Atkins Diet

[FUNKED1]

If it wasn't for lonely loser geeks, how would strippers make any money?
If it wasn't for strippers, how would lonely loser geeks ever see female genitalia?

[Megan001]

Very true! We need each other!:)

[AKS\/\/ulfe]

Originally posted by FUNKED1
If it wasn't for lonely loser geeks, how would strippers make any money?
If it wasn't for strippers, how would lonely loser geeks ever see female genitalia?

Porn is the answer to both.
-SW

[Saurdaukar]

Mass produced porn is overrated.

Better to create your own.

[AKS\/\/ulfe]

I've tried, but my blow up woman just wasn't down for it.
-SW

[Saurdaukar]

Then you need to upgrade.

http://www.realdoll.com/

[AKS\/\/ulfe]

Saur you are my hero!

No more lonely nights where my woman springs a leak and I must wait for the hardware stores to open up for a patch kit.
-SW

[aztec]

Originally posted by Martlet
Diets crack me up.  Why don't people ever try eating healthy and really  exercising.

Well if everyone was just like you on what would you base your superiority?

[Habu]

I know that the Atkins diet does work, if you do it faithfully you will lose weight.

Bad breath is a side effect so you might want to carry some excel gum around with you (does it have carbs?)

The problem is that staying on it very long term might not be healthy, it is a high fat high cholesterol diet and that is not good. Eating 3 eggs and 4 pieces of bacon every morning for breakfast might help you lose weight but imagine what that stuff is doing to your circulatory system.

I think it might be a good way to lose 20 lbs but once you get it off you have to cut portion size, work some carbs back into your diet (beer not french fries) and get some exercise into your weekly routine. If you start to put the weight you lost back on increase the exercise right away (a 45 min walk after dinner will do wonders). If you let the weight come back on you will probably get heavier than where you were when you started.

[Westy]

I've been on the "Atkins" since the summer and I've lost 40lbs. I'd like to lose another 20 to be at my "best ever" adult weight (when I got out of bootcamp)

 But I'm not hardcore Atkins. While I followed the Atkins diet plan for the first four weeks (I extended the initial two week "break in" regimen for an extra couple of weeks to REALLY shed my body of the carb craving) but after that I stayed pretty faithful. The real exception is I allow myself to eat any veggies as much as I wanted regardless of carbs. Veggies are good no matter what they are IMO.

However I simply just do not eat pastas, soda, breads, cakes, muffins, doughnuts, chips, snacks, bagels, potatoes or rice.  At first that sucked because I lived for all that.  You can bet I miss having a nice Chicken Parm dinner or blue berrry muffins in the morning.  So essentially I have cut out all the starches, sugars and high carb foods that I possibly can.  And it works.

 I eat a hellofalot of meats, eggs cooked in all manor, cheeses galore, zero carb diet soda, salads (any kind with feta and strips of chicken or steak on it or a  Ceasar also with chicken or steak. But! No croutons).
 I'm MUCH healthier (per results at my last physical) and feel just so much better over all (don't smoke either so that helps). And I've lost enough weight that I could exercice if I chose to but I hate exercise and the dicks who think I should.

 As for beer?

 Tis the greatest sacrifice of all.   For beer I drink Michelob "Ultra."  It's not Sam Adams but it's the best low carb beer out there. Miller Lite and the other American "Lite" or low carb beers truly tasted like sh&t and being on a low carb diet and jonesing for a beer here and there hasn't changed my mind about that at all.

[Habu]

Originally posted by Megan001
Very true! We need each other!:)

Megan you will find this board a place where you need a thick skin. Not everyone here is a desperate loser who will gladly send you airfare in the hopes that you will come and visit them. Not everyone here is a flyboy wanna be. Many are private pilots, some are commercial ones and some are military pilots. Some don't fly at all.

Some have good jobs and some have great girlfriends and wifes and familys. Some are total ********s (Like Straffo and SLO) and some are pretty smart. Some will treat you like you are royality and hang on your every post. Some will treat you like anyone else here and flame you if you piss them off.

But if you do stick around you will find it an intersting place. And if you every decide to try a flight sim you will find a hobby more addictive than herion.

True story. In another newsgroup I go too there is an ex-stripper who plays another flight sim. I know she was as she is very open and even posted some pics of herself. She was always friendly and chatty and I think she played more for the social aspect of the communtiy than for the flight sim aspect. She met a guy there and visited him and now they are very happily married. Going on 3 years too I think.

[Sapphire]

Originally posted by Tarmac
Lol.  

As for diets, eat what you want, just less of it.  Drink a glass of ice water just before you eat; helps you eat less.  And exercise, preferably cardio stuff like running or biking.  There ya go.

Yes, this is the easiest and most sensible way to go.

Originally posted by Tarmac

Fad diets are just that... fads.  In 10 years, research will show that the Atkins diet gives you cancer or causes brain decay or makes you have a smaller noodle.  Cutting any major food group out of your diet is probably bad.

Actually, there was a recent study (so sorry can't remember who/where) and they don't know WHY but the Atkins diet DOES work.  The scientists conclusions were people on the Atkins diet lost more weight than the above mentioned group (both groups consuming the same daily calories)

[gofaster]

Originally posted by Creamo
Anyone tried it? Does it harm you?

Anyone involved in high-impact or endurance sports shouldn't do it as can overstress your muscles and wreck havoc on metabolism.  The general idea behind the Atkins Diet, if I understand it correctly, is that it forces your body to burn its fat stores to meet everyday metabolic needs.  If you increase the load on your body via exercise without a subsequent change in diet to include more carbs, you can really mess yourself up with muscle strains and tears.

You're better off with (a) removing sugar from your food intake and (b) endurance exercises, such as running, cycling, or swimming.  Atkins is a good start to drop the initial weight but its not something you'd want to sustain, particularly if you are involved in hard physical activities.  Atkins can be unhealthy if you're not careful.

I would never consider cutting out vegetables.

I would never consider cutting out fruits.

I would never consider cutting out starches and carbs, just consuming less of them.

My aunt is on the Atkins diet and she said that, at first, she felt a bit tired and run-down, but she did manage to lose 15 pounds and after awhile she added some carbs back in and really started feeling wonderful afterwards.  I'm guessing that with less bulk to move around, her body wasn't as stressed, and when she brought the quick-burning carbs back in to her diet, her muscles thanked her.

[Sapphire]

Originally posted by Habu
Megan you will find this board a place where you need a thick skin.

Thanks for the warning Habu but we already received our training over at sw.

[Dowding]

I'm on the 'SAS diet', written by Andy McNab (Bravo Two Zero).

All I do is spend my weekends on the moors with no shelter, try and strangle a few rabbits for food (and err... company) and think of exciting things I've done to tell my friends and/or include in a new bestseller. It's great.