Atkins Diet?

Question

I would like to know about anyone that has tried the Atkins Diet and how it worked for you, and any advice.

Answer 1

Its rubbish and makes you ill, dont do it. We NEED carbs in opur diet, to cut them out is dangerous and that Atkins should have been shot for the damage he did. Carbs are not the enemy, they are the backbone of a healthy diet. Atkins gives you headaches, bad breath, weakness and lethergy and it screws up your body. You lose weight in the short term but gain it all back once you start eating normally again. The body begins to digest muscle with the Atkins diet and that can kill you. Someone else mentioned ketosis, well thats what its called medically when your body is digesting its own muscle supply.
Look at the GI Diet, its healthy, sustainable and proved to work. It uses normal foods and is balanced for optimum nutrition and energy, its also scientifically approved! I have lost almost 80lb with it in 6 months;

Answer 2

3 years ago at the new year i went on atkins. i followed it quite closely and also started walking about 45 minutes a day( brisk pace). i lost 40 pounds in the first 6 months. i then loosened up on the diet a bit and lost an additional 20 over the next 12 months. i am eating normally again (with less QUANTITY, and better quality and have kept the weight off for 3 years.
when i feel "icky"...i realise i havent been walking. i think excersize is a huge key in keeping fit physically and mentally.

in retrospect....i dont think that atkins is terribly healthy. BUT... i feel much healthier at the weight i am now because of atkins! if i went lo carb again...i would follow south beach.

and the bad breath is horrific - ask my husband. ;)

Answer 3

When I was first diagnosed w/diabetes, I tried and Atkins-like diet --- I cut the carbs out of my diet almost completely. I found out from my dietitian later that you need 45-60 grams of carbs per main meal, 3x a day and about 15 grams per snack (2x/day) JUST TO KEEP YOUR BRAIN FUNCTIONING PROPERLY. Visit you health care professional and a nutritionist and ask LOTS of questions before starting any diet. And exercise, exercise, exercise. Even walking 30 minutes a day helps. So though this doesn't exactly answer the question of the success of an Atkins diet, I hope it helps.

Answer 4

I agree with the first answer...I had much better luck with South Beach.

The reason atkins works is IF you can successfully do it, your body goes into kitosis and runs only on fat, so basically you will go through withdrawls before that happens which is why so many people cave in at the begining. I guess my willpower is not so good, there are carbs in everything (it seems, I know they aren't in everything).

My aunt had good success with atkins though, and she swears by it. I however can not survive on eggs, tuna and black olives. Goodluck and look into south beach!

Answer 5

I tried it and it worked for a small amount of time but I honestly couldn't keep doing it. Not only did I develop tremendously bad breath (due to ketosis), but my food selections were so limited that I was craving good tasting foods all the time. Plus, I became constipated (I think this was only a temporary thing though).

I've talked to my friends about their experiences and we have similar stories.

Anyway, I ended up losing about 15 pounds on Atkins but when I failed I gained about the same back. Then I just decided to start monitoring what I ate and I began walking 30 minutes a day (just a light stroll). Today I'm 115 pounds lighter, I don't have high blood pressure or high blood sugar any longer and I feel much better.

Wish you luck.

Answer 6

It works well if you follow the plan. Even with a few small cheats (1 cookie at night) I lost weight. I worked out hard and saw results quickly. However, it's true when they say it's a lifestyle change. You can't just do it for a while to lose a certain amount and then go back to eating how you want so beware. I didn't have a lot to lose so I didn't get into the habit of being on the plan nor did I really want to give up cake for life.

Answer 7

Ok, I see the uneducated diet people came out today. Let me grab a cup of coffee.......Lets begin.

First... DO NOT WATER FAST!

Second... The problem with atkins is that nobody followed it correctly. Dr. Atkins got many better, but it was because he monitored it. Everyone else went willy nilly on it. They did not read the book, and just went on a no carb bonanza. That was not what he was saying. Dr. Atkins said cut out sugar, simple carbs (white bread, pasta), pop, and anything high in the glycemic index such as bananas. You cut carbs out to get to ketosis (where your body uses fat instead of carbs for food, then you brought back in complex carbs. (just like South Beach except South Beach says no red meat).

It was not the egg yokes that caused the lady's migranes, it was the fact her body was coming off of the carbs and learning a new way. Her body was having withdrawls from the poison of sugar.

Third.. Carbs are not the backbone of a healthy diet. The govt's food pyramid is a joke and is there to promote agriculture not you health. Ask yourself this, are we healthier today, then 30 years ago. I say not. More diseases are caused by poor diet then ever before. Humans have walked this earth for hundreds of thousands of years. Agriculture was only introduced 6000 years ago. We were meat and berry eaters, not grain eaters. Grains have wiped out whole peoples when introduced into societies.

When you cook grains and proccessed foods, they release a substance that is toxic to the body. We were not designed to eat the amount of carbs we take in, esp processed.

The true cause of heart disease, high blood pressure, cholesterol, has more to do with grains, sugar and insulin levels. This is being fought because processed food is big biz.

Best advice, cut pop, sugar, simple carbs, most fruits, and all processed foods.

Eat berries, Green veggies and cauliflower, meats,

Buy Wolcotts book on Metabolic Diets and Dr. Mercola's book Total Health

Go to the website below and get educated on the dangers of carbs. Type in any subject and there will be an article. They are not natural too us. We eat too many and it is killing us. Look at the incidence of Diabetes type 2 (not genetic, sorry) RA, Lupus, Chrons, Pelvic disorders. All have to do or in part have to do with poor diets.


Good luck

Edit: Dieticians are stuck with the food pyramid. They have been taught wrong. Look elsewhere. Once again, look at the health of this nation. It is getting worse, we are getting larger. We need better exercise and a better diet.

Your brain can run off of ketosis, mine has done so for years. Ask yourself this, how many patients of Dr Atkins sued him? And why can't scientists prove him wrong?

The only reason Atkins is bad for the long term is because people go back to pounding carbs once they have lost weight. They need to stay away from simple carbs forever.

Atkins in not unhealthy, we are just told that all fats are bad. This is furthest from the truth. Remember, since the low fat diets started, obesity has increased, diabetes has increased, and other heart condisitions have increased. Heart disease is still the number 1 killer, then cancer. Hmmmmm. Look at the sugar cancer connection.

Answer 8

Diabetes is usually treated through a combination of diet (low sugar), exercise and medications/insulin. Milder cases can be controlled with just diet an/or exercise while more severe cases require meds or insulin as well.
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Answer 9

Eat a diet filled with all natural healthy whole foods

Answer 10

muscle burns at least four times as many calories as fat does so try twenty minutes of strength straining two to three times a week