Mon, Aug-11-03, 21:25
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Posts: 4
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Plan: Atkins
Stats: 180/178.2/148.5
BF:
Progress: 6%
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Going to try Atkins, but don't like salad
My name is David and I'm overweight.
Since getting married a little over a year ago, I went from about 156lb to about 180lb. I was quite a bit overweight even then but since I started cooking for myself and my wife we both put on conciderable poundage.
A friend of my wife is on Atkins and highly recommended it to her and so she bought the new diet revolution and promptly gave it to me to read and give her the "gist" of it. I am about 1/2 way through and far enough in to get a start.
We intend on starting our diet on Sunday but I'm trying to work out a menu for the Induction phase. Unfortunatly it seems that Atkins specifies significant quanities of Salad during induction. I don't like salad. I like some veggies but not salad. Any suggestions for alternatives?
In addition, my wife has been given a lot of "oh no! Low-carb diets are dangerous" etc etc. So having to deal with that is a pain too.
Atkins really made sense to me, he's the first that I have read that has mentioned hyperinsulinemia which I suffer from and have a family history of. I'm told that I'm insulin resistant.
Any advice and encouragement would be appreciated, especially about the salad thing.
-David Beaumont
Last edited by TheScream : Mon, Aug-11-03 at 21:29.
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