Diet

[dirtyboy]

Are there any expert opinions on here about low carbohydrate diets like the Atkins diet?

 

Dami ko nang nakita na pumayat talaga sa diet na 'to. Pero ala talagang kanin or any kind of starches and sugars.

 

Any harmful side effects?

[argee0503]

It actually really works. I've tried it myself and boy did it work wonders. However, most of the people who do Atkins daw don't do it right. The no carbs or starches diet is only the first part of the Atkins diet. This is just a phase where you make your body increase your metabolic rate by leaps and bounds. However, after the second week, you already begin to reintroduce carbs and starches into your body as this is necessary to fuel your body. Staying too long in the no carbs diet may cause liver problems because it has to deal with the wastes that come from breaking down your body's fat and sadly protein reserves.

 

There's alot of literature available on the web to do the Atkins diet right. Do your fair share of research before you begin experimenting with your diet.

 

On a side note, a better way to lose weight for good is by using a 3 prong approach;

 

balanced diet (eating 4 - 6 small protein rich meals)

cardio exercise (a raised metabolic rate does wonders in your weight loss program)

resistance training (building muscles transforms your body into a calorie burning machine)

 

If you want to read more, I have similar posts in the "What supplements do you take" forum.

[swallow]

Are there any expert opinions on here about low carbohydrate diets like the Atkins diet?

 

Dami ko nang nakita na pumayat talaga sa diet na 'to.  Pero ala talagang kanin or any kind of starches and sugars.

 

Any harmful side effects?

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the best low carb diet ive tried is the south beach diet....

ive lost about 33 lbs..lupet right?

 

the first two weeks, i lost a hefty 16lbs..and the rest i lost in a heartbeat..

unlike other , no need for a crash diet, as long as you follow the 1st 2-wk scheme..the rest of the weeks will be easier to sustain. the 1st two weeks intends to lessen your craving for sugar and carb..usually these are the weeks wherein you will loose a lot..some tend to be cranky and ive personally experienced high blood..but darn, i lost all those big bellies and those cellulites...so what the heck,right? ..worked for most of my cousins too..give it a try..(though you may want to ask your doctor first, just to be sure )

[Olympus]

Its harmful to your kidneys. Side effects, you'll easily gain back your lost weight since losing weight starts with caloric reduction, not macronutrient reduction

[noyers]

Ive tried Southbeach before.. This diet will really work wonders pro for me it was really hard.. You really have to be disciplined and AVOID all the foods taht are not allowed for the diet to work best on you.. Yun ung di ko kinaya, I felt so deprived Downside of this diet is that you always feel tired because of the absence of carbs in your system..

 

Ako ngyn, I just try to avoid carbs as much as I can plus work out.... Pero you should try South Beach, if you just have the will power this is one great diet! Good Luck!

[tekya_me]

I tried Atkins Diet too... i lost 10lbs for the first 2 weeks in the phase I. But before that i was really eager to lose weight na i even tried slimming tea and took it for almost 2 mos. Maganda nito pag nasa bahay ka lang para ala dyahe pag need mo restroom. I bought a lot of stuff to measure and track my weight and body. I have bathroom scale, tape measure, and the one that you put in ur tummy.

 

After the slimming tea of 2 mos i was almost there already, then to compliment it i also did Atkins diet for 3 or 4 weeks, stopped Atkins, then continued w/ slimming tea for another months....and wow i was able to use my old clothes and pants after 4 mos. I took the tea twice a day. One in the morning and another at night before going to bed.

 

I suggest take the bioslim. It works! Until now i'm still using it..for maintenance. If you feel like you need to lose weight, take it. I was 135lbs( weight), 5'7" (height) before getting pregnant, after giving birth i gained too much i was like 170lbs. After two weeks of giving birth to my first baby, i really planned on what to do na to lose weight right away. My friends would say ang dali ko daw pumayat. Well, takes a lot of courage and discipline to do it. I'm telling yeah its hard but u've got to have the will!

 

At that time i don't wanna buy new clothes coz ibig sabihin non un na ung susundan kong shape. I hate it so much ...i couldn't wear my pants, my blouses..so there i decided to really slim down. After the diet I'm back to 137lbs now. Continues diet pa rin coz there's a tendency na mag gain ka ulit. everytime this happens to me... i take in slimming tea and of course do't eat too much carbs.

[Google]

sa akin, in long term, harmful yan. you can only do that thing (like carbo deficiency) for short term lang. and short term means, something like between two to three weeks lang. after that, you have to balance your diet again using the 60-30-10 diet ratio, wherein 60% are carbs, 30% protein and 10% fat.

 

why?

 

a. long term carbo deficiency can cause blood sugar to drop drastically.

b. it puts a load on the kidneys to process additional proteins and lack of fiber/sugar;

c. if you are active, where will you get your energy source?

 

imho lang....

[jomi_schwartz]

i agree with south beach. some of my friends tried it and has great results. for me ive tired the no carbs diet it worked but only foe a week or two. because prolonging the no carb intake can damage the kidneys. i suggest everyone to have cardio exercises. keeps the weight down and helps the heart to be in great shape. try nyo din. okay :cool: :mtc:

[jomi_schwartz]

ako i would rather die young na natikman ko yung mga msasarap. bsides marami namamatay ng maaga ng ndi man lamang nakaktikim ng masasarap. dba? :cool:

[archon]

Carbohydrates have had a bad rap in the battle against the bulge, although it wasn't always the case. The reason behind this recent development is that it was found that carbohydrates have a pronounced effect on our blood sugar levels. Most popular diets like Atkins and South Beach stress the importance of moderating our consumption of carbs, placing emphasis on low-glycemic foods. A few interesting things about carbs:

 

- Sugar makes us retain water, which is why you notice a dramatic weight loss in a matter of days, especially once you stop drinking softdrinks or eating sugary foods.

