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Re: Life after atkins, how hard it to keep it off...
When I started Atkins a couple of years ago I had the exact same plan.
Use it to lose weight quickly and then switch to a low-fat vegetarian life style (a 'heart healthy diet' lol).
4 years later I am still an avid low-carber.
You need to read the book, you can't follow Atkins by going off of what your brother says. Plain and simple. You need to understand the fundamentals and the way your body works to really get what Atkins has to offer.
By reading the book you'll then understand why you wouldn't want to switch start eating all the crap again. By reading the book you'll understand what those foods do to your body and why you should avoid them - and why you will regain the weight...
With that said, I recently (late October) had about a month or so stint where I purposely went low-fat, low-cal (just to see and to appease my husband). I gained 10 lbs and felt horrible the entire time. I was so sick and the day I went back on induction my body felt 100% better. After a few days I began to de-bloat (lol) and those 10lbs are gone, thank God.
How can eating lean meats, veggies, fruits, nuts and eventually some whole grains be unhealthy?
In the later phases of Atkins you do need to watch your calories and fat intake, the diet is not the induction phase.
IF your low-calorie diet is the way to go, then why don't you do that now to lose weight? Any diet will work, some will feed your body the fuel it needs to survive, others will starve it.
The choice is yours.
When I started Atkins a couple of years ago I had the exact same plan.
Use it to lose weight quickly and then switch to a low-fat vegetarian life style (a 'heart healthy diet' lol).
4 years later I am still an avid low-carber.
You need to read the book, you can't follow Atkins by going off of what your brother says. Plain and simple. You need to understand the fundamentals and the way your body works to really get what Atkins has to offer.
By reading the book you'll then understand why you wouldn't want to switch start eating all the crap again. By reading the book you'll understand what those foods do to your body and why you should avoid them - and why you will regain the weight...
With that said, I recently (late October) had about a month or so stint where I purposely went low-fat, low-cal (just to see and to appease my husband). I gained 10 lbs and felt horrible the entire time. I was so sick and the day I went back on induction my body felt 100% better. After a few days I began to de-bloat (lol) and those 10lbs are gone, thank God.
How can eating lean meats, veggies, fruits, nuts and eventually some whole grains be unhealthy?
In the later phases of Atkins you do need to watch your calories and fat intake, the diet is not the induction phase.
IF your low-calorie diet is the way to go, then why don't you do that now to lose weight? Any diet will work, some will feed your body the fuel it needs to survive, others will starve it.
The choice is yours.
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