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

[MarkV]

Thcri,

Wow, 60 lbs. /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif, now that has to make you both proud and healthier. Congratulations.

MarkV

 

[fivestring]

Way to go, Murph!!!

My wife has been on it for 2 weeks now and I've lost 3 pounds!!! /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif
She's lost 10 and doesn't crave sugar anymore.
Unfortunately, I lose because with just the two of us, I have to eat what she fixes.... I only weigh 160 now....

 

[tc35dforme]

Wow /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

Sounds like you've got this Atkins Diet dialed in.

I use it to do a quick 10 pounds now and then...you know after that weeks vacation, football season.....

I just haven't been able to get over the hump and stay on it. I'm a text-book Carbo-holic. I could live on bread, rice, and pasta. I don't really go for the sweets, but the other stuff......

 

[Egon]

Diets:

I was always under the impression that calories in and calories of work were balanced all was good. As for Dr. Atkins you will find a lot of diverse opinion on his diet.

Sort of as a side comment those Tour DeFrance cyclists sure don't follow Dr. Atkins diet and they are probably some of the people with the least fat ratio of any athletes going.

There just muscle and lungs the size of beach balls. And their main diet is carbohydrates.

Egon

 

[sendero]

"calories are calories" - there is some truth to that. I get *so* tired of seeing all of these TV commercials "only 6 grams of fat" or "only 8 grams of fat", trust me on this, I can design meals with very low fat that pack on the flab like nobodies business /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

In general, calories are calories, but the Adkins diets works off a "wrinkle". That wrinkle is, if you don't give your body any carbs, it will convert to burning fat instead. Toss that muffin, burn some spare tire /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif And while I've spent most of my life trying *gain* weight, I have overdone it and the Adkins diet will darn sure burn fat, and unlike other diets (for me and most others) it does not burn your lean muscle weight.

But it is a tough diet to stay on, and there is a school of thought that once you go off of the diet, the weight comes back pretty easily unless you are careful.

As for the medical, I'm firmly in the camp that does not believe all of the scare-stuff that doctors used to say about this diet. The medical community is *real* prone to the Not Invented Here syndrome. There is more and more evidence that fat isn't the main culprit in Americans' poor diets, but refined carbs are.

Here is a good little program for counting/tracking fat/carb/proteins.... http://www.terzon.com/eatometer

 

[MReeter]

Gordon,How did you give up the the cigs.? I've been a smoker for 35 years and I know I'm pushin it.I've tried to quit "cold turkey" and I just can't do it.The cravings are just more than I can handle...it takes an addict to understand what the body and the mind endure from Nicotine withdrawal...

I'm ready to try about anything that will "work" to break this habit,I can handle the weight gain and the other "side affects" of quiting,I don't know if my family can "handle" me.

 

[MReeter]

I understand that a "low carb" Beer is Mic. Ultra Lite.I usually drink 3-5 cool Miller Lites every evening,I guess I need to change brands if I want to loose a little weight /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[pruntyc]

On quiting Cigs, cold turkey is the only way you can quit. I smoked for over 40 years and Camels at that. I tryed to quit, and tryed, and tryed. Really it isn't that hard, after you make up your mind that you really are, no matter what. Its a mind thing more than anything else. When you get your mind to believeing it, you can do it. But taper off, no way. I thought I could do it that way. But every time you smoke one more, you are just as hooked as ever. I have been off of them for about 18 years now, and its great to be off of them. The only time I think about it, is some times I dream I am smokeing. Glad when I wake up and don't "need" one. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[pruntyc]

I'll add one more thing about the smokeing. My stepson couldn't quit either. Now he has to have oxygen 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. He had bypass and he still didn't quit, then after being on oxygen for about 5 years he got pnemonia, and they said he was dieing and when he didn't he found out he could quit and finally did. Don't wait that long, its not worth it.

 

[IndianaPaul]

51 pounds off on through Atkins since February, Cholesterol at start 146, now at 150.....And the good to bad ratios are wonderful according to my doc.

Indiana Paul