Losing weight - Atkins diet

Im going to continue the diet I used to go with (Atkins). For peoples who don't know what I am meaning with this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atkins_diet

Last year I dropped away -18kg's with this.

Im a bit lost with my motivation, because its summer time and I like to enjoy it by buying pretty calouric stuff. Im feeling to ask if here is someone who got exprience about the atkins. Im getting pretty much boored also with the breakfasts etc. The same foods are coming away almost from my ears for now. (Eating eggs and so on as a breakfast always)

A few questions to you

What keeps your motivation up with this lifestyle?
What gives you the energy for some sports?

What kind of food you like to eat on a morning, lunch etc. ?
How much you drink water daily?
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can't you just keep in mind that you don't go over your maximum calories for that day?
and if you just exercise normally.. like twice a week..

can't you just do that?

Good luck..
Good tip, going to try that on some day, thanks!
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i tend to get up and have 2 breakfasts, play computer games for 6/7 hours have a lunch and a dinner while playing then go drink 4-10 beers then go have some fried chicken or a kebab or something
Life of the kings, missing bacon tho
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Sounds like a perfect day :D
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Me too, but after all that i have great&long sex with naked models so i stay on good shape
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hey thats a pretty sweet idea, i'll go get some models later
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i prefer it when the models wear clothes, feels sexier that way
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the mystique, +1
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same as mind but i drink 5l vodka and i wrestle with the grizzly bears
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Butterfield Diet...........................
What gives you the energy for some sports?

Just play football with friends, or if you don't like football, just play another sport with friends. If you don't have the motivation to go to the gym by yourself, you have to find something that's fun aswell (e.g. playing football with friends).
i would go insane without bread
Nowadays making same with me : |
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bread is the greatest thing man invented
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After water
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that was already here
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Yeah, I also remember when my father came running into my room, yelling: "OH GOD SON YOU WILL NEVER GUESS WHAT THEY JUST INVENTED! IT'S LIKE COLA, JUST CLEAR AND WITHOUT TASTE!"
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only when just made
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only the same day it was made*
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It took me months to get rid of bread :DD Nowadays I only eat it at my parents and school sometimes.
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are you mad, i eat like 3 sandwiches every day
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The healthier method of taking the principles of the Atkins diet is to simply remove carbs from your dinner, no pasta,rice,bread based dinners and you'll see quick results.
I was thinking about that carb-diet since I have noticed that my six-pack has disappeared. Some time ago. But I cant drink beer on it, right?
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Kyllä sä Thomm voit juoda, mutta et joka viikko.
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"Viikko". Ois ollu vaikka että vaan kerran tai kaks :/ Miten viinan kans?
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Kyllä viinaa voi vetää jonkun lantringin kanssa, vähemmän siinä on kaloreita ku jos vetäisit jotain kaljoja tai lonkkuja koko illan. :)

Ja tärkeintä on se että viikon kokonaiskulutus on enemmän kuin mitä oot syöny.
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Yup no beer! Not sure you might be able to have cider
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Yes I know it, only thing is that human cant eat same foods daily without getting sick of
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Quick yet unsustainable results
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Not in the slightest is it unsustainable, its a very minimalist approach to dieting, managing just 1 meal per day.
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Quoteremove carbs from your dinner, no pasta,rice,bread based dinners


Quotequick results


Like i said, unsustainable. This is what i do mate, i know what i'm talking about and nobody EVER sticks to it. You need a sufficient enough diet to continue it for years. Lowcarbing just doesn't work unless you want to look good for all of a month aka summer hols then it's a treat but it just can't be kept up.
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Well, that's basically what I'm doing for 2,5 years now (the low carb dinner thingy) and I wouldn't say I lost weight too quick, nor would I say that it's not sustainable :-(

Gotta agree on a complete low carb diet though (like the Atkins). That's probably not sustainable or healthy in any way. Weight loss is quite insane though :-D
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Indeed, cutting some carbs out is fine but people who cut them out all together it just isn't feasable
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if u fat u just need to move more
Its just not being "fat", just wanting to get in shape:) Im not just fine with my body, got it?
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if u skinny u just need to arm wrestle more
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tOSSPOt is in this bizzz
I dropped 2KG somehow recently... 64KG now!
You took a shit, son.
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Did you drop 18KG in one year?
In around 3,5 months
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ah oke, thats pretty good then I guess :)
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u know that u can get hypertension and ur veins can be smaller cause eat too much meat...
i lost 15kg after my education when i started to work for real.
Mmh yea. Well personally I wont leave out every carb:) I want to eat atleast 1 bread for a breakfast. How you lost it?
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cause i did hard working.... after my education i came into the shipping department of the company where i did my education, there i had to packing packets with steel. 6month everday mo - fr 150-200 packets around of 2tons steel each day i had in my hands. i worked 8 - 9 hours each day.
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Alright, sound pretty much like mine job at the moment.
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Big mistake. Like i explain to so many people wanting to lose weight if you focus on the Atkins (Which is just high protein, low carbs which changes the diets name once every 10 years to keep it "new") you will never keep the weight off since when you introduce carbs back into your diet you will baloon. Just man up and diet properly.
What kind of diet you could prefer to me then?
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BURN OFF MORE CARBS THAT YOU TAKE IN DICK

