Atkins for Life Here

Well, sounds like you/ve been doing well on it. Keep it up!!

Dont pay attention to mean people...thats why you have the option to choose who you want as your pal on here
Keep up the good work :flowerforyou:

if it's working for you and you are being monitored by your doctor then I don't see a problem. I did atkins a few years ago and lost 20+ lbs but gained it all back. I try to do a low carb diet, I'm trying to stay at 100 or under.

My goal is to continue on my journey into maintenance phase and then find my critical carb limit. I know I can never go back to "normal" eating. My normal is eating low carb. If I eat high carb junk I binge and gain. I am a carb addict. I know it. I am the only one who really matters on this journey. Support me or get out of my way. Nuff said.

Lajauna, I can totally relate---I am on a special program too that is low carb, and I found out immediately that this is what I need to lose the weight. The weight is falling off me IN fact, I don't even crave that stuff anymore which is amazing. Once I hit my goal, i will slowly add more carbs in like a piece of fruit, or whole grain pasta/beans, but none of that processed crap that I now know I don't need in my life because it was the cause of my obesity to begin with.

Good luck to you hun---

How do yous manage to curb your carb craving? I find once I start eating them I can't stop eating bread, pasta, sweet and much more.

My bad I am new...I meant to ask what is PCOS?

Hi there People should not be harsh, and the good Lord calls us not to judge others, but to try to be helpful.

I personally did Atkins for a little bit. Then I learned a few thinks taking health and nutrition classes in college that made me change my diet. It will work in losing weight. I dropped 20lbs on it. And in the short term it can be okay for a boost, but in the long haul it is really damaging to your body. Organs, muscles, etc. Your brain essentially runs on complex carbs as do your muscles. So just be very cautious okay. I am glad that you are under a doctors care. That is a good thing.

So I say good luck and God bless in your journey to lose weight. :bigsmile:

I have never met someone who lost a lot of weight on Atkins and kept it off. I know that there are probably some out there, but it just doesn't seem practical to cut a whole macronutrient out of your diet, which you admit you enjoy, for the rest of your life. I have no doubt that the pounds will come off and you will lose the weight -- just worried about what happens when you get there. I know people on low carb diets can gain pounds simply by eating a few cookies or a couple slices of pizza because of how their body reacts.

Good luck to you and I hope you do everything right, but please don't get upset when people are trying to look out for you. If they didn't care, they wouldn't speak up and say anything.

The reason people are probably negative to you on here is because atkins is not safe.

http://www.webmd.com/diet/features/wheres-the-beef-wheres-the-health-benefit

Written by a registered dietician, they have more nutrition training than most doctors.

Also, most people lose weight by going to atkins because they cut out the cookies and donuts and the junk food. You can get the same results just by cutting that stuff out, and eating healthy, and safely.

I find the hate for the Atkins approach generally misguided, and not a single person that has big issues with it has ever even read his book, at least not 99% of the people I have met personally or talked to. Most only know what the media has told them. I also think that people with a few nutrition classes under their belts can be critical, but mostly because they are taught the old school stuff that's been around forever and yet American society in particular is fatter than ever...doesn't seem to be working to me.

Another group that is annoying is the "It didn't work for me" or "I GAINED weight on it!". These again are people that didn't read the book and just got the media message of "Eat tons of meat and cheese and loose weight!". Never mind that Atkins encourages the consumption of GOOD carbs, and plenty of veggies. People focus on Induction as the entire thing, when there are several well planned phases that get you to make better choices for you, and add carbs back in, some people that become more active to the tune of perhaps 100g or more a day, that doesn't seem like a huge carb defecit to me.

Furthermore when people say "When you go off of it you'll gain it all back" is a stupid argument. Sure if you go away from the principals of staying away from foods that make you gain weight and binging and gorging yourself on processed crap you're going to gain weight. I imagine that if you went off of a low fat diet and started eating tons of fried chicken, or went off of a calorie controlled diet and starting eating 4000+ calories a day of processed crap you'd gain weight too.

