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Originally posted by sailor
Cardio is damn near impossible while on Atkins. Thats why the diet is useless for anyone who does aerobic exercise. The body feeds on carbs when active--if you dont have any carbs, youll have no energy. When you try the cardio, its going to hurt. Youre going to feel completely lethargic, overly tired, and generally just hate it. If you used to do long distance cardio, imagine the worst bonk you have ever felt, and then imagine feeling like that almost from the start.
Thats not to say Atkins doesn't have its place. Its just that if you are trying to do cardio while on it, forget it. Maybe some weights?
Congrats on the weight loss 
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Originally posted by Seaver
Yeah Atkins diet is only good if you are seditary.
If you work out you NEED the carbs or your body destroys itself. Your liver goes, your brain cells dont get the energy they need and start to die. Your lungs start to fill with liquid because they can not effectively keep up (require lots of energy to draw out the oxygen). Lots and lots of very bad things happen if you work out and on the Atkins.
I suggest you decide what you like better. If you want to work out check out the Zone diet, you say you dont crave the food as bad, and it keeps your meals very well balanced. The biggest complaint is they stay hungry the entire time. Pastas with meats in them (chicken alfredo, spaghetti, etc) are very good if you are serious about working out.
If you are goign to work out twice a week or so stay on the atkins for the week, the night before the day you work out carb up. You will burn off the carbs the next day, and you can stay seditary the rest of the week with no weight gain (if you do it right).
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both of you have very simplistic and minimilistic views on how the body works. i would have to say i disagree with both of you.
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Originally posted by Seaver
Besides the guy who made it... was obese with a heart condition. Doesnt say much for the diet.
If you cant tell I hate the Atkins diet and the fad it has created.
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atkins may have died overweight (not the cause though), you're making the assumption that he was on the diet and that was the cause of his death. many older people (he was in his 70's) who have been thin all their life become overweight in old age.