atkins diet, help please

Chicken foo yung is allowed, obv without fried rice or *****etc.

Meat won't make you fat unless you put carbohydrates into your system. Eat as much meat as you want, just don't eat it wrapped in a bun from mcdonalds or crushed cornflakes from KFC.

Yup lamb or chicken is fine, think the carbs are in the bread mainly or pitta so dump the bun or pitta and just have kebab meat as a treat .....by the way it dont pay to stay on that atkins for two long, do two - three weeks then come off it and take a break for a few days or even a week ...then go back on it, worked for me

what a brilliant forum name chunkie :^0

cheers skin dog ill give it a go. and gary it is a great name aint it lmao. hopefully wont be true for much longer lol

did someone call me?

Atkins diet killed him, but carry on.

Crikey, 15lbs.

All meats, i.e. proteins, are fine.

ur craving is quite normal ... but watch out for ketosis shock ... put the weight back on over the next month with a balanced diet ... and be happy again :)

Forget Atkins, try a good old fashioned low carbohydrate diet. You'll never get hungry and you'll never get a shock. Slow and easy, one stone a month.

a fools paradise. lose loads quickly but your breath will stink, you will sh1t breeze blocks and you will be sick to death of pork chops , fry ups etc

worst of all, when you stop the diet you will stick it all back on in no time.

Yep. The next time you eat a chip or a slice of bread your arse will fall out and your trousers will feel tight again.

I did it for about 3 months quite a few years ago.. lost about 4 stone. About 2 months in , I bought a microwave curry meal, only about 7g of sugar iirc, so I thought it would be ok. Obviously the sugar was a huge shock to my system, and I shiit and shiit and shiit squelchy runny smelly shiit for about 20 mins !!!!

That's what a curry does to you anyway ^^^^ no point blaming the sugar!

15lbs in 9 days is a huge amount even by Atkins standards.

Good luck. I found the diet works while you stick to it but once you stop unless there is a major change to your diet/lifestyle most of the weight will return.

Paulie is correct about the side effects BTW :(

Going back to the original post ,sorry but kebab meat is full of trans-fats which Atkins doesn't advise. No KFC either as there is flour in the coating which is carb-city. Sorry to bring bad news mate.

by lamb-kebab meat I assume you meant a doner.

For constipation have plenty of olive oil on small salads etc.

I had plenty of kebab meat on the atkins... although chicken kebabs are obviously healthier, loads of salad and mayo, just no bread obviously

take multi-vitamins too.

You shouldn't have Paulie, you'd have lost more otherwise ;)

Ah well, I put most of it back on anyway.

Certain salad stuffs have high carb content so be careful of that too!
The diet isn't as bad as I'm making out, lol.
One major plus about the diet is you will never go hungry which normally spells the demise of other diets.

It is hard Paulie. I was craving bread that badly that I sent off for some extremely low carb stuff that was £5 a loaf ! :^0

Paulie Walnuts 29 Jan 12:02
Ah well, I put most of it back on anyway.

Me too. Just went back to eating how I had before which is obviously madness.

I stopped craving it after a week or so.. and was eating cauliflower as a potato substitute... mashed up with cheese and cream mmmmmm.
Am eating healthy, just started this week again, not low carbs, but I HAVE cut out bread.. having salads instead of sandwiches

Yep Paulie god idea. Walk as much as you can if you haven't got time to exercise too. Good luck mate.

good*

gotta go ,nice chatting.

A friend of mine went on it and it worked quite well until he had a major stroke at 35.

The problem with atkins and any other serious diet is that people who go on them tend to be very fat in the first place. That means they're already very unhealthy and their death rate will be higher than normal. The same thing happens with people giving up smoking. They're already unhealthy so will have more deaths or illnesses than those who have never smoked.

It's still a good idea to give up smoking though and it's still a good idea to lose weight if you're fat. The only dangerous diets are the "weight loss" instead of "fat loss" diets because you don't want to lose weight from your heart etc. Low carbohydrate diets are "fat loss" so work well.