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Atkins is a lifestyle, not a diet, exactly, so like any "diet", if you go back to eating the way you used to, then you will gain the weight back. But Atkins has a method to go back to eating some cerbohydrates without losing weight. If you stick to the maintenence diet then you will not gain your weight back, but you can eat things like potatoes and bread again, just not alot of it.
When you think about it, alot of low-calorie diets are also low in carbs. My mother was given a 1200 calorie a day diet by her doctor many years ago. A great majority of the things that she was allowes to eat were not only low in calories, but also low in carbohydrates. For example, for breakfast she would eat a boiled egg, a slice of cheese and a cup of milk, for lunch she would eat some tuna on lettuce and for dinner she would eat a broiled chicken breast and broccoli. Sounds alot like the Atkins diet except she was hungry alot because she was strictly limited on the amount of food she could eat, but on Atkins you aren't limited and you don't get so hungry.
I hear so many people crying for the fat fucks to stop being lazy and have some willpower. "Just stop eating, you fat fuckers!" But how many of them have habits that you just can't seem to quit? Overeating is alot like smoking, drinking or drugs. It can be VERY addictive and studies have even shown that some people can have withdrawal-like symptoms when dieting. It's not always as simple as willpower. For an overweight person, going on a diet like Atkins can be like a smoker using nicotine gum or the patch, or a drug addict taking methadone.
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