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Originally posted by lovelyivy84
1. Atkins gets a really bad rap. There haven't been enough studies showing the long term effects in people who follow the diet PROPERLY (and don't just stop eating carbs). Folks who do it properly can eat healthy carbs like veggies (maybe not fruit), they just cut out high starch high cartb foods that if we're honest, NOBODY needs. People are generally scared off by induction, or take that to be representative of the entire diet and that's just not true.
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Thank you. I was so skeptical of Atkins before I tried it. Now, I look at what's IN my food, not just calories/fat. A lot of the foods on the diet are much more natural than traditional low fat, low calorie "prepared" foods.
Now, my diet consists mostly of very lean ground beef, tuna, chicken, medium eggs (not those freaky estrogen enhanced XL eggs), nuts and salads. Much more natural than the crackers I used to eat all the time that were filled with partially hydrogenated oils and weird chemicals.
Take a look at what's in butter vs low fat margarine. The fat and calorie content is about the same, but the ingredients in the margarine creep me out. I like that butter has 2 things in it: cream and salt.
I still eat carbs. But its not the bulk of my diet like it was before.