wasn't eating much meat. I got over it, and eat a lot more meat than I did then and don't have it at all now. It is caused by uric acid, and is an end product of protein, that isn't used right by the body. Now if it is from meat or somewhere else is anybodys guess. It runs in familys, and some times they are heavy meat eaters and sometimes not. So I wouldn't quit the Atkins diet over the chance it might cause you to get it. For it might or might not. But you are taking in protein don't matter if its from meat or somewhere else. If you aren't you will most likely have other problems.

 

[Egon]

Just for interest sake The Atkins diet was essentially developed by Dr. Bunting of Insulin fame.

My Daughter has a Bsc. in Foods and Nutrition. She states the Atkins diet may not supply all the proper quanity vitamins and minerals the body requires. It can also be hard on the kidney's. Whole bunch more she said but the words got too long for me.

Egon

 

[pruntyc]

Dr Atkins say that you should also take vitamins to be sure you are getting enough, if you read his book. As far as the kidneys, well it is what most of our forefathers ate. And I guess their kidneys did just fine. And can be hard on them? Well I suppose the medical people that didn't get a name for making the diet has to say something. Like they did say eggs were hard on the heart, don't eat over 2 a week. Now they say that was wrong, so I guess you can believe who you want to. It will change next week or month or year. Like I said it is what most of our forefathers ate. And they died mostly from sickness that they didn't have any medicine to help. And with all the (good food) we are suppose to be getting today, we would be dieing from the same thing.

 

[Egon]

The food we eat today isn't the same as our ancestors ate be it meat or vegtable in nature. The advent of fertilizers changed all that.

As a further note of interest - The Roman Legions marched on a diet of bread dipped in water and vinigar.

Egon

 

[pruntyc]

They might have marched on it, but they wouldn't have lived long on it. People can get by with a lot of things, but only for so long. My stepson got by with smokeing for a number of years to, of course because of it he is on oxygen 24/7 now, and had a heart bypass.