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Summary: Feel Faint? Must be losing weight!
Review: I must say first that this diet does work if your only purpose in life is to lose weight. Personally, I always felt as though I was about to die....I find it amusing that Dr. Atkins says that you'll have more energy, because I didn't have any the entire time on the diet..... The really scary thing that I remember most though, is when I was crossing the street one time and was so weak, I didn't think I was going to be able to get to the other side....I did, and my body just shook and shook and shook.....It was truley one of the more scarier moments in all my life, and I have this man to thank for it...Healthy? Hardly...at least for my body type...I realized just last week that excersise does work....Oh, and mentally, I was a wreck as well....
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Summary: It's best to get the facts then think about it, beforehand
Review: I can understand buying this book thinking it may be the greatest thing in the world, but one should do the research and find out all of the facts first. This is a dangerous diet. I've heard it many different times throughout the news and specifically, I know on 20/20 there was a long segment solely critiquing the Dr. Atkins diet, there was especially a lot of news critiquing right after the re-release of his book. They all said yes, while it works, the diet is based mainly on red meats. Essentially, 20/20 relayed, it's like eating the same foods the cavemen ate. This means in short, while it's effective, it's highly dangerous and one is at high risk of a very shortened lifespand who would follow this diet. To one who isn't familiar, Dr. Atkins has been pushing his diet for years it isn't a new 'fad' at all. A transcript can be ordered from 20/20, and I am sure other stations have done extensive research as well that is available to the public through transcripts. Stick with the old method, if it's too good to be true---it probably is. If you are one who is needing to loose weight and will continue this diet even with the risks- why not TAE-BO instead? :-) I found that to be highly effective and fun, or of course whatever suits your taste exercise wise. That works for me and I also watch what I eat without dieting and I'm at an ideal weight.
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Summary: A Quick Fix, But How Long Does It Last?
Review: Tried this diet last year, lost 30 pounds, have since gained back 42. Oh yeah, you can get caught up in the hype, and this diet does work - initially. But just how long can you give up pasta, bread, doughnuts, flour, sugars, sodas, fruits, pancakes, french fries, crackers, and the list goes on and on and on. Like the other 7 friends I know who lost weight and have since regained more on this diet, I have gained my weight back also. This is impossible to follow long term. If you're like me and have tried every "quick fix" miracle diet out there and think "maybe this is the one", don't waste your money. Start examining why it is that you've tried every diet in the world and now you're heavier than ever. Plain and simple - diets don't work! Don't let this one tempt you either! Start eating less and exercising more - that's what I intend to do and I won't be shelling out megabucks on supplements and books to mega-millionaire Atkins doing it!
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Summary: You Will Lose Weight, Just Like I Did!
Review: I finally bought the book, after having learned about the diet on the internet. Atkins makes a large number of valid points about eating habits. I have lost 11 pounds so far (just need to lose 15 more). It was easy, I was never hungry, and I never had to exercise. There are almost 800 reviews on Amazon.com about this diet, most of them are positive! A small fraction of "nutirionists" will tell you the diet is bad. The whole concept is to cut back on sugar and flour. What is so bad about that? The remaining few negative posts will all be from people who obviously did not follow the diet properly, and give up after only one week. They will complain about being sluggish and weak during the first week. You **will** feel crappy the first week. Tt is because of all the sugar in your body. After that you will feel great. the only time I feel weak or suffer from headaches are the days after I cheat and eat something with carbs! Ask yourself, would you mind feeling weak for a few days if it meant you would lose 10, 20 or 50 pounds or more? YES! People also complain about how you get bad breath while on the diet. Obviously they did not read the book. The process of burning fat generates ketones in your body. The ketones (and hence the old fat) needs to be removed through your body. If you don't drink enough water, you will breathe it out, and your mouth will taste funny, and your breath will smell. The solution is to drink lots of water! Problem solved. People will also complain about constipation due to lack of fiber, since vegetables are limited on the diet. Well, guess what? Other foods (such as nuts) have fiber. Apparantly enough for a low carb diet. The reason why you need lots of fiber is because of the carbs! Take away the carbs, and you need less fiber. When I heard about this diet, I figured I would go on the Internet and find hundreds of people crying that they can't lose weight on it just like any other diet. I was shocked to find that almost everyone has had success. Just go to remarq.com and read the "Low Carb Diet - Support" group. You will be amazed at how many people are having astounding success. Some people have lost hundreds of pounds! Then go to the other newsgroups and you will find the opposite. Ever tried Slim Fast shakes? Look at the sugar content, and compare it to a can of Coke or Pepsi (not diet). You may as well just drink Coke! Those things are just filled with sugar. And those weight watchers foods and candy bars? They are also filled with sugar. Some people will claim that there may be a health risk associated with this diet. I thought to myself, over my 29 years there have been times when I ate a lot worse. I used to eat pizza 7 days a week for breakfast, lunch and dinner. And I didn't die. I figured there were people on this diet who obviously had been doing it for years, and have lost a lot of weight (one guy lost 150 pounds). If they survived, so will I. This diet is designed to cut out sugar and refined flour and other modern foods. Want proof that there are no long term health effects? Humans have been living on this planet for thousands of years without sugar and refined flour and they survived. So will you. Who is an expert in weight loss? Not doctors, not nutritionists, and not thin people. The experts are fat people who have succeeded at losing weight. And they say the diet works. Just read the next 780 messages and you'll see!
