Atkins Diet

Question: atkins diet....? Hi. I am a vegetarian and do not eat meat of any kind or eggs. I have been on atkins for 2 months and have lost 30 pounds. I am starting to get bored. Do any of you know of any recipes/ideas for me? They can contain eggs, just not like scrambled eggs, omlets, baked eggs...you know, straight egg dishes. I would them to be induction friendly, as i am trying to stay on induction for the long haul. Thanks a ton. : ) Oh, yeah. Please don't suggest atkins.com or other internet sites. I have seen them all. I would like to hear from actual people. God bless and thanks. I appreciate the health advice. Were you on it a long time before that happened?? Also, for the others. I need to stay under 20 carbs for the whole entire day!

Answer: I am on Atkins and am not a heavy meat eater. I personally like making lettuce tacos. You can use TVP (textured vegetable protein) to make it look like ground hamburger. I cut out lettuce leaves as my taco shells and fold them in half. I add cheese (you can use soy cheese), tomatoes, and sour cream. It is low carb and good for you. I do lots of stir-fries with vegetables. A good one for vegetarians can include low-carb, low-glycemic products like tofu, celery, and broccoli. I also like making fake mashed potatoes with mashed cauliflower, sour cream, and chives. I've made funnel cakes using vanilla protein powder, eggs, baking soda, baking powder, salt and Atkins vanilla shakes. Then dusted with a little Splenda. I have made cheesecake using an almond meal crust (almond meal, splenda, & butter). If you follow the cheesecake recipe on the Knox gelatin box, it works great! I also like having fake spaghetti. I found shirataki noodles at a Japanese grocery store. They're made with tofu and yam flour and there's only 3 carbs per package. These noodles are WAY better than any so-called low-carb pasta or whole grain, whole wheat pasta. Or if you can't find shirataki noodles, you can use spaghetti squash!

Question: Atkins Diet? I would like to know about anyone that has tried the Atkins Diet and how it worked for you, and any advice.

Answer: Its rubbish and makes you ill, dont do it. We NEED carbs in opur diet, to cut them out is dangerous and that Atkins should have been shot for the damage he did. Carbs are not the enemy, they are the backbone of a healthy diet. Atkins gives you headaches, bad breath, weakness and lethergy and it screws up your body. You lose weight in the short term but gain it all back once you start eating normally again. The body begins to digest muscle with the Atkins diet and that can kill you. Someone else mentioned ketosis, well thats what its called medically when your body is digesting its own muscle supply. Look at the GI Diet, its healthy, sustainable and proved to work. It uses normal foods and is balanced for optimum nutrition and energy, its also scientifically approved! I have lost almost 80lb with it in 6 months;

Question: ATKINS Diet? How come Atkins diet the second time around is not working because to me Atkins was the only one working for me ... I took a Break from it not gained nothing but 2 pounds back ... but now it doesnt work

Answer: It works while you are on it but once you lay off you gain all the weight back sometimes even double.

Question: ATKINS diet? i have just started atkins diet,just as a kick start to loose some weight,only been on it for a day and ive got a head ache all ready.will i feel better soon, or will the side affects get any worse.plz help as other diet havnt worked for me.

Answer: You should get rid of the headache soon. But be warned don't follow it to carefully. My friend followed it for weeks and ended up with server constipation. Funny isn't it. Well it would of been if she hadn't had to spend days in hospital then a couple of weeks off work. If you want to continue then please make sure that you eat plenty of fruit and veg. There are plenty that are low in carbs. Be brave and try fruit and veg you wouldn't normaly

Question: Atkins....diet? what is the MOST you or someone you know has lost!? I know, some of you think it's not a good diet. I am NOT asking that....I just want results only please! thanks

Answer: I lost 75 punds, started kickboxing and stopped the diet. I did not gain any weight back until I stopped kickboxing. I could have lost the weight with just the exercise but my new lighter body made it a lot easier to start my exercise program.

Question: Can some 1 explain the atkins diet in detail for me? Can some 1 explain the Atkins diet in detail for me? I wanna do the Atkins diet so i can go from 206 to 180. Can some 1 list the steps of starting the diet and completeing it. Also i do not mind hard core dieting.

