My Atkins Diet Story

aka how one Iowa guy lost over 200 pounds and gained his life back. I can not say enough about how positively the Atkins Diet and low carb in general has been for me. I went from a 429 pound guy who could barely make it up a flight steps to a guy running half marathons and rejoining the National Guard. My health is fantastic, and my blood work (cholesterol, triglycerides, blood pressure, heart) could not be better.

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• Atkins
• Diet
• Weightloss
• Low
• Carb
• Bowulf
• Fat
• Obesity

[skyiscrying53]

go boy!

[bowulf]

@skyiscrying53 Thanks!

[LoveZanie]

Kent, I was wondering how long you stayed on Induction? I read the book and it said you lose the most weight on Induction... so my fiance and I thought we should stay on it as long as we could. But we failed. So we are starting back again, but we hate Induction...and we just want to do the minimum but I am afraid if we only do two week on Induction, we won't lose the weight we need to.

[bowulf]

@LoveZanie I spent nearly 1 year on Induction, but it is not prescriptive or necessarily advised for others. I do have a video on here called "Atkins Diet Quick Hits - How long to do Induction?" where I deal this topic. You can be just as successful on OWL phase as people were on Induction.

[LoveZanie]

@bowulf - wow, one year...you must have some serious discipline, lol. - that's obvious due to your success. I am going to check out the other video you suggest and possibly maybe try a month and then see how we are feeling. I don't want us to lose momentum and cheat. Thanks for your advice!

[bowulf]

@LoveZanie Actually it didn't feel like discipline or will power. It was just simply easier eating the same general stuff of foods every day than researching how to cook with new ingredients. I had lots of variety, but the same basic type ingredients. There were times I added strawberries during that time when they were in season, but that was about it.

[bowulf]

@DragonDude180 Wrapped in what?

[DragonDude180]

@bowulf I'm thinking of eating chicken wraps all the time will this be okay?

[bowulf]

@JudgeSOLDIER You are welcome!

[axlbonbach]

@bowulf At 6'6" and 340, I'm just starting. Over the past 2 weeks, I'm down to 326. Unfortunately I'm too old to restart my military career, but watching this video inspires me to hit my goal of 225. Thank you so much for putting this on here.