Atkin's Diet

[meanstreak]

Where do you get the low carb ice cream, I would love to have some of that.

 

[Dash8]

know what woudl be good? and convenient to carry?

BACON JERKY!!!!

wonder if anyone makes it...

but yeah where do you get the icecream? where does wallyworld hide all their atkins stuff??

 

[skychaser]

check the atkins website for ice cream locations near you!
www.atkinsdiet.com or www.atkinscenter.com
if you reside in the Northeast, you can get it at Stew Leonards.
Some upscale health food stores carry it too. Maybe Walmart as well.

 

[Ravengirl]

If you live out west, you can get Atkins ice cream (and lots of other low/no-carb foods) at Trader Joe's...there are lots of locations here. In the Midwest and east you can find Trader Joe's but not as easily. Stew Leonard's has Atkins products too, as well as Wegman's, if you're anywhere near western NY/PA.

Stephanie

 

[350DRIVER]

I think the Atkin's diet may work for some with regards to "weight loss" but I just wonder/question what it is doing to your heart and other organs by taking in all the fats/calories that one can while on this diet. It cannot be doing wonders for the body other than loosing weight.

I take meal replacements such as Metrx/Myoplex/etc, and I have been able to obtain pretty good results and I know that I am not hurting my body in the process. GNC has some pretty good (all natural) products that will surely produce desired/wanted results. The packets are easy to mix so they are great to pack away and take on trips.

a good workout routine also does help and you will get more results if you can add even more cardio work into your gym routine.


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[crxpilot]

Getting past the stalls on Atkins

For those on Atkins who have plateued or stalled.....


http://atkins.com/Archive/2001/12/21-237659.printable.html


The Fat Fast
Counterintuitive as it may sound, if you can't budge the scale on Induction, a few days on this regimen may well allow you to break through metabolic resistance.

Certain individuals are so metabolically resistant that only more intense dietary restrictions prove successful. Once medications, thyroid problems and candida are brought under control, almost all overweight people who diligently adhere to the Atkins Nutritional Approach™ will lose and keep off weight. But for the small group of people for whom it does not work, more extreme measures are necessary.

To help these metabolically resistant people, Dr. Atkins has modified what he calls "the most effective weight-loss eating pattern ever described." British researchers Alan Kekwick and Gaston Pawan developed it, and Frederick Benoit and his team confirmed its superiority in burning off fat, compared to an absolute total fast. This extreme diet consists of 1,000 calories daily, comprised of 90 percent fat. No other weight-loss regimen has matched its ability to burn off stored fat. Dr. Atkins modified the Kekwick diet to make it as enjoyable as possible and dubbed it the "Fat Fast." He tried it on scores of patients and found it often worked for those who were unable to lose weight in any other safe, drug-free way.

The Kekwick diet forces the body into lipolysis so it burns its stores of fat. Lipolysis cannot take place if there is a significant source of glucose. Since all carbohydrates and some protein convert to energy by way of glucose, eliminating almost everything but fat from the diet forces even the most resistant body into lipolysis. That explains the 90 percent dietary-fat component. Lowering the caloric intake accelerates the need to burn up body fat—thus the 1,000-calorie limit.

The Fat Fast is one controlled carb program where you do have to count calories. You'll eat 1,000 calories a day, with 75 percent to 90 percent comprised of fat. Frequent feedings prevent hunger better than three meals a day, so you consume five feedings, perhaps one every four hours, comprising 200 calories each. Because of the high fat content and frequent feedings, very few people experience much hunger. The stumbling block for some people is the absence of conventional meals. But most are willing to stick with it for a few days, even if the food selections are unfulfilling.

Caution: The Fat Fast is actually dangerous for anyone who is not metabolically resistant. For people who lose weight fairly easily, the rate of weight loss is too rapid to be safe. But it carries very little risk for people who can barely lose on any other regimen.

