Considering Atkins

[avram]

I’ve been hearing good things about the Atkins Diet, and impatient with my own rate of weight loss (285 this morning), I skimmed the book at Barnes & Noble today. Two thoughts:

• A weight-loss diet that encourages me to eat as much bacon as I want? Maybe there is a benevolent deity!
• No fruit?! Yow! I think I’ll wait till after cherry season ends.

I’m also looking at modifying my excercise regimen. Like, maybe, actually going to the gym. (Three times this week: Monday, yesterday, today.)

Comments

[camfangrrl.livejournal.com]

The little secret of eating all the bacon you want is that, according to the diet's theory, bacon (and other such foods) is so fatty that you won't want very much. This theory flies right out the window when one realizes that Atkins had no idea how many people can absolutely gorge on bacon and fatty food and not even blink an eye. So what you can end up with is a lot of extra fat on your bod and the feeling that, as with many religions, the problem is not that the Great God Atkins is at fault, but that you were a bad worshipper at the diet's altar and didn't perform the rituals exactly right.