Sam Marks wrote:
| You need to hit induction and STAY ON IT until you reach where you
| want to be. It's just that simple!
|
| I can't believe that you started Atkins over a year ago and only went
| down 60 pounds in a year??? Do you realize you could be in the 170's
| or 180's right now??? As in months ago???
|
| Don't listen to these idiots who say you can only be on induction for
| two weeks, anyone who READS the book or the website can clearly see
| it says up to 6 months or LONGER provided your health is ok.
|
| If you want to take years to lose it, thats your stupidity!
| "Bob La Londe" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
| news:[email hidden]...
|| Ok... Last year (2003) I started low carbing around the end of
|| June. I started at about 295. I dropped as low as 235. I have
|| been watching my carb and calorie count for several months and I am
|| currently holding steady at 240 for many months now. I still have a
|| huge gut hanging over my belt. Looking at old pictures the last time
|| I didn't look like a big fatso I weighed between 210 and 215. Even
|| then I had a small gut, but it didn't hang over my belt.
||
|| I tried carbing out for a couple days and then going back to low
|| carbing, but all that did was move my maintained point up from 235
|| to 240.
Out of curiosity Sam, long have you been on Atkins and how mucn weight have
you lost? Where are your before and after pictures? What qualifies you to
call time-tested, experienced low-carbers "idiots for presenting proven
facts?"
There is nothing worse than a half-truth, and that is what you present. It
is true that Atkins says it's not dangerous to stay on induction, but he
does not recommend it -- and for good reason. The two-week induction
period is designed to break the carb addiction. Induction levels of carbs
means a very high % of calories come from fat, and conversely eating more
fat translates to more calories. This is why the Atkins plan calls for
increasing carbs to the point where one stops losing; then backing off a bit
for ongoing weight loss (CCL) -- continuing to perpetually pig out
indiscriminately on cream, butter, bacon etc. will have one
screaming,"Atkins doesn't work!" in no time. We've seen this time and again
here.
Increasing carb intake according to Atkin's Ongoing Weight Loss plan
provides best of both worlds: carbs remain low enough to prevent a sharp
insulin response (which more efficiently stores glucose as fat) while enougn
fat is eaten to provide satiety -- and at the same time calories are reduced
by the nature of the meat/ healthy vegetable combination. This balance
maximizes weight loss, and is the reason that it is recommended.
You are being very irresponsible in saying, "You need to hit induction and
STAY ON IT until you reach where you
| want to be. It's just that simple!" Quite simply, this is incorrect and
you don't know what you are talking about.
Your silly remarks punctuated with poor netiquette (caps) puts on in mind of
the style of our old friend Preesi.
--
Peter
270/215/180
Before/Current Pix:
http://users.thelink.net/marengo/weightlosspix/weightlosspix.html
