brianrob1961
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Hi!
I found this forum when looking for information about where to get Keto sticks. I found it really interesting and registered immediately. Can I share my experience/opinions of Atkins?
A brief intro: I'm 49 years old and need to shed about 30lbs to be happy, though I could settle for a bit less. In more obvious terms, I am 38" waist and I want to be size 32" again, though could live with 34" I have used Atkins before without the spectacular results that some people get, but never with disappointing results. I have managed 3 - 5lbs a week where some manage 7lbs. It certainly works.
These days I find it easier and less problematic to just say 'low carb diet' to most people. It is strange the strong emotions that the name 'Atkins' can elicit from some people. My experience of the diet means that I would not recommend a low-carb diet to anyone without their having first read extensively about it. This is partly for safety reasons (You do need to make sure that you get all the essentials and, as with any diet, you can make mistakes), but also because understanding the Atkins diet makes beautiful, illuminating, fabulous sense in a way that no other diet does. Eat less fat, we are told by the diet fascists, yet fat consumption in the western world has decreased at exactly the same time that carb consumption has gone through the roof. Diabetes has increased, just as fat consumption has gone down and carb consumption has gone up. Etc, etc, etc. Reading the Atkins book and grasping what he is saying has a revelatory feel on an almost religious scale.
Don't look for advice from health professionals either. An ex doctor of mine told me that if it worked for me to do it. I had borderline high blood pressure and no doubt he realised, as do I, that the risks of that outweighed any perceived risk from Atkins. A nurse at the same practice threw her hands up in horror at the mere mention of the diet. My blood pressure is still a tad above what I would like it to be, but hugely improved on what it was.
I tried Atkins a few years ago and lost a lot of weight, but I fell by the wayside and ended up a depressing 224lbs two years ago. About that time my wife left me and this freed me up to take control of my life, so since then I have lost a fair bit again and now tip the scales at 194lbs. I'm fairly fit. I cycle regularly, sometimes up to 30 miles in one day and I feel good on it.
Frustratingly though, this time on Atkins the weight is shifting VERY slowly. I think that I need to do a careful audit of my eating, to join a gym and, during the summer, to rack the cycling up to 150 miles a week.
Being overweight puts my life on hold. Sorry if this offends any larger ladies on here, but I want a slim girlfriend. I ain't going to get one while I look like this. Also, I refuse to buy new clothes for a tub of lard, so I exist with the minimum of clothes. Other than my work uniform I have one pair of jeans! I long for the day when I can go out and spend £££££££'s on lots of new size 32" trousers. lol
Anyway, that's where I am. A bit in limbo, but absolutely convinced that there is no better weight loss system known to man than the totally NATURAL method of eating like nature intended us to on a low carb diet.
Brian.
I found this forum when looking for information about where to get Keto sticks. I found it really interesting and registered immediately. Can I share my experience/opinions of Atkins?
A brief intro: I'm 49 years old and need to shed about 30lbs to be happy, though I could settle for a bit less. In more obvious terms, I am 38" waist and I want to be size 32" again, though could live with 34" I have used Atkins before without the spectacular results that some people get, but never with disappointing results. I have managed 3 - 5lbs a week where some manage 7lbs. It certainly works.
These days I find it easier and less problematic to just say 'low carb diet' to most people. It is strange the strong emotions that the name 'Atkins' can elicit from some people. My experience of the diet means that I would not recommend a low-carb diet to anyone without their having first read extensively about it. This is partly for safety reasons (You do need to make sure that you get all the essentials and, as with any diet, you can make mistakes), but also because understanding the Atkins diet makes beautiful, illuminating, fabulous sense in a way that no other diet does. Eat less fat, we are told by the diet fascists, yet fat consumption in the western world has decreased at exactly the same time that carb consumption has gone through the roof. Diabetes has increased, just as fat consumption has gone down and carb consumption has gone up. Etc, etc, etc. Reading the Atkins book and grasping what he is saying has a revelatory feel on an almost religious scale.
Don't look for advice from health professionals either. An ex doctor of mine told me that if it worked for me to do it. I had borderline high blood pressure and no doubt he realised, as do I, that the risks of that outweighed any perceived risk from Atkins. A nurse at the same practice threw her hands up in horror at the mere mention of the diet. My blood pressure is still a tad above what I would like it to be, but hugely improved on what it was.
I tried Atkins a few years ago and lost a lot of weight, but I fell by the wayside and ended up a depressing 224lbs two years ago. About that time my wife left me and this freed me up to take control of my life, so since then I have lost a fair bit again and now tip the scales at 194lbs. I'm fairly fit. I cycle regularly, sometimes up to 30 miles in one day and I feel good on it.
Frustratingly though, this time on Atkins the weight is shifting VERY slowly. I think that I need to do a careful audit of my eating, to join a gym and, during the summer, to rack the cycling up to 150 miles a week.
Being overweight puts my life on hold. Sorry if this offends any larger ladies on here, but I want a slim girlfriend. I ain't going to get one while I look like this. Also, I refuse to buy new clothes for a tub of lard, so I exist with the minimum of clothes. Other than my work uniform I have one pair of jeans! I long for the day when I can go out and spend £££££££'s on lots of new size 32" trousers. lol
Anyway, that's where I am. A bit in limbo, but absolutely convinced that there is no better weight loss system known to man than the totally NATURAL method of eating like nature intended us to on a low carb diet.
Brian.