I have been on the Adkins diet for 4 days, and I was wondering how long untill I notice significant weight loss.
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You should see some already.  Are you peeing on the strips? If the strips are the right color you're losing weight.\nHOWEVER--although you can lose lots of weight fairly quickly on Atkins, as soon as you stop doing it and eat some carbs you'll gain it all back. I've only known ONE person who kept her weight off-and that's because she rarely goes off the diet. When she does eat sugar or flour, she gains weight right away so she immediately goes back on it.\nMy husband went from 260 down to 200 in 6 months. He looked great.  In the same amount of time, he's gone back to up around 235 after going back to his regular diet.  He went on it after a friend of his lost 90 pounds and another lost 50.  Both of them are back to their original weights if not higher too.
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I'm also trying to lose weight and it's pretty hard for me I've been trying many diets and only one works. Its step by step break down and it only takes 2-4 weeks. The first week eat smaller portions. That way your stomach will get a little smaller. If anything is big as your fist it'll fill you up. Only eat up to 75% full and drink 6-8 glasses of water. Exercise and try to burn atleast 200-500 calories a day. Remember you need to burn off 3,500 calories to lose a pound of fat. I lost 1-5 pounds on the third day. Email me for more info
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Okay. Let me start this by giving my example. I lost around 20 pounds in 4-5 months. The good thing is i didnt gain anything.\nMy earlier life @220 pounds:\n-No breakfast or cup of coffee\n-Heavy lunch around 1800 calories with lots of fat.\n-After noon some choclates to avoid my work headaces.\n-Snacks and TV.\n-Dinner around 9 pm around 1800 cal ( Jack in box, burger, curly fries and a milk shake)\n\nI just made the below changes to get  to @200  for 4 months.\n-Breakfast an apple\n-lunch around 1000 calories ( subway sandwitch)\n-work out  evening( 30 mins wieghts, 30 min run + walk)\n-Dinner around 1200 calories.\n\nI came down to 200 and i eating pizzas and every other crap from last 3 months. I am not even exercising that often now.I just run twice a week for 30 mins.\nBelow are the tips \n-> Dont worry about losing weight. Worry about losing fat. It takes a long time to build/ lose fat in body. It takes a short time to build/lose weight.\n-> If you want to lose weight, simple strategy is eat around 300 cals less of what you regulary eat and run on thread mill ( 5/6 miles/hr) for 30-45 mins.\n-> If you want to lose fat, then its more bloody complex story. You eat 300 cals less. Also, make sure, you dont eat much fatty foods, but make sure you eat a little protein. And your exercise should contain more of walking ( 4/4.5 miles/hr) rather than running. You need to lift some weights. Do some streches.\n-> Also, good thumb of rule is if you are going to lose more than 1-2 pounds a week, it means you are not losing fat, you are losing the bone. Not good in long term ( 3/4 months after wards).\n-> Typically, what ever you do to acheive increasing your metabolism helps u in long term.\n\nSolution for you:\nNov 15- Feb 15. - 12 weeks. \nKeep a goal of reducing 24 pounds. That itself is a really good goal.  You wont feel like reducing more once you start seeing these permanent results.\n\nWell if you still like to go with ur plan. Here is something you can try.\n-Need to reduce 5 pounds per week. That means 1 pound per a working day.\n-1 pound is 3500 cal. approx. That means your diet + exercise should = Earilier eating + exercise - 3500 . \n\nThanks.
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It depends on your food intake and exercise level.  It's best to lose 1-2 lbs/week at most; any more and you'll be losing muscle and likely put the weight back on.  So, if you adjust your caloric intake and output to lose 1 lb/week, it would take 20 weeks or about 5 months; if you lose 2 lb/week it would take 10 weeks or 2 1/2 months.  Perhaps it'd be easiest to go for 1/2 lb/week, in which case it would take 40 weeks, about 10 months, but you'd only have to make minor changes in your diet and exercise.
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Hmm i dunno about a dietician but i went to a nutritionist who prescribed me with 4 different pills. I only need to lose about 20 lbs and she said in 2 weeks when i go back she wants to see me lose 8 lbs...with a diet she gave me and working out about 3 times a week, so thats all the info i got from a nutritionist.
