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I changed from Atkins after being on it for 6 weeks to a low calorie diet on Wednesday because I hadnt lost weight for a month. Although I never felt hungry, and I felt none of the rushes I used to get with eating carbs, I was eating too many calories with the protein and fats. The sell was that you could eat anything....assuming that you didnt over eat! and that you didnt have to count calries.....but for me...it seems... I do over eat and I do have to count the calories! So if I have to count calries I might as well be on a calorie controlled diet and each anything I want rather than enduring the restrictions on the Atkins diet.
However since introducting carbs back into my diet I have also introduced hunger, and the rushes that come with eating carbs....but.....I'm losing weight....3 lbs since Wednseday...a lot I know but I can introduce more calries to slow this down, which means I can eat more of what I like.
The only dilemma I have at the moment are my thoughts about the physiological arguments for and against either high fat and low carbs or more carbs and low fat and the fact that I really do think over the years of eating a crap diet I have developed the metabolic syndrome described as insulin resistance, a tendancy to increasing fasting blood sugars and a rising BP, in the atkins which is being further verified by how I feel since I re-introduced the carbs.
Since Wednesday I have had lots of hungry episodes during the day, I can feel a 'rush' each time I eat anything with carbs in, and I'm often light headed. This last symptom may be because I'm not eating enough, but I'm going slow on this theory because I have been desperate to start losing weight during this last four weeks on Atkins. I lost 12 lb in the first two weeks so stalling for so long was realing making me feel depressed.
Although I have all the symptoms of eating carbs I feel good about losing the weight.
Diet Calendar Entries for 29 May 2011:
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1198 kcal
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Fat: 34.90g | Prot: 63.46g | Carb: 163.55g.
Breakfast: bran flakes kellogs, Tea, orange. Lunch: iceburg lettuce, Red pepper, spinach, Cucumber, Celery, Tomato, egg. Dinner: Green beans, Baked potato, carrots, cod. Snacks/Other: milk, Apple, Peach slices, plain yoghurt. more...
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2997 kcal
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Activities & Exercise:
Reebok step - 40 minutes, Resting - 15 hours and 20 minutes, Sleeping - 8 hours. more...
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