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Summary: To try it is to love it...
Review: I have to say that I am very thankful for this book. I have a nine month old and gained weight with my pregnancy, as lots of women do, and was having a hard time with the old non-fat starvation routine, especially since I breast-feed.(They really push 'eating right'. I don't think that being thirty pounds overweight is healthy or neccessary, though. My little boy has had no problems.) The weight was excruciatingly slow in coming off, but I had resigned myself to just wait it out. Then my father and mother tried the New Diet Revolution and had very good results. It took this convincing before I would try it, so terrified was I of "fattening" foods. I have lost 13lbs in five weeks, and am so completely excited about losing the rest, I just had to write this review. At the beginning, I also experienced some weakness, but after I started back on my pre-natal iron supplements, felt much better, and by the beginning of the third week felt very much normal, except that I was shrinking! The sugar was much harder to do without, probably due to the fact that I was so addicted to it- it is in EVERYTHING,it seems, especially "low fat" proccessed foods. I believe that that may be part of the reason for so many people having such ill effects at the onset. May I suggest that you ease into the diet a little bit, by just first cutting down on bread, rice, pasta and sugar. You will see the weight come off slowly, despite what you think will happen. I also feel that it is important to get a HIGH QUALITY vitamin complex, not just any old thing off the shelves. Get some recommendations from your doctor. I have tried Shaklee and was very impressed, but they are difficult to find. Vitamins have to actually be absorbed to do the body any good, and alot of the cheaper ones come right back out in the urine. As for the onslaught of opinions geared toward this food being "unhealthy", first of all, tell that to the homo-sapiens that lived on this planet millions of years before us. What do we believe cavemen ate, anyway? Frosted Flakes? Little Debbie Cakes after a long hard day of hunting? I used to think so, but Dr. Atkins reminded me of where we came from, and I am thankful for his voice, especially against the roar of the "Fat Free Industry" and refined sugar corporations. Secondly, you eat salad every single day, and today I had a tomato and onion and cheese omelet, and for lunch I had leftover chicken from last night, along with strawberries and whipped cream. Yumm! Unhealthy? I think not! I don't even think I'll be eating dinner, I feel so full. Maybe an unhealthy salad... Read the book, skip over the stuff about how great it is and get on with finding it out for yourself. It reads incredibly easy and he is quite thorough with his explanations on how this is working in your body. What an education! Thanks again Dr. Atkins. And mom and dad for trying it first!
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Summary: insulin can destroy you
Review: The revolution by atkins for this reader is the nonreactive highs and lows I have been used to my entire life. I get the feeling now that my head is steady and cool all day and into the night. I don't feel like falling asleep on my way to work after eating the bagel with cream cheese in the morning. the same goes for the after lunch blues I was used to, after a typical charbo lunch. and for the drive home in the evening, hungry for the next cgarbo load, no more! Well I happen to love omlettes, steak, fish , chops etc. I can vacation, travel on business again, withoutr the seatbelt extender from the airline. In only eight week I dropped 22 pounds. the best part of it is, I can see a lifestyle on this plan for my future. whats the big deal? On the maintainance plan you get to have carbs in small doses, but by then I have taught myself the diference in which carbs are garbage and the right choices to make. Bottom line is, I like the book, It speaks to the reader, one can identify with the Dr. Atkins has a vulnerable, open sensability and writing style. This is a reference book, I don't need a diet to follow strictly laid out each meal. I like the variety of choices I can make. the diet revolution puts matters in your own hands!
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Summary: Outstanding
Review: Wow! 30 pounds in 90 days, never hungry, eating what man is supposed to eat, Cholesterol went from 248 to 151 in 60 days, and triglycerides went from 611 to 223 in 60 days. I am looking better, feeling better, moving better, sleeping better, and eating better then I ever have before. Dr. A., wonderful book, if you have not been able to loose weight on other diets, this one is easy.
