Only planning to do this for two weeks

[IdentityClick]

6 months ago, my parents were warning me constantly about the freshman 15, and I was ignoring them. Now, it's March 21, and I'm thinking about renaming it "the freshman 30." That's right. I'm a 5'9 guy who went from 160 pounds to 190 pounds.

I gained this much weight by eating about 3500-4000 calories a day. Now, I'm going to do a low-carb diet (50 carbs a day, 2500 calories a day), but I'm only going to do it for two weeks. I'm going to switch to a normal diet with the normal number of carbs (200 or 300 a day) and 2000 calories a day after the two weeks are over. What I'm wondering is this: if I switch back to normal carbs after two weeks, will I automatically gain back some of the weight I've lost?

[atkinsgal08]

Re: Only planning to do this for two weeks

Atkins isn't a quick fix.

50 carbs isn't necessarily "low carb" either.

Atkins is a "normal diet".

>>if I switch back to normal carbs after two weeks, will I automatically gain back some of the weight I've lost?>>

Probably.

[IdentityClick]

Re: Only planning to do this for two weeks

if I switch back to normal carbs after two weeks, will I automatically gain back some of the weight I've lost

In your estimation, how much?

[atkinsgal08]

Re: Only planning to do this for two weeks

Would have no idea.

What you're trying to do is "diet" ... and then go back to whatever way of eating you're on now.

That's called "yo-yo"ing ... and is a good way to mess up your metabolism.

It's not permanent weight loss either.

[IdentityClick]

Re: Only planning to do this for two weeks

What you're trying to do is "diet" ... and then go back to whatever way of eating you're on now.

Completely wrong. If you read my post carefully, you would've noticed that I'm going from eating 3500-4000 calories now to 2000 calories after two weeks of atkins dieting. The latter is a significant difference from the way I'm eating now.

[atkinsgal08]

Re: Only planning to do this for two weeks

You haven't read Dr. Atkins New Diet Revolution (2002), have you?

What you mentioned in your first post isn't how Atkins is done. It's a lifetime eating plan ... not something for "two weeks".

Good luck with whatever "diet" you're trying to do!

[IdentityClick]

Re: Only planning to do this for two weeks

What you mentioned in your first post isn't how Atkins is done. It's a lifetime eating plan ... not something for "two weeks".

It's a diet that can be started and stopped at the user's will. What I mentioned in my first post is exactly how it'll be done by me, unless someone who isn't intending to waste my time comes along and provides well-thought out reasons to do it some other way.

[atkinsgal08]

Re: Only planning to do this for two weeks

>>It's a diet that can be started and stopped at the user's will.>>

That's certainly not what Dr. Atkins intended.

>>What I mentioned in my first post is exactly how it'll be done by me>>

Good luck.

>>someone who isn't intending to waste my time>>

I'll trouble you no longer ... and vice versa!

[mission to lose]

Re: Only planning to do this for two weeks

Welcome,
Sounds like you have a great new approach to the plan. Please stop back and let us know how the transition from ATKINS to the normal diet works out.

[ziggy]

Re: Only planning to do this for two weeks

if you go back to eating the foods that made you fat in the first place it doesnt matter how many calories you eat you are going to get fat again i can assure you on that

people can be starveing to death from malnourishment and still be 300 pounds and gaining

the whole calories in calories out will not work

heres a quick example you eat a low calorie meal of some bread well bread is refined grains toxic to us it will spike your blood sugar into toxic levels and then your body will be forced to either burn it off as energy aka exercise and if you do not do that quickly enough then it must be stored as fat

in a type 2 diabetics case who are soo insulin resistant they cannot even store these toxic blood sugar spikes as fat then it reaches there kidneys causes alot of damage too the point they need a kidney transplant or die

for 99% of humans exsistance we have ate low carb. fruit was only avalible 2 months out of the year but even in rare cases where people could get lots of carbohydrates from fruit the fruit are ancestors ate had much less sugar than the fruit we eat today the fruit of today has been cultivated by man to be more sugary and less healthy

and as for grains everyone in the past knew grains made people fat extremely fat so instead they fed grains and grass and etc to animals


ekimos who eat there native diet of up too 80% fat which has lots of saturated animal fats have 0% heart disease, 0% type 2 diabetes, 0% obesity, and there body fat % is only 11% what are the chances of that with the amount of calories they eat? don't you think atleast one would be fat? if calories in calories out actually had enough power to make people fat?

while 1 in 2 amaricans will suffer a heart attack

[Georgiana]

Re: Only planning to do this for two weeks

It's a diet that can be started and stopped at the user's will.

Says him who hasn't read the book...

Dr. Atkins thought otherwise though.

Of course, you "can" do whatever you want.

unless someone who isn't intending to waste my time comes along and provides well-thought out reasons to do it some other way.

You should do your homework yourself and read the book.

Now, I'm going to do a low-carb diet (50 carbs a day, 2500 calories a day), but I'm only going to do it for two weeks

Since you are not interested in doing Atkins correctly, I'm wondering what brings you on an Atkins bulletin board.

In case you didn't know, not any low carb diet out there is Atkins.

What I mentioned in my first post is exactly how it'll be done by me

Good luck with that.

[Carne!]

Re: Only planning to do this for two weeks

i agree with the other poster's...doing Atkins by the book is the best way to do low carb...

That said, there are plenty of people who have lost weight lowering their carbs (download "Fathead)

What I would suggest to you, is to start at 50g of carbs for two weeks...and THEN every week, up your carbs by 10 until you plateu. If you have more weight to lose then decrease your carbs a bit and see if you continue to lose.

Going from 50-100 may be a shock to your system and may spike your insulin, which can result in weight gain (or at least no fat loss), so its best to do it slow.

You're male and young so the odds are good...you should also weight train.

[not2late]

Re: Only planning to do this for two weeks

What you described as your first two weeks isn't Atkins. This is an Atkins Diet Bulletin Board. Therefore, it is impossible to give you the information you want to know---how much weight you'll regain if you do your 50 carb diet for two weeks, then move to a calorie-restricted 200 carb diet--- because we simply don't know if your diet will have the same results/expectations as Atkins. And if we were to say "oh, well, you'll regain maybe 2 pounds tops" would be disingenous and misleading on our part.

[liv]

Re: Only planning to do this for two weeks

My best advice would be that if you plan to maintain weight by eating a moderate calorie based diet you should probably plan to lose you weight by focussing on calories. That way you will learn what you need to restrict and what your numbers are like.

One of the first things that will happen when you stop eating carb restricted diet is that you will regain water weight and then there will be the very big question as to whether you actually can keep to 2000 calories or what not since you kind of got used to a gorging habit. Two weeks will very likely not be enough to set change the bad habits you picked up. I have done this two years and I can see how easily I could fall into a pit.
Anyways good luck. I hope you can reverse the process. Eat healthy and be active

[Peytonn]

Re: Only planning to do this for two weeks

I think in 2 weeks you're going to be so amazed at the control you feel over your food choices, you'll keep it up....and move up the rungs so you can eat 'almost' everything you want..