I’m on a new diet

I’m doing the Dr Nowzaradan diet from the TLC tv show My 600 Pound Life. It’s a 1200 calorie low carb high protein diet. It’s gone well the past week. I lost 7 pounds so far. I know my weight loss will slow down now but I’m still planning to stick with it. Maybe it’ll help with my diabetes. Not sure but it’s worth a shot. Plus I’m very overweight so it’ll be good to lose.

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I lost 68 lbs. on the Atkins diet. The diet seemed to have a lot of science behind it but for reasons I don’t know it has fallen out of favor.

It was definitely a challenge sticking to it not the least of my was my family telling me it would harm me. Maybe they’re right, I don’t know. That was 10 years ago. But the best part about it was that I never went hungry. Eating lots of meat kept me full, thus less snacking in-between meals.

But yeah, that is the biggest selling point to me on any diet I’ve been on or any diet I will go on in the future is that I don’t want to go about my day with hunger pangs.

I went on another diet that was supposed to revolutionize dieting. It was also a high protien-low carb diet. I lost 60 lbs. on it, I never went hungry, and it was much more flexible than the Atkins diet though they were both similar. The doctor who invented it claimed it was the best, most effective diet around (don’t they all?). But I was on it for three years and I gained the weight back and nobody I ever told about it had ever heard of it and now the diet has slipped into obscurity-NOT world wide fame.

One thing I picked up from both diets is that a diet is for life. Millions of people can lose 5,10, 25 lbs. on a fad diet but those diets aren’t sustainable. You lose the 15 lbs. and most of those diets you gain it right back. Sometimes it’s just common sense: Are you going to be able to subsist on cabbage soup for 5 years? Are you going to be able to live your life eating only two potatoes and an avocado two times a day?
I won’t give up dieting but the odds of losing and keeping off the weight are against us. I just keep in mind that I lost significant weight before, so I have hope I can do it again.

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That’s awful low, are you sure it’s safe? And generally it’s best to tell your medical doctor before you start any diet especially since you have diabetes. You could really harm yourself if you’re not careful.

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Thanks @77nick77. I told my dr and she approved it. She just said to make sure I do still eat some carbs, so I explained the diet to her and she said ok.

My former in-laws did the Atkins diet and ate really high protein and high fat diets. My former mother in law died of a heart attack 10 years after starting the diet. My father in law ended up with kidney disease as a result. So it is important to keep fat and cholesterol in check.

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