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Originally posted by Plan9
I am not sure why people cannot just follow a healthy diet coupled with exercise at least 5 days a week /boggle. Atkins seems to be a good thing for people severely overweight as a way to start shedding the LBS, however, this diet is horrible for anybody expecting to have enough energy to exercise. Good luck having stamina on this diet  . Sure it makes you lose weight, but is it something that you will be doing for life? Hell no! Diet is a lifestyle change, not a science project geared towards shedding X-LBS in X-Amount of days.
Fuck Dr. Atkins and his lazy-man's diet
/em braces for the assault from the Atkin's fanboys
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based on anecdotal evidence, you're wrong. supposidly there's actual scientific research on the atkins diet, but that seems to be more along the safety side of it. and i'm kinda curious as to who's run those studies... there could be bias there...
anyways, i agree with the why not just follow a healthy diet statement. i think it's because people who resort to the atkins diet (warning: major generalization ahead!!!), especially those who have "tried everything and nothing worked!", are really just weak willed people when it comes to controlling themselves around food. my guess would be that like 1% of all people who can't lose weight doing the other diets actually arent' doing them right. (1% statistic pulled out of a rear oriface). i think a lot of them don't realize how many calories and of what type are in various foods, especially the heaviily processed ones. so why would this one work? because they don't have to worry about portioning. calorie counting. just eat as much as you want, just make sure it's on this here list. that's a lot easier than having to say to yourself "well, this piece of cake is too big. i shoudl cut myself a smaller one. and only a tiny scoop of ice cream to go with it."
with that said... i've stalled on my weight loss doing it the old fashioned way and might actually try this atkins thing. i think i'm gonna cry.
