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Has anyone here ever done Atkins or any other Low Carb diet?

If you have, please tell me your experiences with it. I am eating low fat, low calorie and hungry all the time and exercising and the scale will not budge. I gained 60 pounds with my pregnancy. Baby almost 11 months old now. I have lost 30 pounds which came off quickly after the birth but now the scale does not budge.
I am not breastfeeding. Also, when you get into ketosis with purple test strips which I read about in Dr. Atkins book does that mean you start burning fat and losing weight.

First off, you can't do Atkins on a low-fat diet. Big mistake. You need your fats.

Please please do not listen to the anti-Atkins crowd. They have been so misled by the medical establishment it has ceased to be funny.

There are indeed bad fats out there. They are called polyunsaturates, you know them by the names Mazola and Canola. Never use margerine, use real butter. Also trans-fats, which is what happens to most polyunsaturates when you fry with them. Even if they don't convert to trans-fat during frying, they certainly are oxidized and that is just as bad. So avoid KFC and Popeyes.

If you want to pan fry only use healthy saturated coconut oil. Use the refined one sold in most healthfood stores like vitamin shoppe. It has no odor and makes your pork chops and pan fried veggies very tasty indeed. Never heat to its smoking point, you oxidize it and make it unhealthy.

Use extra olive oil for salads not for cooking since you will oxidize the fat and make it unhealthy even without reaching its smoking point.

I lost 30 pounds on Atkins over ten years ago... I gained back about 15 after a year but realized I had made a big mistake. It is not a diet, it is a lifestyle change in eating.
After realizing that I maintain now, for the lat 7 years the 30 pound loss.

My blood is normal and my triglycerides are low once I learned to stay away from restaurant fried food and processed foods. I only fry my own with coconut oil. Eat fresh meat, green veggies, nut, and fruits in moderation, best choise berries: starwberries, blueberries etc. (if you are in induction fruits are not allowed for the first two weeks). Keep up the exercise.

If you have Dr. Atkins book you need to read it and follow it.

See link below for a great article about why Low-Fat diets are stupid and dangerous.

Good look and remember not to pay any mind to the anti-low carb crowd, they have been so fooled and they don't even know it.

How do you do The Atkins Diet?

I don't want any links unless they outline the diet for me. I don't have any money to buy the book or buy an online subscription to the Dr. Atkins website. So please help me. I am sick of all of this fat!!!! I only eat the right carbs, meat, and fruit. I have been doing the South Beach Diet and walking 3 times a week and I maybe lose 1/2 lb. a week. What am I doing wrong????
I've been eating healthy for a long time. I just had a baby---well, 9 months ago. But I was in the hospital with her for 5 months. I haven't had a burger in a year and I don't eat any sweets, junk food, or drink sodas. And my doctor says I don't have thyroid problems so what is going on here?

Zero Carbs for the first three or four days. You can eat any of the following. You aren't allowed to eat fruit.
1) All meat ( no breaded or processed meats)
2) eggs (hard boiled, fried)
3) use heavy cream, sugar sub., butter
4) drink at least 8 glasses water,
5) diet soda, coffee, tea unsweetened NO SUGAR
6) cheese most all have no crabs read labels
7) you can use hot sauce (read labels)
pork rinds are allowed (again read labels)
9) you can make a small green salad with crab free ingredients (oil & vinegar, crab free ceasar dressing).
After 3rd day you can add 5 grams crabs to your diet.
1) try adding it to your green salad
2) green vegetable (asparagus, beans, lettuce, brussels, cabbage, peas, broccoli).
Stay clear of white foods like potatoes
Each week you can add 5 grams of crabs.
Make sure you read labels on packages a lot of processed foods have crabs.
You're allowed to eat your fill of meats and eggs.
I made omelets and added cheese and ham after you've been on diet for a week you can add a little onion or a little catchup.
Hamburgers (without buns) with gobs of cheese on top.
Try grilling outdoors on BBQ grill.
There's a lot more in the book so you need to get ahold of the book and read it, It will inspire you each time you read it. I carried my book around everywhere I went. You can get the used book cheap. This is about all I can tell you. Get the book it has a lot more to tell you. Good Luck, it's hard to loose weight, especially when you get up in age.