ARTICLE: Atkins Diet Doesn't Work

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2...0/111641.shtml

Why don't these doctors just lay off, let people make their own
decisions about how to eat.

If someone tries the WOE and it doesn't work for them, and they gain it
all back, well, then that's too bad. But if it *would have* worked for
them, but they decided not to try it, because of what one doctors says
then that's really a shame.

I also really think we all should, as many of us already have, stop
calling this WOE a diet.... and start telling it like it is. It's just
a different way of eating. My kids ask if I'm on a diet and I tell them
"No, I just like to eat different things than you do"

When a co-worker who knows you're on Atkins says "Oh, too bad you can't
eat that donut (or bagel, or whatever)"... just say "Oh, I can eat
whatever I want, I just choose not to eat that." Because in essence
that is the truth. No one is forcing us to do this. We are doing it
because we want to feel better and be healthier.

When people say "Oh just this once, treat yourself to a bagel (, or ice
cream, or pasta dinner or desert or whatever.)" Tell them that you
treat yourself everyday to foods you love and that make you feel good
all the time.

(Just wanted to get some stuff off my chest. There may be more to come.)

--
Jim
231/194?/197
Atkins since 22 May '03
Gym since 1 sept '03

Jim Marnott wrote:

When people say "Oh just this once, treat yourself to a bagel (, or ice
cream, or pasta dinner or desert or whatever.)" Tell them that you
treat yourself everyday to foods you love and that make you feel good
all the time.

Well said.

In article ,
Jim Marnott wrote:

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2...0/111641.shtml

Why don't these doctors just lay off, let people make their own
decisions about how to eat.

If someone tries the WOE and it doesn't work for them, and they gain it
all back, well, then that's too bad. But if it *would have* worked for
them, but they decided not to try it, because of what one doctors says
then that's really a shame.

I also really think we all should, as many of us already have, stop
calling this WOE a diet.... and start telling it like it is. It's just
a different way of eating. My kids ask if I'm on a diet and I tell them
"No, I just like to eat different things than you do"

When a co-worker who knows you're on Atkins says "Oh, too bad you can't
eat that donut (or bagel, or whatever)"... just say "Oh, I can eat
whatever I want, I just choose not to eat that." Because in essence
that is the truth. No one is forcing us to do this. We are doing it
because we want to feel better and be healthier.

When people say "Oh just this once, treat yourself to a bagel (, or ice
cream, or pasta dinner or desert or whatever.)" Tell them that you
treat yourself everyday to foods you love and that make you feel good
all the time.

(Just wanted to get some stuff off my chest. There may be more to come.)

I just read the article, and seems like the gist of it was (paraphrasing
here): Atkins doesn't work because dieters get bored and go off the diet
and gain the weight back. Hmm, I suppose that's true. But, um, isn't that
true of low-fat diets as well?

--
-Michelle Levin (Luna)
http://www.mindspring.com/~lunachick
http://www.mindspring.com/~designbyluna

Excellent thoughts, Jim. Thanks for sharing. I agree with everything.

- Anne

I just read the article, and seems like the gist of it was (paraphrasing
here): Atkins doesn't work because dieters get bored and go off the diet
and gain the weight back. Hmm, I suppose that's true. But, um, isn't that
true of low-fat diets as well?

--
-Michelle Levin (Luna)

And wouldn't that be that the DIET works, it's going off the diet that doesn't
work.
~Kat


"Rice Krispies. East meets west"
Cosmo Kramer

Jim Marnott wrote:

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2...0/111641.shtml

Why don't these doctors just lay off, let people make their own
decisions about how to eat.

If someone tries the WOE and it doesn't work for them, and they gain it
all back, well, then that's too bad. But if it *would have* worked for
them, but they decided not to try it, because of what one doctors says
then that's really a shame.

I also really think we all should, as many of us already have, stop
calling this WOE a diet.... and start telling it like it is. It's just
a different way of eating. My kids ask if I'm on a diet and I tell them
"No, I just like to eat different things than you do"

When a co-worker who knows you're on Atkins says "Oh, too bad you can't
eat that donut (or bagel, or whatever)"... just say "Oh, I can eat
whatever I want, I just choose not to eat that." Because in essence
that is the truth. No one is forcing us to do this. We are doing it
because we want to feel better and be healthier.

When people say "Oh just this once, treat yourself to a bagel (, or ice
cream, or pasta dinner or desert or whatever.)" Tell them that you
treat yourself everyday to foods you love and that make you feel good
all the time.

(Just wanted to get some stuff off my chest. There may be more to come.)

Per usual, sure, if you go back to your old WOE, which got you
where you were in the first place, you will put the pounds back
on. Lots of us have experienced that first-hand. But that's not
because there is something wrong with eating LC foods, and that
does not make it an invalid way to lose/maintain one's weight.


--
Jean B.

On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 17:49:11 -0400, Jim Marnott
wrote:

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2...0/111641.shtml


Quote from the article:
"He explains that the April 2001 Journal of the American Dietetic
Association reviewed "all [such] studies identified," over 200 total.
Conclusion: "Weight loss is independent of diet composition."

In other words, it's not what you eat - it's how much you eat."

So, how come I now eat about 1200-1500 calories a day and the pounds
*melt* off, whereas before I could only eat about 500-700 calories of
carbohydrates if I wanted to lose? With no difference in how much I
move or workout. I eat more now, both in calories in volume, than on
the usual "FDH" (Friss die Hälfte - Eat only Half), and I lose weight
so much I can't keep up with updating my signature here. shakes head

Why don't these doctors just lay off, let people make their own
decisions about how to eat.

