On Healthy Living

At the height of the Atkins diet craze I decided to try it. I got some of the books, joined the top websites, got the vitamins and nutrients and sat down to begin reading and planning. Everything went great except I was quickly bored after I realized I was basically eating the same thing meat and veggies over and over.

I was also starving and trying to make Atkins recipe snacks one of my favorites involved eggs, cream cheese and a microwave. These were recipes sent in by other Atkins lovers on one of the websites so I don’t even know if it was alright to eat but like I said, I was starving.

I also for the first time in years drank lots of water all day long except when I was eating in which case I would drink soda made with that awful, awful Splenda. To this day I shudder when I accidently pick up something made with that sugar substitute because all those products have the same funky taste to them from that product. Awful.

I knew something was wrong one week and four days into the diet because I had dropped almost 50lbs and I think that is too much to lose so quickly. I guess I was right because only two more days passed before I woke up one day with blinding stomach cramps. It hurt to breath, talk and even walk.

I IMMEDIATELY quit the diet and spent two days in pain writhing in pain before I was able to move around. By the third day I was only feeling slight pains that I could stand. I don’t know what it was or why that happened but I’m never doing that diet again. Maybe I didn’t do it right because it works for others. Even if Atkins is nearly dead nowadays. But experts had predicted that it would be just like the low-fat craze when it first came out.

Marsha James wrote this on April 29th, 2006 and filed it under Healthy Living |