I’m on my 7th day of the Dr.Atkins diet. Right now I’m getting the "BURN OUT’ feeling.I can see small results but was hoping for more than a couple of inches loss.Am I rushing this diet or should I forget it all together.I know there is alot of controversy on this and other diets. Let me know !!!
yes the Diet does work, with dramatic results. But stick to it for a solid month and make sure you follow it to the t’s. Yous should see very good results just stick it out.
The one problem the diet has, is that is you are an active person the diet can send your body into ketosis, that would be bad. So when you lose the weight you must follow the follow-up diet, or you could rebound with horrible results.
By the way, Mrs.Phlosphr lost 60 pound some ten years ago with this diet. She has not gained any back. Then again we are chicken vegetarians :dubious:
Hijacking: What exactly is a chicken vegetarian? Mrs Priceguy won’t eat cow or pork but will happily eat fowl (and is rapidly getting me there as well), and I wouldn’t mind having a word for what she is.
I have a good friend who has all the signs that you will have difficulty with the Atkins program…she is on zoloft and that hampers the effect of the diet, she has a thyroid condition, and she just generally had trouble losing weight. She was on the plan 6 weeks and lost about 16 lbs. That is a pound a week with a lot of obstacles in her way.
So I was inspired to give it a whirl. I started January 1 this year and have lost 10 lbs as of today. Half a pound a day ain’t shabby weight loss. Fifteen pounds a month? Sounds GREAT to me!
At work when people hear I am doing Atkins they often pshaw it as a fad diet. Really Dr. Atkins is simply getting your body back to eating the way it was built to eat before enriched flour and corn syrup took over our diets. You ever see pictures of people from the WWII era? Mostly thin folks! People generally do not know the real deal about the plan and pass along negative things they have heard. Sometimes I take a gander at their expanding girth and ask they what plan they are on. (one guy who told me it wouldn’t work is about 5’10" and weighs over 300lbs!)
I have 3 pieces of advice for doing the Atkins plan…
1- Read the book
2- READ the book
3- Read the BOOK
I also have people who I work with who say they are doing Atkins but have not read the book. They say, “I have cut my carbs way back” or they eat a snickers bar and then no other carbs. All carbs are not made equal. The actual plan as outlined in the book is a plan that allows some carbs at different stages in your weight loss. If you follow the plan and exercise a little, you can get back to eating a satisfying amount of carbs in just a few months.
HANG IN THERE! YOU CAN DO IT!!!
Also www.atkinscenter.com has a lot of resources to help you along. They have a pretty comprehensive carb counter, inspirational stories, a journal to help you track your weight loss, hundreds of recipes and more…
Well Priceguy, now you have a name for her. Chicken Vegetarian is our made up name for people who do not eat red meat, or pork, but do eat fowl. We have been chicken vegetarians for the better of ten years. And we have maintained our weight the entire time.
Now when Mrs.Phlosphr was preparing for a new mini-phlosphr to come into this world, the only thing her doc recommended was a supplement of folic acid. We get plenty of protein and are actually quite happy.
I re-read your OP. YES you are rushing the diet. You have been on the diet for 7 days and are not happy with a few inches of loss? What were you expecting?
With all due respect, you did not become overweight in 7 days, or even a month…or even several months. It takes us a while to undo the damage we have done.
I have to ask…did you read the book? The induction phase lasts a minimum of 14 days. If you had read the book you would know that this is the benchmark for your first set of results. Also, the book emphasizes that this is not a diet, it is a plan for eating over your lifetime. Going into this with a 7 day plan is treating it as a fad diet and is destined for failure.
But on another note…You lost a few inches in 7 days?!
BE THRILLED ABOUT THAT! GREAT JOB!
Newcrasher…how does Zoloff hamper the diet?I too am on Zoloff
Newcrasher I haven’t read the book but I sent off for the video by Dr.Atkins.It was very imformitive but left alot out on questions I had…guess I best go purchase the book!!
14 days is what is required for induction. Stick it out for a couple more weeks and see if you like the results. Both my wife and I have been eating this way for the last couple months. My wife, normally very skeptical about any sort of diet, is now to the point where she needs to buy new clothes (which motivates her even more).
What made it easier for us was to realize that this is not a “diet” per se, but it’s a complete change in eating habits; meaning it’s not something we’re going to do for a bit and then go back to eating “normally”. Once a week or once every couple of weeks, we’ll eat whatever we want, knowing you can’t live life without having a slice of pizza or some pasta every now and then- but we didn’t start doing this until after the first month.
This is incorrect. The point of the diet is that the body is initially in a state of ketosis during the induction period. Hence the necessity to purchase ketostix to see if you are or not. Atkins points out that bad ketosis is actually “ketoacidosis”, not “ketosis”.
Yeah, ketosis is the goal, not something to watch out for. If you are not in ketosis, its not going to work nearly as well.
This is a quick quote from the website…
"tba93taz: Can medications alter weight loss?
Dr. Atkins: Medications are the most common reason for inability to lose weight on any diet. The leading examples are the seratonin anti-depressants, birth control pills, hormone replacement therapy and hypertensive medications. Happily, there is a nutritional alternative for every one of these drugs. As for birth control pills, it’s called “hiding under the bed!”"
I am not sure if Zoloff falls in this category. I have loaned my book to someone so I cant look it up now…but the answer was along these lines.
Good catch there, jjimm!
Ketosis is where you lose weight!
It does work, like many other diets can. The trick of course as with all diets is some willpower…its VERY hard to stick to it. By my second week I would have killed just for a plain piece of low-fat bread.
My son lost over 100 lbs. on it.
The Atkins diet may work, but it’s not as magical as some people think it is. See this debate for a full discussion.
Atkins also apparently just “made up” the distinction between the two:
http://patrifriedman.com/writing/journal/expat/75ketosis.html:
You know, the Atkins diet seems to work well for many people. Atkins is always saying that he’s being attacked by the AMA, etc, etc. If he wants to legitimize himself, why is he making claims like this?
Nutritional alternatives? Uh, what exactly are the nutritional alternatives for HRT? For SSRIs? If one wants to be taken seriously by the “medical establishment”, they should back up dubious claims with cites.
He does back up his claims. He has a book on nutritional alternatives to many drugs commonly used today. All the info was not in this cite of course, as I just snipped the piece that was relevant to the conversation I was having with the OP.
If you are really interested, you should look into it. Do you really think HRTs and SSRIs have no other alternative? Don’t you think your diet and supplements could assist in conditions requiring these meds? Surely there are cases where this is not possible, and meds ARE the best solution, but if the conditions could be handled without the drugs…why not?
Actually, no, I don’t think diet has much to do with depression. Perhaps in a tiny percentage of cases, there’s some sort of vitamin deficiency at work, but these are far from the norm. Supplements for HRT are bogus; many hormones are dangerous if taken orally. Since people aren’t having liver complications from taking these supplements, a pretty obvious conclusion is that they don’t do shit.
Also, supplements ARE drugs. They’re chemicals designed to act upon biological systems in the body. The only way they differ from traditional pharmaceuticals is their marketing, lack of FDA regulation, and typical worthlessness. Some supplements can be beneficial, but the snake oil far outweighs the ones that have been proven effective in clinical trials.