Anyone doing Atkins?

What is your reasoning for doing atkins?

Is there a medical reason you need to be on a low carb diet?

If not, then there are much better options, easier options to maintain.

Whats easier for you may not be easier for some one else.

What is your reasoning for doing atkins?

Is there a medical reason you need to be on a low carb diet?

If not, then there are much better options, easier options to maintain.

I'm sure the OP has done their homework.

I think the main reason most people doing low carbs is for better health!

But hey if your happy with your health as it is keep eating high carbs.

If the OP had really done their homework, they wouldn't be trying Atkins.

What is your reasoning for doing atkins?

Is there a medical reason you need to be on a low carb diet?

If not, then there are much better options, easier options to maintain.

I'm sure the OP has done their homework.

I think the main reason most people doing low carbs is for better health!

But hey if your happy with your health as it is keep eating high carbs.

If the OP had really done their homework, they wouldn't be trying Atkins.

She didn't look on PETA or other vegan propaganda sites.

I wouldn't recommend that. PETA and propaganda sites would give you no good information. Why would anyone want to read propaganda? It seems you have based your opinions on meat propaganda, so i guess the answer to that last question is you.

Personally, unlike some, (cough, you , cough) i prefer reputable sources. I'd recommend studying medical journals, epidemiology and the work of the many doctors who have reversed and cured diseases by putting patients on proper whole foods diets.

Both the Atkins diet and the Heller (Carbohydrate addicts diet) work because the body is not putting out insulin as often. Insulin is the hunger hormone. That is why many of us have cravings for more when we eat carbs, especially foods with a high glycemic index.
I did the Atkins diet years ago. I had tons of energy and never got cravings or the "shakes" from low blood sugar, an affliction I have had all my life.
Yes, no matter what diet plan, including simple calorie restriction, anyone will gain weight if they go back to their old habits. You can hardly blame the diet for that. Weight loss can only be maintained by changing one's eating habits FOR LIFE.

There is nothing unsafe or unhealthy about the low carb way of eating. Lets not forget that the Inuit people lived on fish, meat and blubber and were very healthy with no heart disease until they adopted the Western diet. The Masai people of Africa live on fermented milk, meat and blood and are very lean healthy people.

I totally agree with Kate! If your a true carboholic, you will be miserably full, yet your brain is telling you to eat, eat, eat! Grant it I have just started this diet on 1/27, but once I detoxified myself, (the first 5 days of low carbs), I can't believe the change in my brain chemistry! When I have fallen off of the wagon and eaten something with too many carbs, I end up paying for it, fighting those cravings, and getting back on the wagon.

I am finally, finally able to maintain a low calorie diet without thinking about food constantly. I have PCOS which is a syndrome that many women have, they will know what I mean about the compulsion so intense you can't fight it to eat carbs. Now I watch as other's eat carbs, and I have no problem with it.

I eat more vegetables now than I did before, most of my carbs, nearly all are comprised of veggies. But in diets where I did the same thing but ate carbs, I finally gave in to the compulsions. Hi my name is Angel and I am a carboholic.

There are clear instructions on what one is to do to step their carbs up as they approach their goal weight, but just like a diabetic, this will likley be a life long struggle. But I feel so much better, but most of all, I am finally in control of my eating! I eat A LOT of natural unprocessed foods, I eat a lot of chicken, eggs, cheese and fish and about once/twice a week some beef. I am getting better and better in tune with my body, whereas before I could not hear my body for the screaming in my brain telling me to eat.

As far as science goes, more and more studies are coming out that support this diet / lifestyle change.

I actually don't see much difference in what I am doing now as opposed to what I did on WW except for the cheese, avocados and the intense hunger and cravings are gone. Insulin is a powerful catalyst in your brain chemistry to eat, and one that I have hopefully silenced.

I am starting on my second week of Atkins, still in the induction stage, and while the first four days were rough for me and I have lost 8 pounds so far, mostly water weight as described in the book. Every forum and site I have visited has given me a lot of good information and advice...mainly this, everyone is different (great emphasis on different) and will have to tweek their low-carb life style from time to time.

One thing that I have noticed is that my ability to strenuously exercise has gone way down and as I add more carbs to my diet in the future I think it will regulate and not be as noticeable. I still work out though, even if at a slower pace, and I enjoy it more sometimes because before I would feel all this pressure to really workout hard and sometimes that kills the joy that comes from exercise.

I stay away from the Atkins products...just a money maker for the Atkins brand, the book is essential though and also getting support from others that are following the plan. I am lucky because I only have one person in my immediate life and he doesn't make me feel silly or try to openly sabotage this attempt at a low carb lifestyle. That being said I make his food and he isn't on a low carb diet so I do get tempted.

I like this diet so far in that I feel a lot more in control of how my body functions after the first few days.

Hi all!
I am new to Atkins, been doing it for almost 3 weeks now. The main difference I have been doing is eating nuts during induction, simply because I find them incredibly filling.
I always really disagreed with very low carb diets but since starting this I can say, hand on heart, that I have found it easy to stick to and have the opposite of the possible side effects. I sleep better than I have in years, I (excuse me here lol) erm go to the toilet at least once a day (instead of 2 or 3 times a week), feel full (for example I ate my dinner at about half 8 tonight whereas normally I am famished by 6pm) and in general feel so much better. I have PCOS and a low carb diet is supposed to be one of the best ways to try and help naturally ease the symptoms. Normally I have a very light period and feel extremely bloated and sore for days. I have had the first proper period in about a year starting last week - although this could be pure co-incidence of course as I am only 3 weeks into this diet.
The ONLY problem I am finding is completely kicking sugar. I have tried today, for the first time ever, to have my coffee with no sugar. It tastes like crap but I have to persist.
I also read about a rice alternative that I purchased today, called Slim Rice. Stunk like fish when i opened the packed but rinsed it several times and cooked it and had it with some sausages and cheese. Sounds manky but was yummy.
Best of luck everyone!

Hi! I'm eating low carb to lose 25lbs. Logging food and exercise everyday! Feel free to add me

Just joined myfitnesspal but have been low carb (Atkins) since May 2013 and have lost 65 lbs. Went that route because I was an insulin dependent diabetic. Stopped taking insulin and stopped eating carbs the same day and feel great about it. Have a ways to go, but this is definately working for me. Have recently added some fruit, and beans back into my diet and I have one meal a week where I "splurge and eat a carb I normally wouldn't. (ie - small baked potato, cheddar garlic bisquit from Red Lobster, etc.) Am now concentrating on portion control - still low carb - to ensure I can re-introduce some carbs and keep losing. I have no doubt that I have adjusted well enough to maintain my goal weight with this program.

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