weight loss

[boxing4ever]

Atkins is the best crash diet out there. You will lose atleast 10 pounds the first two weeks gurenteed, if you do it right.

is it a safe diet though? will it affect my growth as a teen?

[Bear4228]

Im pretty sure that diet is used as a quick fix for a small amount of weight bit of weight. It isnt very healthy when you just eat protien for a year lol.

[leff]

i have a question for everyone im 16 and i was woundering if i do a very very strict diet will it effect my growing body? i am on a fairly balanced health diet right now where im loosing 1-2 pounds a week i have already lost 30 pounds in the past 4 months and need to loose another 10 pounds so i can get down to the 150s

how old are you?

[me2007]

i think the atkins diet is the worst way to diet. If you aren`t taking in any carbs, you will be burning protein as fuel, you need protein to sustain muscle mass and growth.

If you start losing muscle, your metabolic rate will go down, and as soon as you come off the atkins diet, you will gain even more weight back.

just stick to 2 meal replacements, a balanced dinner in the evening with 3-5 miles of running each day and you will lose the weight. This method is far from perfect but it is much safer than atkins.

[-Antonio-]

i think the atkins diet is the worst way to diet. If you aren`t taking in any carbs, you will be burning protein as fuel, you need protein to sustain muscle mass and growth.

If you start losing muscle, your metabolic rate will go down, and as soon as you come off the atkins diet, you will gain even more weight back.

just stick to 2 meal replacements, a balanced dinner in the evening with 3-5 miles of running each day and you will lose the weight. This method is far from perfect but it is much safer than atkins.

You dont use protein, you use fat. Atkins is a high protein diet, and you are allowed to eat a lot of fat which his what you burn. Its perfectly safe for a diet, its just not effective long term.

[me2007]

"The American Institute for Cancer Research has also evaluated the Atkins’ diet and their assessment is quite alarming. They say that the high-protein, high-fat, low-carbohydrate Atkins diet tends to promote the loss of water weight, and that if such an imbalanced diet is maintained, the body soon reverts to the fasting state of ketosis, in which the body begins to break down muscle tissue instead of fat over the long term.

Ketosis is one of the body's last-ditch emergency responses; deliberately inducing ketosis can lead to muscle breakdown, nausea, dehydration, headaches, light-headedness, irritability, bad breath, and kidney problems. In pregnancy, ketosis may cause foetal abnormality or death. It can also be fatal in individuals with diabetes! While supporters of the Atkins diet concentrate so much on the fat burning capability of ketosis they neglect to mention that over the long term protein, and thus muscle, is also burned! "

[boxing4ever]

how old are you?

16