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Starting Something New
Feb. 14th, 2003 04:36 pmInteresting.
Dad and my brother have been doing the Atkins low-carb diet for awhile now, and have had great success with it. I've been doing research for a couple of weeks, and found some very interesting things about both Atkins and Weight Watchers.
It seems that about 40% of the weight you lose while on WW is lean muscle mass, and that's with exercise. I haven't been doing as much of the exercise as I need to, so I wonder how much greater my percentage is!
There's a lot of negativity towards Atkins from people who either haven't studied the theories behind it, or who just don't have the common sense God gave a rabbit. It doesn't take a brain surgeon to figure out that we're dying of diseases our ancestors rarely had (heart disease being the major one). The difference between our diets is that theirs was largely natural (and laden with fat!) and ours is largely processed (and laden with sugars, white flours, and starches).
I don't know. It doesn't seem to require huge stretch of imagination to figure out that something is wrong.
Either way, I've decided to try out Atkins and see what all the hype is about. I've been off WW for quite some time now, because I was always hungry. My point range got down to the point where it was supposed to sustain me, but even eating the max amount daily, even adding exercise and gaining activity points...always hungry. Not cool, because when you're hungry you stop caring as much about what you need to be eating.
Induction is 14 days long, and I expect it to suck. I don't even know if I'll get through it, but I have proven to myself that I *can* do things if only I *will*.
Dad and my brother have been doing the Atkins low-carb diet for awhile now, and have had great success with it. I've been doing research for a couple of weeks, and found some very interesting things about both Atkins and Weight Watchers.
It seems that about 40% of the weight you lose while on WW is lean muscle mass, and that's with exercise. I haven't been doing as much of the exercise as I need to, so I wonder how much greater my percentage is!
There's a lot of negativity towards Atkins from people who either haven't studied the theories behind it, or who just don't have the common sense God gave a rabbit. It doesn't take a brain surgeon to figure out that we're dying of diseases our ancestors rarely had (heart disease being the major one). The difference between our diets is that theirs was largely natural (and laden with fat!) and ours is largely processed (and laden with sugars, white flours, and starches).
I don't know. It doesn't seem to require huge stretch of imagination to figure out that something is wrong.
Either way, I've decided to try out Atkins and see what all the hype is about. I've been off WW for quite some time now, because I was always hungry. My point range got down to the point where it was supposed to sustain me, but even eating the max amount daily, even adding exercise and gaining activity points...always hungry. Not cool, because when you're hungry you stop caring as much about what you need to be eating.
Induction is 14 days long, and I expect it to suck. I don't even know if I'll get through it, but I have proven to myself that I *can* do things if only I *will*.