Answer: buy the book. or get it out of the library. its quite a detailed process. in detail, see the wikipedia. for overview: eat little or no carbs (carbohydrates) and force your body to consume the energy stored in your body in various forms. it is done in stages. each stage is stressful to your body, difficult (yes, hard core) and totally unnecessary to loose 26 pounds. for that amount of weight, you are better off changing your eating habits, preferably on a permanent basis. eat fresh plenty of fresh seasonal fruits and veggies, eat modest amount of animal products, and avoid fast food and processed foods. invest in yourself by spending a few more bucks at buying food that has no unpronounceable ingredients. the atkins diet is way over rated. don't do it.

Question: Have you done the atkins diet and what was the outcome? I am considering the Atkins Diet, but I want a broad array of opinions before I jump into this. I ONLY want opinions from those who have completed the first phase, and the second. Negative opinions are welcome. Also, how long is the first phase of the diet?

Answer: I asked my doctor about going on the AD & he told me to go for it. It was the best thing I could have done for myself. I was never hungry on this diet, in part to be able to eat a lot of protein, which stays with you longer. I bought the paperback book & read about the four phases. Then, I began Phase # 1, which can be followed for up to six months if you have a lot of weight to lose. I did, so I stayed on it for the six months & followed the eating plan to a T. I learned to drink water & got into a daily walking regime & it really helped with my weight loss. I also drank green tea (leaf form) daily & it helped in weight loss also. I lost 130 # in less than a year & have kept it off. I'm now maintaining now & have learned to eat smart & be healthy, for the first time in years. I lost 16 sizes & feel so good about myself & feel like a new person.

Question: How can i lower health risks of the atkins diet while on the atkins diet? i heard the atkins diet is a very effective diet, but there are a lot of severe health risks that come with it. some are dehydration, high blood pressure, and other things like that. is there any way to lower the health risks while on the diet?

Answer: There is no better way to bring the body to the state of optimal health than with Atkins low carb way of eating. Atkins doesn't cause high blood pressure, high blood sugar or high cholesterol, it cures it. It is actually dangerous to take meds that lower these levels and do Atkins at the same time because the levels will become abnormally, dangerously low. Atkins does cause dehydration the first few months til the body acclimates but that can be controlled with fluid intake. U.S. government guidelines were changed 35 years ago to suggest we lower our fat intake & increase our carb intake. American society followed these recommendations & lowered their fat intake by 11% & increased their carb consumption. In this same time frame obesity, diabetes, heart disease, thyroid dysfunctions are all at epidemic levels. Most of this is caused by a high carb diet NOT a low carb diet. Through their direct effects on insulin & blood sugar, refined carbohydrates, starches & sugars are the dietary cause of coronary heart disease & diabetes. Your body requires fats & protein, you will die without them. You will die if you eat protein without fat. You do not require carbohydrates. The body can manufacture all it needs from the protein/fat combination. A low carbohydrate diet is a high fat diet. The protein should only be a little higher than adequate. Although it is completely possible to live on a fat/protein only diet for long term (as proven by research done in a hospital setting) it becomes boring fairly quickly. Luckily many vegetables & some fruits, nuts & seeds are low in carbs and greatly expand the diet. Most long term low carbers eat as many, if not more non starchy vegetables than vegetarians. Glucose is the bodies preferred fuel (if you want to get technical, it actually burns alcohol most efficiently, but that doesn't make it any healthier for the body than carbs), the body can convert 100% of carbs, 58% of protein & 10% of dietary fat into glucose. The body can also be fueled by fat (dietary fat & fat cells) but only in the absence of carbs. Your brain actually prefers (* reference info) to be fueled by ketones (part of the fat burning process), only the heart requires glucose, but glucose can be easily converted from excess protein if needed or dietary fat. IF a person eats sufficient fat & protein & minimal carbs, they can become very healthy. Free of blood sugar health problems, high blood pressure, health problems associated with high cholesterol, obesity health problems. Anything less that 9 grams of carbs per hour controls insulin and is considered low carb (up to 144 grams per day). Simple carbohydrates trigger insulin. High insulin levels unbalance other hormones. Controlling insulin levels balances out other hormones & allows the body to function properly. The link between saturated fats and heart health is based on faulty science. Dietary fat, whether saturated or not, is not a cause of obesity, heart disease, or any other chronic disease. Plaque build up in the arteries is more attributable to carb consumption than dietary fats, which seems to be the conclusion of the following study. Carb consumption raises triglycerides & VLDL (bad cholesterol). Fats raise the HDL (good cholesterol). High triglyceride levels & low HDL levels are an indicator of plaque & glycation - the precursors to a heart attack & heart disease. http://heartscanblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/after-eating-effects-carbohydrates-vs.html study from the Oxford group examining the postprandial (after-eating) effects of a low-fat vs. low-carbohydrate diet. (Roberts R et al, 2008) Postprandial lipoproteins, you'd think, would be plentiful after ingesting a large quantity of fat, since fat must be absorbed via chylomicrons into the bloodstream. But it's carbohydrates that figure most prominently in determining the pattern and magnitude of postprandial triglycerides and lipoproteins. Much of this effect develops by way of de novo lipogenesis, the generation of new lipoproteins like VLDL after carbohydrate ingestion. * The brain gets its energy from ketone bodies when insufficient glucose is available. After blood glucose is lowered for 3 days, the brain gets 30% of its energy from ketone bodies. After 40 days, this goes up to 70% (during the initial stages the brain does not burn ketones, since they are an important substrate for lipid synthesis in the brain). In time the brain reduces its glucose requirements from 120g to 40g per day. Ketones have been described as "magic" in their ability to increase metabolic efficiency, while decreasing production of free radicals, the damaging byproducts of normal metabolism. The heart and brain operate 25% more efficiently using ketones as a source of energy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketone

