how does the atkins diet work i would like to try it?

Answer 1

You cut all carbohydrates from your diet (including fruits and grains). Fruits give you the majority of the vitamins and minerals the body needs to function.

You eat meat (high in protein, fat and cholesterol) and dark, leafy green vegetables for the first 2 weeks. This is when the bulk of the weight loss occurs, I think.

Like any crash diet, you lose a lot of weight, but when you go back to your normal eating, you gain it all back and then some.

Answer 2

Atkins Diet if i'm not mistake is basically an all protein diet. This diet in particular is very similar or basically is a low carb diet. You starve yourself body from carbs. Carbs are the main source of energy, so when you run low on carbs which is what happens on Atkins, your body then begins to turn to stored fat as a source of energy. However I would NOT recommend you try this diet. The results come quickly but can also pile back on quickly. When on the Atkins diet for a while, your body gets use to the lack of carbs. When you reintroduce carbs back into your body, your body becomes very sensitive to carbs. And if your not careful, in a short amount of time you can add many pounds back on.

Hope this helps.

Answer 3

Our ancestors lived on a diet of whole grains, vegetables, and meat. Dr. Atkins thinks that this diet is what kept us from disease and obesity.
If you avoid going down the supermarket isles, and only buy from the perimeters of the supermarket, you could be close to a very good diet. Vegtables, meat, and dairy products.
What puts the pounds on is sugar, white flour, refined carbs-pasta, cookies, cereal, crackers, ect, all that is found if you stray into the isles. It is that simple.
The only thing about Dr. Atkins diet is that you can become constipated-so I would suggest eating more vegtables and fruit.

Answer 4

In short, it causes "keytosis" so your body literally eats itself to survive.

According to his book, Atkins specifically designed the diet as a cardiologist with patients often weighing over 800 pounds. They needed surgery but it wasn't possible to cut through all the fat. He designed the diet because it was more risky to not have the surgery than to induce keytosis in a patient. So it wasn't that the diet was considered "safe" but rather than it posed fewer risks than the alternative.

It's all about context.

Answer 5

I was on this a couple of years ago for about 6 weeks and it almost put me into kidney failure. All the ketones (which are the thing you are supposed to look for on that diet) all the protein caused my kidneys to want to shut down. It was baaaaad. I suggest the South Beach diet. It's kind of the same thing, but you don't totally cut out carbs. You can actually have fruits and veggies on that one. The diet that worked BEST for me, though was the one at www.slimfast.com. I lost all my extra weight on that and have kept it off!!!!!!!

Answer 6

I heard that Dr. Atkins died overweight and a diabetic. His diet does work, but you have to stay on it for life.

Answer 7

Lots of carbs and lots of fat. Not the healthiest diet around, but I know people that have lost weight on it..however, as for their cholesterol etc....I'd be worried..Good Luck

Answer 8

its meats, veggies and whole wheat. It is not that healthy and it often leads to gallbladder/stone problems