Dr. Miriam Nelson of Tufts weighs in (doh!) on Atkins. I tend to believe her.

Who is still on the Atkins Diet after six months?
 

Show of hands who all is still on Atkin's diet and it's six months later. And not "kinda sorta." But on like you were the first two months of your diet.
And how much weight have you lost?

Re: Who is still on the Atkins Diet after six months?
 

I've been on Atkins since Jan 1st, and I've lost at least 20 lbs, maybe a little more and am still losing weight. When I reach 240lbs which should be in less than two weeks, I'm celebrating with some pizza, then back to the diet. My goal is to get to under 200. In all this time, I have only cheated on one dinner at a resturaunt.

The only thing I miss on this diet is good pizza.


Anyone else out there? If you've left Atkins, what are you doing now, are you on another diet? Have you gained any weight back?

I'm on South Beach since late January (started after Chinese New Year) and have lost 32 pounds (as of yesterday).

I have experienced some mild backsliding involving some homemade chocolate dark & white-chocolate chip cookies, but the dial on the scale keeps creeping anti-clockwise.

Oh yeah. I did have some pizza last Friday night ... chicken cordon bleu flavor, didn't eat the edge crust.

Damn, but that tasted good ... and I don't even like pizza that much.

I've pretty much had it up to here (*holds hand three inches above head*) with All-Bran Cereal, but otherwise, I'm holding up okay.

Me too.

Excess protein is converted into enzymes which tend to destroy nutrient stores in the body and do other undesireable things.

Also, on the subject of high-fructose corn syrup ("HFCS"), there is are two interesting studies about it. One traces the first instance of the spike in the percentage of obese Americans to 1971 - the first year HFCS was introduced into the food supply.

Secondly HFCS seems to have the ability to bypass (or suppress) that part of the brain that signals "I'm full." Basically, the study showed that one could eat a hell of a lot more food when also consuming a coke sweetened with HFCS than one can eat with a coke sweetened with sugar.

And I'll be damned if I understand how a diet that throws the warnings about saturated fat out the window makes any sense. How is having bacon grease globules slogging through one's arteries supposed to be not unhealthy?

To me, a healthy diet is complex carbs (the more complex the better), low-fat protien (fish (I eat a ton of canned tuna and salmon), chicken (skinless but not boneless), beans & rice, etc.) veggies and fruit. Basically, avoid simple carbs (turns to sugar immediately), avoid sat fat and avoid HFCS (switch to Gatorade or water and consider green tea over coffee+cream- tea has caffeine too - esp green.).

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i started atkins right before haloween. I did not weigh myself because I didnt want to know how fat i was. I guess i was around 300 lbs. Im 6'2" I have taken a couple of days off of the diet for holidays, but for the most part, I'm faithful. I still don;t have a scale, but I figure that I'm somewhere around 240 or 250 at this point. I can see my willie when i pee now.

Did my own sort of diet thingy. I started back in August and made the following changes to my eating patterns:

- Stopped drinking pop with HFCS
- Stopped eating cakes, cookies, candy, etc. while at work, no matter what my coworkers brought in.
- Began eating breakfast every day, usually around 8:30
- Cut my portions by about half.
- Ate little snacks about every 2 hours
- Didn't eat after 7pm

The cool thing was, I didn't cut out pizza, fast food, spaghetti, etc. I didn't cut out carbs...I still ate bread and pasta and sometimes potatoes. But I have been reasonable about these things, so instead of having a burger, fries and a coke, I would have a burger some fruit and water. I still do it this way. I lost a total of 42 pounds so far (went from 182 to 140) the bulk of which came off from August to December. It was slow and is really slow right now, but since it was something manageable for me, it works and I can stick with it.

Oh yeah, I didn't increase my activity level on purpose, but I found that as I lost weight I had more energy and actually felt like getting up from my desk to walk around a little bit. It sort of naturally increased a little bit, which probably helped.

Destroying nutrient stores in the body is exactly the point.


The problem with this theory is that sucrose (ordinary sugar) gets broken down into glucose and fructose in the digestive system. So if HFCS doesn't make you feel full, how can sugar?

Well, if you're only going to pay attention to conventional wisdom, you're only going to get conventional answers.

I couldn't do Atkins while in Vietnam and when I got back it took me a few weeks to catch up on a months worth of bills. Atkins is slightly expensive due to the amount o fmeat.

Today I started back on Atkins Induction. I had forgotten how uncomfortable the first 3 or 4 days are. But that's alright, I feel even more uncomfortable being fat.

I've been wondering what the status of your success has been, do tell!!

I traded the book to library for a sealed boxed Adobe Illustrator 7.0. Yes I'm haveing as much luck learning that as the diet!