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.
