Just a note to anyone looking to lose weight. I've always been active and in shape but the last 7 years (yup, since i've been married) I've put on a ton of weight. I believe in hard work and exercise but some of the hype I've been hearing about Atkins intrugued me. My family has a bunch of fitness freaks and they were also telling me all the benefits of a low carb diet.
Well on 8/5, I went to the atkins website and began a hardcore atkins diet. I also starting running again, less than 3 miles 4 times a week. I followed the atkins plan religiously, I did not deviate at all.
On 8/5 I weighed 215, today I weigh 186. 29 pounds in less than 2 months. I have a lot of energy, I feel great, I dont have food cravings. I used to suck down a bag of Doritos in 10 minutes. I eat 3 meals a day and dont feel the need to snack. My goal is 175.
I eat a lot of meat, cheese and salads. If you're a meat lover, this diet may work for you.
Check out www.atkins.com

SOme tips, drink tons of water., dont get caught up on all the atkins frienedly snacks offered in stores, its still snacking, you're on a diet.
Any ? PM me. It was pretty easy to lose 29 pounds.

RIJIMMY,Congrats on the weight loss...I have been on the Atkins since June and have lost 60 lb.s...Lots of energy.Feel great..And I have a ways to go yet..:D

Thats great SQD, congrats and keep up the good work!

good for you! thats awsome! i have been on a diet since june and i am not ashamed to say this but i did weigh about 220 for a 14 year old.. and now i am about 176.. i still have about 25 more to go..

Congrats man.

One of the criticisms I heard about the Atkins plan is that you're premanently wedded to it. If you go back to eating carbs, you gain back the weight.

The other is that the diet encourages over consumption of saturated fats and cholesterol. If you eat mostly proteins, should try to get fish, chicken, and soy into your meals. Red meat and cheese will shoot your bad cholesterol up.

I was on the Atkins for a while, and it does work, but becareful when you get off it......you have probably forgotten how good bread and pasta tastes...I did. It is very effective as far as loosing the weight, I lost over 20 pounds in under 2 months, but when I got off I got sloppy with my eating and it didnt take long for it to start to come back on. Congrats to you guys.....keep up the good work.

FWW, isnt that true with all diets? If you're on a low fat diet and go back to eating a lot of fats, you gain weight. I think the goal for any diet is to get to your weight goal and permanently adjust your eating habits to support your desired weight. thats the hard part. I think the key is moderation and exercise.

I am curious to see my choletrol level when Im done. I've read that the impact of meats and fats on chorlosterol is less than people think. the bodies processing of unused carbs actually increases clor. more than eating fats. I eat eggs, cheese, sausages and other fats everyday. I'll share my test reults and be the guinea pig.

wait a minute, i read somewhere that consuming a lot of soy protein or protein isnt good for you. that was a recent info. soy protein can make you fat, but i have some artilces on that soemwhere. and also it leads to a short life span... i wonder if anyone have tried south beach diet?

too much protein can burn out your kidneys - or is it your liver? - at any rate, make sure you are drinking plenty of water.


I find that if I eat carbs - chips, crackers, whatever - my body shifts into hunger mode and wants to eat more.

However, if I eat protein - chicken ,beef, pork, cheese - I eat very little and I and done.

Almost like your body goes - "Hey... carbos, I better eat a ton if I am going to get any nutrition out of this..."

it's your kidney. you need to work out more.

Oh yeah. I got a nasty kidney stone doing the Adkins diet.

I thought I was gonna die.

Originally posted by Notaro
wait a minute, i read somewhere that consuming a lot of soy protein or protein isnt good for you. that was a recent info. soy protein can make you fat, but i have some artilces on that soemwhere. and also it leads to a short life span... i wonder if anyone have tried south beach diet?

I tried South Beach a couple of months ago, I lost about 15 lbs but I felt weak, sick and irritable. I'd kill for a box of Ellio's and a six pack. The first two weeks are the toughest (which is all I lasted), but the diet changes and the menu is easier to handle, but I'd had enough of it.

i prefer the kerry diet:hihi:

all diets suck anyway, including %$%$%$%$%$%$%$:D

Yes they do:spin:

we all get fat and baggy as we age. even me, too, but as long as i have a girl that im married to and in love with, and have every night to recouncile our love. ;) i wont die a lonely man, but a happy man. although a diet and excerise can enchance my performance in the bedroom..:rolleyes:

RJ - the Atkins diet people can lose weight FAST - many average 10lbs+ lbs in a month.