Question: Why does the Atkins diet help people with Epilepsy? I have read that the Atkins diet has decreased the number of seizures in people with Epilepsy since they have been on the diet! Anyone know why?

Answer: There is some evidence that Ketogenic Diets (high fat, low carbohydrate diets of which Atkins is just one example) may help lessen the frequency and severity of epileptic seizures. The mechanism behind this is not completely understood, but scientists believe it may have to do with a pH shift toward metabolic acidosis, which alters brain metabolism and lessens the likelihood of seizures. This treatment was originated at Johns Hopkins Medical Center in the 20s, but was forgotten about when modern anti-epileptic drugs began to proliferate. These days, ketogenic diets are sometimes prescribed in severe cases where drugs have proven ineffective. Some epiletics who would like to find more "natural" alternative treatments have also exprimented with ketogenic diets with success. This should be pursued with doctor supervision, however.

Question: What will happen after I have done the Atkins Diet and go back to a normal, healthy diet? I am going to do the induction phase of the atkins diet (2 weeks) to kick start my weight loss - however, can anyone tell me what will happen when I return to a healthy, low fat diet afterwards? I don't want to put any weight loss back on again. I KNOW the best way is to exercise and eat a healthy diet from the outset, but the above is an option I am considering, I'd appreciate it if anyone who has done similar can tell me of their experiences. Thanks!

Answer: I have done this exact thing, and as long as you do not over eat you will not put weight back on like they say. I went on atkins to take off a few pounds fast. I lost 7lbs in 2 weeks, and then I went on a 1,300 calorie/day diet. I did not gain weight, I continued to lose weight. However, I used this http://ifinallydidit.wordpress.com/ to help suppress my appetite so that I wouldn't over eat, because I had a bad habit of doing that. Good luck! :)

Question: How long have you doen the Atkins Diet and has it worked for you? I can never seem to stay on the diet but my husband has been on it for 3 months now and lost 30 pounds. What is your experiance with the atkins diet?

