Atkins Recipies?

Demiurge

Are any of you guys on that diet? I'm not, but my brother is and he came into the office this morning and he had a little tupperware container filled with sliced ham pieces from the deli wrapped in some flavored cream cheese and a half of a Clausen dill pickle. It tasted pretty damn good....he's had a lot of these wacky little recipes he's been making up lately.

Kinda makes me think about taking the plunge and gettin' in on this diet. Don't know though. I've always prefered the ole' "eat less and move more," approach.

pixiedave

Originally posted by Demiurge
"eat less and move more," approach.

eat more meat and move more lol

nadams

I don't have any suggestions as to whether the diet actually works or not, but Subway makes an excellent Chicken, Bacon, and Ranch wrap. I'm not on the diet, but I still think it's pretty damn tasty!

AsSiMiLaTeD

this is one of those I feel very strongly about, so I won't even get started...

All I'll say is that I am 100% NOT in favor of this diet...

Demiurge

Originally posted by Polkmaniac
this is one of those I feel very strongly about, so I won't even get started...

All I'll say is that I am 100% NOT in favor of this diet...

Understood. From what i've read the problem is that people think this is a diet that completely cuts out carbs. That true for a phase of it, but later on carbs start getting worked into your diet until you're back on a narrow path and a healthier lifestyle. Most people don't do the research and it turns on into a yo-yo diet. Starve your body of carbs and then eat a plate of pasta is obviously going to screw you up and make you pack on the pounds. It's a process.

brettw22

I think the biggest problem with peoples perception of the Atkins diet is that those that are on the diet go overboard just for the sake of going overboard. Those are the people that have to watch out down the line for their health. It's also important for people to have a COMPLETE understanding of Atkins before they just go bare minimum carbs and try to stick with that long term.

For instance, just because I'm going low carb, I don't eat a pound of sausage for breakfast when I hadn't ever done that before. I've just modified what I normally eat and adjust it to fall more in line with the low carb guidelines. When I'm not in a cooking mood, I grab 2 Sausage Egg McMuffin's without the muffin and I'm good to go. Subway's salads are really good, and fairly cheap comparatively to something at a sit down restraunt.

I lost 45 pounds by doing that, and did that while I was on the road for about 80-90% of the year. The consistant excercise is where I've been a slacking, but the fact that I dropped that much with minimal excercise is proof to me that low carb is definitely something that I will stick with long term.

You do have to keep finding those recipes though that keep it from getting too boring. I think that Atkins actually released a cookbook, but you can also get a ton of recipes from the ATKINS Website.

faster100

I went on a strictly low cal diet about 8 months ago, the holidays ended that for a bit but im getting back on track now... I lost 30 lbs in 4 months.. I have only gained back about 6 or 7 since the holidays.. Its all in how you take it.. anything in moderation will make you lose weight.. But keeping it non boring is Key.. that part i agree with..

danger boy

best way for me to lose weight.. eat less.. and work out more. i've lost 10 pounds since March 1st.

but you do have to watch what you eat also.. no more $6 burgers from Carl's Jr.

eat your fruits and veggies. drink lots of water and workout. and you should begin to lose some weight. Working out doesn't always have to be at the gym either. run, jog, walk, chase your kids, bike, play tennis, basketball, softball

PolkThug

Demiurge is right on the money. Its about finding your balance where you can eat carbs and still have your body in fat burning mode. I did this diet by the book a couple years ago, and you actually test your pee everyday to monitor your ketone levels, this way you can see how much carbs you can eat and still burn fat at the same time. I lost 25lbs in about three months and was doing great keeping it off.... until I got a girlfriend.

I think most of the people who think they are on the Atkins diet really aren't, they haven't read the book. I'll ask them about ketone levels and they are dumfounded. Right before you start the Atkins diet, you cut out carbs for just 2 or 3 days, but after that carbs ARE a part of the diet.

Hmmm... Maybe I should start back up again..

Peace,
PT

F1nut

Something for you carbo watchers.......:D


Confessions of a closet carb fiend

DAVE BARRY


I probably shouldn't admit this to you younger readers, but when my generation was your age, we did some pretty stupid things. I'm talking about taking CRAZY risks. We drank water right from the tap. We used aspirin bottles that you could actually open with your bare hands. We bought appliances that were not festooned with helpful safety warnings such as ''DO NOT BATHE WITH THIS TOASTER.''

But for sheer insanity, the wildest thing we did was -- prepare to be shocked -- we deliberately ingested carbohydrates.

I know, I know. It was wrong. But we were young and foolish, and there was a lot of peer pressure. You'd be at a party, and there would be a lava lamp blooping away, and a Jimi Hendrix record playing (a ''record'' was a primitive compact disc that operated by static electricity). And then, when the mood was right, somebody would say: ''You wanna do some 'drates?'' And the next thing you know, there'd be a bowl of pretzels going around, or crackers, or even potato chips, and we'd put these things into our mouths and just ... EAT them.