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I say enjoy it while it lasts, but either weight gain or weight loss is truly all math.  If you intake more calories than you expend, you will gain weight.  If you expend more calories than you intake, you will lose weight.  If the two are relatively equal (since the chance of them being perfectly equal is very remote), you will maintain your weight.\n\nThe problem is that caloric expenditure is nearly impossible, if not impossible, to define.  Caloric intake, however, is not.\n\nTherefore, the best thing to do is the exact same thing that heavier people who are trying to lose weight should be doing:  write everything you eat, including the caloric value, down.\n\nWeight changes are more about what you do over time than immediately, so my suggestion is that if you eat about 3,000 calories per day for a week and don't gain any weight, try 3,500 each day the next week and so on.\n\nAs for what to eat, I would still suggest relatively low fat (with fat calories being 10%-20% of total caloric intake), staying away from sugar, and eating whole foods (whole wheat, etc), lean proteins, vegetables, and fruits.  Remember to drink at least 64 ounces of water per day!
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It loks like you already have a ton of great advice and I may just be reiterating what people have said already, but I know firsthand what it is like to be very overweight and to lose a lot of it. I lost 75 pounds over the course of a  year, which doesn't sound like that much but one of the most important things you can rememeber is that the slower you lose the weight, the less likely you will gain it back. \n\nHere is my advice to you:\n\n1. Do not EVER join one of those fad diets, whether it is the Atkins diet, Weight Watchers, whatever it may be. After losing a certain amount of weight I had hit a plateau, so I joined a diet program called HMR that restricted almost everything I ate. This is such a bad thing to do for so many reasons, the main one being that once the restriction was loosened, I couldn't stop eating. Bad bad bad! \n\n2. Going further on the one before, don't ever deny yourself something you are craving (if it is a serious craving lasting more than a day or two.) If you crave it, it means your body may actually need it. This doesn't mean that whenever you pass McDonald's and smell the burgers you should treat yourself. Remember, serious cravings! \n\n3. It is all about changing your routine. Don't consider yourself to be on a diet. Consider it to be a lifestyle change. That way, you can never really be off the "diet" and back to eating junk all day long. \n\n4. The food pyramid isn't just there to be pretty. It is actually useful! After you eat your 3-5 servings of fruits and vegetables, you don't have a whole lot of room for the junk. And I'm sure its no surprise to you that veggies and fruits help you stay regular, which means your body isn't absorbing calories from your waste. I know, that's gross but its true. \n\n5. Water! Lots and lots of WATER! This should be your main beverage of the day. Drink a glass before meals, with your afternoon snack, whenever you are thirsty. Diet soda, while it doesn't have calories, does not flush out your system like water does, and I believe, though I could be wrong because I don't have a can in front of me, there is a lot of sodium in diet sodas which will dehydrate you more. 100% juices like orange juice and apple juice aren't bad for you, but sometimes they are empty calories and you'd be better off eating an apple or an orange.\n\n6. Most fruits and vegetables are good for you. Don't be thrown by the fact that corn and bananas have more calories than other fruits and vegetables. No one ever became fat by eating too much corn. FYI eggplant doesn't have much nutritional value. Blueberries are VERY good for you. And don't eat muffins. They're a lot worse for you than people make them out to seem.\n\n7. Stay active. Find an activity you love to do, even if it doesn't seem like something that burns calories. Gardening, for example, is a great way to be active and you will spend less time eating. Gym memberships are great, but it is important that you stay on your schedule. Even if you feel too tired to go, make yourself. If you get into the habit of not going when you don't feel like it, eventually you will never go at all. Like a clean house? Perfect, because housekeeping is another great way to keep your body moving. Vacuum every room a few times a week not only to get rid of dirt, but to get some exercise. \n\n8. One of my main problems was eating in front of the television. I didn't feel comfortable watching my favorite program unless I was eating a snack as well. The first thing I did was make that snack healthier. Instead of potato chips or ice cream, I ate popcorn. Eventually I was able to ween myself off of that habit. If that doesn't work for you, someone suggested to me that you could eat half of your dinner at dinner time, and then eat the rest later that night. I don't know how well that works, but the option is there if you want to use it.\n\n9. Reward you
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I wouldn't be concerned yet unless you feel bad/weak.\nThe Atkins Diet definitely works.\nBut it's good that you know it's bad for you. When you don't eat Carbs (your body's first used energy source) your body tells itself that you are starving, so it switches to burning protein and fats (including your body's fat stores which is why the diet works so well.) Your body does need carbs again eventually though. If you do the Atkins Diet more than once in your life or for more than about 12 weeks, you can cause slight but permanent brain damage.\n\nAnd you can definitely survive on one meal a day, but it slows your metabolism (another form of your bod's starvation compensation) so you aren't burning as many of the calories you are eating. This is ok for now but it may be difficult to speed your metabolism back up later, which is a big reason people bounce back to their old weight after dieting.
