Thread: Atkins diet (BS or too good be true)

You don't truly understand the diet then. Read more about it.

It is an effective fat loss diet regimine (i.e. life change) for MOST people.

It is not an optimal bodybuilding diet.

Atkins is not a good idea for an weight training athlete try a keto diet because it has carb ups which will make your workouts more productive and less sluggish

Although the Atkins diet is not the best type of diet for a bodybuilding lifestyle it is still worth reading, there is a lot of useful information that you can take from his book and apply to a diet which will help you achieve your goals.

I don't particularly like the idea of a diet so high in (mostly) saturated fats.

Albeit, sat-fats tend to be more harmless in calorie deficit, and such diets tend to suppress appetites a lot more often than not leaving the person in deficit, but still. A lot of people these days take the idea to the extreme, eating nothing but bacon, sausages, red meat etc.. Yes, it was probably mostly what humans have been brought up on, but not in those amounts.

But anyhoo, it is just one of many ways of getting from A to B. A choice of preference for many.

Uhh, you leave us no choice but to say its a load of crap with either selection?

I know 2 people that it worked VERY WELL for, so I am not prepared to say either. Yes you can lose weight through caloric starvation, but there are almost always more than one way of skinning a cat, and this is just one of them. Dropping carbs works for me as well, although I wouldn't call myself a total lard ass, I do have more fat than any male should outside of a frozen land.