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Can someone please show me a site about the atkin's diet?

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Chrono

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Hi guys, exactly what the topic says. I want to lose 20 more lbs to my target weight for 160. I wanna see what this famed atkin's diet consists of.
Thanks much.
 
Good call - I could use to drop a few pounds myself too.

But then I could also afford to get off my ass just a bit more! 😉
 
If you plan on keeping that weight off long term Atkins isn't likely to be your best bet. If, however, you want to lose it fast and bounce back up after go for it.
 
Originally posted by: Skoorb
If you plan on keeping that weight off long term Atkins isn't likely to be your best bet. If, however, you want to lose it fast and bounce back up after go for it.
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Yeah, you can't think of it as "the atkins diet", you need to think of it as "the atkins lifestyle". no, i'm not on it, but that's what i always hear from people who do it. no matter how much you lose by doing it, you WILL gain most of it back as soon as you quit.
 
Originally posted by: Skoorb
If you plan on keeping that weight off long term Atkins isn't likely to be your best bet. If, however, you want to lose it fast and bounce back up after go for it.
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This is not true. I went on the Atkins diet a couple of years ago and permanently kept the weight off. I think a MAJOR factor here is the same as with any other diet- If you keep doing what you did to lose the weight, you'll keep it off. However, if you return to the lifestyle that made you fat, you'll return to being fat.

I've stuck with the diet, and no longer eat refined pasta, sugar, or soda. I got used to the lifestyle of not eating those thing.

However, my friend, who's Italian, went on the diet but could not avoid eating pasta since it was made at his house all the time. So he returned to eating pasta, and returned to being fat.
 
I think a MAJOR factor here is the same as with any other diet- If you keep doing what you did to lose the weight, you'll keep it off. However, if you return to the lifestyle that made you fat, you'll return to being fat.
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Agreed 100%. The problem with the majority of diets is not that they don't work, but that the dieter doesn't work and reverts back to previous bodily abuses. My take, however, is that the Atkins is harder to stick with long term than many more "moderate" diets.
 
Originally posted by: mjquilly
Originally posted by: Skoorb
If you plan on keeping that weight off long term Atkins isn't likely to be your best bet. If, however, you want to lose it fast and bounce back up after go for it.
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Yeah, you can't think of it as "the atkins diet", you need to think of it as "the atkins lifestyle". no, i'm not on it, but that's what i always hear from people who do it. no matter how much you lose by doing it, you WILL gain most of it back as soon as you quit.
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Bingo....

It's all about lifestyle.

Let's say you lead the lifestyle you wanted, but that made you weigh 250lbs. Now if you temporarily changed your lifestyle (a diet or workout routine) you'll lose weight and get in better shape. However, if you get sick of dieting or working out and return to your old lifestyle, you'll return to your old weight.

A better way to go about thinking about this is that you need to maintain the lifestyle to maintain your weight.
 
Originally posted by: Skoorb
I think a MAJOR factor here is the same as with any other diet- If you keep doing what you did to lose the weight, you'll keep it off. However, if you return to the lifestyle that made you fat, you'll return to being fat.
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Agreed 100%. The problem with the majority of diets is not that they don't work, but that the dieter doesn't work and reverts back to previous bodily abuses. My take, however, is that the Atkins is harder to stick with long term than many more "moderate" diets.
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I guess it all depends on the individual. Let's say someone eats like crap but they go to the gym 3 times a week and stays in shape that way. Some people have the desire to keep going to the gym, others don't. Or, someone might be able to eat low carb food, while others can't.

Since I've been on it for a while, I've found what works for me. The big thing is in the details... finding out what's healthy to eat that you like. For instance, I switched from white bread to whole wheat bread. Before, it never really made a difference to me which one I ate, but now I make sure to stick with whole wheat bread since it isn't processed and doesn't get absorbed like white bread does. No big loss for me there. Also, I gave up drinking soda. At first it was hard since I liked that sweet taste. But now I only drink water, and I don't miss soda at all. And when I buy peanut butter I get the kind without sugar added. Most of these things people don't ever really think about, but if you look into it you can make a huge impact on your carb intake that way.

