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Summary: It has become my lifestyle diet!
Review: For 15 years I ate fat-free this and fat-free that and ate and ate and I was ALWAYS hungry. It was extremely difficult to try Atkins with the fat-free mentality I had all those years but I finally gave in. I did not have a lot of weight to lose - I just could not take off the 12 lbs I had put on eating fat-free. I could not believe how great I felt - never hungry, losing about 2 lbs a week and still enjoying a glass of wine after the first two weeks. It has been my lifestyle diet for almost 5 years - I feel wonderful and full of energy. I am 53 years old, walk four miles almost every day and do weight training three times a week. I almost never eat fruit, pasta, potatoes, rice, beans or any high carb vegies like corn, peas and carrots (and I love these vegies!). It's meat, cheese, eggs, green vegies and a big salad every night that keeps me going. This diet also freed me from all the gastointestinal distress I suffered from carbos. Whenever I try those high carbo foods I explode with gas. I'll take steak and salad over that any day! Oh, and I have a physical every year and my collesterol is 196 with HDL at 69. My doctor has no complaint with that!
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Summary: It really works!!!!
Review: I went to the Doctor on April 1st, and started the diet April 4th, I again had to go to the Doctor's office today and my blood pressure went down from 120/90 to 120/76 and I lost 8lbs. I feel great and this is really fun and easy. Thank you Dr. Atkins!!!!!!!!!
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Summary: Not healthy
Review: I do not agree with this plan of reducing the carbs in a persons daily intake of food. This is a very unhealthy way to lose weight. I would like to know how many will gain all the weight plus back after they go back to regular eating. Low carbs does not give you enough energy to make it on a daily basis. I put myself on a 50 gram carb, 1000 cal. plan aday and i was not getting enough carbs to make it through a 1 1/2 hr work out each day. I increased my carbs to 65 grams aday and i lost 71 pounds, but i had to work hard for that loss. Also, there are alot of vegetables that have high carbs such as peas, cucumbers....look it up in a carbohydrate counter book. If you are planning to follow this plan, just be careful. It may cause you more damage inside then you think.
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Summary: The OLD version is still in the shops. It should be removed.
Review: I bought the Atkins Diet Revolution, and didn't know until I got it home that it was out of date. The book should be pulled. I wasted my money. I want a refund :-( Lola
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Summary: Yes, by god-it DOES work. Just do it!
Review: As a hypoglycemic teenager (many, many years ago), I tried the diet in its early years, and it helped my low blood sugar and made my life normal. Now, as a portly adult-the diet is helping me again. I started the diet Feb. 1, 1999 at size 14, and today I'm wearing size 10 jeans. I adore this diet! I can have heavy cream in my coffee, cheese as a snack, I eat the Atkins "Advantage" bars-(expensive, but the BEST if you have a chocolate fit, and the Atkins shakes are a god send, too!)-and frankly, I rarely think about food. Granted, the diet limits your choices, but for former foodies like me, the less you think about food, the better off you are. I have energy, my knee joints have stopped hurting, I feel good when I wake up, I'm not puffy, my skin looks great, and my grocery bills are a lot lower. Granted, I don't like eggs, but I throw in some jalapeno cheese and they go down with no problem. Buy this book! As a former Pritikin dieter-this diet WILL work!(And to the woman who said she has the book and doesn't know how to start the diet-uh-READ THE BOOK!)
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Summary: Too much hype but informative.
Review: Not everyone loses ten pounds the first week! Dr. Atkins should be a little more honest about the average dieter's experience--maybe one or two pounds a week. For me, a diabetic on insulin, the best part of the diet (beside losing sixteen pounds in fourteen weeks) was being able to reduce my injections to less than a quarter of the insulin I used before. Even my psoriasis looks better!
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Summary: Great diet need some tips to jump start it
Review: I had a baby 8 months ago and I gained a lot of weight I decided in February to start Dr. Atkins. I know many people who have lost significant amounts of weight. I feel very discouraged and don't know what I am doing wrong. I am not sure if I am suppose to drink a certain amount of water and exercise. Everyone I speak to tells me that is not the important part and that they really don't drink or exercise much. I would love to know what a typical day of drinking water and working out is required. I need to lose 30lbs and would love to lose 20 lbs by the end of JUNE. Everyone tells me that it is simple. Can anyone give a new mom who needs a pick me up in losing some excess weight advise. I would appreciate any tips that you can think that helped you lose weight. Thanks
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Summary: DOES THIS ONLY WORK WITH TYPE B or O BLOOD TYPE PEOPLE??
Review: Hi the more I read about this I get confuse I will like to know if it is true that this diet only work for people with blood type B or O, I am AB, has anyone with type A or AB been successfull??PLEASE WRITE ME AT distassi11@hotmail.com Thank you I do not want to lose my time///
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Summary: This is the best diet ever!!
Review: I have been doing the Atkins diet for 1.5 weeks now and lost about 6 lbs. I have been eating everything I want except carbs. Things that I would never eat before like bacon and whole fat mayonaise and lots of cheese. My appetite is drastically reduced for the first time in my life. This is so easy it almost seems silly, but it really works!
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Summary: GRRRREAT!
Review: I HAVE LOST 40 POUNDS IN FIVE MONTHS! REMEMBER THAT THE OLD PARADIGM NO LONGER HOLDS TRUE! IT IS NOT ONLY THE CALORIES YOU EAT MINUS THE CALORIES YOU BURN, BUT THE CALORIES YOU EAT MINUS THOSE THAT YOU BURN PLUS THE ONES YOU LOOSE IN YOUR URINE IN THE FORM OF "FAT METABOLITES" KETONE BODIES. SOME HINTS FOR THOSE WHO ARE HAVING TROUBLE INDUCING KETOSIS: 1) QUIT COFFEE FOR AT LEAST TWO WEEKS 2) QUIT NUTRASWEET FOR AT LEAST ONE MONTH 3) IF YOU HAVE EXTREME METABOLIC RESISTANCE TRY AN EARLY MORNING WALK OR JOG (THE LATER ONLY IF YOU HAVE MEDICAL CLEARANCE FOR DOING SO). 4) DO NOT TRY THE DIET WITHOUT READING THE BOOK FIRST! REMEMBER THAT THIS DIET IS NOT SUITABLE FOR TYPE I DIABETICS, PREGNANT WOMEN OR PEOPLE WITH RENAL DISEASE. IT DOES WONDERS FOR TYPE II DIABETICS BUT SINCE THE NEED FOR MEDICATIONS WILL DECREASE SO DRAMATICALLY, YOU WILL NEED TO CONSULT YOUR PHYSICIAN FIRST. GOOD LUCK ON THE ONLY DIET THAT WILL HOLD TRUE FOR THE NEXT MILLENNIUM!
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