05-30-2004, 05:49 AM
Fatkins died from his own diet.
Weight Watchers, SlimFast, and other similar gimmicks are useless, and expensive.
Excercise and moderation have worked since the dawn of time (or, rather, since the dawn of the point when people had enough surplus food for obesity to become a national problem), and they'll always work.
Limit the AMOUNT you eat, and try to eat healthier, too. If you still can't stay away from the cheeseburgers and fries, do yourself a favor and take a multivitamin every day. Multivitamins aren't substitutes for eating good stuff like leafy green veggies, fruits, and other healthy-foods, but they certainly help.
Get at least thirty minutes of aerobic excercise (walking, jogging, running, swimming, hell, even jumping) at least five times a week. Do resistance-training (weight-lifting and such) if you want to build or tone muscle mass.
Frankly, the Fatkins diet doesn't make sense, in some ways. Will it make you lose weight? Definitely. Carbohydrates are used as energy; if your body takes in unneeded energy, it stores it. The energy stores are fat. If you deprive your body of carbohydrates (energy), it will tap into its reserves (fat) to compensate. The problem is that rapid fat-loss (and the subsequent weight loss) can lead to ketones, gall stones, and possibly even kidney stones - of course, any kind of rapid weight-loss (including starvation) can do that. With the Fatkins diet, you're literally starving your body of energy, forcing it to tap into its reserves to make up for the lack. The only difference is that, unlike fasting, your body won't go psycho to rebuild the lost stores once you start eating normally again.
I've looked at "Atkins-Approved" stuff (which is ridiculously expensive, by the way), and it's horrifically high in fats, saturated fats, cholesterol, and proteins. Fatkins died from his own diet.
Weight Watchers, SlimFast, and other similar gimmicks are useless, and expensive.
Excercise and moderation have worked since the dawn of time (or, rather, since the dawn of the point when people had enough surplus food for obesity to become a national problem), and they'll always work.
Limit the AMOUNT you eat, and try to eat healthier, too. If you still can't stay away from the cheeseburgers and fries, do yourself a favor and take a multivitamin every day. Multivitamins aren't substitutes for eating good stuff like leafy green veggies, fruits, and other healthy-foods, but they certainly help.
Get at least thirty minutes of aerobic excercise (walking, jogging, running, swimming, hell, even jumping) at least five times a week. Do resistance-training (weight-lifting and such) if you want to build or tone muscle mass.
Frankly, the Fatkins diet doesn't make sense, in some ways. Will it make you lose weight? Definitely. Carbohydrates are used as energy; if your body takes in unneeded energy, it stores it. The energy stores are fat. If you deprive your body of carbohydrates (energy), it will tap into its reserves (fat) to compensate. The problem is that rapid fat-loss (and the subsequent weight loss) can lead to ketones, gall stones, and possibly even kidney stones - of course, any kind of rapid weight-loss (including starvation) can do that. With the Fatkins diet, you're literally starving your body of energy, forcing it to tap into its reserves to make up for the lack. The only difference is that, unlike fasting, your body won't go psycho to rebuild the lost stores once you start eating normally again.
I've looked at "Atkins-Approved" stuff (which is ridiculously expensive, by the way), and it's horrifically high in fats, saturated fats, cholesterol, and proteins. Fatkins died from his own diet.
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