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Summary: Second time around...
Review: I did this diet last year and lost a total of 30 pounds in three months. I would've lost more, but was constantly cheating, going on and off. For all the non-believers (usually people who have only been on the diet a short period of time, are experiencing some difficulties which are normal with any diet and soon give up), THIS DIET DOES WORK! You have to follow the plan exactly as the book says and remember there is a small price to pay for losing weight. For those who complain they are not losing weight fast enough, remember you did not become fat overnight and also, did you check for infection that Dr.Atkins mentions that may inhibit weight loss? All in all, I love the plan. I have started once again, this time drinking more water, taking the required supplements and doing aerobics and weight training. In a couple of months, when some are complaining that they just couldn't deal with the side effects of this diet, I will be on the beach in my bikini, while they are at the pool in a huge coverup!
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Summary: The worst diet I ever tried by far!
Review: I tried this diet for one week. Admittedly, this was a stupid thing for me to do because I don't like eggs, I don't like bacon, and I don't like red meat very much. Dr. Atkins seemed to assume that given the choice, this was how I'd WANT to eat, and that was ridiculous! However, even if I had liked the food, I would not have stuck to this diet despite the fact that I lost 8 lbs. Why? First, psychologically and emotionally, I was a wreck. I was unhappy, I had no energy, and I HATED that horrible taste that gets in your mouth and won't go away when experiencing ketosis. I couldn't kiss my husband, who was also on the diet, which disrupted our intimacy. Second, I had doubts, even while on the diet, about its safeness. True, there are no studies to suggest the diet has negative long-term effects, but on the other hand, it hasn't been proven safe either. Since I'm not a doctor, a medical researcher, or anything like that, I'm not going to argue this point further. Finally, despite the fact that I took fiber supplements, my digestive system was horribly affected by just one week on this plan. Frankly I should have gone to the emergency room considering the horrible symptoms I was experiencing (which are just too disgusting to describe), but I didn't have medical insurance at the time, and I couldn't afford it after buying all that expensive meat! I experienced these digestive symptoms for over a week after ending the diet that I'd only been on for one week. I would never presume to tell anyone else what to do, so if this is how you enjoy eating, and this diet works for you, great. More power to you. I would only suggest that you do what I didn't do, and that is consult your physician before starting this plan. Personally I have had much better luck losing weight by ELIMINATING most meat, dairy products, and eggs from my diet.
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Summary: Stop the dogma!
Review: Thank you Dr A! I stumbled on Atkins' book in the airport on the way to vacation. I remember my Mom doing this diet when his first book came out in the 70's. I did not know anything about it because I was a kid (and a very skinny one at that). But after my 30's I shot up to 230 lbs, feeling like I'd just be a big guy all my life. After reading the first chapter on the plane I was influenced immediately and threw away the roll that came with my airplane food. I also did not eat any refined sugar/starch the whole vacation, and did not miss a thing. It was the first time I came back from a vacation lighter. The cool thing about this lifestyle (not diet- which to me means temporary) is that the rules change once you wean yourself off of carbs. I hear people say they I can't give up "my pasta" or "my bread", well the thing is, after a few months those things don't even taste that good compared to real food. Also, you appreciate how much better chicken marsala is alone without gorging on bread before hand, and sub'ing the potato or rice with a side of green veggies. At 50 lbs. lighter, it's a small price to pay. The book was a real eye opener to the dogma we know as the food pyramid. Isn't it funny how the quantities specified in the government and industry funded pyramid coincide exactly with the amount of food types produced in the U.S.? Anyway, this book was a good read, and vita-nutrient and health revolution are good for references. Also, the only way possible to yo-yo is to go back to eating donuts, which is a no brainer to prevent because this is a lifestyle not a diet. To the person who said her cholesterol went up after starting the diet. Atkins mentions a slight rise sometimes happens at first. If that concerns you, why don't you prep yourself for his "induction" phase by eliminating refined garbage and sugar for a couple weeks, then start the diet his way on a Monday so it's not such a shock, also your cholesterol may drop so you will have some leeway. When my weight goes up, I start induction Monday morning cold, and by Tuesday or Wed. my head is pounding. It's not carb withdrawal, because I pretty much stick to his lifestyle but slip up on potato/fries and beer. It's CAFFIENE withdrawal, and I'm convinced it's physically addictive. After a few days of cold turkey though, I feel better than ever! My sleeping habits are way better too, if decaf coffee didn't taste so lousy, I'd give it up for good.
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