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Summary: I've lost 126 pounds, it works...
Review: This one works (and I've tried them all). I've been heavy most of my life but put on a lot of extra weight after college. Since starting the diet in March of this year I have lost 126 pounds. Not bad huh? Upon first reading the book I tossed it aside as nonsense, after all, it goes against just about every mainstream medical advice there is about losing weight and getting fit. But I went back and re-read it a year later after reading some reviews (even those here), and decided to give it a go. Best decision I've ever made. I have more energy, sleep better, have better concentration, and a much smaller appetite. It's been very easy to follow, great for those of us who have to travel for a living, you can go to any restaurant and still stay on this diet. Probably not a very good diet for those of you who have less than 35 pounds to lose. If you read the comments and reviews you'll see a trend that most of the people who are successful on the diet have more weight to lose. So you can be cynical and dismiss this book as another diet fad, or you can spend the measly 4 bucks and see what this is all about. Trust me, read this book, you have a lot of weight to lose and a whole lot of life to gain back.
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Summary: Dedicated to losing !
Review: I gave the book 2 stars when I followed the diet plan exactly, I would of given it 5 stars if it was made differently. I started to do the diet but when I found myself CONSTIPATED (that's embarrasing)...(The section on "The 14 day induction Diet") I knew something was wrong with this diet. The first 14 days of the diet it tells you to only have 20 carbohydrates daily, and gives you a list of foods to choose from. The book actually tells you to eat fried foods, bacon, beef, cheese, whole eggs, mayonnaise, all oils and butter. NO Rice, No bread, No potatoes, NO pasta and also certain vegtables you CANNOT eat either. They also suggested to have diet items like diet soda, diet jello, and ARTIFICIAL SWEETENERS (which are HAZARDOUS to your HEALTH) example: Memory loss, just to name one, there are many more problems more serious that comes from consuming ARTIFICIAL sweeteners but thats another subject all together. So I just eliminated those items all together. So I decided to modify the diet to work for me. I decided to follow it my way, I ate fish, chicken (white meat only), LOW-FAT cheese, Turkey (white meat only), Tuna, Seafood, LOW-FAT mayonnaise. Used PAM instead of oil. I DID NOT FRY MY FOOD! I baked, broiled, boiled and sauteed my foods. I ate alot of green leafy vegetables that were listed in the diet and drank PLENTY OF WATER. Then after the 14 day induction diet I encorporated 2 starches (carbs) a day like 1/2 cup of rice or 2 slices of low-fat wheat bread. SO for me changing the diet, I ended up losing 20 pounds and I felt alot healthier. Then after I encorporated EXERCISE (Aerobics/weight training)into my life and lost an additional 60 pounds that's a total of 80 pounds that I lost. I LOOK AND FEEL GREAT! My Doctor told me that I have the LOWEST (LDL)cholesterol level he has ever seen and if I stayed away from fatty foods, I told him "YES I am"! He stated to me that I was doing something right. I should of written a diet book. ;) Good luck in your weightloss efforts, stay focused and be FOREVERFIT !
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Summary: Atkins deserves a jail cell
Review: Raobert Atkins has purloined a diet that has been around for more than 30 years. It used to be the Stillman water diet, then the Scarsdale diet. It is extremely dangerous. It taxes the body. The initial weight loss is do to the loss of water. It changes the acid/base balance in the blood stream and can lead to acidosis and sudden death. This is one reason why Atkins has been denied hospital privileges in every hospital in the country. He wrote the same diet twenty -five years ago. If you want to live, stay away from this man's DIET. Like Iago, he's a walking malignancy.
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Summary: I LOVE what this way of eating does for me!
Review: I love this "diet". I am able to eat much lesswithout feeling deprived because my cravings are gone. When I amhungry I eat, and no, I don't gorge on fat, just enough to feel satisfied. I think alot of people have misunderstood that when Dr. Atkins said you can eat all you want, he knew you wouldn't have the desire to overeat on this because it is so satisfying. I am looking & feeling better than ever. Turning 40 and being a size 4 is so much fun! I used to exercise like mad to stay in shape when I was eating a mostly vegetarian diet. Now I can get by with 20 minutes a day and stay as thin & firm as I like. I don't feel hungry all the time like I used to, plus my digestion is much better. And no I don't feel one shred of guilt eating meat, especially after watching how animals tear each other apart on the discovery channel. And they aren't just killing for food either. So try this "diet" & enjoy getting skinny! I would give this 5 stars except I think he could be a little clearer & not so much hype. In the beginning he does make it sound like calories don't count as long as you avoid carbos but then later in the book he says cut down your portions if you are stalled. But I think he has helped alot of people including me so Thanks Dr.Atkins for being willing to stand up against the dieticians who don't know their biochemistry!
