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...about people who are trying things like fat fasts and colonics to try to lose weight faster or get thru a stall, or just experiment.
For the most part, healthy people who are doing Atkins and try these things are just engaging in a form of purging. It is not like the kind of bulemia where you make yourself throw up, but the purpose is the same.
You cannot make your body drop weight faster than it wants to. You should not treat the Atkins way as a weight-loss diet, but as a new way of relating to food. You should not give yourself deadlines and have ideas about how fast you should progress.
During induction, you will have an initial big loss, and then everything slows down to normal. If you track your weight loss on Fitday, you'll probably find that there's a pattern to how and when you lose. If you get to know that pattern over the course of several months, you'll know what to expect. If you don't bother to get to know your body, you will start making demands on it that no body should have to endure.
Dr. Atkins was very clear that his plan is a long-term change in lifestyle. It is not a quick fix for anything. The best, deepest, and most meaningful changes we make are gradual and dedicated.
Think about that.
For the most part, healthy people who are doing Atkins and try these things are just engaging in a form of purging. It is not like the kind of bulemia where you make yourself throw up, but the purpose is the same.
You cannot make your body drop weight faster than it wants to. You should not treat the Atkins way as a weight-loss diet, but as a new way of relating to food. You should not give yourself deadlines and have ideas about how fast you should progress.
During induction, you will have an initial big loss, and then everything slows down to normal. If you track your weight loss on Fitday, you'll probably find that there's a pattern to how and when you lose. If you get to know that pattern over the course of several months, you'll know what to expect. If you don't bother to get to know your body, you will start making demands on it that no body should have to endure.
Dr. Atkins was very clear that his plan is a long-term change in lifestyle. It is not a quick fix for anything. The best, deepest, and most meaningful changes we make are gradual and dedicated.
Think about that.
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that was a Wonderful Speech! i read the Forums everyday and sometimes i wonder what these people are thinking... i am so glad you wrote those words... its really makes people RE-THINK! and everyone knows that Patience IS a Virtue... so i believe that for all, it has to be One Day At a Time... 
Thank You For Being YOU!
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