Atkins I feel very sick help

lukesmom wrote: »

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Presuming you mean it's a bad diet and yes I agree, anything that makes you feel that bad cannot be good.

If memory serves me, you were trying it because anxiety medication makes you crave high carb foods. I'm open to correction but no matter what 'diet' you choose, you'll still have to deal with those cravings. So you're better off just opting for something sustainable.

Days 5-8 are the worst in my experience, not a huge fan of atkins but have followed an zero carb protocol leading into different nutritional strategies in the past...

Days 1-4 The novelty of doing something new along with stored glycogen keeps you ticking over
Days 5-8 General lethargy, brain fog etc.
Day 9 onwards.... Energy levels stabilise, all becomes well in the world.

I'd usually reintroduce carbs etc between day 9 and 14 and follow something very un-Atkins going forwards. But to each his own.

WhyTheFace wrote: »

If you don't mind me asking, how much weight did you lose and continue to keep off as a result of your zero carb diet?

I don't have the statistics off hand but I can tell you that it was not as much as I have lost with a balanced diet and progressive training schedule while not actually 'dieting' For example I've lost about 9kg since Christmas eating clean food that I love and getting stronger.

For the record in the past few years I also...

Carb back loaded
Did the ketogenic diet
Did intermittent fasting
Did intermittent fasting following a keto window
Carb cycled
Tried carbnite
Various versions of whatever 'Paleo' entailed at the time.
I cant remember what else at the moment.

For he record I do all this to empathise with my clients, I train people for a living. These diets coincide with periods away from powerlifting for me as I usually prefer to 'diet' hard when I can't train hard. Any one of these protocols may have it place in the grand scheme of lean but neither are necessarily the only or best way to proceed.

Aaaaaanyway the point is that if its not sustainable and if it leaves you miserable and unsociable then there's pretty much no way that its the vehicle to get you to where you want to go. You could eat cod and broccoli 6 times a day and you'll loose weight, but you'd also lose the will live and end up cheating.

Zero carb just isn't sustainable for the most people, there are also lots of tasty carbs in veg that people forget about. I like it to help regulate insulin sensitivity and help negate intolerences for short periods of time (mainly a two week period leading into something else) but carbs aren't the enemy.

Eat clean most of the time, be progressively more active then you were last week, earn your carbs through training, live a little and get sweaty in some way that you find fun/challenging... stick to that for 3 months and see what happens. You'll learn a lot about yourself along the way as long as you acknowledge that

- it might not be easy
- it involves preparing food
- it takes patience and consistency
- you'll be the last person to notice a difference in how you look but the first to notice a difference in how you feel

I might have gone a little off topic there.. blame the coffee :-)

MaceFace wrote: »

I did Keto which Atkins is a variation of and lost 25lbs. Put on about 4lbs over the last 2 weeks due to multiple large family gatherings and parties but expect to shed at least 3 lbs of that in the next few days.

So you put on 2kg just by going to a few gatherings?

This just shows you've no idea how to control yourself. People who understand healthy eating can go to such events without putting on any weight.

Come back here in 6 months and see where your weight is at.

I really do feel sorry for people who think the weight loss is sustainable.