Atkins diet

[Joan]

Originally posted by spam
Pleny, when was the last time you watched a road race....what you are stating hold true for the top athletes but for the "social" athlete this does not hold true. What one needs to do is balance your intake of carbs, fats and proteins. Atkins bans carbs for the first TWO weeks, thereafter carbs are introduced. What happens is that a massive amount of weight loss can be achieved in the first 2 weeks, this leads dieters to carry on for prolonged periods of time which IS unhealthy. In fact calling Atkins a diet is a misnomer, he does not advocate diet but rather a healthier and balanced eating way of life. The initial phases are only to kich start the metabolism.

I did mean regular mararthon athletes and regular cyclists, not those who do it once in a while spam!!!!

Think of Paula Radcliffe, Bruce Fordyce, etc...

I started this thread because the promoters of the Atkins diet seem to be worried that they may be sued......scoll back to first posting, all the meat and whatever was supposed to be so good for one seems not to be the true thing after all, and that is what I have been saying for ages............A balanced diet with sufficient exercise (taking a long pleasant walk, cycling, etc) keeps the weight down, one does not need to follow specific diets, like Atkins, the Grapefruit diet, the whatever diet, just common sense...count the kiljoules taken in and the kilojoules you "burn"....
It all boils down to a proper balance of the scales....pardon the pun