New ATKINS-approved menu at T.G.I. Friday's.

[Ferocious]

With 19 percent of frequent restaurant patrons in the casual dining segment currently
using the Atkins Nutritional Approach(TM)(1), the new Atkins(R)-approved menu
options at T.G.I. Friday's restaurants are sure to satisfy the millions of
Americans who are turning the traditional food pyramid on its head to suit
their own individual lifestyles and nutritional and health needs.

19 Percent??

I never knew Atkins was that popular.

 

[CaseTragedy]

i'm not on atkins, but i'd still like to try it out.

 

[TheAudit]

I've seen the same thing at other chain restaurants.

 

[Maverick]

I think we should see what our friend JJWalker thinks of this.

 

[aircooled]

Our local 'Jersey Mike's' (East coast sub chain) has 'Sub in a Tub'. All the sub guts with no bread in a plastic tub to eat with a fork.

Glad to see some restaurants or starting to catch on.

 

[WinkOsmosis]

Originally posted by: aircooled
Our local 'Jersey Mike's' (East coast sub chain) has 'Sub in a Tub'. All the sub guts with no bread in a plastic tub to eat with a fork.

Glad to see some restaurants or starting to catch on.

That is sick.

 

[Electric Amish]

 

[ZaneNBK]

Atkins works, but it's one of the harder diets to keep following. I forget where I read this study but basically three diets were compared: Atkins, South Beach and some Low Fat diet (forget the name). All three had good weight loss (about the same over one year IIRC) but Atkins had a 50% drop-out rate after one year and the other two had about a 22% drop-out rate.

I wouldn't recommend Atkins to anyone. It works and it seems easy (eat whatever fatty low-carb foods you want, as much as you want!) but it's really not.

The best diet I've found (and helped me loose 85 lbs. in one year) is just healthy eating and regular excercise. Keep your diet around 40% protein, 40% complex carbs and 20% fat (by caloric content, not by weight) or less and excercise 3+ times a week for 30 minutes each. Eat fewer calories than you burn to loose weight or a little more to maintain your weight. Also break your meals down to 4-6 small meals a day instead of only three using smaller portions. You'll feel better, live longer, loose weight and keep it off.

 

[CKDragon]

I ate at TGI Friday's once about five years ago. Never again. I can't speak for the rest of the country, but all the TGI Friday's around here attract the same consumer base as all the Walmarts.

As if there wasn't enough obesity/heart disease among that segment of society. Someone must have thought "Hey, let's give all these fat people the suggestion that eating nothing but fatty foods will make them healthier."

CK

 

[StageLeft]

19 Percent??

I never knew Atkins was that popular.

It's not, they just like to pretend they're on diets. Stomachs speak for themselves. A miniscule percentage of the population is on a real diet that they're actually following properly.

 

[SuperTool]

Are the prices going to go up? Everything Atkins approved is usually expensive. Those Atkins bars are 2 bucks
BTW, trader joes has a good selection of splenda chocolate bars. The best one is carbolite.
While you are at it, there are two more charles shaw wines out, chiraz and another one I can't spell.

 

[Nightfall]

I have a few friends on the Atkins diet and they are ok with it. Obviously, it is a hard diet to stick with, but they lose weight. I am the right weight right now, and I have had a lot of good results with eating right and exercising. I play hockey 3-4 nights a week for at least an hour. Sometimes, I play 2 hours in a night. Needless to say, stopping pucks really helps in keeping the weight down and my body active.

As for food, I don't eat a lot of red meat or fatty foods. Sure, I have a dish of ice cream about once a week. For the most part I eat a lot of low fat foods like veggies and fruit. I eat chicken and fish as my primary meats.

Sorry to go off topic there a bit. The Atkins diet does work though.

Just not the diet for me.

 

[Imported]

If they have an Atkins version of their Jack Daniels sauce.. omg I'm there.

 

[ZaneNBK]

The problem with Atkins is that most people can't stay on it for life and the diet doesn't teach you proper eating habits. So when you quit you haven't learned to control your appetite at all (probably the opposite). The only benefit you might retain is a regular excercise schedule if you were actually following that part of the diet.

Then again most people aren't really following it anyway. Like my Aunt and Uncle who told me they were on atkins while they were eating their steak (oh, and just a few fries and a beer or two). *sigh* One slip up on the carbs you're out of Ketosis for a week minimum IIRC.

THERE IS NO MAGIC PILL. THERE IS NO SECRET. If you want to get in shape it takes effort and time.