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Hi all,
My husband has been on Atkins for about two and a half years now. He dropped in the first year or so from size 40 trousers to size 36. He seems to feel better on the diet and his blood results for diabetes type 2, cholestrol and also his high blood pressure have dropped .. though he is still on meds for all three. The thing that worries me is he still has too much around his waist in my opinion .. he does agree on this. He probably needs to lose another 15 lbs. Should he go back to the initial part of the diet (induction I think u call it)?
Also .. I see him sometimes eating sweet stuff a piece of cake or icecream (he claims it's within his number of calories he's allowed) and I almost panic as I have it in my head that sugar combined with this high fat diet could be so bad for his heart/arteries?? My family are all nurses and can only preach low fat diet .. they sort of look on in disgust at the mention that he is on a high fat diet when both his parents died of heart attacks ... so I do feel anxious about him a lot of the time as I have this high fat scare story stuck in my head from years of being preached to by my mom who was a nurse too. Any advice?
My husband has been on Atkins for about two and a half years now. He dropped in the first year or so from size 40 trousers to size 36. He seems to feel better on the diet and his blood results for diabetes type 2, cholestrol and also his high blood pressure have dropped .. though he is still on meds for all three. The thing that worries me is he still has too much around his waist in my opinion .. he does agree on this. He probably needs to lose another 15 lbs. Should he go back to the initial part of the diet (induction I think u call it)?
Also .. I see him sometimes eating sweet stuff a piece of cake or icecream (he claims it's within his number of calories he's allowed) and I almost panic as I have it in my head that sugar combined with this high fat diet could be so bad for his heart/arteries?? My family are all nurses and can only preach low fat diet .. they sort of look on in disgust at the mention that he is on a high fat diet when both his parents died of heart attacks ... so I do feel anxious about him a lot of the time as I have this high fat scare story stuck in my head from years of being preached to by my mom who was a nurse too. Any advice?
... He doesn't go to gym or anything like that .. but he does a fair bit of walking with his job (and up and down flights of stairs during the week with the job). As far as I know he did the induction properly and then moved on as he was supposed to. He basically starts his day with egg, bacon, mushrooms and tomotoe .. or sometimes lamb chops on their own. Then lunch is often a couple of oat biscuites he buys (they are sweetened with syrup or sugar) .. at dinner time he often has steak fried in butter and maybe some corn with it or green beans. I think he must be sneaking other food ... cos on what I've said here he should be stick thin 
... Some nights he will have what we have but with a much smaller helping of carbs than he used to consume before Atkins. So are u saying he should have no sugar at all? 
... We have a couple of the Atkins books here .. I have read some in each .. I'll heed ur advice and have another read ... thanks once again for ur help 
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