Anyone doing Atkins Diet? Need to start ASAP!

Dilvish wrote: »

Forget the advice from Danp and others like it. There is a difference in diets. The studies prove that low carb diets like Atkins or Keto have a better effect on weight loss.

For the original poster, I would suggest just using MFP to track what you eat at first. Don't try to do it all at once because sustained weight loss takes time and is essentially a lifestyle change that has to stick after your goal weight is reached.place

You've taken the first step in recognizing that you are overweight. Now realize what got you there in the first place...most likely poor eating habits and little or no regular exercise.

Start by removing all the crap. Cut out fast food, processed packaged food and start making your own meals and snacks. Try to avoid refined sugar in all it's forms (corn syrup, dextrose, sucrose anything ending in -ose). Stay away from soda and fruit juice. Diet soda is okay as long as you have only one serving (8oz) per day.

Find an exercise routine that you can enjoy and stick to. Walking is a good start. Humans were designed to move and so the more you move the better you feel. Added weight can be a burden for exercising so consider weightless exercise at the local swimming pool - water walking, water calisthenics, swimming, water aerobics etc..

And lastly don't expect the weight to come flying off. It will take time to lose 50 - 100 lbs. just keep trying and keep moving forward.

Ultimately keeping your carb intake below 30-50g per day will go a long way in aiding your weight loss. Low carb diets like keto have enough evidence to prove they work fundamentally better for people with health related weight issues.

Bro science. There is no right or wrong way to lose weight. Cut calories so you're losing 1lb a week (if you're bigger you'll lose more at the beginning). Atkins is just a way to cut calories. Keto is another way to cut calories. Paleo, yet another way to cut calories.

Most of us here just eat less, weigh our food and log it.

Find what you can sustain for a lifetime. If you can eat so little carbs for the rest of your life then Atkins might be for you. If you find it too restrictive, then try something else.

It's all about trial and error but don't let someone tell you there is only one way to lose weight and that restricted carbs will keep the weight off (If I ate 30-50 grams of carbs a day I'd lose my job due to hangriness. I eat 150-200g of carbs a day and lose easily and have maintained as well)

Losing weight will aid in health related weight issues.

Good luck. You seem to be motivated and have the right mindset to want to do this.

Dilvish wrote: »

Forget the advice from Danp and others like it. There is a difference in diets. The studies prove that low carb diets like Atkins or Keto have a better effect on weight loss.

For the original poster, I would suggest just using MFP to track what you eat at first. Don't try to do it all at once because sustained weight loss takes time and is essentially a lifestyle change that has to stick after your goal weight is reached.place

You've taken the first step in recognizing that you are overweight. Now realize what got you there in the first place...most likely poor eating habits and little or no regular exercise.

Start by removing all the crap. Cut out fast food, processed packaged food and start making your own meals and snacks. Try to avoid refined sugar in all it's forms (corn syrup, dextrose, sucrose anything ending in -ose). Stay away from soda and fruit juice. Diet soda is okay as long as you have only one serving (8oz) per day.

Find an exercise routine that you can enjoy and stick to. Walking is a good start. Humans were designed to move and so the more you move the better you feel. Added weight can be a burden for exercising so consider weightless exercise at the local swimming pool - water walking, water calisthenics, swimming, water aerobics etc..

And lastly don't expect the weight to come flying off. It will take time to lose 50 - 100 lbs. just keep trying and keep moving forward.

Ultimately keeping your carb intake below 30-50g per day will go a long way in aiding your weight loss. Low carb diets like keto have enough evidence to prove they work fundamentally better for people with health related weight issues.

LOL! Looks like my Woo Stalker has stepped out of the shadows. Cute!

Look OP, you'll get a lot of great, useful and sage advice on this forum from people who are very experienced in successfully managing their weight. You'll also find a lot of information based on conjecture, anecdotal fallacies and misinformation so you'll need to evaluate what you're reading and decide for yourself what you take away.

I'll suggest when evaluating the advice you receive here, a great indication to help separate the wheat from the chaff is to see which posts garner likes from the community and which posts get smashed by the 'Woo' react to indicate that the community is in disagreement with the information provided.

So consider the advice I and others have provided, or not. That's up to you to decide and makes no difference to me, so I wish you all the best however you go about getting the results you want.

Dilvish wrote: »

Forget the advice from Danp and others like it. There is a difference in diets. The studies prove that low carb diets like Atkins or Keto have a better effect on weight loss.

This is false. In studies where calories are monitored, low carb does not do better. In studies based on ad litem eating where diets are paired to have equal protein and to prioritize healthy foods, again, no difference. In some studies where people are monitoring their own calories and the low carb people have MORE protein and the supposedly low fat diet is basically the SAD (30% fat gets defined as low fat), there is a SHORT TERM advantage to the low carb (which could be water weight but likely is that changing your diet a lot and increasing protein will of course help with cutting cals in the short term). This advantage is gone after 6 months to a year.

Start by removing all the crap. Cut out fast food, processed packaged food and start making your own meals and snacks. Try to avoid refined sugar in all it's forms (corn syrup, dextrose, sucrose anything ending in -ose). Stay away from soda and fruit juice. Diet soda is okay as long as you have only one serving (8oz) per day.

Why are you acting like you are the expert on what OP eats and how he should eat?

When I decided (in 2014) that I needed lose weight, your advice would have been useless to me, as I never ate fast food, ate very little highly processed stuff, cooked mainly from whole foods, never drank calories. I added in more of some packaged foods (smoked salmon, cottage cheese, greek yogurt, canned beans, for a while oats, and frozen fruit and greens), which was helpful to me. I also eventually decided to include in my diet about 200 cal of ice cream a few days a week and continued to eat out (nice/interesting restaurants) about once a week.

IMO, a much better way to put this, instead of assuming OP eats tons of fast food or telling him he must never ever eat fast food is recommending that if he does not eat a balanced healthy diet, it would be good for his health to do so, as well as figuring out where the excess calories were coming from and addressing that.

Some people find it easier to make small changes to the diet over time. Some apparently like a huge overhaul (but for many that makes it harder to stick to). Some prefer to focus on a simpler component like seeing if low carb will work. Low carb for some can be a helpful tool, especially since often foods that are overeaten are high in fat and carbs and thus low carb forces change while still allowing some more indulgent feeling foods (and giving the more calories for them without the carbs). It's about personal preference and knowing oneself, the same advice doesn't work for everyone and reciting a list of rules as if they are, in fact, rules and requirements, and you can't succeed without doing them doesn't make sense to me, since it's not accurate.