Tracy Savage
<font color=blue>I really don't know about needy,
- Joined
- Jul 27, 2006
I've done them both and I have to get busy again! I like different things on each plan, WW is easier to live with but results seem better on Atkins. Any opinions?
I am doing WW and I prefer that. I've done Atkins, too, and I just thought it was harder to live that way for the long term. Plus, I don't think all that meat and cheese is good for you without balance elsewhere; sure, you will lose weight if you stop eating pasta and bread, but to me, eating 4 cheesburgers with the buns is still not "teaching" yourself to eat healthy. Also, I didn't like that with Atkins, you are restricted from certain fruits and veggies do to their sugars. All in all, it was just too much work for me.
I also like the points with WW since I can be anal and like to have a way to track myself and know when I can have treats and such.
Good luck!
Have you tried South Beach? It is a more reasonable and liveable version of Atkins.
OK, I'm going to jump in here and give my opinion because I seriously hate it when people who are misinformed about the Atkins diet feel the need to criticize it.
Atkins is NOT about eating all the hamburgers and cheese you want. Not sure why people always seem to think this is true.
Have you read his book? If not, you have no authority to speak.
OK, I'm going to jump in here and give my opinion because I seriously hate it when people who are misinformed about the Atkins diet feel the need to criticize it.
Atkins is NOT about eating all the hamburgers and cheese you want. Not sure why people always seem to think this is true.
Have you read his book? If not, you have no authority to speak.
The first two weeks on Atkins is called the induction period. This is where people criticize the diet because they think this is how you have to eat the rest of your life. It's not. It's for the first two weeks... possibly 3-4 if you have a lot more to lose. You're eating eggs, meat, VEGETABLES, and limited amount of cheese for this period. You will lose quite a bit of weight during this time.
After that, you slowly begin adding GOOD carbs back into your diet, and I emphasize slowly... one at a time... so you can keep an eye on your weight and make sure you're still continuing to lose. You add nuts and berries (yes, FRUIT, people!) You also increase your vegetables from 2-3 cups a day to 3-4 cups a day. How many of you eat that much daily? Hmmm???
As the weeks go by and you continue to lose weight, you begin to add in even more foods, slowly increasing your carb intake, making sure you're still losing weight, but at a slower rate.
Once you're close to your goal weight and ready to enter into the maintenance phase (which I am in), you can begin to add in your whole grains. You're also upping your VEGETABLES and FRUITS.
As you increase in the GOOD carbs, you're slowly decreasing in the fats.
If you've followed all the steps, once you hit your goal weight, you should have a very good idea of the amount of carbs you can eat that cause you to maintain your weight - not lose anymore, but not gain anymore either.
Atkins is a way of eating for LIFE. It is not just a diet to lose weight.
How can you say that eating meat, eggs, vegetables, fruits, and whole grains (i.e., NATURAL foods, nothing processed) is UNHEALTHY???
I have successfully lost my weight and have continued to maintain it eating this way.
Nobody can go back to eating junk (white flour and white sugar and processed foods) and not gain weight. That's how we all got fat in the first place! Atkins eliminates all the "junk" so that not only do you lose weight, but you live a much healthier lifestyle.
As a previous poster said, it can have some serious harmful long term effects on the kidneys, heart, and even increase the likelihood of diabetes. Not necessarily due to a possible higher consumption of fats, but the lack of carbohydrates. Your body works the best with carbohydrates. When you don't have an adequate amount, the body is forced to use it's second string of energy so to speak. That being said, eating a donut and candy bar is not equal to whole grains.
I couldn't agree more. But you have to choose GOOD carbs - lots of vegetables, fruits, nuts, legumes, and whole grains.
You CANNOT eat carbs from white bread, white flour, sugar, white rice, heavily processed foods, etc. and expect that to be a healthy way of eating...