Yes! Atkins! I loved him. About 27 years ago I read his book cover to cover and saw how you couldn’t just read the first few chapters, or even half the book and know exactly how to do it and why it worked. That’s because very key points critical to understanding what his diet really was about was in those last chapters. I lost all the ba…
Yes! Atkins! I loved him. About 27 years ago I read his book cover to cover and saw how you couldn’t just read the first few chapters, or even half the book and know exactly how to do it and why it worked. That’s because very key points critical to understanding what his diet really was about was in those last chapters. I lost all the baby weight I gained from my first child and that was the last time I was as healthy as I am today. It seemed nobody read the whole book. They wanted a quick fix with no effort. They’d get started with the first few chapters and last 2-3 weeks but didn’t understand how to properly go from there. So most people couldn’t stick to the diet and blamed him for it when really it’s because they never understood. But I got so much flak right along with Atkins, especially by friends who were dietitians. I think the first derangement system was the Atkins one. LOL I lost a best friend from college over it because she hated how I passionately explained his science to others and she learned in college (nutritionist) that it was the most dangerous diet to be spreading because fat was bad for us, and therefore I was highly inappropriate and irresponsible. Never mind I was the thinnest and healthiest among them. 🤷🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️
Also he was the first real threat to the food industry. They successfully infiltrated his products tho because now the Atkins products on the market are some of the worst you can get, with nasty ingredient lists a mile long full of all the bad things our bodies need to avoid. It became all about the money. I truly believed after his death they purposefully sabotaged the company from the inside to control its “competition” and risk. He would be so sad at how they adulterated his science.
Like you, I am so glad to see that what he was trying to do for us finally has been done. We are still fighting the industry today and they try to discredit the diet at every turn, but we have more doctors on board now and more options with our food. Plus, internet! Wasn’t as good back then. LOL The internet may for some seem to be the biggest threat for misinformation but really it’s the biggest threat for the dissemination of the truth, because no matter how much bad information is there it can never survive the truth.
Yes! Atkins! I loved him. About 27 years ago I read his book cover to cover and saw how you couldn’t just read the first few chapters, or even half the book and know exactly how to do it and why it worked. That’s because very key points critical to understanding what his diet really was about was in those last chapters. I lost all the baby weight I gained from my first child and that was the last time I was as healthy as I am today. It seemed nobody read the whole book. They wanted a quick fix with no effort. They’d get started with the first few chapters and last 2-3 weeks but didn’t understand how to properly go from there. So most people couldn’t stick to the diet and blamed him for it when really it’s because they never understood. But I got so much flak right along with Atkins, especially by friends who were dietitians. I think the first derangement system was the Atkins one. LOL I lost a best friend from college over it because she hated how I passionately explained his science to others and she learned in college (nutritionist) that it was the most dangerous diet to be spreading because fat was bad for us, and therefore I was highly inappropriate and irresponsible. Never mind I was the thinnest and healthiest among them. 🤷🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️
Also he was the first real threat to the food industry. They successfully infiltrated his products tho because now the Atkins products on the market are some of the worst you can get, with nasty ingredient lists a mile long full of all the bad things our bodies need to avoid. It became all about the money. I truly believed after his death they purposefully sabotaged the company from the inside to control its “competition” and risk. He would be so sad at how they adulterated his science.
Like you, I am so glad to see that what he was trying to do for us finally has been done. We are still fighting the industry today and they try to discredit the diet at every turn, but we have more doctors on board now and more options with our food. Plus, internet! Wasn’t as good back then. LOL The internet may for some seem to be the biggest threat for misinformation but really it’s the biggest threat for the dissemination of the truth, because no matter how much bad information is there it can never survive the truth.