I had a lot, I mean a LOT posted, but then I tried to make the degree symble and my browser went to my startup page and when I clicked back the whole message was lost, so here it goes again:
To explain the Atkins diet again, here I go:
Basically the Atkins diet prevents you from storing more carbohydrates, which, as said above, turn into fat when not used up. When working out or exercising, it's best to follow a proper diet. For people that are not overweight(or I should say, aren't fat, and please forgive my vulgarity), it's best to eat carbohydrates BEFORE exercising or working out. By doing this, your body is turning the carbohydrates into energy cells that the body can use. Since you ate carbs before exercising, they are then turned into ready-made energy sources. The body uses those sources when doing something where it must exhert mechanical force. AFTER doing whatever, exercising, working out, or whatnot, it's best to eat protein. As you exercise your muscles, they either stretch or tear. Since muscles are made out of proteins, your body then uses the protiens you've eaten after exercising to patch the tears in the muscles which were formed when exercising.
The purpose of the Atkins diet is to use the energy stored in the body, not using the ready-made energy sources from newly-eaten carbohydrates. This means the body burns off those fat cells(is it glycogen?), which creates energy, and the body then uses that. The protein in the diet is used to patch the muscles, so you don't have damaged muscles(and those are NOT pretty!)
Here's my diet, it's not the best by any means, but by no means is it the worst:
School days> The worst days of my diet. These are the days that I actually gain weight, which is not the kind of weight I would like. On school days, I have breakfast around 0700hrs. It consists of one bowl of cereal(I've cut down from two
) I then don't have any more food until 1135hrs, which is my lunchtime during school. I get home in the afternoon sometime and don't have food normally until dinner, which is anywhere between 1730hrs and 1900hrs.
As I said before, that is my bad diet, and I can and do blame it all on the government and the schools.
My better diet(Weekends)> This is the time that I lose those 5-7lbs, only to gain them back over the course of the next 5 school days
I have breakfast whenever I feel like it. What breakfast does is start up your motabelism(sp.) Since the human body slows down drastically when falling asleep, everything slows down, which includes your motabelism(sp.) What breakfast does is starts the motabelism again so your body starts burning off the energy you have in it. I normally have a bowl of cereal for breakfast(carbs, I know, but feel free to replace the cereal with whatever you like best for breakfast[eggs, whatever.]) Now that my motabelism(sp.) is started, I feel more awake and stuff.
Lunch: I skip lunch, don't have it. What I do instead of lunch is have an occasional snack. What I mean is that rather than having a large meal sit in my stomach, I have parts of meals throughout the day. This promotes a constant rate of digesting and turning foods into energies rather than having stuff sit in there waiting to be digested(ugly word, I know....) So instead, I have small things, normally only once or twice between breakfast and dinner.
Dinner: I have a lot for dinner, probably because I don't have lunch. But I'm working on gradually decreasing how much I eat for dinner.
Dessert: Skip it, it's unhealthy. Unless you eat dessert during dinner(which I don't, when I used to have dessert, it would be right before bed), you eat a load of foods, empty calories, right before your motabelism(sp.) shuts down. This is bad because it just ends up getting stored in your system.
Main thing for the diet I like and use: eat when you're hungry, and stop eating when you lose your hunger, don't eat until you're full because many people never get "full" any more, or they do, but they forget what it feels like.
When on my diet, even without exercising much, if any, I lose 5-10 pounds over the weekend. Granted, these are at different times of days when I weigh myself, but if I weighed myself every 24hrs, it would show a loss of about 3-4 lbs per day probably. Granted, it wouldn't work like that all the time, only for a little bit at that rate, but for me, I continually am going down. At the beginning of football season, I weighed 173lbs. Now, after going up to 180lbs(that probably isn't my high, I don't know,) I weigh 168-169lbs. So over the course of my week, I will go from 168lbs to 175lbs by Friday, and then go back down to 168 by Monday morning. But since I'm on spring break right now, maybe I'll get lower than 168, who know.
Word to the wise, however>>>
When going on most "simple" diets of simply eating less, they work on short term, but they do nothing on long ter, unless themy make things worse. What they promote is simply eating less overall. This slows down the motabelism(sp.), so you don't digest as rapidly and in fact, if you had a large dinner(e.g. Thanksgiving or Christmas) while following the traditional diet, you'd have a much larger impact from the dinner than a person not on that diet. What my diet promotes(well, it works for me, chances are it doesn't work for many people, but if you've tried a lot of other diets and don't have anything to lose, you might as well try mine) is to keep the motabelism running at the same rate, but working constantly while you're awake, rather than working only 3 times a day.
If anybody has any more questions about the carbohydrates turning into fats and stuff, ask me and I'll try to find you the answer, or possibly try Gil, he's very knowledged in the medical section.
