Off Atkins

[avram]

OK, I’m off Atkins. For now. This run was a proof-of-concept, and with fourteen pounds lost in eleven days, without even exercising, I consider the concept pretty damn well proven.

Step 2: I find out how quickly it comes back when I go off.

December is a silly time to be trying to lose weight; I’m officially Not Worrying About It till 2004.

Fruit! Sweet Gaia, I can eat fruit again!

Comments

[barking-iguana.livejournal.com]

My experience is that weight I lost with Atkins years ago came back farily quickly, and the experience left me significantly more vulnerable to blood sugar troughs than I had been before I went on the diet. If it works for you as a way of life, then great. But if it's something you have to go on and off (say, because you can't stand to avoid fruit) then I'd think seriously about a different wieght amanagement regime.

BTW, do you know if MH is going to be at CUGC tomorrow? There's an article from Tikkun I want to give her, and if she's there I'll probably make the trek into the city in part for that reason.

[avram]

I’m pretty sure she won’t be. She’s going away this weekend.

[tnh.livejournal.com]

That organic grocery on University Place just a couple of blocks south of Union Square has pineapple-oranges. There's no pineapple in them; they just smell a little bit like it. Heavenly. They look like fat and slightly wrinkly little tangerines. They also have sweet limes there, which are rare, and exceedingly interesting if, like me, you're on a mission from God to sample all the kinds of citrus in the world and make marmalade out of most of them.

Actually, sweet limes -- along with pummelos and lavender gems -- are in the small class of citrus that doesn't make good marmalade. Something ammoniac in the peel. The juice is nice, though.

More than anything else, I miss fruit when I'm Atkinsing.

[avram]

I haven’t stopped in there in at least a couple of years. I’ll be in that area tomorrow, though.

[autographedcat.livejournal.com]

Just a note: a good portion of that 14 pounds is water retention that was flushed out when you moved your body onto a fat-burning economy, and it's going to start storing it again if you switch back to a glucose economy. You'll need to lose more weight over a longer period of time to test what you are wanting to test.

Just a datapoint. (I lost about 50 pounds on Atkins over 4-5 months. I've gained back about 20 of it, but I've been especially sloppy about eating junk food lately, so I'm unsurprised. I plan on going back onto a strict diet after GaFilk.

[lyonesse.livejournal.com]

umm, didn't you *want* to lose weight? and isn't yo-yo weight loss/gain supposed to be long-term kind of injurious to your health?

wrt "december is a silly time"....umm, isn't it going to be worse when fruit is in season??

please forgive if this seems inappropriate, but, well, i just don't get why you'd do this.