Atkins diet (BS or too good be true)

[ShaqFu]

I'm having trouble hopping on this bandwagon.. it just doesn't seem to make any sense to me.

It just makes sense that people should gain weight with a high calorie diet, and lose weight by restricting their calories.

What's the consensus out there?

 

[Twin Peak]

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.

 

[bigss75]

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

 

[P-funk]

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.

 

[Robboe]

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.

 

[Mudge]

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.

 

[david]

It's effective. My friend's father was 360 lbs. with a back injury and lost 150 lbs in a year and a half. I believe, since he was also working with physicians, he gradually introduced carbs back into his diet and is back on a normal eating plan still with a 60p/30c/10f ratio.