Atkins Diet Guide

I agree with Joy.
Eat less and excersise, but eat a balanced diet. Do you really think it’s a good idea to stuff your face with fatty greasy meat all day?

Don’t do it….it is very dangerous to your health!

JOY

Agree with the first answer…don’t do it!

Drink plenty of water and get yourself a good one-a-day vitamin supplement.

Good luck.

yeah, don’t eat carbs… Do seriously, one you are female so this diet will not work as well for you as it does men ( but it can work for you ) Two, I do no believe this is a healthy diet and you should have some blood work done before hand to find out your triglyceride level and also for kidney function. This diet can dramatically increase your triglycerides and do Kidney damage. There is such a thing as too much protein and fat. But if you are dead set on doing it go to doctor get your base line levels before starting then get it checked at least monthly if not bi-weekly. You don’t want to find out you have overdone it, or your body can’t handle it when your kidneys shut down, or you become jaundiced because your liver can’t break down all of the fat.

DO NOT DO ATKINS!!!! Do the South Beach diet!! It promotes much healthier eating! NO FAT and NO CARBS combined for a healthy way of life and quick weight loss!!

I don’t think it’s dangerous. I’ve done it and lots of my friends have done it with no bad effects. My dr. gave me his blessing.

Anyway, a tip I would give would be to cheat if you start feeling really bad. After about the 3rd week of eating only proteins, I noticed I felt bad. Then I had a little o.j. and a cracker or 2, and felt better. From then on I kept the carbs to an absolute minimum, but didn’t cut them out 100%. That works best for me.

Don’t do it!!!!!

Are you doing this while you are swimming, or did this get in the wrong section.
If you are an athlete, you need sufficient amounts of carbs to sustain your practices.

I work at the YMCA with a lot of high school girls on the swim team and they don’t do any sort of non-carb until the week before sectionals and then again before state.
They do 3 days of non-carb, high protein to build up muscle and then 3 days of good carb-loading for sustained energy for the races.

Even if you are not an athlete, you still need sufficient amount of carbs to sustain normal activity. Think whole grains!!! Good carbs for you!
Many people I talk to that have done Atkins have lost weight, but once they start eating carbs again, gain it all back and then some!

DON’T DO IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Read the book and follow it.

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Don’t listen to the scare-mongerers – Atkins is fine. I’ve done it before, a few years ago and lost 8kg in 3 weeks and its never come back on. I’m on it again now (started 5 days ago, so far lost 1.5kg), to lose the last few kilos (tried lots of other diets but they don’t work for me like atkins).
If you google atkins you’ll be surprised how many positive things are said about it and how many people are correcting the myth that its dangerous and all about fat fat fat.

I guess my tip is to be prepared – take the carbs out of the cupboard if you can, make up some diet jelly in advance (to snack on) and make sure you have nice cheeses, smoked salmon etc so that its not hard to find something to eat when you’re hungry.

If you’re like me and need ‘crunch’ ( I find that the hardest part), then you can get low carb bars and tortillas etc – there are lots of online sites – including the Atkins one – that you can order this stuff online from. And the Atkins site is good becasue it has recipes

Just read the induction rules carefully – eg you can have nuts but not in the first 2 weeks so make sure you don’t undo your good work by inadvertantly eating something you shouldn’t.

Everyone’s different and for me it works and my doctor has expressed no concerns. Go for it and good luck.

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To me, the first three days were the hardest as I craved pasta and other carbs.

After those three days, it was much easier for me to do and I didn’t have those cravings.

Same thing happens when I try and cut out Caffeine. Three days and I’m golden.

So just be diligent for the first three days and you should be good to go.