The longer you're on it, the more you'll get used to it.

 
f the atkins diet. I you value your kidneys don't bother
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Sheesh, a lot of people make such strong claims without having any working knowledge on the subject. Most just repeat other strong language that they've heard. At least if you've read the book,fully understand the concepts and your medical knowledge disagrees with the concepts stated you'd have some basis to talk. But those who have "just heard" things and don't really know should keep their mouth shut.


The Atkins diet doesn't ruin your kidneys if you're a healthy person. If you have serious kidney problems and you diet, then you can have problems. Just as if you have heart problems and start jogging, you can have problems.
 
Originally posted by: amnesiac
Are there any studies showing long term effects of this diet?
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Not really. Most people thought that long term it would be bad for you. Many do still think that way, but some recent studies have shown that at least in some areas Atkins can be healthy.

 
Originally posted by: jst0ney
f the atkins diet. I you value your kidneys don't bother.
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ONLY if you increase the protein to replace carbs, you need to replace the carbs with fat, not protein...

Remember that your brain uses 50-100g carbs every day though, never EVER go below that...
 
Originally posted by: SnapIT
Originally posted by: jst0ney
f the atkins diet. I you value your kidneys don't bother.
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ONLY if you increase the protein to replace carbs, you need to replace the carbs with fat, not protein...

Remember that your brain uses 50-100g carbs every day though, never EVER go below that...
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But then again ANY high protein diet can cause kidneyfailure after long periods...
 
Originally posted by: amnesiac
Are there any studies showing long term effects of this diet?
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Probably the best long term example of a high protein/fat, low carb diet that I can think of is to look at people who live in very cold climates and therefore don't eat much grains. Eskimos would be a very good example of this. They don't eat carbs because they can't grow plants. So they mostly just eat meat and fat.

 
Originally posted by: Marshallj
Originally posted by: amnesiac
Are there any studies showing long term effects of this diet?
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Probably the best long term example of a high protein/fat, low carb diet that I can think of is to look at people who live in very cold climates and therefore don't eat much grains. Eskimos would be a very good example of this. They don't eat carbs because they can't grow plants. So they mostly just eat meat and fat.
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Think about this for a few minutes, if they only ate meat and fats, would they get all the essential vitamins and minerals then?

They wouldn't last a year...
 
Originally posted by: SnapIT


Think about this for a few minutes, if they only ate meat and fats, would they get all the essential vitamins and minerals then?

They wouldn't last a year...
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They live on barren, ice covered regions. All they can do is fish and eat seals. They've been eating this way for hundreds of years, so I wager to guess they'd last more than a year.
 
Originally posted by: Marshallj
Originally posted by: SnapIT


Think about this for a few minutes, if they only ate meat and fats, would they get all the essential vitamins and minerals then?

They wouldn't last a year...
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They live on barren, ice covered regions. All they can do is fish and eat seals. They've been eating this way for a loooooong time, so I guess they'd last more than a year.
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Hmmm... where do they get their essential vitamins from then? Like vitamin C...

Remember sailors and scurvy?
 
Originally posted by: SnapIT
Hmmm... where do they get their essential vitamins from then? Like vitamin C...

Remember sailors and scurvy?
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I guess the food that they eat does contains enough vitamins for them to live. We already know that you can't grow crops on in ice, and we also know that there aren't any vitamin stores around. Yet those people survive that way.
 
Originally posted by: Marshallj
Originally posted by: SnapIT
Hmmm... where do they get their essential vitamins from then? Like vitamin C...

Remember sailors and scurvy?
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I guess the food that they eat does contains enough vitamins for them to live. We already know that you can't grow crops on in ice, and we also know that there aren't any vitamin stores around. Yet those people survive that way.
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But any way you want to put it, the diet you described contains no vitamin C... and they have to eat something to get it as ALL humans need vitamin C...

There has to be something else that provides the water soluable vitamins...
 
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