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Authors: Andy Leeks
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was taking
the excitement and anticipation away from weigh-in day. So, having not weighed
myself for five days, I’m pleased to announce that even after chocolate and
pasta the night before, I still managed a 5lb loss.
Summary:
While I clearly struggled on the juice
diet, there is no getting away from the fact that it works. The diet is
designed to be a short term measure and is not a long term solution to weight
loss. If people look at it this way and are fully prepared (perhaps taking time
off work to do it) then I would actually recommend it. It’s the perfect diet to
go on leading up to a holiday as it has the dual benefit of helping you fit
into that bikini while flooding your body with all of the vitamins and minerals
you’ll be lacking when you start the slightly different kind of liquid diet the
following week. All of that said, although I lost weight, the diet didn’t
really work for me and I found it extremely stressful, both in terms of finding
the time to make the juices and in having to physically drink them.
Starting Weight: 15 stone 0 lbs
Finishing Weight: 14 stone 9 lbs
Weight loss: 5 lbs
% of body weight lost: 2.4 %
Faffiness: 10/10
Difficulty: 8/10
Would I do it again? No
Total weight lost: 19 lbs
Diet 5 - The Atkins diet
Sunday 9th November to Thursday 13th
November
Weight: 14 Stone 9 lbs
The Atkins diet was originally devised
by Dr Robert Atkins after he read a research paper, published in The Journal of
the American Medical Association in 1958. Atkins used the study in order to
lose weight himself, and was so impressed with the results that he decided to
popularise the method in a book titled Dr Atkins’ Diet Revolution . The
idea behind the Atkins diet is that you drastically reduce your intake of
carbohydrates (e.g. pasta, potato, bread and sweets) in an effort to switch the
body’s metabolism from metabolising glucose as energy to converting stored body
fat into energy. To put it simply, you trick your body into eating itself.
That’s right, in this diet I will be unleashing the cannibal in me. I hope I
taste good because I’m still able to taste that last juice I drank.
Louis explained that when the body
starts to burn fat it produces ketones, whereby the body enters a stage called
'ketosis' (using ketone bodies in the blood rather than the standard process of
glycolysis, where blood glucose provides the body’s energy).
He goes on to warn that this process has
a lengthy list of side effects including bad breath, tiredness, weakness,
dizziness, insomnia, nausea and constipation. The list worried me a little
because having suffered each of the side effects in the four previous diets, I
had yet to suffer them all at the same time. I have to say that tiredness AND
insomnia is a particularly unlucky double-whammy. And I’ve often found that
when I struggle to sleep a visit to the bathroom is the perfect antidote, but
with constipation on the list of side effects, what would be the point? I
suppose I could at least brush my teeth and sort out my bad breath while I was
in there.
It has been argued that over a prolonged
period of time, the Atkins diet may increase the risk of heart disease and
cause nutritional deficiencies. There is a study which suggests that the lack
of calcium may cause osteoporosis and the lack of antioxidants, found mainly in
fruit and veg, is linked with a whole host of diseases. I could argue that this
is proof once again that my idea of trying out different diets over a short
period is a good one, as it not only staves off boredom, it reduces the health
risks too. I’m not going to argue that point too strongly however, as I’m only
too aware that by changing my diet every few days, I’m giving each diet less
chance of success and I may well be doing more damage to my body than if I were
to stick to just one. My health screening at the end of this process might just
have to be the judge
the excitement and anticipation away from weigh-in day. So, having not weighed
myself for five days, I’m pleased to announce that even after chocolate and
pasta the night before, I still managed a 5lb loss.
Summary:
While I clearly struggled on the juice
diet, there is no getting away from the fact that it works. The diet is
designed to be a short term measure and is not a long term solution to weight
loss. If people look at it this way and are fully prepared (perhaps taking time
off work to do it) then I would actually recommend it. It’s the perfect diet to
go on leading up to a holiday as it has the dual benefit of helping you fit
into that bikini while flooding your body with all of the vitamins and minerals
you’ll be lacking when you start the slightly different kind of liquid diet the
following week. All of that said, although I lost weight, the diet didn’t
really work for me and I found it extremely stressful, both in terms of finding
the time to make the juices and in having to physically drink them.
Starting Weight: 15 stone 0 lbs
Finishing Weight: 14 stone 9 lbs
Weight loss: 5 lbs
% of body weight lost: 2.4 %
Faffiness: 10/10
Difficulty: 8/10
Would I do it again? No
Total weight lost: 19 lbs
Diet 5 - The Atkins diet
Sunday 9th November to Thursday 13th
November
Weight: 14 Stone 9 lbs
The Atkins diet was originally devised
by Dr Robert Atkins after he read a research paper, published in The Journal of
the American Medical Association in 1958. Atkins used the study in order to
lose weight himself, and was so impressed with the results that he decided to
popularise the method in a book titled Dr Atkins’ Diet Revolution . The
idea behind the Atkins diet is that you drastically reduce your intake of
carbohydrates (e.g. pasta, potato, bread and sweets) in an effort to switch the
body’s metabolism from metabolising glucose as energy to converting stored body
fat into energy. To put it simply, you trick your body into eating itself.
That’s right, in this diet I will be unleashing the cannibal in me. I hope I
taste good because I’m still able to taste that last juice I drank.
Louis explained that when the body
starts to burn fat it produces ketones, whereby the body enters a stage called
'ketosis' (using ketone bodies in the blood rather than the standard process of
glycolysis, where blood glucose provides the body’s energy).
He goes on to warn that this process has
a lengthy list of side effects including bad breath, tiredness, weakness,
dizziness, insomnia, nausea and constipation. The list worried me a little
because having suffered each of the side effects in the four previous diets, I
had yet to suffer them all at the same time. I have to say that tiredness AND
insomnia is a particularly unlucky double-whammy. And I’ve often found that
when I struggle to sleep a visit to the bathroom is the perfect antidote, but
with constipation on the list of side effects, what would be the point? I
suppose I could at least brush my teeth and sort out my bad breath while I was
in there.
It has been argued that over a prolonged
period of time, the Atkins diet may increase the risk of heart disease and
cause nutritional deficiencies. There is a study which suggests that the lack
of calcium may cause osteoporosis and the lack of antioxidants, found mainly in
fruit and veg, is linked with a whole host of diseases. I could argue that this
is proof once again that my idea of trying out different diets over a short
period is a good one, as it not only staves off boredom, it reduces the health
risks too. I’m not going to argue that point too strongly however, as I’m only
too aware that by changing my diet every few days, I’m giving each diet less
chance of success and I may well be doing more damage to my body than if I were
to stick to just one. My health screening at the end of this process might just
have to be the judge
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