NYC Noobie

[kacie3344]

Hi Everyone... My name is Kacie and I'm in NYC. I joined the forum because I am getting married in a month and wanted to drop 10 lbs before. I just had some questions to know if this is really right for me.

Is it easy to get off of Atkins without gaining the weight back if you are only doing it for 1 or 2 months?

If you have any milk (say, in your coffee) during Induction, does this make you start all over?

What about gum?

I'm on day 3 and not sure if this is really a good idea for what I'm wanting to accomplish because I have read about how unless you want to make it a life long diet, then it's nearly impossible to get off of it. I'm really worried about messing with my body to where I can't eat a bowl of spaghetti ever again if I want without ballooning back up. I'm just confused. I've been working out in the mornings for the past few months and have dropped about 5-7 lbs. And since I've been doing Atkins, I just don't have the energy for it.

So it seems that I either have to do Atkins, and not work out at all, or just try to eat healthy and continue to work out.

Thoughts?

[SunnySmile501]

Re: NYC Noobie

Sorry, but if you just do Atkins for a month or two as a crash diet, then resume eating those foods that made you "balloon up" to begin with, then Atkins is not the diet for you. No "diet" will take the weight off and then let you return to your bad eating habits without consequences. If that were true, we all would still be thin from the first diet we ever tried. If any diet or pill promises that you will not immediately re-gain pounds lost if you return to former eating habits, it is a fairy tale and a lie.

Yo-yo dieting is worse for your body and metabolism than staying heavy to begin with. You will seriously damage your metabolism with this kind of thinking regarding dieting.

Anyway, Atkins done right allows you to add back in all foods that are healthy when you get to maintenance. All you can never eat again is white flour and sugar. You can eat whole grain pasta if you are not allergic to grains (like I am). I have been using squash noodles for the past year for my "pasta" noodles, and it tastes great. My family and I just finished up a pan of my famous "lasagna", using wide, thin zucchini noodles cut on a mandoline slicer, and my family never knew the difference.

You can have heavy cream in your coffee, which is much better than milk.

If you get through the induction blahs and get your body burning fat for fuel, you will have more than enough energy to exercise. We have many marathon runners living the low carb life. Induction lasts for 14 days, not the rest of your life. Atkins IS healthy.

Sunny!