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Originally posted by yournamehere
Good points.
For instance, fiber in all forms is a good carb - and sorely missing from Atkins practitioners' diets. Ugh - Constipation City!
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As was stated before, Atkins actually goes into great physiological detail about the benefits of fiber. You don't see most Atkins practictioners holding the line because most people are lazy eaters. Just the other day, someone was telling me about a friend who walked into the lunchroom with a hunk of cheese and some sausage, and saying, "I'm on a diet! Isn't this amazing?"
*sigh*
As to the original question, I would recommend the Cycling Ketogenic Diet (CKD). The short version is that you eat strict Atkins for five contiguous days, then toe the South Beach Diet line for two contiguous days, then switch back to Atkins. As far as I know, CKD was researched and developed independent of Atkins.
There's a lot of misinformation about Atkins, mostly spread by dissatisified customers who didn't read the whole book before they went to go buy their cheese and sausage.
I've been doing Atkins for two months and have lost over 20 pounds. I would have lost about 30 by now, but I need coffee to stay awake at work in the morning. (Caffeine stimulates insulin overproduction, which inhibits weight loss).