Answer: Males aren't built for fat storage, so any attempt makes the fat melt off them. Don't be discouraged if your weight loss isn't as fast. Nearly 6 years ago, I started Atkins low carb way of eating to just quit gaining weight. I had to get my out of control appetite under control. I never imagined I could LOSE weight without hunger or exercise, since I've become disabled. I never bothered weighing or measuring til I'd noticed that my clothes got huge quick. When my health improved dramatically also, I knew this was my new way of life and since it's eat all you want (of low carb foods) I know I can do this for life. My personal carb level is low. I am older & disabled & don't move much (or cook much) but I eat all I want of meats, eggs, cheeses, yogurt, fats, green vegetables, almonds, berries, flax seeds, chia seeds, shirataki noodles and other foods. Someone active would have a MUCH higher carb level & can usually include all fruits, beans, whole grain products but not sugar & highly refined carbs in unlimited amounts. As long as you have <9grams carbs per hour, you will maintain insulin control & shouldn't gain weight, no matter the calories. Overweight & obese people have blood sugar & insulin dysfunctions and can NEVER eat carbs as someone with a functioning body can. They make the mistake of going back to the way of eating that made them fat and that is not possible and yes they will gain all weight back if they eat what they ate that made them obese originally. Insanity is defined as doing the exact same thing, in the exact same way and expecting different results. Many people can return to moderate carb levels but very few can really eat all they want of sugar & maintain weight or health. You can lose more body fat eating protein & fat (don't eat protein alone) than not eating AT ALL. To lose weight fast, eat all you want, but nothing but meat, eggs, healthy oils, mayo, butter & half an avocado a day (for added potassium). Keep the calories high & the fat percentage high, at least 65% of calories. Green vegetables & some cheese will continue weight loss but at a slower pace. The body won't release fat stores if you lower calories below what it needs. It will slow metabolism to compensate & store every spare ounce as fat. If you continue lowering calories, it will continue lowering the set point, til it can survive off nothing & store fat on anything. The body will only release it's fat stores if it knows there is plenty of nutritious food. Eating carbs while trying to lose body fat is terribly inefficient. When in glycolysis (burning glucose as fuel) you have to lower your calories (which slows your metabolism) & exercise heavily to deplete your glycogen stores before burning body fat. The core of Atkins program is converting the body from glycolysis (burning glucose as fuel) to ketosis (burning fat as fuel). Dietary fat levels need to be at >65% of total calories, if not, the body will still remain in glycolysis by converting 58% of excess protein into glucose (via gluconeogenesis). It takes minimum of 3 days to convert a body to ketosis, (but only one bite to convert back to glycolysis). People feel sluggish the first week but most feel better than ever thereafter. Simple carbohydrates (sugar, flour, bread, cereal, pasta, potatoes, rice) trigger insulin which can store the calories eaten into fat. The more protein the more the fat burning hormone glucagon is released. The more carbohydrate the more the fat storage hormone insulin is released. High insulin levels promote inflammation, weight gain, hunger & unbalance other hormones. Controlling insulin levels will balance out other hormones & allow human growth hormone (HGH) to be produced naturally so lean muscle will be gained even without exercise. Any exercise will greatly increase muscle mass with high HGH levels. Ground flax seed (2 Tbsp) 1/4 cup water, artificial sweetener, mix in a raw egg - let sit 10 min. to absorb liquid, put some cream cheese in the middle & nuke 2 minutes. Suggested for daily fiber needs. The first 2 weeks eat several cups a day of (mostly) lettuce & celery, cucumbers, radishes, mushrooms, peppers & more vegetables thereafter - add 5 grams per day additional every week (20 grams day first 2 weeks, 25grams 3rd week, 30grams 4th week etc) til you gain weight, then subtract 10grams. That will be your personal carb level (everyone is different & depends on how active you are.) Start with meat, fats & salads for 2 weeks and then slowly add in more green veg, wk4 fresh cheeses, wk5 nuts & seeds, wk6 berries, wk7 legumes, wk8 other fruits, wk9 starchy veg, wk10 whole grains. You will learn how your body reacts to different foods.

Question: What is your Atkins diet weight loss story? I want to know stories of success & failure from those on or previously on the Atkins diet, especially those of you that JUST did the diet and didn't exercise. Also, any tips? Thanks in advance, 10 points for the best, most informative answer!

