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South Beach instead of Atkins
Would I lose weight just as fast if I did south beach instead of atkins or is atkins faster? Thank you.
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My dad chose Atkins, and I chose South Beach.
Both of us lost tons of weight. He ate his pound of bacon for breakfast, I ate my salmon and grilled veggies.
The nice thing about South Beach is that it allows you to reintroduce healthy whole grain carbs and low-sugar fruits after the first two weeks, unlike Atkins, which restricts all of your carb intake (including the healthy ones). Negative point; for the first few weeks, I was weak, cranky, tired, and ravenously hungry.
The end result was that both of us gained the weight back, and more. My dad gained it faster, because Atkins is not exactly a lifestyle choice. Nobody can live on bacon forever. I gained it back because I was unable to keep my consumption of refined carbs down the way that they want you to.
What I'm having luck with now is moderate exercise and eating healthy. I have cut out a lot of the white flours and sugars, and eat mainly vegetables with lean meats. It's not nearly as fast, but I can see myself sticking with this choice forever. I'm using a calorie tracking website (myfitnesspal.com), and it's working like a charm. I'm down 12 pounds in the last 5 weeks, and it's not coming back on every time I look at a cookie or sniff a hamburger.
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If you follow any diet plan, you will lose weight because they all require you to cut calories, whether they are fat calories or carbs does not matter. Calories are calories and you must lower your caloric intake to lose weight.
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For starters, the Atkins Diet is extremely unhealthy. Eating large quantities of saturated fat and denying your body the whole grains it needs is horrible for you, and will make you way more unhealthy than being overweight ever could.
That being said, people who do the Atkins diet usually lose weight fast at first, but it levels off in the end. That might be good for beginning motivation, but this period of losing weight fast does not last. The South Beach diet is more reasonable than Atkins. You might not lose weight as fast at first, but you'll either lose the same amount or more over time. Just be patient, and if you insist upon doing one of these commercial diets, go with South Beach.
However, out of all the commercial diets, consider that Weight Watchers has the highest success rate. If you're going to drop cash on some kind of program to lose weight, you might as well spend your hard earned money on one that has proven itself as the best of the bunch.
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