The trick is KEEPING the weight off after you stop the diet. Keep in mind the guy who invented the diet DIED not too long ago. :(

I did the Atkins thing w/ my wife about 8 yrs summers ago - I started off at 187 and went down to 162. I stopped the diet and ate healthier and stuff, BUT a couple of yrs later I gained all the weight back and then some. :( At one point I was up to 197 and I stopped weighing myself at that point.....LOL. Hopped on the scale recently and I am at 192 lb.

What did I learn?? I'm NOT 18 yrs old any more and can't eat a large steak bomb and half a pepperoni pizza with 2 liter bottle of Mt Dew! :( I know I eat too many carbohydrates. I love bread, pasta and rice. I gave up regular soda and drink diet stuff now. I don't eat the whole loaf of bread - just 1/3 or 1/2.

I USE to excercise a lot - been married 13+ yrs and don't do anything any more. I was riding the dumb excercise bike - talk about somthing MORE boring than running 8-10 miles a day. Did that every other day, but stopped when I started going for medical treatments.

Many Americans have metabolic syndrone x - it will KILL many of us. :( We are overweight and are gonna cut many yrs off our lives because of it.

Do everything in moderation is what I say. :) Just be warned that many people who go on Atkins can't maintain their weight when they get off.

Bottom line is FAST results with NO staying effect. Ya gotta excercise every other day for half hr at least and stop eating processed foods (packages junk, McDs, palm oil, etc....).

I hope when I go that I just fall over - lights out?! Screw getting a slow painful death is what I say.

Notaro - FYI - u get MORE sex before you get married. After you buy the cow the milk gets cut off w/ time. ;)

I understand, Like I mentioned, I come from a health freak family, A diet is a short term solution, it only loses weight, you need to adjust your lifestyle. Im 35 and have 2 kids, one 2.4 years, another 5 months. I need to be able to keep up with these guys as they grow. I plan on lifelong exercise. I just lived the lazy life for awhile and now want to get back to my old self. My Dad is 63 and runs daily, he has six pack abs, So age is a factor but you can manage it.

Eben, I know the Kerry diet, thats the one where you l wait for everyone to agree on what you should eat, and then keeping changing your mind until you starve.

pshh diets who needs em :D
i likes me some fried chicken.......with okra OMG YUM hmm its lunch time.......wheres my donut!

I scared the bleep out of myself when I thought I was 280 but found out I was over 300. Imagine rockhopping at 300 pounds! Sucks. Ten years ago I weighed 205-210 when I seriously blew out one knee. ACL shot, MCL partial tear, miniscuss cartilage shaved off with a flap of it jammed under my kneecap (I damaged the other knee a couple times less seriously since then). I had no insurance and had to go with the minimum operations to get by. As a result, over the next almost decade of marriage, kids, 60 hour weeks, and junk food stints I added nearly 100 pounds.

So I went on the Atkins. Did the 2 week induction period which is probably the only difficult part (well, that and not eating bread :smash: ). From the start off the diet to when I stopped (lots of parties, vacation, and events) I had lost 28 pounds in just short of 6 weeks. After a couple days of feeling very mildly queasy, I suddenly had far more energy that I remember having in a decade. My diet related heartburn stopped. The induction period is very strict on what you can eat but the big thing is no carbs. None. You don't need to eat Prime Rib followed by a T-Bone for your protein. You eat smart like you would on anything else, chicken, fish, pork, the occasional lean steak. Instead of fries and potatoes, simmer some mushrooms with seasonings and some onions. A good salad with some ham and cheese slices. Have a couple slices of bacon with your eggs, not a pound. Stuff like that. Have celery with some Blue Cheese Dressing for a snack. It's really not too bad... After the two weeks, you can have your ham & cheese sandwich on low carb pita (regular carb less dietary carb). You can have a burger on this pita too.

And drink LOTS of water. A gallon plus a day - yeh it sucks with waders on. When you switch off the carbs and on to the proteins your kidneys WILL be working a lot harder as you turn stored fat (from all those carbs you've eaten) into energy. Much like how a bear fattens up before winter and starts to exchange stored energy in from the built up fat. Drikning lots of water is CRUCIAL as it will flush out the kidneys and keep the toxin levels at easily tolerable levels.

I am going back on it in the next week or so but my goal is to be at 250 or so by the end of 04 and more by next spring.

