Reply #52: The Atkins diet shows it's not just about calories

[maggrwaggr]

On the atkins diet you can eat all the bacon and butter and meat you want -- caloric intake through the roof -- and you'll lose weight.

It's weird. It doesn't seem to make sense. But you feel your metabolism go through a drastic change when you start the diet.

There is a theory that if you cut fat from your diet, your body will sense that there's a deprivation of fat so it will actually RETAIN fat at that point. It will conserve fat to make up for the lack of fat.

I have no idea why the Atkins diet works, but it does.

But I share a lot of your view -- the reason most people are fat is because they eat too damn much and they eat crap.

I went to Springfield Illinois a while back and I was appalled at how fat everybody was. Then I noticed they all seemed to eat at Steak N Shake and fast food joints like that. Ugh.

Oh, but drink a "diet" cola, and you'll lose weight! Not. Fat people drink diet soft drinks like they think it will magically make them shed pounds because the word "diet" is on the can.

A lot of people are just ignorant.

Then there's people who can't seem to lose weight even if they eat almost nothing.