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Summary: Convincing
Review: Hello, My husband and I successfully tried this diet. We both lost mush weight quickly. At first you seem to crave the carbs and almost experience and electrical change in your body. Next it seemed unbelievable how an uncanning feeling of lightness, not as in measuring the mass of your body, but as the diffrence in feeling very weighted after thanks giving, compared to feeling lite after eating salad. Even if you weighed the same you walk lighter! It's bazaar, but true. Also after 3 weeks you realize your not even hungry and your thinking becomes more tuned in. We found ourselves remember aquaintences,ph#, just everything better. Also the 3:00 dead tired feeling gotta have a tea/soda feeling disappeared. Everyone noticed our diffrence in appearance, and having 4 children we seemed quite lavished to splurge on such protein selections for ourselves only and made our at home meal, An excepted private dinning experience,since our children also saw the success.It's east to dine out on this diet. Now Guess what? With such success can you emagine we got off of it? At first no weight gain....Than as we aquired a taste for the starches again,,, the swelling appeared, the overwhelming feeling, the forgetfullness,than the 3;00 tired syndrome. Wow now we've started to gain backk... I 7-10, my husband about 15. His stomach is back! Were both exhausted all the time and we eat alot of protein plus starches and have decided to start a gain. We should have never gone off.I am now on day 2 of the induction diet Wish me luck....Feeling lighter soon.
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Summary: Perfect diet, I can do this forever!
Review: I have lost 28 lbs. in 5 months. It works. Don't worry about what everyone else says about the diet. I am very healthy, I never experienced any pain or headaches when I went on the diet. My Dr says I am very healthy. He even said that it was a good diet. It has been out for over 20 years, and I haven't heard of anyone dying from it, have you? I think people are making excuses when they complain about that. If you are dropping weight like crazy, and all you experience is a little back pain or a headache, then what is the problem? If you were to go outside and run a few miles, I am sure an obese person would experience pain, so quit griping about that. I am a 27 year old male, who decided to try it out. It works. In the beginning, you have to keep focused. It is hard because you can't have bread or pasta. But ask yourself if that piece of bread is worth the fat that hangs over your waist, or look in the mirror and you see those love handles. Is that worth getting full off of macaroni? I don't miss any of those foods anymore. And to be honest, I cheated the whole week of Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter, and numerous other times, but I still keep losing. Do this diet..you will be happy!!
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Summary: 12 months = 248 lbs. lost !!!
Review: This is an update from Dec 14 1998. Well, its been just over 12 months now since I read and started Dr. Atkins Diet and I've lost 248 lbs. !!! Using a more accurate method of determining weight I discoved that my beginning weight was closer to 600 lbs than it was to 520 as I had originally thought. (hey its hard to find a scale that can weigh something over a 1/4 a ton) That is just a hair over 20 lbs. a month. At 323 lbs right now I figure I need to lose about another 140 lbs. - 7 MONTHS !!!! Its the beginning of april now, Halloween is my birthday, so by my 36 birthday I should be real close to my goal weight. If you are thinking about going on this diet, do it now !! Please feel free to email me if you have any questions. Chuck p.s. George Forman Grills Rule !!!
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Summary: SORRY I QUIT
Review: Doing this diet last year was a very gratifying experience. I lost weight at a very rapid rate, somewhere between 32-36 lbs. in less than 2 1/2 months. My goal was to loose 100 lbs. I stopped doing the diet because of all the bad hype and decided to join Weight Watchers. As soon as I did that, I noticed my desire for carbs and junk was back in full force.I am now once again on the GREAT DIET and feel my energy level rising again. My daughter-in-law was amazed at how quickly I can walk, now that I am free of all the carbs. Do yourself a favor, try this diet and you will realize the change is truly a blessing. Loretta, if you read this, try it!
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Summary: THIS IS THE ONLY DIET PRGRAM WHERE I HAVE SEEN RESULTS
Review: I HAVE LOST 25LBS IN 4MONTHS AND NOW THE SCALE WON'T BUDGE FOR THE PAST 3 WKS. I DO CARDIO, WEIGHT TRAINING, AND TAKE SUPPLEMENTS. WHAT ELSE IS THERE FOR ME TO DO? PLEASE E-MAIL ME AT hidjo@webtv.net THANX
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Summary: INTRESTED
Review: I am intrested in trying this diet, however I have read a lot of conflicting information. I am 5'8" and weigh 260lbs. I need to lose 130lbs. Are there any suggestions if this is the diet for me? I have tried countless diets, and have had a weight problem since I was 6. I was in Weight Watchers at age 13 and I am now 23. I don't want to be fat any more. Please give me some suggertions.
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Summary: We can eat like this for life!
Review: Hurrah for Dr. Atkins! After years of diets that didn't work or with which I could only comply for a short time: I have found a way of eating that will work for life! Detractors of the book and the diet have probably done what many of us do with diet books: skipped to the "good part". It's important to understand that this book is really about four different eating plans. One that gets you started, one for ongoing weight loss, one called pre-maintenance, and a final lifetime maintenance plan. None of those "diets" by the way, is zero carbohydrates! For those who want to know the "why" of it all the science is clearly explained and further references provided. No "special" foods are required and the plan is easy to follow even when eating out. You can worry about anecdotes from people who may or may not have read and understood the book or you can read the book, understand the science, and see if this way of eating may give you a lighter, healthier body where the traditional low fat diets have failed.
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Summary: extremely dangerous-don't try it. You may ruin your health!!
Review: I tried this diet and lost 10 lbs. in 2 weeks. Then just maintained for a month.I felt tired and frustrated. I gained it all back and some on top of that. I had severe lower back pain as well as pain in my upper back. I feel this is not worth the effort.
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Summary: needs more info on alcohol consumption
Review: Very good health and dietary info, but very scarce info on the impact of alcohol consumption in conjunction with the Atkins diet
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Summary: Why am I not losing weight?
Review: I have been following the diet religiously for nine full days, and I have not lost a SINGLE POUND. Dr. Atkins is virtually silent on this subject: the only paragraph I could find in his book was "There still are those who do get a measurable ketogenic/lipoltic response and still do not lose weight....usually turn up an explanation based on medication or a hormonal problem." page 230. Huh? Has anyone else had the same problem? Oh, and by the way, have you checked out the prices for products on the Atkins website? OUCH! $2.69 for a carbo-bar! Plus S&H! Here's a tip from me: Walgreen's sells ketone strips (not "lipolysis strips") for $9.99, as opposed to $12.99 plus S&H from Atkins. Please email me if you have had the same problem -NOT LOSING WEIGHT!
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