Low carb products in the store are cheap, cheap, cheap!

The problem with low-carb pasta/bread/etc. is that it tastes like shit. Let's see, I can make some shitty pasta, or I can eat another piece of chicken or steak. It's a no-brainer. Compare the sales of low-carb milk and cereal to the sales of bacon and eggs. My guess is that bacon and eggs are doing just fine.

I suspect the trick "low carb" products are going to screw up the diet anyway. Like Joe R. says, eat more basic stuff.

Why, did Ted McGinley start doing the Atkins?

Was that a typo? "Hooked on horse" or did you mean "hooked on whores" - heheh

Argh... where are the titles in your html...come on now it should read

"Ace of Spades HQ - Atkins Craze Jumps The Shark"

So when I send it to my desktop it doesn't just say "Ace of Spades [256]" as my desktop is filled with 257 links to Ace of Spades content.

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"I suspect the trick 'low carb' products are going to screw up the diet anyway. Like Joe R. says, eat more basic stuff."

Exactly. Just like the "low fat" stuff, they add a bunch of calories to distract you from the missing material.

The reason low-carb diets work is because there wasn't a hell of a lot you were allowed to eat. The monotony staves off the pounds.

I had always assumed that it worked because: (1) carbohydrates are more calorie-dense than proteins; (2) the conversion process is more expensive for proteins. But I never read his book (all 38927483 editions of it), so I can't really say for certain.

Quick summary of the Atkins Diet:

Week 1: You mean I can have bacon and cheese omelets every day?

Week 2: Shit - you mean all I can have are bacon and cheese omelets? I'd kill for a simple bowl of cereal!

It works, but it's a pain in the ass, and the monotony, as Jason pointed out, is both the active ingredient and the killer on that diet.

What Patton said.

We were able to go on Atkin's a while back but after some time passed I couldn't handle it anymore. Yes, we lost weight, but if you slip JUST ONE TIME you go out of ketosis and you stall for DAYS. At least that's what happened to me. I tried getting rid of my sweets n' bread cravings by using the Splenda and the low-carb products but that would make me stall, too. And no, I didn't want to use the carb blockers because of the unpleasant side effects. So, whenever we need to diet around here (which, incidentally, is right now because we went too crazy moving to a house with a Sonic in easy dirving distance) we use the "normal" kind of diet...where you can cheat on occasion and not have it cost you a week's worth of weight loss.

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bbeck

Simple as this - Atkins works. My wife and I both dropped 25-30 pounds in the first 3-4 months when we hardly - if ever - cheated. Yes it can be hard.

The special low carb products really do taste like shit. But now that we are down to the weight we wanted to be at, it doesn't hurt to cheat a little. We were just way too free with our sugar before. I mean I had no problem downing 120+ grams worth of soda per day, not to mention 3 oz. of sugar in my 20 oz. coffee, which is worth another 40-50 grams.

Now I rarely go above 50 for a day and it's NOT that hard.

But yeah, the special low carb products were a money making scheme to capitalize on the Atkins craze. Between the fact that the craze has died out a bit and the fact that the stuff is HORRIBLE, it is of no surprise that you can't find much of it any longer.

What's worked great for me is a sort of half-assed "lowish carb" diet (basically, I still eat some highish carb foods, but they're more in the "occasional treat" category than "staple" now.) Lost 30 pounds in 3 months. I'm still not sold on the Atkins "philosophy" - the science just doesn't seem to add up to me. And the only diet that works for losing weight and keeping it off is this one:

1. Consume fewer calories
2. Exercise more, so you burn more calories
3. *Keep* doing 1 and 2

The real trick to low-carb that makes it work, IMO, isn't anything like "ignore fat, it doesn't matter," it's simply that it's *easier* to consume fewer calories while eating foods you enjoy. It's all about the insulin, I think. The trouble with high-carb foods is that they don't really satisfy hunger well (e.g., this is why it's easy to eat a whole bag of potato chips and the like.) But high-protein foods give you what your body needs, and you don't feel as hungry, ergo, you can eat fewer calories.

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