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Re: What"s your opinion on this article????
Michele it's okay to be scared about this. For years, we've had the "fat is bad" for you slogan pounded into our heads, yet we gotten fatter not eating fat. The amount of fat we eat on Induction and even on OWL isn't that much. I posted a stickie in the 14 day Induction forum about that.
Atkins has gotten a bad rap from people who've never read the book: it takes very little fat to make that 65% and 50% fat in Induction and Maintenance, respectively. But, we're constantly bombarded with the idea that an Atkins meal is a glob of fat, rolled in cheese, deep-fried and wrapped in bacon. Most people don't know that a whole egg satisfies the 65/30/5 percentage for Induction. You don't need to eat that egg smothered in butter or with a big hunk of cheese or wash it down with a glass of olive oil.
But as Mata said, obesity is a chronic illness and should be treated like one: requiring long term therapy (ie: following a diet that will control weight gain and exercise) and constant vigilance. When my asthma was out of control, I couldn't miss one dose of my medications or else I'd have an attack---good incentive to take medication when missing a dose meant no breathing. Same thing with weight loss and weight maintenance, you might be able to slack off for one or two meals or skip exercise once or twice a week, but once you make that slacking off a habit you'll gain that weight again. That's why it's important to find a regimen you can stick with.
And lemme tell ya, Atkins suffers along these lines too because people are under the impression that the Induction phase is the entire weight loss diet and the weight maintenance diet.
Michele it's okay to be scared about this. For years, we've had the "fat is bad" for you slogan pounded into our heads, yet we gotten fatter not eating fat. The amount of fat we eat on Induction and even on OWL isn't that much. I posted a stickie in the 14 day Induction forum about that.
Atkins has gotten a bad rap from people who've never read the book: it takes very little fat to make that 65% and 50% fat in Induction and Maintenance, respectively. But, we're constantly bombarded with the idea that an Atkins meal is a glob of fat, rolled in cheese, deep-fried and wrapped in bacon. Most people don't know that a whole egg satisfies the 65/30/5 percentage for Induction. You don't need to eat that egg smothered in butter or with a big hunk of cheese or wash it down with a glass of olive oil.
But as Mata said, obesity is a chronic illness and should be treated like one: requiring long term therapy (ie: following a diet that will control weight gain and exercise) and constant vigilance. When my asthma was out of control, I couldn't miss one dose of my medications or else I'd have an attack---good incentive to take medication when missing a dose meant no breathing. Same thing with weight loss and weight maintenance, you might be able to slack off for one or two meals or skip exercise once or twice a week, but once you make that slacking off a habit you'll gain that weight again. That's why it's important to find a regimen you can stick with.
And lemme tell ya, Atkins suffers along these lines too because people are under the impression that the Induction phase is the entire weight loss diet and the weight maintenance diet.
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