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laylaindy

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142.0 lb

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144.0 lb
Performance: gaining 2.0 lb a week

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124.0 lb

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I am on the Atkins diet on induction and gaining weight! Please help.
Getting back to you after a long while but... better than never Smile

Thank you everyone for the nice and kind answers, they were very helpful not only for me but also for other people who I assume stumbled upon this thread and learned something out of it.
I've been on and off this website but never answered because I forgot the password and I've been too lazy to come up with a new one. I am posting this message now as I found my password written somewhere on a piece of paper Smile

I posted my initial message on July 2012 and we are now at the end of 2014 so it's been a while Smile

So, to make the long story short, the Atkins diet didn't work for me. I tried the old Atkins, I tried the new Atkins, I didn't count the calories, then I counted them, I ate more veggies, I ate less veggies, I stopped eating cheese... nothing worked. It only worked when the total count of calories (regardless of what I was eating) was less than 1000 Cals which was impossible to do for me. I could barely walk straight I had to constantly make sure there were walls around me so I could have something to hold on. Each time I stood up I saw "black" in front of my eyes and felt so dizzy to the edge of fainting. So, exercising while feeling that dizzy was out of question as long as I could barely walk without fainting.
Someone recommended I ate more vegetables and she thought I had issues eating them. I actually don't. I have been a vegetarian my entire life not because of health issues but because I simply don't like meat. I also don't have a sweet tooth, I have never cheated by eating sweets or bars while on Atkins. And I don't like chocolate either. I don't have food intolerance of any sort (someone suggested that) and I usually eat a lot of cheese and eggs. That has actually been a life long weakness and that is why I sometimes gain weight, it's because I eat too much cheese and nuts. If you know what a Mediterranean diet is, that's how I've been eating my entire life (except for the meats), it is a very healthy diet but it can also help one gain weight if over eating all those goodies.
I chose to go back to my way of eating which is a vegetarian diet and I tried a different diet and I now weigh 127 lbs. I lost all the weight I wanted some time at the beginning of 2013 and haven't gained it back... but not thanks to Atkins.
I did some research on google and I found out that I am not the only one who doesn't lose weight while on an Atkins diet. Quite a few people have similar complaints and if feels like we are in the same boat. It simply doesn't work for some people's metabolism. I was lucky people who answered me had manners and they were kind.... but not everybody has this luck. It looks like each time someone complains of actually gaining weight while on Atkins, people jump in to accuse the dieter of not doing the right thing. Some of those who answer are quite disrespectful and treat the dieter pretty much like an ignorant uneducated individual... oh well...
My mother tried Atkins, too. She is 60 y.o. and Atkins did wonders for her. She never took count of how much she ate, never kept a journal and she ate only fried meat, omelets, salami and bacon (the fattest one can find on the market!), probably 4000 to 6000 Cals daily and she lost so much weight, as far as I remember she went down 20 lbs in about a month. I am sure, as it always happens, some people might feel the urge to contradict me and claim I can't be sure of the Cals my mom ate as long as she didn't keep a journal. My anticipated answer is that some people are just good at math and can easily approximate that number without keeping a journal. My mom used to eat about 1 lb of steak (fried fat pork) at lunch and 1 lb of other meats at dinner. Pretty much the same amount of cheese and 4-6 eggs daily (fried omelet). She was eating the amount of food 3-4 people would normally eat in one day. Other people I know tried it, they ate fried meats with no restriction ( 3-4 lbs/day) and they lost a lot of weight.
I am not saying Atkins diet doesn't work, it just doesn't work for everybody and I am the best example. The good thing is that it works for MOST people and it's worth trying... However, if someone who's just like me is reading this and he/she is gaining weight instead of losing weight... it's better to give it up and try a different diet. It is very frustrating and it goes against all the motivational factors which help us keep on struggling to lose weight.
Good luck everyone and hope you all achieve your goals. Happy New Year and have a wonderful life Smile

posted 07 Dec 2014, 17:58

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Peperiniko walking on egg shells Smile

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posted 28 Jul 2012, 03:10

Cleaning up friend's list

Hoser wrote:

Thank you! You say the nicest things.

She's very funny, she made my day Smile

posted 28 Jul 2012, 03:08

Cleaning up friend's list

trill42 wrote:

err wait a minute, you're not on my friend's list lol.. Why are you bothered?

You really made my day Smile

Why do you think someone would bother for being deleted? No one cares actually.

posted 28 Jul 2012, 03:06

I am on the Atkins diet on induction and gaining weight! Please help.
Thank you so much for answering. What you say is true and I knew that, the funny thing is that Atkins diet says you can eat as much as you feel like and there are no restrictions on Induction. What do you say about that? That is why I was confused. I actually recorded all the food I ate and this software calculated the calories for me, you can check my journal.

posted 28 Jul 2012, 03:00

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