Some time ago there was a thread about Atkins diet and exercise. I am wondering if anyone has some good advice about using this diet when you are an athlete. I work out every day, whether it's 4,000 yards in the pool, or 3-4 miles on the treadmill, or dryland training (weights). I went on Atkins a week ago to lose 10 pounds, so far I've lost 4 and feel terrific. Last Saturday I had a 5000-yard workout that was the best in ages. So much energy!
I'm just wondering if it's because I've added much-needed protein to my diet (I'm a carb junkie). A fellow athlete poo-poo's the Atkins plan and says it's a bunch of hogwash, that athletes HAVE to have some carbs and they won't kill you.
Anyone?
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Shore up the walls and call a press conference, Aquageek and I agree completely on something! His advice to keep an open mind, despite the "conventional wisdom" about a given diet plan, but check with your doctor to stay safe, is right on the money.
A lot of the diet advice out there is directed at the mythical common person (that is if it is directed at anything other that simply selling a lot of overpriced junk). However, an individual's body may not react to a regimen in anything like the "typical" fashion. As the Bard might put it, "there are more things in heaven and earth that your philosophy." I normally have a strong BS gag reflex for anything that sounds like a pseudo-scientific fad diet, but I have seen people use Atkins very effectively, at least in the short and medium term, so I can't write it off as a make money fad. Having said that, because you don't know whether your body will react unusually in a good or a bad way, monitoring by your doctor (assuming you have access to one for something like this) is a smart way to stay safe.
Has anyone used the diet by blood-type approach? How did it work for you? My wife bought the book. I glanced at it, but I did not see really convincing scientific proof that blood type has the impact that the author claims.
Matt
Shore up the walls and call a press conference, Aquageek and I agree completely on something! His advice to keep an open mind, despite the "conventional wisdom" about a given diet plan, but check with your doctor to stay safe, is right on the money.
A lot of the diet advice out there is directed at the mythical common person (that is if it is directed at anything other that simply selling a lot of overpriced junk). However, an individual's body may not react to a regimen in anything like the "typical" fashion. As the Bard might put it, "there are more things in heaven and earth that your philosophy." I normally have a strong BS gag reflex for anything that sounds like a pseudo-scientific fad diet, but I have seen people use Atkins very effectively, at least in the short and medium term, so I can't write it off as a make money fad. Having said that, because you don't know whether your body will react unusually in a good or a bad way, monitoring by your doctor (assuming you have access to one for something like this) is a smart way to stay safe.
Has anyone used the diet by blood-type approach? How did it work for you? My wife bought the book. I glanced at it, but I did not see really convincing scientific proof that blood type has the impact that the author claims.
Matt