Answer: Nearly 6 years ago, I started Atkins low carb way of eating to just quit gaining weight. I had to get my out of control appetite under control. I never imagined I could LOSE weight without hunger or exercise, since I've become disabled. I never bothered weighing or measuring til I'd noticed that my clothes got huge quick. When my health improved dramatically also, I knew this was my new way of life and since it's eat all you want (of low carb foods) I know I can do this for life. My personal carb level is low. I am older & disabled & don't move much (or cook much) but I eat all I want of meats, eggs, cheeses, yogurt, fats, green vegetables, almonds, berries, flax seeds, chia seeds, shirataki noodles and other foods. Someone active would have a MUCH higher carb level & can usually include all fruits, beans, whole grain products but not sugar & highly refined carbs in unlimited amounts. As long as you have <9grams carbs per hour, you will maintain insulin control & shouldn't gain weight, no matter the calories. Most very overweight people have blood sugar & insulin dysfunctions and can never eat carbs as someone with a functioning body can. They make the mistake of going back to the way of eating that made them fat and that is not possible and yes they will gain all weight back if they eat what they ate that made them obese originally. Insanity is defined as doing the exact same thing, in the exact same way and expecting different results. You can lose more body fat eating protein & fat (don't eat protein alone) than not eating AT ALL. To lose weight fast, eat all you want, but nothing but meat, eggs, healthy oils, mayo, butter & half an avocado a day (for added potassium). Keep the calories high & the fat percentage high, at least 65% of calories. Green vegetables & some cheese will continue weight loss but at a slower pace. The first week is just water weight but fat is lost thereafter if you keep your calories high enough. Otherwise the body will strip it's own lean tissue for nutrition. Although that may look great on a scale it will make it MUCH easier to accumulate fat in the future (since all that pesky lean tissue burning up calories will be gone). The body won't release fat stores if you lower calories below what it needs. It will slow metabolism to compensate & store every spare ounce as fat. If you continue lowering calories, it will continue lowering the set point, til it can survive off nothing & store fat on anything. The body will only release it's fat stores if it knows there is plenty of nutritious food. Eating carbs while trying to lose body fat is terribly inefficient. When in glycolysis (burning glucose as fuel) you have to lower your calories (which slows your metabolism) & exercise heavily to deplete your glycogen stores before burning body fat. The core of Atkins program is converting the body from glycolysis (burning glucose as fuel) to ketosis (burning fat as fuel). Dietary fat levels need to be at >65% of total calories, if not, the body will still remain in glycolysis by converting 58% of excess protein into glucose (via gluconeogenesis). It takes minimum of 3 days to convert a body to ketosis, (but only one bite to convert back to glycolysis). People feel sluggish the first week but most feel better than ever thereafter. Simple carbohydrates (sugar, flour, bread, cereal, pasta, potatoes, rice) trigger insulin which can store the calories eaten into fat. The more protein the more the fat burning hormone glucagon is released. The more carbohydrate the more the fat storage hormone insulin is released. High insulin levels promote inflammation, weight gain, hunger & unbalance other hormones. Controlling insulin levels will balance out other hormones & allow human growth hormone (HGH) to be produced naturally so lean muscle will be gained even without exercise. Any exercise will greatly increase muscle mass with high HGH levels. Ground flax seed (2 Tbsp) 1/4 cup water, artificial sweetener, mix in a raw egg - let sit 10 min. to absorb liquid, put some cream cheese in the middle & nuke 2 minutes. Suggested for daily fiber needs. The first 2 weeks eat several cups a day of (mostly) lettuce & celery, cucumbers, radishes, mushrooms, peppers & more vegetables thereafter - add 5 grams per day additional every week (20 grams day first 2 weeks, 25grams 3rd week, 30grams 4th week etc) til you gain weight, then subtract 10grams. That will be your personal carb level (everyone is different & depends on how active you are.) Start with meat, fats & salads for 2 weeks and then slowly add in more green veg, wk4 fresh cheeses, wk5 nuts & seeds, wk6 berries, wk7 legumes, wk8 other fruits, wk9 starchy veg, wk10 whole grains. You will learn how your body reacts to different foods.

Question: How do you go about the Atkins diet? I want to start the Atkins Diet, but i have no idea how and where to begin it. Yes, i know its not all that great, but i need it for just 3 months. I can't buy any books on it, so please let me know information up on the web. Thankyou.

Answer: As I wrote yesterday, I followed the Atkins diet and lost 45lbs in 12 weeks. It is not unhealthy at all, so please don't listen to all the others who say it is. Put quite simply, the Atkins diet doesn't cut out all good foods. Just those which are high in carbohydrates. This is mostly sugars and flours (starches). And, it doesn't cut out all carbs. but limits the amount you should consume. You can eat as much meat as you like, have as much water, diet drinks and alcohol (no wine or vodka) as you like. You can eat fruits and vegetables which are low in carbs(there's lots of them) and remember your not cutting all carbs from your diet. The book recommends that you start by limiting your daily intake of carbs to 20/day for the first 2 weeks, then increase it by 5, to 25 the next week. If you continue to loose weight with the additional 5 carbs added, add another 5 in the fourth week etc. until your weight loss stops, then cut it back by 5 again. Believe me when I tell you, you will lose weight, you will feel better, and you will have more energy than you have had in years. Remember, no breads, no potato, no rice, no sugar. Simply put, cut out flour and sugar, and you will win.

