Two Studies Vindicate Atkins Diet

WCCO News Online ^ | 5/21/03 | A/P

[the Real fifi]

It works for me. Online you can find many recipes for lowcarb sweets and baked goods and there are a number of companies--synergy diet--also online that make a number of great products--tortillas, cakes, candies, pastas, shakes , which are low carb and help make up for those things you cannot eat on the high protein diet.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

My problem is even a little bit of sweets triggers me to binge. If I never eat anything sweet I am better off.

[the Real fifi]

Try their tortillas..they also have sugarless jams, etc. If there is no sugar in the product you won't trigger those cravings..they even have a sugarless nutella substitute my son is crazy about..and my local grocery is now carrying Atkins premium ice cream--yummy , filling and only 5 carbs per serving.

[RedBloodedAmerican]

About the worst thing you can do to a human body is go on the Atkins diet.

[ODC-GIRL]

both my hubby and I have pretty much stood still on our weight loss after about 7 months. Anyone else experience this? We haven't gained it back, but haven't lost any more either.

Try adding a good calcium supplement, the citrate kind, it should help. For those with a sweet tooth, try pudding made the low-carb way: Sugar free pudding mix made with half and half instead of milk, it's like eating mousse and is much lower in carbs that if made with milk. I lost 35 pounds in two months and have kept it off for over a year. Though I did gain a few pounds during Operation Iraqi Freedom as I couldn't tear myself away from the TV and the computer long enough to exercise and eat properly. It's back off now.

[Maven]

Potatoes don't go away, I have lost the craving for bread but a potoato with sour cream (shivers)

Here's a moderately low carb way around that:

Bake the potatoes, then cut in half and scoop out all the innards until you have just the potato skins. Fill the skins with whatever low carb filling you want (sour cream is fine).

The skin from one moderately-sized baked potato nets just over 21 carbs (and that's actually two servings). A whole baked potato is well over 50 carbs.

Maven

[Maven]

Since March 1st, I've been dropping an average of 3 pounds per week. I don't feel hungry like I thought I would. I think the walking makes you less hungry.

You and I had some back-and-forth (in the nicest possible way) not too long ago.

The reason you're not hungry is that you're getting an adequate amount of fat in your diet now, and fat is a wonderful appetite depressant. Also, when you cut down on the carbs, you get off the sugar rollercoaster that causes cravings to eat.

Congrats!

Maven

[Maven]

I have done pre-gastric by-pass counseling and all of them have the 'Atkins Diet' on their list of failed weight loss plans. They all lost massive amounts of weight, but gained it back over the years.

I hope you haven't yet gone through with the bypass, and I hope that if you haven't, you'll forego it all together. What they don't tell you is that the five-year mortality rate for weight loss surgery is 30%. Yes, I'm serious - after just five years, three out of ten people will die from complications of the surgery. And, even among those who don't die, a considerable number of them will gain the weight back anyway (with the lovely side effects of constant diarrhea and vomiting).

Take it from someone who's had to lose about 250 pounds - low carbing DOES work. I've lost about 190 pounds in just over five years. YOU CAN DO IT.



Maven

[Maven]

Once I achieve long-term results, I'll say a lot more about my "modified" Atkins plan. I just think the Atkins diet is too strict. With some regular and vigorous exercise, I believe the Atkins plan can be modified to something more reasonable that people will have no problem sticking to the rest of their lives.

The best "low carb" option for you is probably Sugar Busters, which allows for consumption of whole grains, etc.

Maven

[Mr. Mulliner]

another Atkins ping

[Maven]

What's really crazy is that he has cast the world's staples in a negative light: oats, rice, wheat and potatoes. These should be over 50% of most people's daily diets (without butter/sour cream). The rest should be fruits/vegetables.

If I ate like that, I'd probably be well on my way to going blind or losing a limb. Not everyone can metabolize sugars and starches.

Do a little research on the health differences between hunter-gatherer peoples and agrarian ones. You'll be shocked.

Most dieticians would probably think meat at 10% is too high;

Most dieticians I've run into have been brainwashed by the government's so-called pyramid. They couldn't find their butts with both hands, a Thomas Guide and a GPS receiver.

I make a concession and go crazy on week-ends BBQing fish, chicken, steak, pork, etc., but I know not to do this more than 2 times per week.

Well, that just means MORE MEAT FOR ME!!!!!!!

Maven

[RIGHT IN SEATTLE]

Slip on a shitty street in NYC and never wake up.

[Maven]

What's so unnatural about a diet rich in eggs, cheese, natural and animal fats, meat, veggies, fruit, and soy based baked goods.

Nothing unnatural about that at all!

Well, except for the soy-based stuff. That's just nasty tasting. Soy flour is Satan's flour, I always say.

Try using nut flours instead - baked goods come out a lot tastier. Here's one of my recipes for a basic coffee cake (or muffins):

MYRA'S BASIC COFFEE CAKE/MUFFINS

2 cups almond flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
3/4 butter, melted
1 cup of Splenda
5 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 teaspoon flavored extract of your choice (orange, lemon, etc.)

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease an 8x8 baking pan. For muffins, grease a 12-muffin pan.

Combine baking powder and almond flour, mixing well; set aside. Mix together the butter and splenda, and let cool for a bit. Add the eggs, one at a time, to the butter/splenda mixture, mixing well after each addition. Add the vanilla and other extracts. Mix in the flour mixture, blending well. Pour into the baking pan, and bake for about 1 hour or until the top is light to medium brown. For muffins, bake for about 30 minutes.

Makes 16 servings of coffee cake, about 2 grams of carb per serving. For muffins, makes 12 servings, about 3 grams carb per serving.

NOTE: Almond flour can be purchased in some supermarkets, health food stores or online (I prefer almondsonline.com). Or, you can easily make your own - grind or process blanched almonds until they form a fine meal. Be careful not to overdo it, or you'll wind up with almond butter. Four ounces of almonds makes about 1 cup of almond flour.

OPTIONAL: You can add 2 tablespoons of chopped dried, unsweetened cranberries or blueberries. I've found that orange-cranberry and lemon-blueberry are great combinations. Adds less than half a carb per serving.

Maven

[Maven]

The answer would be for someone to invent sweets with zero carbs.

I get that chocolate craving every afternoon! I give in too often and blame it on hormones

Try some L-Glutamine for sugar cravings. Not the capsule form - get the bulk. Let about a teaspoon of L-Glutamine melt under your tongue. It tastes a bit like cookie dough.

Maven

[I got the rope]

Why don't you elaborate? I've been doing low carb (60-90 grams/day) for two months and I've gone from 230 to 210 lbs.
Blood pressure is down, Cholesterol looks good, Glucose is good. Refined sugars, vegetarian diets, transfats and flour are killing us and making us fat. You would rather that we eat like this:
http://www.dpi.qld.gov.au/beef/3445.html

[I got the rope]

Wow. Thanks for the post...do you have anymore.

[Tuscaloosa Goldfinch]

My husband had an attack of gout about 4 years ago. The health food store said he should take a black cherry juice concentrate. He didn't take it -- his attack was mild and he hasn't been bothered with it since. Anyway, that might help if you want to try something natural instead of prescription.

[WKB]

Does anybody know how this diet affects diabetics?

[Maven]

Wow. Thanks for the post...do you have anymore.

Yep. What are you interested in?

Maven

[Maven]

Does anybody know how this diet affects diabetics?

If you're a Type II, it will help enormously.

I suggest reading "Dr. Berstein's Diabetes Solution" for more information.

Maven