hannukah harry

if that were what the diet was, i'd agree with you. but that's a misconception that you're supposed to just eat lots of bacon and other fried/fatty meats. i'd take a breast of skinless chicken over a bowl of cereal anyday. (well, it depends on the cereal, i go crazy for the captain!)

i kinda look at the whole dieting thing two ways. The whole idea is to lose weight, but you either do it by...
a) making minor modifications to your diet where you lose weight slowly and train yourself to use better eating habits plus exercising

or

b)use a "fad" diet where once you get to your desired weight/appearance you go off it and most likely back to your old eating habits or close to it. this means either keepign up the exercise enough to keep the weight off or gaining it back.

obviously "a" is best for the long term unless after using a diet like atkins you retrain yourself to eat right when you go back to normal foods and keep exercising. i think in deciding which to do, the best thing to look at is which you can do and stick with to lose the weight and the time in which you want to do it. with either option you could fall back into your old habits, it's just more likely to happen, especially sooner rather than later, with a fad diet.

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