The Atkins Diet

My mother and aunt are on this...and it works. I have my reservations about it though, because you can eat things like cheese, bacon, mayonnaise, eggs, etc...(which we all know are not healthy), but yet, you lose weight from restricted carbs (NO bread whatsoever, no milk, no potatoes, etc)...it's freaky. They say they feel fantastically healthy though...your body purifies itself of all sugars, also. So it's a very..."drastic" change in eating behavior (at least at first...then you can start incorporating small amounts of sugar and carbs back in). Anyone tried this one? I wanted to try it, but I checked my weight for my height and all that, and it ends up (I'd lost track for a while there) I've lost so much already I'm three pounds away from being "underweight"...so this diet would Not be a good idea for me. However...I see that it's working for them which is comforting, should I for some reason put weight on again.

Yes it is a very good diet. I lost 40 pounds on it.

The problem is you get dizzy and feel off blance sometimes you fall and hit your head.

It doesn't work for me. . . I can't seem to avoid the temptation of pancakes. . .

The..."Atkins Corporation" (are they a corporation?) actually makes special Atkins Pancakes. And special syrup to go with them. According to my mom and aunt, the pancakes taste a little like dog food, but the syrup is decent, if a little thin.

Romeclone, that's awesome! Yes, my mom's been on it 11 days and she's lost 10 lbs.

James Tate...that's actually true. lol...The lightheaded thing. Apparently you also get heat flashes. Not the menopausal kind, men get these too. It's all slightly disturbing, yet amazing at the same time.

Oh, I should mention...this diet is ridiculously expensive. Ten dollars for four special cans of special milkshakes... $ 2.50 per Atkins Advantage bar (although I've heard the smores bars are to die for)... $ 4 for a tiny bag of special chips (Okay, and I tried one of those, and it was HORRIBLE and tasted EXACTLY like Puppy Chow...)

phoenix atkins fell hit his head and is dead. thats why I said get dizzy.

it works for some poeple not all poeple though. just a good many it diddn't work for my mom or my dad.

pheonix, there are plenty of low and no carb products out there, you don't need to by atkins brand.

I had a friend who had problems with her menstual cycle, she had speratic periods... Her doctor told her to go on the atkins diet to fix it.

True, you don't have to buy only Atkins products. It's just a hell of a lot easier and quicker than shopping for five hours at the grocery store reading the back of everything trying to figure out which things follow the diet exactly. The grocery stores here don't cater too much to people on specialized diets.

James...late reaction, but...lol

ahhh... Well... I don't know, I never follow diets exactly, they all work differently on different people, you just have to adjust it a little to your own body.

just out of curiosity, anyone willing to share their weight?

hmm... I way about 150 pounds... yeah... I've been meaning to diet, but really, I don't eat a lot at all... I'm never hungry... I just never lose weight.

15 stone 10 lbs

what the heck is 15 stone?

i friggin dont know lol but i'm 114. Height? 5'2.. 😢

I'm 5'6. . . one inch too short for the crew team. . .

my weight, last time I checked, which was last week, was 107. But you know...I did eat some peanut butter M&Ms recently, as well as a huge piece of lemon pudding cake.

It's so hard to keep to a diet when you're living on a college campass. . . The thing is, it's just that all the food sucks. The only good stuff is bad for you.

I personally don't get the whole weight thing. Why? I think this was invented to cause us humans to go nuts! I don't own a scale nor do I care about them. 120 on one person will be totally different on another. What is important to me is how I feel in and out of my clothes. If I feel like I'm packing on some weight then I will change it. If not, cool...now, this is FREEDOM from the scales! Age and weight...all fences that we can get caught behind. Open the gates and fly away!

carbs bad, fat bad, so whats good?

Nothing I just don't eat anymore.

me either...I just drink water with lemons.....

I just had three eggs fried in bacon fat, frie bread, beans tomato and bacon YHUMEEEEEEEEEEE.

my dad is now on it the dr. orded so as to lower carbs and chrosteral. and weight. but i've been to a few campus that have good food like eku, uk, and morehead. here in ky. though.
my weight is about 172. yeah i know too much, but i'm trying too losse wetght though.

Dear 13~

Go down the street to the nearest corner. Put your weight in a red wagon and drop it off there. Walk away and when you come back (3 days later) it will be gone. You will have "lost" your weight! 😉

lol....I found the water with lemons comment very funny 😛

Here's what I do. I eat crappy unhealthy food because it tastes good, then I sit there and think about how stupid that was...and then I weigh myself, and decide I'll make up for it "tomorrow" by eating less crappy/more healthy foods. It's not really a diet...and it's probably not very healthy....but it seems to work out in the end. I do tend to fluctuate about 5 lbs though. Which annoys me. Because I never know if I'm "starting to gain weight again" or just having an off day.

hmm. i like that idea of leaving but uknow i can't get it out. my horscope says good day be good to start. i'm trying. good luck w/ the weight. drink plenty of water.

James, don't forget to add the lemons...they help to detoxify the body...give you a clean fresh start to the day!

I'm gettin myself all worked up for a nice hot cup of lemon water...better go get me some now!

hot lemon water is best with tea

although I prefer hot cream and huney water with little tea