I encourage anyone that needs to lose some weight and needs more energy to at least consider this. Make sure you know where your cholesterol numbers are before you begin. Go buy the book and read it. I'm going to leaf thru mine soon and get geared up for another induction period. I lost almost 30 (and put almost 10 back on after falling off the diet) but it has worked for me and I've seen a lot of people take advantage of this.

Nice john, good to hear! I did the induction period for over a month. It was rough and a few days I was a little dizzy (but enjoyed the buzz). I agree on the water, I drink over 96oz a day. The whole bacon thing is hype, the diet does not reccomend eating all the bacon you want. The media focuses on that too much. Like you said, I have a few slices with eggs adn I mostly eat turkey bacon. You need to eat a variety. The toughest part is that food gets boring. You know what I ate a lot of? Buffalo wings! Zero carbs and my favorite food. The hot sauce also increases your metabolism. Its all a balance. There is SO much stuff available now to support the diet.
FOr example today I ate
1. Sausage and cheese omlette
2. Lunch - low carb bread with Low carb peanut butter, salad
3. Dinner will be roasted chicken, string beans and for dessert low carb peanut butter cups!

16 more pounds to my goal

i did atkins for bout 4 months, it worked great. i came off it one night eating pizza and drinking beer. been off it for a couple years now, and i still am bout -20 from where i started. i did put on an extra 10 when i quit smoking but it was worth it. the thing i noticed was when i came off of it everytime i ate a lot of carbs i would basically pass out about a half hour after i ate, it was weird.

16oz water - start drinking second I get up.

Breakfast1 - 3 egg omelet, 2 little jones sausages, 4oz Juice w/ice, maybe one slice lowcarb bread toast and sugarfree jelly

Breakfast2 - poached eggs, slice ham, knorr hollandaise sauce. slice lowvarb bread toasted, 4oz juice w/ice.

LightFast Breakfast - chunk of chicken or steak leftovers and a bottle of water.

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Lunch1
that lowcarb bread - 2 slices =12g
1 pack megathin sliced meats (prepackaged near the bacon)
1 slice cabot peperjack cheese.
1 or 2 - pint bottles water
tiny 25 cent bag smartfood

Lunch2
2 slices locarb bread, sugarfree peanutbutter, sugarfreejelly. water.

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Dinner items(or alternate lunches)
Ceasar Salad w/chicken
ChickenSalad
TunaSalad
EggSalad
boneless porkchop (brushed with raspberry-chipotle)
sauted zuchinni & yellow squash with EVOO.
maybe GreenBeans, or flash cooked spinach, or FRESH*brusselsprouts-n-butter.

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Dessert
3 oreos and 1c milk :)

Gotta live a little :)

Good luck Katie & JohnR,
Any diet sucks..Its a life change thing no matter which one works for you..I have done well on the Atkins..My brother Swimmer has also...Although for the 10 days on the Vineyard we did ahhhhh go off the diet a wee bit...But back to reality..For us people that are prone to being heavy and not svelte it will probally be a life long thing although not neccesarily the Aktins..Anybody who sticks to it deserves a lot of credit..Believe me its hard...:)

I did this one and lost about 20 pounds in 3
-4 weeks. Induction was a pain, energy boost was great. Tough thing was once I got down could'nt stay away from the breads and pasta. I think I may try it a again, my inside the waistband holster only fits when empty now. :(

Originally posted by TheSpecialist
I think I may try it a again, my inside the waistband holster only fits when empty now. :(

:laughs: Sorry Bill, not laughing at you, but I can relate.

Originally posted by TheSpecialist
I did this one and lost about 20 pounds in 3
-4 weeks. Induction was a pain, energy boost was great. Tough thing was once I got down could'nt stay away from the breads and pasta. I think I may try it a again, my inside the waistband holster only fits when empty now. :(

:eek: no way!

At my Heaviest I weighed in at 300. I ended up doing weight watchers w/ my wife and dropped 55 lbs in about 3 months.

The thing I like about the weight watchers plan is that you don't have to cut out anything. It teaches you more about eating responsibly than dieting.

As with any diet once you come off of it and start eating like a pig you end up putting the weight on again. I ended up back up to about 275 again and started it up again, dropped 35 lbs and am holding steady as of now.

I always joke w/ my wife that I wanted to come out w/ a diet book and all it would contain is 2 pages

Page 1: Stop eating SH$T all the time!

Page 2: Get off of your A$$ and excercise!

That pretty much says it all :D