Because they *know* and knowledge is power.

When people say "Oh just this once, treat yourself to a bagel (, or ice
cream, or pasta dinner or desert or whatever.)" Tell them that you
treat yourself everyday to foods you love and that make you feel good
all the time.

Excellent way of looking at it! It is for me that way too. I have
never in my life had more joy and fun eating than the past months.
Because the nagging guilty feeling is gone for every spoon of fat in
the pan, for every steak I eat with gusto.
I am developing a much healthier approach towards food, because I no
longer feel guilty, and I no longer avoid eating (and eating too much
later because I am so darn hungry). That is the thing I enjoy the most
with this WOE: that my thoughts are no longer ruled by food. I enjoy
tremenduously it while I eat, and that's that for the next hours.
Free at last.

Ina

213/187/160
since 8/15/03

www.skreee.de

"Jim Marnott" wrote in message
.. .
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2...0/111641.shtml

Why don't these doctors just lay off, let people make their own
decisions about how to eat.

If someone tries the WOE and it doesn't work for them, and they gain it
all back, well, then that's too bad. But if it *would have* worked for
them, but they decided not to try it, because of what one doctors says
then that's really a shame.

Jim
231/194?/197
Atkins since 22 May '03
Gym since 1 sept '03


You know, I haven't been on this plan long but I am so sick of people taking
so much joy in debunking this plan. I have seen many people lose on this WOE
and they STILL live it. I think what made me upset is that they reported the
spoutings of one guy and they didn't bother to get a comment from the Atkins
Center or anything for a rebuttal. What shoddy reporting. Every reporter
knows there is a counter-point to every story and you put that in too,
whether you agree with it or not. If this is such bunk, why is it that it
is that it has the most clubs, message boards, chat rooms and support groups
than even Weight Watchers? Our level of support is unparalelled and our
results are just as unmatched. The bottom line is: we love it, it works, and
people who don't have the time, will or the inclination to buck the norm,
are jealous.

lowcare_newbie

induction date: 10/19/03
400/352/173 *I just found out from the book, that I should be 173 instead of
177; more pressure on me!

My gripe is when *any* version of low carb eating gets lumped in as
*Atkins*.. I think there are actually very few who stick completely to
*Atkins* as it is, or anything other low carb diet.. The reason there are so
many versions is that people realized hey I can do it *this* way.. Someone
else did it another way.. we all find out as we go what works best for us
and tend to adjust for ourselves. I prefer to think of it as *My personal
low carb way of life*..

Teeb

"Jim Marnott" wrote in message
.. .
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2...0/111641.shtml

Why don't these doctors just lay off, let people make their own
decisions about how to eat.

If someone tries the WOE and it doesn't work for them, and they gain it
all back, well, then that's too bad. But if it *would have* worked for
them, but they decided not to try it, because of what one doctors says
then that's really a shame.

I also really think we all should, as many of us already have, stop
calling this WOE a diet.... and start telling it like it is. It's just
a different way of eating. My kids ask if I'm on a diet and I tell them
"No, I just like to eat different things than you do"

When a co-worker who knows you're on Atkins says "Oh, too bad you can't
eat that donut (or bagel, or whatever)"... just say "Oh, I can eat
whatever I want, I just choose not to eat that." Because in essence
that is the truth. No one is forcing us to do this. We are doing it
because we want to feel better and be healthier.

When people say "Oh just this once, treat yourself to a bagel (, or ice
cream, or pasta dinner or desert or whatever.)" Tell them that you
treat yourself everyday to foods you love and that make you feel good
all the time.

(Just wanted to get some stuff off my chest. There may be more to come.)

--
Jim
231/194?/197
Atkins since 22 May '03
Gym since 1 sept '03

EXACTLY.. I lost 57 pounds 2 years ago.. quit.. and now I am having to lose
most of it it all over again. Eating potatoes, white bread and sugared up
things made me fat.. dumping it out of my daily diet takes it back off.. I
don't even exercise... how can those idiots say it doesn't work?

Teeb

"Jean B." wrote in message ...
Jim Marnott wrote:

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2...0/111641.shtml

Why don't these doctors just lay off, let people make their own
decisions about how to eat.

If someone tries the WOE and it doesn't work for them, and they gain it
all back, well, then that's too bad. But if it *would have* worked for
them, but they decided not to try it, because of what one doctors says
then that's really a shame.

I also really think we all should, as many of us already have, stop
calling this WOE a diet.... and start telling it like it is. It's just
a different way of eating. My kids ask if I'm on a diet and I tell them
"No, I just like to eat different things than you do"

When a co-worker who knows you're on Atkins says "Oh, too bad you can't
eat that donut (or bagel, or whatever)"... just say "Oh, I can eat
whatever I want, I just choose not to eat that." Because in essence
that is the truth. No one is forcing us to do this. We are doing it
because we want to feel better and be healthier.

When people say "Oh just this once, treat yourself to a bagel (, or ice
cream, or pasta dinner or desert or whatever.)" Tell them that you
treat yourself everyday to foods you love and that make you feel good
all the time.

(Just wanted to get some stuff off my chest. There may be more to
come.)

Per usual, sure, if you go back to your old WOE, which got you
where you were in the first place, you will put the pounds back
on. Lots of us have experienced that first-hand. But that's not
because there is something wrong with eating LC foods, and that
does not make it an invalid way to lose/maintain one's weight.


--
Jean B.