 

- Sugar-rich foods give you an energy boost, but it does not last for very long. This is because your body has a control mechanism that eliminates excess sugar in the bloodstream, which is insulin. Sugar can be stored in the muscles and in the liver. The rest is converted into fat. Consuming excess sugar forces the body to dump them into your fat cells.

 

- A certain amount of sugar is required to burn fat properly. When levels aren't adequate, you experience ketosis. (By-products of incompletely burned fat are introduced into the bloodstream.)

 

- An abnormally high protein-to-sugar ratio will cause you to experience a rapid heartbeat, heat spells, profuse sweating, aggressive behavior, and a greater likelihood of losing your temper.

 

Carbs are essential for your health, it's just the kind and amount of carb you should focus on in order to yield the best results in losing and maintaining your desired weight. For as long as abstinence from carbs is brief, the cleansing period advocated by some popular diets shouldn't be detrimental to your health. While this is helpful in eliminating sugar cravings, it is essential to reintroduce healthy carbs afterwards.

[boy popoy]

the keyword here is MODERATION. di mo naman kelangan ipagbawal yung masasarap e. just enjoy enough of it but not to the extent na ikakamatay mo.

[new2dabeat]

It does more harm than good to pass along incomplete/flawed or patently untrue "information." Not to mention irresponsible...

 

1) BBQs - anything cooked over a fire, and thus subject to carbon charring, develops carcinogen compounds. As boy_popoy notes, Moderation is the key (to any kind of activity). Note that, and this is never taken into account by doomsayers, the amounts required to produce cancer in a human being are _orders of magnitude_ in the range of ludicrousness. In other words, you'd have to consume *daily* amounts that would k*ll you from other things (as in, waaaaay too much volume to begin with) long before you ever develop cancer from it. Too, it should be mentioned that predisposition to cancers are more genetic than environmental.

 

2) Shrimp/Prawns and Vitamin C - Patent Falsehood! Come on folks, all you have to do is try to even find (ONE!) report of such a fatality. Heck, I take Vitamin C supplements daily (this is over and above any other daily source of Vitamin C - such as juices, fruit, veggies, etc), and am a BIG consumer of such shellfish - I'm still typing ain't I? And who hasn't ever squeezed some lemon (or other citrus) onto shrimps and/or prawns?

 

3) Pork - more hysteria. Yes, pork has the capacity for evil as noted - but no more so than chicken. Note that more food-related deaths are attributed to chicken and beef than to pork - ever! Besides, the PI being such a pork-loving country, you would think that more people would be reported dead due to pork meat if this were true.

 

4) Shampoo & SLS - yup, you guessed it, more patent falsehood. Sodium Laurel Sulfate (SLS) is an ingredient in a LOT of products. Toothpaste for one. It's used to promote the formation of foam. Yes it is an irritant - but only in MASSIVE doses (see item 1), and only if kept in contact for extended amounts of time. Irritant != Carcinogen. The fact that it is "used to scrub garage floors" is a statement that does not even matter - of course it's used for that! Didn't we just say that SLS is an ingredient used to promote the formation of foam? Hello! It makes sense that ANY cleaning product that produces foam must contain some amount of SLS. The SLS itself is NOT the cleaning agent. People should learn to parse information better. Lastly, again, simply try to find any medical documentation showing fatalities due to shampoo-caused cancer.

 

5) Noodles & wax - jeez, who comes up with these things? On the simplest reading (again, understand what you're reading), the person who had been eating such had/has cancer, doctor found wax, therefore wax caused cancer? Errrm, hello? Excuse me? Run that by me again? Even if this were true (the whole "too much wax in foods" - note that a LOT of foods, notably candies, contain some form of wax - all you need to do is read the ingredients) there is nothing special about wax that the body would retain it as a lining in your stomach. Anything swallowed and NOT metabolized/digested by the stomach is passed on with your excrement. Not to invoke a nasty mental picture, but all you need to do is recall those times when you passed "corny" sh*t after eating a lot of corn. Duh!

 

The moral of the story? Read and UNDERSTAND what you're reading. And THEN confirm it by actually doing your own further research. After all, why would you believe something someone once told someone who knew this other guy who worked with this girl who takes the same bus who...

[SilentSmirk]

tried it and it worked. but i stopped since i started resistance training and needed the carbs for fast fuel.

 

in any case, the atkins work since reducing ur carbs drastically reduces ur calorie intake since majority of our calories per day come from carbs.

 

its also not to be used for a long period of time. burst burst lang.

 

when i stopped, i still lost weight....

 

sa huli....in any diet...they all boil to the same formula...

 

INPUT < OUTPUT = WEIGHT LOSS

 

simple as that

[wharheit]

i guess it's all a marketing gimmick of companies or a global pranster monk.

[Ryuji23]

for me ang naging effective para mabawasan ung weight and to maintain ur ideal weight is eat more veggie dan meat, pero hindi pwedeng walang meat for protein tas riggid exercise like basketball,soccer, or tennis... un tipong hihingalin ka talaga..ideal din ang swimming..para magkacurve talaga ung body mo.. :thumbsupsmiley: just dont be affraid na sumakit ang katawan nyo on your first few tries part talaga yan. ika nga e. " NO PAIN NO GAIN" :evil: