Anybody here tried the Atkins Diet..?

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Hi all,

Just wondering if anybody on here has tried the Atkins Diet..?

If so... what were your experiences?

Thanks
 
Lost a reasonable amount of weight pretty quickly and then put it on again even quicker when I finished.

Eat less and do more exercise instead, it's a hell of a lot better for you, mor sustainable and more enjoyable.
 
Atkins cuts out the bodies fuel. If you are looking to diet and excercise, they are a bad combination.

As said above, Just eat small portions more often. And work out.

I eat first thing on a morning at 5.30, Go Running, Eat Cereals in work at 9am. Have a small meal at lunch, A healthy snack in the afternoon, A regular meal at night.

All healthy, All small. Keeps my body going. My excercise also consists of Elevated Pushups, Situps/Crunches, Pullups and Squats. I don't do weights. Although thats only because I don't have them. I'm not looking to be big, Just toned and unskinny
 
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I lost about 5 stone on the atkins in about 3 months. It was great and easy to loose weight. Trouble was even when following the best advice when returning to a normal diet from this your body stock piles all the carbs as fat just in case you think about returning to this diet again.

Atkins works as a good weight loss but to keep the weight off you'll end up eating this diet forever.
 
I would advise against long term atkins, not the healthiest option. Go for standard eat healthly low fat items. Do exercise every day for 30 mins at least and then you will see good weight loss. It is steady and sustainable rather than rapid and temporary.
 
Tried it once a few years ago and wouldn't again. If you can put up with the lack of energy, the headaches, the bad breath and the constipation for long enough then you will lose weight (and I did). You will put it all back on again unless you continue to cut out carbs though.

For the last few months I've been eating smaller portions of food more regularly throughout the day, drinking plenty of water and doubled the amount of exercise I do. I feel great and I've lost fat that will stay off. Just do this instead.

Edit: And while eating steak, eggs, bacon and cheese for every meal sounds like heaven, it becomes a struggle very quickly.
 
Lost 4.5stone on it, didn't put any back on when I "finished" it (switched to an overall balanced diet and have stayed about the same).
 
I have a really fat mate who tried it, and he genuinly lost a decent amount of weight quite fast.

I reckon it looks really unhealthy, but it seems to work.
 
NeoNemesis said:
Dr Atkins died fat. Of issues related to his dietary health.

Do the maths.
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he died from a fall

he did have a lot of heart related problems though and was heavy when he died 258lbs ,although apperntly not that fat as he was quite tall
 
calories in< calories burned

simple principle to lose weight, it's not exactly rocket science.
 
If you do the media's version of the Atkins, you'll be porking out on deep-fried-in-lard burgers, huge fried in butter steaks, sausages, and not a lot else. Which is what everyone knows as unhealthy.

However, if you take on the real atkins, you'll be eating lean grilled meat, plenty of greens like spinach, lettuce, cabbage, lots of low-sugar fruits like avocado, kiwifruit, the occasional tomato, etc. and will use rye bread instead of full-fat bread.
 
i've done the atkins on a couple of occasions, and it does work, but like any diet, it needs to be balanced, especially after the initial period

if you go on Atkins and after a couple of months, you go back to eating crap, then you will be put the weight on again.

Aktins is all about couting the carbs, refined carbs, like bread/pasta are definite no no.
 
wannabedamned said:
Atkins cuts out the bodies fuel. If you are looking to diet and excercise, they are a bad combination.

As said above, Just eat small portions more often. And work out.

I eat first thing on a morning at 5.30, Go Running, Eat Cereals in work at 9am. Have a small meal at lunch, A healthy snack in the afternoon, A regular meal at night.

All healthy, All small. Keeps my body going. My excercise also consists of Elevated Pushups, Situps/Crunches, Pullups and Squats. I don't do weights. Although thats only because I don't have them. I'm not looking to be big, Just toned and unskinny
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Bull, carbs should never have become the main fuel source for us. The western world has the most obesity and thats because firstly due to mass producing wheats, grains we all started to eat carbs as main food group decades ago which was bad. Then to lose weight everyone started eating low fat foods, which is even worse. The insulin spikes come from carb eating, insulin is problem.


The reason most people fail on a atkins or ketogenic diet is they eat a diet so different to normal, and so horrible to maintain that when they go off it they eat so radically differently and simply eat to much and most suddenly hit carbs again, which reintroduces the insulin cycle, carbs in, with low insulin resistance, massive blood sugar level drops, body craves sugar, eat more carbs, etc, etc. eating way over maintainance calories.


Ketogenic diets are great for fat loss, no carbs isn't really necessary, but low carbs is, however this can be different, some people have to eat under 20grams a day in general, some 30, some 50grams which makes it signifcantly easier. When the bulk of your main carlories comes from fat, the body uses fat for energy over carbs or eating muscle. Which means when you run out of freely available daily intake fat, its way easier to eat excess body fat as your body is basically in the right state to eat fat. WHen you eat mostly carbs and then run out, the body finds it easier to first eat muscle, than fat, so a high fat diet is actually the easiest way to lose fat. Atkins I'm not 100% sure on but I think he goes with the idea of eating however much you want, as long as its not carbs? A proper ketogenic weight loss diet is still a less calories in than calories burnt in a day, but still high fat and also the right types.

Calories in < calories burnt is important, but type of calories in is also very important. Low/no carb after 1-2 days also normally causes a lack of really feeling hungry as you don't get the high/low blood sugar which actually makes it a very easy diet to follow in terms of cravings, but difficult depending on what types of foods you normally eat/like to eat and what you have to eat on the diet. Frankly, you shouldn't eat that many carbs on a normal diet, on a training/bulking diet carbs are still bad, and you should eat most of your daily carbs before and after exercise not throughout the day.

look up timed carb and carb cycling diets for healthy ways to eat trying to lose weight, gain weight, whatever you want.
 
[DOD]Asprilla;11879770 said:
Lost a reasonable amount of weight pretty quickly and then put it on again even quicker when I finished.

Eat less and do more exercise instead, it's a hell of a lot better for you, mor sustainable and more enjoyable.
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Best advice. Don't do gimmick "diets" - just change your lifestyle.
 
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