I'm personally back on the diet bandwagon because I was an idiot. I started reaching for horrible junk food, which produced cravings for more of it. I also have an issue with portion control, so the issue was compounded. If I'd just made better choices in what I ate I'd have maintained the weight loss longer than 2.5 years. Atkins is not a diet, it's a lifestyle change, and one that I really think I want to get back to. Never felt or ate better in my life to be completely honest.

The reason people are probably negative to you on here is because atkins is not safe.

http://www.webmd.com/diet/features/wheres-the-beef-wheres-the-health-benefit

Written by a registered dietician, they have more nutrition training than most doctors.

Also, most people lose weight by going to atkins because they cut out the cookies and donuts and the junk food. You can get the same results just by cutting that stuff out, and eating healthy, and safely.

Read that article and it sounds like they haven't even studied the diet they are bashing. Several of the statements about low carb fly directly in the face of what Atkins talks about...again it's NOT ALL MEAT AND CHEESE!

All these doctors that rail against the diet are morons to be blunt, I asked a few doctors in my time about their dislike of the diet and they admitted THEY hadn't even read the book, or liturature, but surely it couldn't be good....2 of those were dieticians. Also, surely doctors can admit that not everyone is the same, with the same issues and chemistry and eating low fat is not good for everyone. Been there and done that with each type of diet and low fat has to be the most miserable to be on, easiest to slip out of and easiest to gain back from in my opinion. Plus the food all tastes like crap and is loaded with sugar in a poor attempt to make it more palletable.

Take that for what you will, but I generally detest doctors now after years of misdiagnosis, unwillingness to listen and the complete disregard for anything that the patient has to say (about things other than, but also including weight loss).

In my mind, there isn't any room for negativity or hositility on a site that is supposed to breed support.

I was successful losing weight using Atkins and I did read Dr. Atkins' books (including the "Atkins Diet: New Diet Revolution"). His approach does work and, as I said, I lost almost 40 pds, but this wasn't a way of eating I could commit to for longer than 19 months. It got to a point where if I ate one more cheeseburger pie or cauliflower crust pizza, I would get sick. However, as the OP mentions, I belonged to another forum where people live this way and continue to be successful.

Bottom line is just because it didn't work for me doesn't put me in a position to judge someone else's choices particularly if that someone is being monitored by his/her doctor who is of course more cognizant of this person's health than we are.

Good luck OP.

this is day 2 for me on this website I have a confession I have a addiction I "my body" loves carbs, I want and need them when i put a fry in my mouth i'm thinking should i make more?? I am unable to have one or two portions of bread, rice, pasta, ..........

I have turned to the new Atkins life style I am learning how to eat, what to eat, and yes when to eat!! I have done many other diets and gained more back.

with atkins you realy lose your cravings for sweets, chips, high carb foods with atkins I do not lay in bed thinking what and when will i eat, my tummy is not hungry, I'm full my doctor has given me a go-a-head.

it my family that is having a problem they think that if i have just one or cut back and I could lose my weight, But if I have one chip well I'm going to have one more, than well just a few... .... . . . . . . . . . . . ..... then the bag will be gone I'm not good with just having one dip of ice cream.

I need to stay away from carbs I like them to much!!! luckly for me going low carb has taken my cravings away. I still have a long way to go!!!! that is why I have joined this site, I can track in carb intake and I hope I will have friend that are doing the same thing "atkins" that will help me and maybe help them with a kind word of two

If it works for you thats all that matters, I just wanted to add that the Atkins Diet was THE ONLY diet that made my mother's cholesterol levels go down to NORMAL!! No one believed her "There's no way you could be on the Atkin's diet and lower your cholesterol" well hers did go down!! She went off the diet, gained most of her weight back and her cholesterol went through the roof. It is the only diet that she lost weight on as well (especially her mid section) so needless to say she is back on the Atkins