The Atkins Diet

NJA

20

If you stopped, why ?

Would you go back ?

Any side-effects ?

Reply 1

fruitcake

2

well, i did it for 3 weeks, so it was induction an the most rigourous. i definitely lost loads of weight and felt brilliant, however the first few days were awful, got very faint and craving carbs (actually hallucinating about pieces of toast!!- makes you realise how addictive they are) . however in the long run it wasnt for me, im too young to completely banish a whole food category from my life, and if u want it to really work you have to keep at it pretty much for ever. also i found the food just wasnt what i liked, u cant have that many veggies at first, no fruit, and its all meat and eggs. after a while u introduce berries, cheese, and types of complex carbs like soya etc.
so as a crash diet its gd, if u can cope with eating loads of bacon and eggs, cheese and meat all the time! but as a long term diet, it wasnt for me. that said, my mums been on if for 2 years and looks a decade younger, and this really fat woman i knew has completely changed her life thanks to it.
anyway u should always think b4 going on a diet, crash dieting is so bad for you!! but if u jst want to fit into a dress then by all means go for it!
as for side effects, i didnt get the whole bad breath thing but i did feel moody and faint, mainly because i missed eating pasta so much!

Reply 2

Squelchy

Ketogenic diets can be healthy when done cyclically, and are insanely effective, but if you're looking at the induction phase of Atkins for an extended period of time then it's really unhealthy and bad for you.

If you do a CKD with one carb up day a week, for example, you should be healthy and your blood should have a healthy PH level.

I've done them here and there to lose fat fast, but they're definitely not for me. You barely have the energy to stand, let alone lift weights, so I personally consider ketogenic diets to be for desk jockeys rather than people participating in any sort of athletics.

Reply 3

Bubblebee

15

I did for around two months and got from 15st to 9ish, now I'm about 10 and a half though it varies.

I know how unhealthy it was, also being vegetarian it meant I consumed basicly cheese and a small salad every day.

I would NOT recomend it... try a high fibre diet instead.

Reply 4

friendsfreak88

I think that as a quick fix it will give you fast results but a lot of the initial weight loss is water and some of it can be muscle (especially if you are doing cardio). I don't think that it is very sustainable in the long run and once you stop it, you will almost certainly gain back weight straight away.

Healthy balanced diet and exercise is the olny way to lose weight healthily and keep it off.

Reply 5

Juwel

18

Friend did it, observed the rules of the Atkins book to the letter. Two-week induction, low on carbohydrates from then, and (very importantly!) plenty of exercise. Looked fantastic. Then he let himself go again after his new figure had got him a girlfriend and they'd been together a few months and he didn't fancy the effort. Then the relationship turned sour, he got depressed, put his weight back on. They split recently, he's started Atkins again, looks top again.

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