Step One: Eat Mostly Fat
Begin with five 200-calorie feedings per day and follow for four or five days. Each item equals approximately 200 calories:

one ounce of macadamia nuts or macadamia nut butter
two ounces of cream cheese or Brie
one ounce of tuna or chicken salad with two teaspoons of mayonnaise served in one-quarter of an avocado
two deviled eggs made with two teaspoons of mayonnaise
two ounces of sour cream and two tablespoons black or red caviar
two and a half ounces whipped heavy cream topped with sucralose zero-calorie syrup
two ounces of pâté (check label for fat content)
two egg yolks (hard-boiled) with one tablespoon of mayonnaise

Step Two: Modify the Fat Fast
If increasing the fat-to-carbohydrate ratio and cutting calories work, any dietary change in that direction might get the job done. Next, you can try four meals a day of roughly 300 calories for a total of 1,200 calories. That should work, too, and what it allows is definitely more appealing to the taste buds:

two ounces of beef chuck (do not drain fat) cooked in two tablespoons of olive oil
two scrambled eggs with two strips of nitrate-free bacon
two tablespoons of full-fat sour cream with a tablespoon of sugar-free syrup
one-quarter cup chicken or tuna salad made with two tablespoons of mayonnaise
three ounces of pâté (check label for fat content)
one-and-a-half ounces of macadamia nuts

Step Three: Return to Induction
Try the 1,200-calorie regimen for a week, then go back to Induction. Or simply follow the concept of increasing the ratio of fat to protein. No one should have to feel that losing weight is hopeless. Sometimes the key to achieving your goal weight permanently is quite difficult to adhere to, but rarely is it simply impossible.

The information on this Website is not intended to diagnose or treat any medical condition.


You can find this article at:
http://www.atkins.com/Archive/2001/12/21-237659.html

 

[crxpilot]

Bacon jerky?

What about the pre-cooked bacon they sell in the stores?

 

[SuperFLUF]

I think the Atkin's diet may work for some with regards to "weight loss" but I just wonder/question what it is doing to your heart and other organs by taking in all the fats/calories that one can while on this diet. It cannot be doing wonders for the body other than loosing weight.

I started Atkins not to lose weight but to eat healthier. If you read the results of the latest long term studies, you'll see that people on a low carb, high protein diet not only lose weight (or maintain a healthy weight) but their cholesterol and triglicerides improve. Dr. Atkins was being vindicated on a regular basis for the last two years of his life. That's one reason the low-carb lifestyle has become more mainstream. I read Men's Health and for years they have blasted the Atkin's diet. Over the past few years they have been publishing stories and study results about how the high carbohydrate lifestyle is harmful to your health. And finally last fall they had a big article on the carbohydrate problem and had to admit they were wrong about Atkin's. That story plus some internet research spurred my switch from a low-fat/high carb diet to the Atkins For Life diet.

It's tough to stay low-carb on the road. Since I've started on the low carb lifestyle I have started to bring a soft cooler along on the trips with snacks to hold me off in between the less available meals. EAS chocolate brownie protein bars are the best tasting low-carb snack bars I have tried. I also bring along hard boiled eggs and some fruits to snack on. Canned Tuna packed in olive oil works well and the Pure Delight low carb chocolate bars are good too. I also bring along Xlitol to sweeten my coffee. Its expensive but it tastes just like sugar without any nasty aftertaste.

I've had good luck with this website for low-carb foods.
http://www.synergydiet.com

 

[flx757]

Once again, what is so hard about eating several, WELL-BALANCED meals at regular intervals? Combine this with regular exercise, and you will get and remain HEALTHY.

Any other way, and you are only fooling yourself. See my first post in this thread for additional information.

The offer to see my scars still stands.

 

[FSIGRAD]

I tried the Atkins diet and had a pretty bad reaction. I'm not really overweight, just wanted to lose about 10 pounds. After about a week my gastro system was completly screwed up, I spent the day puking, my legs were totally cramped and I almost went to the hospital. (I did lose 8lb's that week, but I got so sick I couldn't eat anything, carbs or not!)

This happen to anyone else? I did it pretty hardcore, tried to stay as close to zero carbs as possible.

 

[crash-proof]

I didn't puke but sure did get reaaaaaallly bad gas. And I felt like $hit. Made a lot too.

A friend of mine got really sick, something like an imbalance of uric acid in his system, due to the diet.

My ex-boss who was a devotee (and alcoholic) to atkins had a terrible breath. We called it the "kiss of death".

