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Originally posted by liquidmoe
You have to be careful of that diet. Its all well and good while you are on it, but eventually if you decide to get off it you may gain back all of that weight. It happened to an uncle of mine in CA,
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That's like every other diet program out there....people fatten up because of their lifestyles (okay, there will be the occasional people who just have bad genetics but for the most part it's poor diet and lack of activity). If you go on a diet...any diet...lose the weight then return to your old habits....of course you're going to gain the weight back.
It's all about changing your lifestyle....programs like Atkins I like because the results are noticably faster but it takes a real commitment to stay on a healthier living regiment after the weight loss is gone.
The only reason why 'conservative' diet programs supposedly let you keep the weight off is they maintain a strict rule of order with you while you're on the diet...you get brainwashed into their forms of living, eating the foods conveniently produced by their factories and making you feel like crap if you don't follow their guidelines.
I personally am an Atkins fan because there's freedom of choice...sure during the induction stages it's a real pain but afterwards there's a lot less carb counting and just more being more concious of what goes in your mouth.