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Would be too much for me to go into so just burn off more calories than you put on. Have a nice lot of protein in your diet and try to cut some carbs off you don't need
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Breakfast: Loads of good carbs (whole grain stuff, oatmeal, fruits)
Lunch: Some healthy mixed meals
Dinner: No carbs

No snacks or sugary drinks and you'll have a sustainable weight loss. Depending on your general activity and the fun times on weekends, you'll lose around 1 kg per week (more or less).

I'm doing this since 2,5 years now with some breaks during summer time (bbq, beer, partying etc.) and lost around 73 kgs.

Since a few months I'm excercising (almost!) daily (cardio/weight split) and didn't have too many problems with motivation. I love playing football and jogging, just the weight lifting can be boring sometimes.

For general motivation I just have a few pictures in my closet showing how I looked back then and that's enough to keep me motivated. I do have the usual junk days once in a while though with drinking and other bad stuff. But generally it makes me wanna throw up, when I think about the ingredients of some 'food'. I'm avoiding any pre made meals/food 99% of the time and I feel great!

After all this diet is basically a combination of low carb (just for dinner though) and changing your eating habbits drastically (and I'm 100% sure that I won't fall back into my old pattern).

And still it's about your calorie in-out-ratio. But by changing your diet and especially thinking about the stuff you put into your body, you probably won't have too much most of the times.
Thanks urtier. Pretty nice to read that. I got the most usuall problem out there, I love to eat some snacks like icecream on these hot temperature days here. I wont keep myself in a pain 7 days per a week without them, Im thinking that is it good idea to have 1 cheat day per a week? Does it ruin everything I've done on past 6 days?
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Depends how you see the cheat day...

If you allow yourself an icecream on that day, np.
If you use that day to stuff your face with anything you find (junkfood, icecream, beers,...), good luck.
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This cheat day (or even a refeed day, if you're on a higher calorie deficit during the week) is a really good thing to do I think. It can even help to boost your metabolism again.

If you're not heavily overweight you could even go for 2 cheat days. But in the end you should have knowledge about the food you eat and what it might do to your body. Icecream, candy or other sugary stuff doesn't kill you, not at all.

It's the general eating habits over months and years that make people fat. The dose makes the poison :-P

Also if you're avoiding this sugary junk, you'll be surprised how sweet normal stuff (like apples, bananas etc) becomes. Your taste buds will adjust and you might not even like your regular candy bar or icecream anymore just because it's WAY too sweet. Same applies to fast food and other pre made stuff.
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Mmh, got to get started again with this. Ty.
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Quote2 cheat days


go on...
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Yep, that's the problem with those cheat days. Takes a lot of discipline :-o
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This might sound like a stupid question but how much did you weight by just eating healthier?
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Ehh, I don't really get your question :-D

I was around 176 kgs when I changed my eating habits from one day to the other, if that was the question. :-O
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I mean how much weight did you just by just eating better :D and not exercice :P Since im trying to lose weight but due to an injury i cant really do anything but i feel like i hit a "limit" by just eating less so i was just curious :D
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Around 45 kgs without any sports. Then I started playing some football here and then and a few basic workouts with dumbbells, nothing too serious.

The sport isn't helping too much, atleast it's totally overrated. I would say 90% of your weight (loss) is determined on your plate!

Probably I would have lost around the same amount without any sports, but I'm in a much better shape in general. It's not all about the weight and the numbers but about how you feel and your general body condition.
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Just healthy food and a good exercise plan will do you more benefit in the long run than some sillyass diet. If you want to gain or lose weight it’s all about to teaching your body so it learns a new weight it’s meant to be at. The reason why fat people put on the weight they just lost really quickly is because there body isn’t used to being at that lower weight.
Watch what you eat. Common sense, do you really fucking need help to that?

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Nope, I don't need help on that exactly, just need some nice ideas about with the food scales that are good to eat.
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Watch what you eat


and eat lots of it :D
Lost around 8-10 kg by just drinking water during the weekdays ^^
I have this method that works very well:

I simply don't eat till I'm full.


I eat till I hate myself.
Lift weights, start running, 5 meals a day starting with high carbs for energy during the day ending with high proteìn for recovery while sleeping.

The feeling you get after a good rest while lifting weights the other day and the guy in the.mirror changing constantly will keep you motivated.
Just eat meat, cant get bored to that when u know how to make it

-36 kg in 6 months here, NP

now living like a king and gaining mass(fat) like a champion np

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dont do a diet, do a lifestyle change. and rescearch carefully what is healthy and what is not
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