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Summary: Finally the Inches Come Off Thanks to Atkins Diet
Review: This recent New Year's Day a friend invited me over for an Atkin's induction dinner. Since that time he and several others as well as my husband and I have met weekly, schedules permitting, to rotatingly host an "Atkins" dinner at one's house. Though not everyone is at the same level, induction vs maintenance, this method allows me to refocus each week to a true induction meal. Consequently I ordered the Atkins for Life, which was released in January and included many interesting stories of successful Atkins followers as well as ideas for maintaining Atkins for Life.Since we (dh & I) started we have each been able to shake those pounds and inches that seem to resist coming off after one reaches a certain age. For my husband, so far he has lost 15#+ and is within 15# of "normal" for him 175#, and gone from a tight 36" waist to a quite loose 34" waist. Normal (as in his youth-pre 35 years old) would be 32" and he is almost there. We are both surprised and delighted. He has been at 36-38 for the last 15 years.
For myself I have gone from a size 14 (tight)to a size 8, a loose 8. And although we both have tried to reduce before with the help of lowfat diet, restricted calories (forget that = starving!), and medication (me), I have never found weight/inch loss so easy and so satisfying = not starving.
For both of us, the best part has been the fact that there is no hanging, sagging fat, resulting from the loss. It really has been a fat conversion to muscle. WOW! Even in my youth when I weighed less, I did NOT have muscle definition as now.
IT WORKS! And by the way, our menu plans do not consist of just meat and fat. We have found that we eat more fruit and veggies than before now, and the best part is that with this method they actually are attractive to our new palates. Though, we find ourselves from time to time thinking that a nice carbohydrate infusion e.g. dessert, rice, bread, pasta, etc., would be tasty, it is quite easy to let that thought go. Wow, this is the way to go. And as far as considering that it is for life, is not the least bit disconcerting for us. p.s. in my pre-Atkins days I was a carboholic.
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Summary: interesting
Review: Well, I bought it and I've been trying it. This review is not about whether or not the diet will work (because I have ways to go to find that out), but if you go to his website you'll be able to gather almost any information you need for free. There's also a pocket version of this book called "Dr. Atkins' New Carbohydrate Gram Counter" <ISBN: 0871318156> which costs a lot less and has all the basics down. Start with that and if you're following it and need to know more, then buy this book.
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Summary: I question the Motives
Review: Who is behind this diet ? The American cattlefarmers Association or what ? Asians Live longer, heathier lives than Americans on low protein diets. Try soy not beef you burger bandit fool.
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