Day 3 of the Atkins Diet
265.2: -2.0 pounds
Steve called me last night. Hi Steve! He was calling to make sure I was exercising too. We have a very nice treadmill that I bought last year but have used very little so far. Cost over a grand. Well, I hadn't used it yet, so I promised that I would - and that I'd start blogging again.
As expected, I shed some weight yesterday. It might've been scale fluctuation, who knows, but it's expected.
I had egg salad and sausage for breakfast, a hard boiled egg and some chicken breast and swiss cheese for lunch... for dinner I had two chicken sausages (with garlic, artichoke, and mozzarella cheese inside!), and then Ripley and I went out for a walk. Walked around the neighborhood, a little over a mile. Gotta ease into these things. I was sweating though, so that's good.
I snacked on some more chicken breast this evening, but I treated myself to a tablespoon of honey mustard salad dressing to dip it in. 3 grams of carbs.
Oh, I was sort of bad on my way home from work, I wolfed down about 5 ounces of macedamia nuts. Probably 10-12 net carbs, but a ridiculous amount of fat (and calories).
We'll see what happens in the morning. I'm gonna go take some fish oil pills. See you tomorrow!
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When Dr. Atkins Diet Revolution was first published, the President of the American College of Nutrition said, "Of all the bizarre diets that have been proposed in the last 50 years, this is the most dangerous to the public if followed for any length of time."[1]
When the chief health officer for the State of Maryland,[2] was asked "What's wrong with the Atkins Diet?" He replied "What's wrong with... taking an overdose of sleeping pills? You are placing your body in jeopardy." He continued "Although you can lose weight on these nutritionally unsound diets, you do so at the risk of your health and even your life."[3]
The Chair of Harvard's nutrition department went on record before a 1973 U.S. Senate Select Committee investigating fad diets: "The Atkins Diet is nonsense... Any book that recommends unlimited amounts of meat, butter, and eggs, as this one does, in my opinion is dangerous. The author who makes the suggestion is guilty of malpractice."[4]
The Chair of the American Medical Association's Council on Food and Nutrition testified before the Senate Subcommittee as to why the AMA felt they had to formally publish an official condemnation of the Atkins Diet: "A careful scientific appraisal was carried out by several council and staff members, aided by outside consultants. It became apparent that the [Atkins] diet as recommended poses a serious threat to health."[5]
The warnings from medical authorities continue to this day. "People need to wake up to the reality," former U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop writes, that the Atkins Diet is "unhealthy and can be dangerous."[6]
I've actually lost about 20 pounds, and had my bloodwork tested about a month after I posted this entry. My triglycerdides, which had been OVER 300, are now down to 125. Hard to believe you can achieve change like that while eating a high fat diet.