 

[Caveman]

flx757,

Nothing personal but taking healthy eating advice from someone that just had bypass surgery is like asking Bill Clinton for ethical guidance. I'm glad you are back on your way to good health though.

Dr Atkins has been lambasted and condemned for going on 30 years until recently. Anytime anybody directly challenges conventional wisdom they take a lot of heat. So far, it looks like he was right.

I did the high carb, low fat bit for 25 years. I also busted my a$$ exercising at an extremely high level (oooh rah!). My weight and fitness level stayed fairly flat during all that time. When I tried the Atkins plan I IMMEDIATELY lost weight, my energy level improved and my exercise performance increased to where it was 15 years ago. I sleep better, look better and my doctor says that ALL of my lab results are outstanding.

The old paradigm of 60/30/10 (carbs/protein/fat) didn't work for me. The low carb, moderate fat, moderate protein diet is working in spades.

Good health to you.

 

[flx757]

Caveman,

Nothing personal, but it was the UNHEALTHY eating (as any fad diet advocates) that got me into my past state.

Since then, registered dieticians and nutritionists have given me the advice that I pass on. I wouldn't think it would take a rocket scientist to figure out the difference, but evidently I give some people WAY too much credit.


Whatever works for ya....


BTW, my diet is NOT the 60/30/10 that you cite.

 

[I.P. Freley]

The only reason that Atkins SEEMS unhealthy is that it bucks all the conventional wisdom. Nothing personal, but YOUR unhealthy eating habits had nothing to do with what the Atkins Diet advocates. Even if you HAD been following the Atkins program and STILL ended up with heart problems, well, that wouldn't make it Atkins' fault, either.

The problem with your viewpoint, and that of everyone else who declares with "authority" that the Atkins Diet doesn't work/is unhealty/is foolish/is a fad diet/is dangerous.... Is that you are just plain wrong. More and more research, and recent research at that, shows that it works and it works as advertised, for that matter.

Again, all of us have been taught "the truth" about how to eat properly, and basically you just have to read the research, which shows that the Atkins Diet won't kill you. With all due respect, you and your registered dietician have deciding that anyone trying out the Atkins routine is "fooling themselves" doesn't make it true.

 

[flx757]

You're missing the point. Which is not surprising. I'm out. I have MUCH better things to do than argue here. Thankfully, I have been given a second chance at LIFE. I don't intend to waste it debating this issue.

Good luck to you all.

P.S. I don't recall hearing anyone who eats healthy, well balanced meals ever complain that it makes them "really sick".

 

[FSIGRAD]

That's the reason I tried it in the first place, quite a few people I know had done it and gotten very good results. In my case it made me sick as hell..

 

[I.P. Freley]

Actually, I got the point EXACTLY, flx.

I'm glad you're okay, I'm glad you got your second chance, but being condescending towards those who have tried the diet and had good results... Telling them they are "fooling themselves" and using "rolling my eyes" emoticons, shows that you clearly DON'T have better things to do than argue the point. You're the one who started in on this, so don't try to make me the bad guy here.

Good luck to you and I hope you continue on the road to recovery.

FSIgrad... You do illustrate the downside to the Atkins lifestyle, which is that in some cases people don't respond well to it. Luckily, most who are willing to give it a go and stick to it do have good results... And bad breath, too.

For the record, I am not trying to be a cheerleader for the Atkins Diet. I tried it once, lost some weight, but couldn't get over the fantasizing about Twix Bars. I did a LOT of research on the topic before I tried it out, just to be sure I wasn't going to end up hurting myself, and I am ultimately convinced of one thing... For those that have the fortitude to stick with it, it's a good, fast, and ultimately healthy lifestyle and way to lose weight.

 

[dash8driver]

I have found that controlling carb AND fat intake works pretty well for me. i reached a point where i stopped losing weight, so i started eating leaner meats.... mainly chicken and fish and my weight loss continued.

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[skychaser]

I didn't know that! Great info. Thanks.

 

[Smoking Man]

Carb control for me has been the key, not a true Adkins diet but a huge reduction in the carb intake.

I have found that Nitro-Tech low carb bars, 3-6 grams of impact carbs per bar, helps with eating within the diet while you are on the road. At any GNC.

25+ pounds lost in about six months.