swimming diets

Atkins diet is not the best diet to be on long term. Getting lots and lots of protein and not enough carbs over a proloned period of time (like a year or so) can damage your kidneys. Zone is a relatively balanced diet. Not bad to check out and learn some nutrition basics from it. Take your vitamins, watch your calorie intake. Also watch fats and refined sugars. Figure out how many calories you need per day, then split it into roughly 45-50% protein, around 40% complex carbs and around 15% fat. There is a fait amount of hidden fats in protein and complex carbs, so if you are not fanatic about fat free, if you concentrate on healthy protein and healthy carbs, you'll end up ingesting between 10% and 20% of fat. Avoid things that are soaked in grease. The above will account for about the 90% of the effectiveness of your diet. Balance and calories. When you eat what you eat, whaty you eat it with... will make some difference, but not more than 10% of the whole diet. If you were a body builder, and worried about losing the very last ounce of fat before the competition, then those kinds of details would make a difference. The thing with Diets, which includes Atkins diet too, many people when they get on just about any diet tens to lose some weight. With dieting, think of it like filling up the gas tank in your car. 10 galons will take you a certain distance, let's say. 18-25 MPG. Hard exercise would be like city driving. Being more sedentary would be like freeway driving. Car gas = calories. If you keep adding gas to your tank, without using it up, the tank (fat reserves, glycogen and other fuel sources in your body), will get bigger and bigger. If you don't eat enough protein, your body will not be able to make new muscle. If you eat too little carbs, especially when you are exercising hard, you won't have the optimum glycogen levels in your blood, to fuel the exercise. Some fat is necessary, because it does help with the digestion. It *is* possible to lose weight, even eating all fat, as long as you restrict the calories, but it is very unhealyhy, because, over a prolonged period of time will lead to imbalances in your body, and make you ill. Same goes with all carbs or all protein, or eliminating fat completely, or eliminating carbs or protein completely. About 10 years ago, I weighed over 220 pounds, then went on Nutri-system, and lost 80 pounds. Kept most of it off ever since. Calorie counting and balanced nutrition works the best for me over time. Instead of the tptal poundage, I measure my 'weight' by lean body mass, fat % and dress sizes. After I lost the 80+ lb, I was able to get down to about 14-16% body fat. I think I'm in hight 20%'s right now and on the way down.

Atkins diet is not the best diet to be on long term. Getting lots and lots of protein and not enough carbs over a proloned period of time (like a year or so) can damage your kidneys. Zone is a relatively balanced diet. Not bad to check out and learn some nutrition basics from it. Take your vitamins, watch your calorie intake. Also watch fats and refined sugars. Figure out how many calories you need per day, then split it into roughly 45-50% protein, around 40% complex carbs and around 15% fat. There is a fait amount of hidden fats in protein and complex carbs, so if you are not fanatic about fat free, if you concentrate on healthy protein and healthy carbs, you'll end up ingesting between 10% and 20% of fat. Avoid things that are soaked in grease. The above will account for about the 90% of the effectiveness of your diet. Balance and calories. When you eat what you eat, whaty you eat it with... will make some difference, but not more than 10% of the whole diet. If you were a body builder, and worried about losing the very last ounce of fat before the competition, then those kinds of details would make a difference. The thing with Diets, which includes Atkins diet too, many people when they get on just about any diet tens to lose some weight. With dieting, think of it like filling up the gas tank in your car. 10 galons will take you a certain distance, let's say. 18-25 MPG. Hard exercise would be like city driving. Being more sedentary would be like freeway driving. Car gas = calories. If you keep adding gas to your tank, without using it up, the tank (fat reserves, glycogen and other fuel sources in your body), will get bigger and bigger. If you don't eat enough protein, your body will not be able to make new muscle. If you eat too little carbs, especially when you are exercising hard, you won't have the optimum glycogen levels in your blood, to fuel the exercise. Some fat is necessary, because it does help with the digestion. It *is* possible to lose weight, even eating all fat, as long as you restrict the calories, but it is very unhealyhy, because, over a prolonged period of time will lead to imbalances in your body, and make you ill. Same goes with all carbs or all protein, or eliminating fat completely, or eliminating carbs or protein completely. About 10 years ago, I weighed over 220 pounds, then went on Nutri-system, and lost 80 pounds. Kept most of it off ever since. Calorie counting and balanced nutrition works the best for me over time. Instead of the tptal poundage, I measure my 'weight' by lean body mass, fat % and dress sizes. After I lost the 80+ lb, I was able to get down to about 14-16% body fat. I think I'm in hight 20%'s right now and on the way down.