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ratbastid · 04-04-2009, 05:29 AM

Hold the phone. The Atkins diet is NOT a "no-carb" diet. If somebody's doing that, they're doing it very very wrong, and it can be dangerous.

Atkins starts with a two-week period of restricted carb intake (called "Induction"). There are four stages of the diet, of which Induction is the first. The final stage ("Maintenance") looks a whole lot like a regular, balanced diet, with an emphasis on healthy, slow-burn carbs.

Atkins does not involve gorging yourself on meat. And even in Induction, you HAVE to eat 20g of carbs a day. Not UNDER 20g. EXACTLY 20g. That's not much, compared to a typical American diet, but it's DEFINITELY not none. So, olddude, if your people aren't counting to 20 every day (and even that for only two weeks, as you start to "earn" more carbs--that you HAVE to eat--as you go along), they're not doing Atkins, they're doing something they pulled out of their ass.

I did Atkins for a while and had excellent results on it with ease. At some point I quit working it and it quit working, but I don't blame the diet for that.

Atkins got a really bad rap, but it's almost entirely the misunderstood, misapplied approach that people are talking about when they say "Atkins".

Also, grumpster, when I was doing it, my lovely wife was a vegetarian. We practically had two separate kitchens. It was doable.

04-04-2009, 05:29 AM	#6 (permalink)
ratbastid Darth Papa Location: Yonder	Hold the phone. The Atkins diet is NOT a "no-carb" diet. If somebody's doing that, they're doing it very very wrong, and it can be dangerous. Atkins starts with a two-week period of restricted carb intake (called "Induction"). There are four stages of the diet, of which Induction is the first. The final stage ("Maintenance") looks a whole lot like a regular, balanced diet, with an emphasis on healthy, slow-burn carbs. Atkins does not involve gorging yourself on meat. And even in Induction, you HAVE to eat 20g of carbs a day. Not UNDER 20g. EXACTLY 20g. That's not much, compared to a typical American diet, but it's DEFINITELY not none. So, olddude, if your people aren't counting to 20 every day (and even that for only two weeks, as you start to "earn" more carbs--that you HAVE to eat--as you go along), they're not doing Atkins, they're doing something they pulled out of their ass. I did Atkins for a while and had excellent results on it with ease. At some point I quit working it and it quit working, but I don't blame the diet for that. Atkins got a really bad rap, but it's almost entirely the misunderstood, misapplied approach that people are talking about when they say "Atkins". Also, grumpster, when I was doing it, my lovely wife was a vegetarian. We practically had two separate kitchens. It was doable. Last edited by ratbastid; 04-04-2009 at 05:31 AM..