Didn't see you mention vegetables, Atkins includes lots of vegetables. A
good vitamin supplement is a good idea with any way of eating as, unless you
carefully control what you eat in order to get all the right vitamins and
minerals, you can't be sure you are getting everything you need. A vitamin
supplement just gives you insurance. Some of the things you gave up--olive
oil and yogurt--are fine on Atkins, there is no need to give them up.


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Jopie stated
| Hello group, we started atkins earlier this summer, my spouse had no
| problems with it, but started his whole wheat toast with his soft
| boiled eggs in the morning after about four weeks, whereas i went
| back to the yoghurt and muesli breakfast 9no refined anything, no
| sugars). Otherwise my diet with Atkins introduced a lot of protein
| (from meats and eggs) and more fat from dairy, and took away my may
| fresh fruit intakes a day.
|
| This is what I experienced:
| 1) leg cramps that started with the cramps I knew from childbearing
| years, but became rapidly worse, so that the least amount of tension
| on the muscles would produce cramps. I learned to lay perfectly still
| in bed and not move my legs, and even then, just the move of a toe
| could induce cramps. The cramps then became different, less like
| muscle spams, and more like a wired sensation located in the bones;
| eventually my legs felt almost constantly weird, tensed, wired, heavy
| -when sitting down... that's when I was aware of it- . I wondered
| what was going on to my veins, my bones as well as the muscles.
| 2) enormous fatique that would not go away
| 3) hairloss, like after I had had a few months after having my babies.
| 4) arthritis acting up big time
|
| I read through lots of support group listings to see if this was
| normal and what to do for it, and learned first of all how important
| it was to take food supplements. Then to take extra potassium, extra
| magnesium, rogaine, biotin, L-Cysteine , zinc,
| and more......... So all this started me seriously wondering how this
| Atkins diet could be healthy.
|
| I had changed my diet from a healthy one (I did not eat empty
| calories, did not drink carbonated drinks, but ate fruits, brown
| rice, whole wheat, very little meat, hardly eggs, used olive oil for
| years, ate fresh natural yoghurts, etc etc) to one that can NOT be
| good for me: lots and lots of proteins (all animal), dairy fats and
| hardly any fruits or good grains. Granted I was 36 pounds over weight
| and have lost 15 of those. I exercise not a lot and I ate obviously
| more than I burned.
| So that is where I have come back to:
| Atkins -or any other restrictive diet- is NOT healthy for me (nor for
| anyone else if you have all these problems and have to supplement so
| unnaturally much) and the key for me is less, but healthy intake, and
| a bit more exercice.
|
| So in the end I really have answered the question i was going to ask:
| How can this be healthy and what to do or not to do....
|
| Thanks group for providing me with a forum where to glean so much
| valid information and in the end find my answer to my "prayer"
|
| Enjoy your weekend, I started mine this morning with a grapefruit and
| 1/2 hour later a nice slice of homemade wholewheat toast, dry,
| delicious!
|
| Jopie