Question: What are the benefits of doing the Atkins Diet? And what made you stop doing the Diet? I'm a student and I am doing a paper about the Atkins Diet. Thank you very much for your help!

Answer: Hi, After reading your question I saw you were interested in optimizing your nutrition [(-:] so I thought I would give you some pointers I have learned the hard way from my own bad 'uninformed' choices so you could learn about good advice and bad advice. A ‘reference’ diet plan is given below in PS1 that I have found to have been the best possible nutrition for me to cure my heart disease problem from too many carbs for too long. It is also the best diet to help with my present health issues - that I know are cholesterol and calcium related because these foods are triggers for me now. I used to be an old advocate of the Atkin’s meat and fat diet before I knew what I now know, so nowadays I do not recommend Atkins high protein and fat diet for long term but would always recommend a "high- nutrition" 96% VEGAN diet replacing most meat with lentils - but many people will not do this. Sooo even though I give a diet plan in PS1 below, let me share a little first to help you understand how losing and gaining weight can best be done to be stronger and healthier for the long term. You may already know this but if not let me first explain that keeping to a plan that fights against bad habits that might be on the verge of seriously tearing down your body is sometimes pretty tough - but being fit and strong versus being overweight and/or sickly is all about (1) how many calories you eat versus how many you burn and (2) IF your calories are primarily the BEST QUALITY PROTEINS or primarily junk sugar-carbs. Please consider that it is not just how few cabs and fats and how much lean protein you eat in order to become 'stronger,' but how many absorbable non-toxic vitamin and minerals are obtained from the protein or fats you would eat. For instance, egg whites have 89% protein, but egg whites are similar in its nutrition per calorie as to eating sweet corn that usually has only about 15% protein. So even though the higher protein egg whites ‘look’ good IF ALL you look at is the protein content, it is really not much better for you than sweet corn. Not good if you understand that they identified the pellagra problem in the 1930’s south was the result of the high calories and minimal amounts of vitamins and minerals caused by a diet of primarily sweet corn. [See: <> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pellagra <>] This disease has identical long term health effects as the scurvy and beriberi problems that are also a result of eating too many calories with not enough nutrients. They cured pellagra in dogs by giving them liver and brewers yeast, but the problem with these are the long term effects of cholesterol in the liver and the short term toxic effects of elemental copper in the brewers yeast that is the rust residue from the vats the yeast is grown in. A similar lesser nutrition choice would be when eating tenderloin versus spinach. Boiled spinach has about 56% protein to beef tenderloin’s 61% protein, but spinach has almost 700%, or seven times, the vitamin and minerals of tenderloin calorie per calorie. The problem with spinach is that the spinach calories would cost about ten times the cost of beef calories. Spending $50 per day to eat several pounds of spinach may make any animal as strong as an elite triple-crown race horse, but few people can afford to spend that much for their food - so meat protein is what people typically consume. Even so, many longevity experts like Roy L. Walford, M.D. and Joel Fuhrman M. D. encourage their clients to eat 200 calories of leafy greens a day - which ‘might’ cost about $10 per day but it is a small price to pay when considering the strength, longevity, and good health it would promote. Dr. T. Colin Campbell would also agree with this regimen. Take a few minutes to understand ‘good’ nutritional advice versus poor advice and I hope you will have learned something from my ‘mistakes’ that will soon help you along your way. <>< My best to you and for your good health, A1 [(-:] PS1 – This is my diet plan since I became a 96% VEGAN: + Your body's fat with no water in it has 9 calories per gram which is about 4091 calories per pound of fat. The number usually used for body fat is 3500 calories which ‘assumes’ 14.4% water in an average person’s fat, but this would depend upon if you ate salty or spicy foods a-lot before you would start a new regimen. Protein is 4 calories per gram whether you eat it or burn it from your own body, so if you burn your own your muscles will never have a-lot of cells that are decades old ‘if’ you stay