Atkins diet? I HAZ QUESTIONS.

[ysabet]

RIGHT.  Question for y'all out there (and answer anonymously if you want, that's fine, or list your name with pride.)

Have any of y'all had experiences, good or bad, with the Atkins Diet?  'Cause I'm looking at it right now.  I need to get in better shape, in better health; I'm tired of being heavier than I ought to be, and I'm not so overweight

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[katsudon]

I haven't done Atkins, and I've heard enough negative about it as far as long term weight maintenance (there are some good posts over at http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/ about it if you look around) that I never felt compelled to try it. I did do South Beach while the army guys were trying to get my weight down, and I lost weight all right... but I was also running 3-5 miles five times a week so that might have had something to do with it too. Ultimately, I felt like South Beach made me lose weight more because it controlled portions strictly rather than any kind of magical lack of carbs. (Since let's be honest, it's VERY easy to eat a shitton of calories with carbs and not notice how much you're taking in if you're not tracking.)

What's been working for me is I've just been counting calories. I've been using the tracker at sparkpeople.com since it's got a nice website function where you tell it how much you weigh, how much you want to lose, and it calculates how much you ought to be eating based on that.

So far with calorie counting, I've dropped a bit over 25 pounds. And now I've hit the same weight loss plateau I hit when I was doing South Beach and the army guys were crawling up my butt, so it's just kind of frustrating.