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Summary: The best way to eat
Review: I lost 45 pounds four years ago on the Atkin's diet. I've kept it off since. I eat great food and feel great. It's definitely the way I will eat the rest of my life. My doctor says it's great.
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Summary: This diet saved my life
Review: Dr. Atkins has taken bashing after bashing from people who don't have a clue what they are talking about. I have type II diabetes and was taking 2 different meds a day and now I am med free. I had a severe reaction to my blood pressure meds and could hardly walk. It was stroke level and now it is down to moderate after only one month on this diet-med free. My mother was a diabetic and I have had hypoglycemia sense childhood. My body knows what it needs to get back into balance and I intend on continuing to give it the diet it wants. I had completly given up on diets and was very ill when I just had a feeling to try this one more thing and I am so grateful for the results. Things had gotten so bad that I became totally disabled and now I have hope of someday being able to work. My IBS is better,fibromyalgia,arthritis, and my depression all have improved. Please listen and don't let the nay-sayers mess up your future. Think for yourself. I was on McDougalls for months and just got more sick!
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Summary: Don't wait to read this book!
Review: I was and still am, very skeptical when it comes to diet regimens, because there ar so many! For years I scoffed at the Atkins diet, just as I had at all the rest. But, when you read this book,and begin to understand the science behind this diet, you will find that it makes sense. And Dr. Atkins gives you plenty of irrefutable research study to back it up. The best test, is for one to do as Dr. Atkins suggests, try the diet for 2 weeks. If you do the diet, exactly to the letter, the way it is layed out in the book....you will become a believer. This is the only diet to work for me, and when I have gone off of it, it is the easiest to get right back on and continue to see immediate results. DON'T WAIT! READ THIS BOOK!
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Summary: 25 years on Atkins and still alive!
Review: I'm extremely carbo sensitive, insulin resistant. Atkins' Diet is important for those who've have parents, relatives with Type II diabetes. I feel better in ketosis. While I do eat carbos occasionally, after feeling lousy and gaining weight, back I'll go into ketosis. For those who have trouble with the diet, add l-glutamine. This amino acid helps with carbo withdrawal. If constipated, take psyllium husks. These plus more ideas are in the book. Many of the complaints I hear about the diet have easy solutions. I also have 25 years of excellent blood lipid results on a high fat, no/low carbo diet.
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Summary: About the high fat stuff...
Review: Most people are afraid of this diet because of the 2 week induction diet that you start off with. First, you cut out almost all carbs (no more than 20g a day, which isn't a whole lot) and second, you eat lots of fat. That scares people. The reason you eat lots of fat is because ketosis (sign of heavy duty fat burning)works best when you have a high fat to carb ratio (more fat, less carbs). Hence the recommendation to eat more fat while doing the induction diet. The induction diet is extreme, that's why you only do it for two weeks. After that you gradually increase the carbs till you get to your ideal weight. While the book doesn't specifically say so, I found that decreasing (gradually) the fat while increasing the carbs was a good mix, but I'm sure it will vary from person to person. Anyway, don't be a chickens#$t about the fat. We're talking about eating fat (and using it as fuel), not wearing it. What do you think your anscestor's ate? Fatty meats or enriched, chemically augmented carbs? And another thing: my cholestoral and blood pressure went DOWN. Go figure.
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Summary: So Far, So Good!
Review: I am on a modified version of the Atkins diet, have been for two weeks. I'm what is classified as "morbidly obese", and have been terribly overweight for most of my life. Like most people, this diet seemed radical, contrary to everything we "know" about nutrition and I resisted my friend's urgings to try it. But finally, I decided that continuing the up-and-down, incredibly restrictive dieting of Weight Watchers and the like, which force you to starve yourself (why don't you go take a look at WW's drop-out and re-enrollment records?) wasn't getting me anywhere, I might as well try this for a while. True, two weeks isn't much time, but I can tell you this: I have not been weighing myself (I believe that anyone who weighs themselves as a gauge of whether their diet is working is missing the point) and yet my watch, on the same settings it was on two weeks ago, now slips up and down my wrist. My waist isn't as pinched by the same setting of my belt that I used two weeks ago. And my co-workers have all remarked that I look like I'm losing weight. That's all the encouragement I need to continue. I've been carrying around a 1 gallon jug of water every day, and I finish it by the time I go to bed. I've also read a book called "Neandrthin" and while it's even MORE restrictive (and doesn't allow for taking weekends off, which I need because I still like bread, in moderation) it details how the digestive system of man is set up for protien and fat, and that man began as a meat-eater until the age of agriculture, which introduced a lot of vegetable foods we had never eaten before. Take a look at the Eskimos - lowest heart disease rate in the world, and they eat tons of animal protien & fat. Look at sumo wrestlers... fattest men in the entire world, and the bulk of their diet is rice. That should be "food" for thought! I'm going to keep at this thing, because I'm becoming a believer.
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