On and off Atkins diet

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If one were to go low carb for shorter periods of time than what the
Atkins diet prescribes... for instance have occassional low carb days,
could this still benefit the dieter in causing them to potentially lose
weight or does the dieter have to stick to the diet for a longer period
of time in order to get the body into a fat burning mode?

 

[TC]

[email protected] wrote:
> If one were to go low carb for shorter periods of time than what the
> Atkins diet prescribes... for instance have occassional low carb
days,
> could this still benefit the dieter in causing them to potentially
lose
> weight or does the dieter have to stick to the diet for a longer
period
> of time in order to get the body into a fat burning mode?

You must be a troll but I'll respond anyway.

Why don't you try it and report back to us and let us know what happens
when you only commit to a diet when it suits you as opposed to actually
committing to it as a way of eating. Find out for us if kinda going on
a diet in a purely half-assed way works.

TC

 

[Cubit]

If the mechanism for the diet is the reduction of appetite, I would think
that occasional low carb days would not have that effect.

If the mechanism is the metabolic advantage that Atkins suggested, then
occasional low carb days would not achieve ketosis, and thus probably no
weightloss.

On the other hand, a day without frankenfood might be a big step in the
right direction for health.


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> If one were to go low carb for shorter periods of time than what the
> Atkins diet prescribes... for instance have occassional low carb days,
> could this still benefit the dieter in causing them to potentially lose
> weight or does the dieter have to stick to the diet for a longer period
> of time in order to get the body into a fat burning mode?
>