I'm not proud of this. My only excuse was that we were ignorant. It's not like now, when everybody knows how bad carbohydrates are, and virtually every product is advertised as being ''low-carb,'' including beer, denture adhesives, floor wax, tires, life insurance and Viagra. Back then, we had no idea. Nobody did! Our own MOTHERS gave us bread!

Today, of course, nobody eats bread. People are terrified of all carbohydrates, as evidenced by the recent mass robbery at a midtown Manhattan restaurant, where 87 patrons turned their wallets over to a man armed only with a strand of No. 8 spaghetti. (''Do what he says! He has pasta!'') The city of Beverly Hills has been evacuated twice this month because of reports -- false, thank heavens -- that terrorists had put a bagel in the water supply.

But as I say, in the old days we didn't recognize the danger of carbohydrates. We believed that the reason you got fat was from eating ''calories,'' which are tiny units of measurement that cause food to taste good. When we wanted to lose weight, we went on low-calorie diets in which we ate only inedible foods such as celery, which is actually a building material, and grapefruit, which is nutritious, but offers the same level of culinary satisfaction as chewing on an Odor Eater.

The problem with the low-calorie diet was that a normal human could stick to it for, at most, four hours, at which point he or she would have no biological choice but to sneak out to the garage and snork down an entire bag of Snickers, sometimes without removing the wrappers. So nobody lost weight, and everybody felt guilty all the time. Many people, in desperation, turned to disco.

But then along came the bold food pioneer who invented the Atkins Diet: Dr. Something Atkins. After decades of research on nutrition and weight gain -- including the now-famous Hostess Ding Dong Diet Experiment, which resulted in a laboratory rat the size of a Plymouth Voyager -- Dr. Atkins discovered an amazing thing: Calories don't matter! What matter are carbohydrates, which result when a carbo molecule and a hydrate molecule collide at high speeds and form tiny invisible doughnuts.

Dr. Atkins' discovery meant that -- incredible though it seemed -- as long as you avoided carbohydrates, you could, without guilt, eat high-fat, high-calorie foods such as cheese, bacon, lard, pork rinds and whale. You could eat an entire pig, as long as the pig had not recently been exposed to bread.

At first, like other groundbreaking pioneers such as Galileo and Eminem, Dr. Atkins met with skepticism, even hostility. The low-calorie foods industry went after him big time. The Celery Growers Association hired a detective to -- yes -- stalk him. His car tires were repeatedly slashed by what police determined to be shards of Melba toast.

But Dr. Atkins persisted, because he had a dream -- a dream that, some day, he would help the human race by selling it 427 million diet books. And he did, achieving vindication for his diet before his tragic demise in an incident that the autopsy report listed as ''totally unrelated to the undigested 28-pound bacon cheeseburger found in his stomach.''

But the Atkins Diet lives on, helping millions of Americans to lose weight. The irony is, you can't tell this by looking at actual Americans, who have, as a group, become so heavy that North America will soon be underwater as far inland as Denver. Which can only mean one thing: You people are still sneaking Snickers. You should be ashamed of yourselves! Got any more?

Demiurge

''totally unrelated to the undigested 28-pound bacon cheeseburger found in his stomach.''

I'll assume you know thats B.S...

Frank Z

It's not B.S., it's called humor. Haven't you ever heard of or read Dave Barry's column?

HBombToo

My wife drives me crazy with all the atkins crap. We have tred mills, an eliptical bike, regular bikes, weights(not assembled yet), baby walkers that are ment for running and more excersise balls than I can count and usually trip over because my daughter has them scattered throughout the house.

Then there is me:( I smoke, I drink, I eat whatever I want and more importantly when I want. I'm 5'8" @ about 170 and feal great except my bouts with arthirites in my knees and shoulders.

I say screw it and have a good time:p

Shite, I need a beer... Its been awhile.

HBomb

Demiurge

Originally posted by Frank Z
It's not B.S., it's called humor. Haven't you ever heard of or read Dave Barry's column?

Nope. Sorry. I figured there was a reason it was bolded. Sorry.

Frank Z

Damn, I forgot to add my super happy smiley face to indicate a good natured ribbing...:D...Much better !

PolkThug

Originally posted by Frank Z
ribbing

mmm.... ribs....

Frank Z

Geez, I'm glad I spelled it with an "I" and not a "U"!!

Tour2ma

Just got this link the other day. Funny collection of rants by a distant, deranged cousin of Alvin.

If I could figure out how, I'd link y'all just to the one cartoon and save the others for appropriate threads. Anyway upper left one is "Fatkins Diet".

Offensive language so turn sound down if at work, around lil' ones, etc...
http://www.illwillpress.com/vault.html

Number of other funny ones as well. Check out the fan mail ones.

Demiurge

hahaha

Billm57

most of those atkins whacko's lose more weight by telling anyone within listening distance every 10 min "Im on Atkins"

bottom line ...eat anything you want ..in smaller portions ..and exercise..its that easy