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The reason people feel deprived on Atkins is because they don't follow the plan correctly, have never read the book and get hung up on induction. If you do Atkins 20 (Induction), after 2 weeks you begin adding carbs back according to the carb ladder. If you do Atkins 40 (new plan since last January, there is no induction…

A low carb diet is less than 100 carbs a day or less. It is not a high protein diet. It is a high fat diet. Before you tell me how terrible that is, would you please explain why the American Diabetes Association now supports low carb diets, they are prescribed for epilepsy, PCOS and other ailments and the list continues to…

Food is not good or bad. You need to get over that mentality. I eat no processed foods, sweets or salty foods. After the first week, I've never wanted them again (over 3 years now). When I did taste them, they tasted terrible.

A pound is a pound. Muscle takes up less space than fat.

Neither. You certainly aren't building muscle because you haven't been lifting long enough. To be on a pleateau, you weight can't have changed any in at least 4 weeks. Weight loss isn't linear. If you burned exactly the same number of calories every day and ate exactly the same thing, you would not lose concistently. Set…

What you lost was mostly water weight, not actual fat.

Starvation mode has been proven by science to be a myth.

There's nothing strange about veggies with every meal. You can put them in omelets, drink as juice, have a poached egg on spinach, etc.

If you can't exercise you will lose muscle along with fat. You won't be as healthy as someone who exercises, but you will be thinner. Be sure to get ample protein from beans, tofu, etc.

There are no carbs in meat. They are found in fruits and vegetables and dairy when you are low carbing. I low carb and I also have celiac disease so wheat, rye, and barley could literally kill me. Low carb diets are being scientifically proven to help those with PCOS, diabetes, epilepsy and other diseases.

It's been scientifically proven that carbs are the least satisfying food and fat and protein keep you feeling full longer. The carbs you listed are processed junk your body doesn't need.

Actually your heart is your strongest muscle and if you don't take care of it, you die. Willpower doesn't exist. We make choices. They either support our goals or they don't, it's as simple as that.

You should never eat to feeling full. You should stop when you are satisfied. Hunger is not always a need for food, but a mental response to what we ate. More fat and less carbs keeps you satisfied much longer.

You aren't close to Atkins with those percentages. Atkins is a high fat, medium protein, low carb plan. Fat should be 60-70% of daily calories from things like nuts, avocado, healthy oils, butter and real foods. You automatically lose water weight when you cut carbs because for every gram of carbs you eat, 4 grams of water…

Just do it. I schedule exercise on my calendar just like any other appointment and then I go do it. You need 30 minutes of heart raising activity every day just to be healthy.

You don't count normal daily activity - and that includes steps for those of you who wear a pedometer - as exercise. Standing all day burns few actual calories over those needed to maintain your body.

Just being in a calorie deficit does not guarantee weight loss. If it did, we could all eat fast food and junk and be skinny. Do your research and you will find that the calorie deficit = weight loss has been debunked.

Hi, I'm actually 73 with 10-15 pounds to lose.

Willpower is a myth. You have choices. You can choose to do what helps you reach your goal or choose not to. Its as simple as that.

Both brown and white rice are high in arsenic. Eat sparingly! There is nothing wrong with ketosis. You are confusing it with the diabetic version. Carbs are found in vegetables, dairy, fruit so there is no need for the GMOs you get these days in grains.

How can Atkins be any more dangerous than any other way of eating when after the 2 weeks of Induction you are to begin adding carbs back and when you reach the top of the carb ladder, no food is off limit? You are the one that needs to do research. Low carb is now being used as a long term diet for epilepsy and that is…

Welcome. You'll find lots of friends and support here.

Your ignorance of nutrition is showing and its scary to think you might be let loose on unsuspecting people. Why do you keep posting your ignorant ideas here? Obviously you know nothing about low carb. Low carb is 100 or less net carbs, not 50. I guess someone has to graduate at the bottom of the class.

Perhaps you are being too picky about this. Actual macros for foods depend on where it was grown or how it was fed, chemicals used, shipping, how long in storage. Unless you have a laboratory in your house and the equipment to test for the macros, there is no way to be 100% accurate. For packaged/prepared foods, the food…

The more protein I eat, the better I feel and the more weight I loose. I aim for 100 grams a day.

When Atkins is done properly, Induction for 2 weeks the climbing the carb ladder (10 rungs) no food is off limits forever.

In addition to the weight loss, this also tests your ability to follow instructions and a diet since that will be critical post-op. If you can't follow it now, bypass surgery is a waste of money.

When you eat doesn't matter, but what your eat does if you want to get adequate nutrition to be healthy. Slowly cut back on the treats and add some good veggies, fruits, protein, dairy or fat in their place.

Atkins 40 for me. You can add me if you want.

If they knew anything at all about Atkins, they would know it is moderate protein and high fat and Induction is only for 2 weeks unless you have a lot to use. After that you start climbing the carb ladder until rung 10 where nothing is off limit and you know how many carbs you can eat without gaining.