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Originally Posted by MikeB  Welcome!!! My only suggestion is that in being a previous Atkins advocate that if you don't follow it well it becomes the death diet packing on tons of pounds and throwing cholesterol through the ROOF and if you drop off you drop on all the weight you lost.  Throw in a teeny bit of exercise with small dumbells just doing overhead raises and lifts etc along with as long of walks as you can and work up from there. YOU CAN DOOO EEEET!!!! |
You gain all the weight you lost and then some which is what happened with me. Now I weigh more then my previous highest weight.
Some of the tings I am not fond of with Atkins is all the greasy food he suggests..like bacon and butter for a couple of examples. I just cannot eat those things anymore and I don't eat dairy because it causes me to have sinus congestion problems.
I also miss fruit and would like to eat way more then the allowed 3 cups of veggies. I never got fat eating veggies. In fact when I was on a diet with several servings of veggies and little fat I lost more weight in one month then I ever did on 5 months of Atkins.
I'm currently considering just making up my own plan...something that *I* can live with for the rest of my life centred around the foods I prefer to eat with a treat once in a while. Like a peice...ONE PEICE...of apple pie once a month...or a scoop of ice cream once a month. I figure a treat once a month will be enough for me and keep me on plan so I don't feel deprived.
I hear you on the exercise. This past week I just got finished changing my bedroom around so I now have the space to put in a small area carpet to make up my own little exercise area. I'm also going to get 5 pounds weights to start some upper body exercises and going to start walking.
I also just bought a walking dvd (Leslie Sansone) to do in the livingroom when the days are bad weather days. The dvd has a one mile walk and a 2 mile walk on it.
I love your posts Mike. I've been reading them with great interest.