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I tried it when I was about 12 years old. I lost around 20 lbs in about 6 weeks. I lose weight faster as an adult though so you could lose more. You have to stick exactly to it though. You will also be very hungry the first few days. Good Luck!
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You could try one of the 11 day or 14 day detoxes which focus on burning fat and detoxing the toxins that are stored in your fat. (Which potentially make losing weight too fast usually dangerous.) They generally focus on a lot of water, cranberry, organic where possible, sufficient protein, beneficial herbs and seasonings, eliminating typical allergens such as wheat/gluten and dairy, utilizing good bacterias, flaxseed or fish oils, lots of fiber, fruits/veggies, and of course, a mild exercise program. After the 11 or 14 days you can merge into the next phase, which offers more calories and avoids famine and metabolism problems.\n\nI typically lose about 6-9 pounds the first week to ten days when I go back on the wagon, pretty much in "false fat" or water weight. It ends up averaging for me, about 10 pounds per month.\n\nThis is also takes into consideration that you NEED to lose weight. At 13 and 119 pounds, I wouldn't think that would be a problem. And of course, the less you need to lose, the longer it takes. But still, you could consider working on the HEALTHY aspect... eating better for your monthly cycles, your bones, better hormones and brain power, and gettin enough sleep with more energy. Staying active itself might be all you need with your metabolism, but as far as I know, the detox was the fastest thing I've ever done - about 40 pounds in 4 months.\n\nThe question is hon, who said you needed to lose weight in the first place? Did a doctor? Don't put your health behind some superficial need to be thin, etc. Keep in mind that YOU are beautiful because YOU are YOU, not because you fit a size 0. \n\nIf you truly feel the need to lose some weight, please do it the healthy way, with plenty of healthy fats and good carbs from veggies and fruit, and moderate exercise. Please please don't be tempted to try smoking or potentially harmful 'diet drugs.' If you feel the need to get started on the Battle of The Bulge this early in your life, you will probably be fighting it for decades to come, the long run - and these quick fixes will not help you keep it off in the long run; only a healthy plan and lifestyle that you enjoy will work.\n\nHope your taking a multivitamin/calcium/iron too, since between now and the next decade you will form the bones that you will have for the rest of your life, and it's probably never too soon to start preventing osteoperosis. The bottom line is, whatever you do, make it a matter of wanting to feel better and be healthier... and whatever issues with your size and appearance will naturally follow. Don't go on crash diets and only follow recommendations for your young age.\n\nAnd always love yourself the way you are!
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weight lose is a case to case situation. do not mess with the pills, please dont.  they will give you more down the road problems. loosing wieght is not easy, i agree. but here are a few ideas that if you stick with it, you will see results. i promise and if you dont, sue me.  here is what you do. control what and when you eat. eat three meals a day, simply right, dont snack when your hungry. eat breakfast, lunch and dinner. stay consistant with the times.  eat well rounded meals. touch in one day all of the food groups. light breakfast, heardy lunch and a simple dinner.  also excercise, something as simple as a walk around the park or through the neighborhood, will do just fine. and drink plenty of water. especially with you feel the urge to snack. if you do this, i promise you will see the wieght fall off. and... give it some time, dont expect results overnight.  let me know how it goes....
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It depends on how much you currently weigh.  Weight Watchers stresses losing 1-2 lb a week, so 10-20 weeks to lose 20 lb.\n\nIf you'd like something faster, check Kimkins: http://tinyurl.com/ybyvhb
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I lost 40 pounds over the course of about 8 or 9 months.  It definately is a process!!  I just ate healthy and exercised about an hour 5 days a week....and I've kept it off for almost 2 years!
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ive done it b4... the most healthy fasting is fasting for 1 to 2 days... and yes u do lose weight but make sure after ur done fasting u dont pig out cause that just makes it go all back on
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depends on your diet, if you are eating healthily you will see probably around 5 pounds off.
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3 days is the amount it takes to maintain your weight...in able to lose weight you need to up your days...try 4-5 days...and for an hour to hour and a half...if your really determined you should always get some physical activity 7 days a week...try at least and hour Mon-Fri and at least 30 min Sat and Sunday...Good luck and dont give up..it takes a lot of hard work and time to change your body.
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Cut down on your portions and eat more small meals throughout the day.  Exercise at least 20 minutes a day 3 times a week.  Other than that you just need to give it time.  It can take a couple of weeks before you start to notice a weight loss.  Keep in mind - that from the exercise you're toning up and developing muscle.  Muscle weighs more than fat but is compact.  So you may actually gain weight but trim down if that makes any sense.  Don't give up - lots of luck!!!