Chris Brooke provides some anecdotal evidence that the Atkins diet may not be all it is cracked up to be. Pollard is not much thinner than before the diet and looks… well, considerably less cheerful. Or maybe, as Chris hints in a comment, this testimony followed his incredibly disappointing evening at a local restaraunt.
Will you liberals please stop bashing Atkins corpse. There’s nothing that triggers the hive swarming reflex in the idiot left like the appearance of a true genius. Atkins passed more brain cells during his last bowel movement than any of you communists will ever possess in your tiny shrunken skulls.
I’m not going to even waste my time explaining how the Doc, the ultimate bad-ass of weight loss, figured out the insulin or sleep connection and started what amounts to a revolution in the medical sciences perhaps on the trail of cancer itself. It’s too exhausting.
Read LIGHTS OUT : SLEEP, SUGAR AND SURVIVAL. Assuming liberals actually read books. I strongly suspect they buy them and leave them out on coffee tables to try to impress their phoney velvet-and-polyester wearing arthouse geek buddies.
They should dig Atkins up so you chimps can plant a kiss on the arse of homo superior and at least get a glimpse of the next stage in human evolution - or at least the one that comes after you, anyway.
Lost 60 lbs over 6 months on Atkins and I am now at a comparatively svelte 200 lbs. It shouldn’t be a surprise that it takes discipline to do. If you are serious about losing weight and losing it quick Atkins will do the job.
Giblets, is that you? :-)
Giblets—er, Cleve—is right! LIBERALS ARE STUFFING SUGAR DOWN OUR THROATS! Two of them are force-feeding me donuts even as I type. STOP TEMPTING ME WITH YOUR SWEET, SWEET, TRAITOROUS CALORIES, LIBERALS!!! Your only goal is to make me so fat that I’ll no longer be able to type, and the cause of Iraqi democracy® will lose yet another valiant, patriotic keyboardist!
And, fresh from the internets, evidence that their evil scheme is working …
They recently published a study that seemed to indicate that it doesn’t matter what diet you do as long as you stick to it for at least a year.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/dietandfitness/2002141088_diets05.html
Congrats on losing the weight! That takes dedication, no matter which diet you choose.
If only there weren’t Marxists squirting lardy-sugary chocolate icing directly into my mouth I, too, could lose weight, but alas.
Oh wait, that’s what I wish were happening. Oops. ;)
Lost 30 lbs. Eventually the Atkins diet stopped working for me, but if I’m going to be honest, it’s because I stopped following it strictly. It’s not an easy diet for people who actually like instant ramen.
I have seldom seen anyone, on any kind of a diet restriction, that looked overly happy about it.
bithead said “I have seldom seen anyone, on any kind of a diet restriction, that looked overly happy about it.”
But you often see people who exercise often looking quite happy.
I think that the main thing that Atkins/South Beach/The Zone actually does it that it gets you to stop eating crap and start eating food that you actually cook yourself.
The additional 20 minutes/meal standing up and the Bigmac-less lunches/dinners results in amazing weight loss.
And people think “the diet worked!” when, really, it was the fact that you’re eating a pork chop that you grilled instead of a box of Chikin-in-a-Biskits with cheez-in-a-can.
Atkins got me to stop putting sugar in my coffee, stop drinking Coke, and get more exercise. Kind of obvious, really, but it was nice having a food list and all that so I could have some structure. Lost all that weight I’d gained while I was ill, feel better, not sorry.
I actually felt pretty happy during the induction phase, although I missed potatoes, bananas and pasta. It was a bit frustrating until I realized I could just put my favorite sauces on a pile of spinach instead of pasta. Bread was harder but I found out I could live without it for a few months, and I can live now eating a lot less of it than I did before.
I cheat just often enough that I don’t feel like a deprived child or a sick person. And I found out that once you stop adding sugar to things, they taste fine without it. And I also found out that having weaned myself off Coca Cola, I don’t really like that fizzy stuff anymore.
(And, of course, I am more liberal than ever!)
Uh, Cleve, your rapid and rabid response might leave the impression that being on the Atkins Diet has made you a) inordinately cranky; and b) distanced you from reality. Liberal = Communist = Junk food pusher? Oh sure. Because when I see all those folks picketing in front of McDonalds I instantly think God-fearing, Bush-loving, Republican Patriots. Or whatever.
Carbohydrates are your body’s energy. If you put too much energy into your body without working your body it gets packed away. Which means you can’t sock the bread and pasta away like your ancestors who did far more physical labor than most of us do today. This does not mean that you should replace all carbohydrates with fats and proteins in the form of fried red meat. The solution for this is to a) eat fewer calories- all calories, but particularly the empty ones. Which means eat whole grain, not white; no donuts; no candy; and really, no McDonalds; b) exercise. It really is that simple.
I know this because ten years ago I dropped 25 pounds by cutting not carbs but crap out of my diet. I eat vegetables and fruits that are all but banned from the Atkins diet all day long. And I go to the gym at least 5 times a week for at least an hour. I’ve kept the 25 pounds off for a decade.
You really can’t dump oil and red meat into your body in great amounts and deny your body fruits and vegetables and truly expect that it won’t do harm to your body- most specifically to your heart and your colon. Yeah, most people lose weight on it- at first. Most people on the diet are also dehydrated. And most people ultimately plateau, then gain everything back and then some. In no small part this is due to the fact that the Atkins diet is not a realistic diet for life. And time will tell what kind of long term damage Atkins followers are doing to their bodies.
Count calories. Go to the gym.
Just another waffer-thin mint, Mr Pollard?
“And time will tell what kind of long term damage Atkins followers are doing to their bodies.”
Make that “whether”, and not just “what kind”, and I might agree. You seem to be presuming that we WILL find long term damage, and that’s an empirical question to be settled after the evidence is in.
Jif, I’d like to congratulate you on your circa 1940’s roundup of current scientific thinking on weight loss. I have struggled not to be exposed to anything written after 1946 but weak character has found me poring over modern medical literature at times despite my best efforts.
Another reason why leftists suck - they are ALWAYS behind the intellectual power curve. They will be arguing rabidly in an empty stadium while tumbleweeds blow past, not realizing the argument has moved on some time ago.
Because of Atkins, jif, modern people have begun to realize just what the relationship is between insulin and the 400 lbs of raw white sugar and corn syrup we put into our bodies each year. Calling Atkins a genius is an understatement - the guy was not just brilliant beyond description, he was a modest innovator well over a hundred years past our time.
I can tell by your post you have no idea what I’m talking about. It’s the eternal sunshine of the spotless leftist mind.
Oh great, we’ve attracted Cleve Blakemore, survivalist crank extraordinare.
If Cleve is saying what I think he’s saying then he’s wrong. He could be saying something quite different, but it’s a little hard to tell what with the insults in place of substance.
If he says there’s a relationship between white sugar and insulin, then duh! Obese people are much more likely to get diabetes. I think that was well known without Atkins. And not all carbohydrates are refined sugar.
Dr Atkins was “a modest innovator well over a hundred years past our time”? What? he was helped by space aliens? So that’s what those experiments were about.
Yaawwwwwwwnnnnnnnnn ….
(yes, I can see you’ve been reading widely recently. You kind of missed out on that entire sugar-insulin resistance-sleep-deprivation revolution. I do recognize your ideas from early 1970’s articles on weight loss by Richard Simmons in PEP magazine, however.)
Man oh man how I wished I’d gotz me a college edumificashun! Them lefties sho is edumicated!
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