Weight gain and atkins?

I have been on atkins for 3 years without a problem until recently
when weight gain without any change in diet began to occur about 2
months ago? I have gained 12 lbs and counting. I am down to chicken
and water and still gaining weight. Does your body get used to it and
then begin to reverse the effects of low carb & no sugar?

Increase the fat in your diet and decrease the protein.

Your body can utilize ingested protein to produce glycogen.

Also, you may want to see a doctor just in case.


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I have been on atkins for 3 years without a problem until recently
when weight gain without any change in diet began to occur about 2
months ago? I have gained 12 lbs and counting. I am down to chicken
and water and still gaining weight. Does your body get used to it and
then begin to reverse the effects of low carb & no sugar?

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I have been on atkins for 3 years without a problem until recently

So what do you mean by Atkins? That is did you progress
through the 4 phases on schedule, establish your CCLL and
CCLM, spend the time in your maintenance phase at random
carb intake levels between those two numbers? Or did you
stay at 20 the whole time?

when weight gain without any change in diet began to occur about 2
months ago? I have gained 12 lbs and counting.

How to react depends greatly on the answers to the questions
I posed above. If you followed the 4 phases on schedule,
established your CCLL and CCLM, spent the time in maintenance
at random carb intake levels between those two numbers then
you really did have a change in diet. Gradually increasing
portions, adding some new ingredient whose real carb count is
much higher than how you counted it, stuff like that.

I am down to chicken and water and still gaining weight.

But if you stayed near 20 the entire time the answer is quite
different. Since you are currently driving for near zero that's
not a good sign that you followed the 4 phases on schedule.
Since it looks like you're trying to avoid fat in addition to
carbs it looks like you don't understand he principles of the
process.

Does your body get used to it and
then begin to reverse the effects of low carb & no sugar?

If you stay too low, certainly. Get the 1993 edition with the
yellow cover. Look up reversal diet in the index. Start
reading a page up where it discusses folks staying at
Induction levels too long and harming their metabolisms.
See if it describes what you did. Make sure to review the
rules of Induction where it says the maximum time is 6 months
past the point you no longer have a lot to lose. The response
is called the reversal diet. Then do some googling on leptin
reset to see alternate methods and explanations of what
happened.