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Hi Folks, :wave
Time and time again we see patterns both good and bad with folks just starting out on Atkins.
One of them is the debate over scales - here's my read on it or should I say here's the skinny?
Everything including Atkins is exciting and wonderful when it's new. Losing weight initially is the easy part. The challenge is - can you change your life? can you break old habits and routines by replacing them with new healthy ones?
Fact: A whopping 95% of people gain back the weight they lost on any diet program within the first five years. That means out of the 18,000 members we have right here, right now - five years down the road only 900 will have made it.
Pretty grim odds if you ask me - so what do you do?
You give yourself every single possible competitive edge to succeed that you can. You do whatever it takes to make sure you're in that 5% that's what you do.
If you see that Dr. Atkins warned against using scales every day ( he suggests every two weeks) and that folks with long term success on Atkins use scales only occasionally - if it all. You have to ask yourself maybe they have a point? Maybe they know better?
Because truth be told? They do.
Scales make you dependent on numbers regardless if you delude yourself into thinking they don't. If they matter to you, you wouldn't be hopping on one every morning or as I used to do, multiple times during the day. So so much for that argument.
Worse the scale makes you focus on what is really is the most insignificant part of Atkins, especially during Induction. But still, that's far from the most important reason to steer clear of them for at least two weeks at a shot.
You're primary goal during Induction is to detox your body from all poison that's made you fat and miserable to begin with. To switch your metabolism over from a fat storing, carb craving insatiable food addict to an efficient fat burning machine with absolute control over the food choices you make every day.
With so many odds against us from the start doesn't it make sense to follow Atkins as faithfully as possible and to take the advice from those who succeed?
Do yourself a favor, lock your scale-monster in a closet, chain it in the basement if you have to or lock it in the attic. :nod
Let yourself learn a new way to assess your progress and celebrate your accomplishments - after your Induction drag the thing out and weigh yourself, just take what it tells you with a grain of salt.
Just a thought...
Peter
ha
Time and time again we see patterns both good and bad with folks just starting out on Atkins.
One of them is the debate over scales - here's my read on it or should I say here's the skinny?
Everything including Atkins is exciting and wonderful when it's new. Losing weight initially is the easy part. The challenge is - can you change your life? can you break old habits and routines by replacing them with new healthy ones?
Fact: A whopping 95% of people gain back the weight they lost on any diet program within the first five years. That means out of the 18,000 members we have right here, right now - five years down the road only 900 will have made it.
Pretty grim odds if you ask me - so what do you do?
You give yourself every single possible competitive edge to succeed that you can. You do whatever it takes to make sure you're in that 5% that's what you do.
If you see that Dr. Atkins warned against using scales every day ( he suggests every two weeks) and that folks with long term success on Atkins use scales only occasionally - if it all. You have to ask yourself maybe they have a point? Maybe they know better?
Because truth be told? They do.
Scales make you dependent on numbers regardless if you delude yourself into thinking they don't. If they matter to you, you wouldn't be hopping on one every morning or as I used to do, multiple times during the day. So so much for that argument.
Worse the scale makes you focus on what is really is the most insignificant part of Atkins, especially during Induction. But still, that's far from the most important reason to steer clear of them for at least two weeks at a shot.
You're primary goal during Induction is to detox your body from all poison that's made you fat and miserable to begin with. To switch your metabolism over from a fat storing, carb craving insatiable food addict to an efficient fat burning machine with absolute control over the food choices you make every day.
With so many odds against us from the start doesn't it make sense to follow Atkins as faithfully as possible and to take the advice from those who succeed?
Do yourself a favor, lock your scale-monster in a closet, chain it in the basement if you have to or lock it in the attic. :nod
Let yourself learn a new way to assess your progress and celebrate your accomplishments - after your Induction drag the thing out and weigh yourself, just take what it tells you with a grain of salt.
Just a thought...
Peter
ha
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