I've been dieting and excercising for 7 days. I was counting calories, but I read a few books, and decided that I wanted to try the Atkins diet. I have not lost one single pound yet, in 7 days.
However, I just started the Atkins thing yesterday. I stopped counting calories (although this bothered me a bit,) and I stopped counting fat, and I just ate meat all day long, with no carbs. Bacon, and crab legs, and steak. A lot of steak. Today I've had bacon and nothing else. (Need to go to the store...)
After 6 days of counting calories and fat, switching back to eating butter scared me a little bit. So I'm wondering, does this really work? I read the books. I read the sucess stories. But I'd like to know how it really works for real people in the real world.
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Hi Jessica,
Robin is absolutely right, eating meat & bacon all day long is NOT the Atkins way of life. If you'd like to do Atkins and do it correctly, I suggest you go to your local Walmart and spend $6 for Dr. Atkins New Diet Revolution. Read it from cover to cover until you understand exactly how & why this way of eating works.
In the meantime, you may want to have a look at the following links:
If you want to know if this works for real people in the real world...I'd say,when done CORRECTLY...yes,it works!! The key is to never think of it as a diet that you can go off of once you've lost the desired amount of weight you want to lose. This is a lifestyle change! For it to work, you must make the committment to change your eating habits for a lifetime. IF you are willing to do that...you will be successful.
Yes, I did read it, and I'm almost certain that the book said to start off with no carbs, and that calorie counting did not matter. I'll check again. I read the links, thanks. They seem to say something entirely different than the book that I just read did.
Yes, I did read it, and I'm almost certain that the book said to start off with no carbs, and that calorie counting did not matter. I'll check again. I read the links, thanks. They seem to say something entirely different than the book that I just read did.
20 carbs is what you start at. No calorie counting doesnt matter, when you are hungry, eat....just keep it between the lines