atkins & fasting

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ambermoon

2:01 pm
14 Jun 14
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hi there
please bare with….never been on a forum.
been on atkins for nearly two years and have lost 3 stone but atkins diet driving me insane. friend has been doing the fasting diet and had similar results.
so since christmas 2013 i have been doing a combination of both hoping to transition to only doing the fasting diet but weight going up & down.
at the moment i am doing the the atkins diet and fasting every day untill 6pm but two days a week i am doing the 500 cals but also staying on the atkins diet.
weight going up and down so feel i can’t settle on one diet.
please help….any suggestions.
thank you

franfit

10:12 pm
14 Jun 14
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ambermoon, this sounds like a tough situation. What is your current BMI? How much more weight do you have to lose? What is it about the Atkins diet that drives you nuts? Are you doing New Atkins (book by Westman, Phinney, & Volek)?

ambermoon

10:37 pm
15 Jun 14
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Emoji thank you for your reply.

my bmi is normal, it’s just my personal preference to reach a certain weight.
i am doing the new atkins….online website. just getting fed up with restrictions and seeing friend lose just as much weight as me with no restrictions, want myself a bit of that! lol

all the best
ambermoon

Amy C.

10:40 pm
15 Jun 14
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I did Atkins until I couldn’t lose weight on it.

With this plan, I don’t eat bread or grains very often (not at all on fast days). I get my carbs with fruits and veggies.

Watching the calories is how to go.

franfit

12:43 pm
16 Jun 14
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ambermoon, I agree with Amy C. With Atkins, you usually don’t need to do conscious calorie restriction, it kind of happens naturally. Same with ADF (Alternate Day Fasting, like 5:2 but you fast every other day). With 5:2, it helps to make sure you’re not eating over your TDEE on non-fasting days. Keep a food diary for a week and add everything up, look for surprises. Then you probably won’t need to count all your calories every day, just watch portion sizes on non-fasting days. Or a lot of people like to use myfitnesspal. If calorie-counting in any form drives you nuts, try ADF, it’s hard to over-eat so much every other day that you cancel out the effects of the fasting days.

ambermoon

9:43 pm
16 Jun 14
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……thank you very much for replys, will give that go.
thanks again.
ambermoon