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

BSD here w/ similar situational advice

[(Anonymous)]

ATKINS BAD.

Any diet that tells you that calories don't matter is lying through its teeth. Calories are the only thing that matters. Of course, since everyone hates counting calories, fad diets spring up, and they work short term, or long term for people with certain types of bad behaviors (0-fat works well for people who derive most of their calories from fat and especially crave fat, Carbohydrate Addicts/Sugar Busters works well for people who (like my sister and father) love nothing more than giant hunks of starch (it's worked excellently for them)). But for people like me (and I think, from what I've seen, you) eat a well-balanced starch:fat:protein diet, just in problematic quantities, the best solution is exercise and portion/frequency control. I dropped nearly 30 in the past 50days with that, and NONE of the fad diets ever worked for me, at all. THe velocity of loss has slowed for me, but the direction remains correct.

Don't be impatient with the speed. Be happy with the trend.