active. I choose to lose 2 pounds a week of fat by reducing 500 calories a day and adding exercise five times a week. Walking is 80 cal/mile for a 150 pound person and 110 cal/mile for 200 pounds. Also, you will lose a lot of water weight when you eliminate salt and spicy foods, probably about four to five to ten pounds the first two weeks. + To minimize the meat-cholesterol in my own diet I have seen that the requirements of B12 can only be obtained from eating 6 ounces of beef heart every week for 16% Cholesterol, or 11 oz of beef round steak every week for 11% Cholesterol, or 1 oz of beef liver every week for 4% Cholesterol and never chicken since for B12 it would require a whopping 175 ozs per week and a whopping 201% cholesterol a day. Soo I suppose I am a 96% VEGAN in order to satisfy the USDA’s B12 Recommended Dietary Allowances (RDAs) that ‘they’ recommend be obtained directly from food sources. I am still researching this topic because the Schilling test for B12 anemia seems skewed against VEGANS and people that may actually have an abundance of B12, and so would dump any excess from a test into their stools, as would be normal when a healthy person’s body would automatically dump excess nutrition or toxins their body could never adequately assimilate. [SEE:<> http://www.innvista.com/health/ailments/anemias/labtests.htm <>] Also, consuming a VEGAN B12 supplement that is linked with cyanide as a ‘preservative’ might provide a quick buzz or temporary stimulant, but my liver might not ever heal from the ‘upper’ it would be causing. [SEE:<> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyanocobalamin <>] I am always seeking for researchers who might have done more research than I, so please feel free to email me. [(-:] Even so, for today I still crock pot for 12 hours ground up beef heart and am eating one ounce a day with lentils and spinach in one meal to improve the meats passage through my gut to the stool, and to buffer my digestion/elimination since eating meat alone ‘used_to’ cause reddish stools for me. One day a week instead of beef heart I eat one ounce of beef liver, which adds up to ~200+% the B12 recommended by the USDA with only 20% of the maximum recommended cholesterol. For each 1400 calorie day I eat 100 calories of squeeze drained spinach with a light_sugar_vinaigrette, 600 cals from 15 ozs of organic lentils w/ 100 cals of tomato marinara, or since I might be allergic in my gut to nightshade tomatoes I recently began using onion flake-powder instead of tomatoes, [SEE<>http://www.tomatocasual.com/2008/03/01/tomato-allergies-part-i/#comment-10748 <>], 75 calories of boiled celery, 175 calories of boiled broccoli, 100 calories of sesame seeds, and no_more_than 200 calories of ‘meat’ which is about 4 ozs, and rarely rarely boiled chicken, since chicken has only ~68% the nutrition per calorie of properly grown lentils and only 7% the B12 for the equal calories from beef round steak. Beef heart has ~127% the nutrition per calorie of ‘organically’ grown lentils and organic spinach has ~500%, five times per calorie of lentils. Again, I hope this helps you or others to understand good choices. A1 PS2 - I posted ‘my_story’ and why I know what I know at:

Question: How does Atkins diet work and what is it all about? i have decided to go on an atkins diet so that i don't gain weight n stay the same but i have no idea what it is all about. Anyone who's on this diet can please tell me all about it. please reply soon!

Answer: you should go on the website and get free information about the diet. Basically for two weeks you only eat protein..things liek meat, cheeses, eggs, veggies, salad with ranch or blue cheese, omlets things like that..absolutely NO sugar, bread, tortillas, pretty much anything you actually like.. and then after the 2 weeks you will move into another phase. You can stay on phase one for as long as you like because thats how you lose the most weight and the fastest but there are other phases 4 to be exact where you can start incorporating more carbs like berries and other things.... Atkins diet is really hard to stick too but if you can it works extremely well.. it's almost fool proof.... When your body starts to burn fat it takes its time burning the carbs and sugars first in your body....when it doesn't have the sugars and carbs to burn it goes right to the fat..and thats the atkins diet in a nut shell.. I recommend going on atkinsdiet.com Im on it again right now and I have lost 4 pounds in three days!!

Question: Why do you get bloated when you first start the Atkins diet? The first week I start the Atkins diet it seems like I gain weight or bloat the first week,why is that?

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