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Originally Posted by Pura Vida
Speaking from personal experience, the problem with Atkins (or similar diets) isn't the diet... it's when people have success or hit their target, they abandon the disciplined decisions that helped them lose the weight in the first place.
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That's true of
any diet.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Pura Vida
And with a high protein / high fat diet, if you introduce carbs back into the mix, the calories often come racing back, and the weight returns. Those who keep it off, do what's recommended, which is to slowly introduce some good carbs (beans, some fruits, etc.) and continue a sensible, maintenance form of the diet (or eating lifestyle, or whatever you want to call it).
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And this why it makes more sense to adopt a healthy,
balanced diet, instead of one that eliminates entire food groups to accelerate the results. If those carbs are "good," they should never have been taken out in the first place.