Losing Weight with Atkins and Alli by Deborah R. Dolen

 

The low carbohydrate diet has always been the best choice for my life style.  Never a diet monger, I did need to consider being one post age 40.  Walking in conjunction with a low carbohydrate diet – most famously associated with Atkins, worked like a charm for me.  Combing Atkins and Alli, as I discuss below, produced awesome results when I stalled after too much dependency on Atkins.  In order to use both Atkins type diets and Alli products the first program, low carbohydrate, must be done right and understood first. This article does not cover how to do the low carbohydrate diet properly but does provide sound tips about it.  Using Atkins and Alli I am able to better battle the 30 pounds I am capable of gaining post age 40.

 

Over the last seven years I found frequent travel and my public work schedule were the main pitfalls of a low carbohydrate plan.  There are few quality proteins in airport shops or convenience stores.   For me to succeed on a low carbohydrate plan I learned to carry protein bars in my purse and eat lunches at buffets where I could have great variety of high protein selections.   Doing this warded off potential boredom I had with the diet.  They say “those who fail to plan – plan to fail” and that is very true in low carbohydrate dieting.

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With a strong low carbohydrate plan major weight can come off in three weeks and most importantly stay off.  It is true that desires for cheap carbs go by the way side the first week of eating better.  This is very empowering and elating, in and of itself as well as a realistic plan.  It is also totally affordable.  Many high protein products have come down in price.  The main downfall of a low carbohydrate plan is a back up of plumbing if water intake and some fiber is not part of the whole plan.  A low carbohydrate plan must be designed around foods high in good fibers.  It can be very dangerous not too consider plenty of water and fiber in the schema.

 

Then came Alli.  Alli is a OTC product that seems to block fat from being absorbed.  All of the data of long term use is not out on this product so in no way I am suggesting people blindly use Alli.  I gave Alli a harder look when even the low carb magic was not working as well.   It is true the low carb tactic can not be as magical in results after a few years.  “Can Atkins and Alli diets be combined?”  I asked myself.  Very little research was available on mixing Atkins with Alli.  I saw no research or experiences where employing the low carbohydrate diet with the Alli diet were a bad idea.  That may change so stay current with your strategies as I do.

 

In early 2009 I went ahead and combined Alli with Atkins for a month period.  I found after the first few weeks my body did adjust to the Alli and unexpected messes were not an issue at all.  I write so I am able to stay home those critical first weeks.  I also found Alli resolved the main draw back with the Atkins diet-backed up plumbing.  It does seem like a marriage made in heaven to me, but I still issue a serious caveat – always stay updated on other reviews by other people regarding this combination.  Also do not expect Alli to help loose weight.  My main reason for using Alli was to stay regular, perhaps reduce chances of any fat from being absorbed into my system – and this will sound odd – so I could eat a few TOTALLY fat things and not suffer the price.     I never promised my rational is perfect or even safe!  Please remember too much of anything is never a good plan and as always consult a Doctor because any diet can have a dramatic impact on your body. 

 

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2 Important Tips for Low Carbohydrate Dieting 

 

Learn to make and like Quiche everything.  This is a great default that can save time, money and be grabbed on the fly.  It is also a full meal that can be prepared one day a week. 

 

Eating a large breakfast has been shown to keep weight down better than skipping the days most important meal.  Try to avoid eating after 6:00 PM.  I have seen the best results with many people doing just these two things if nothing else.

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How I lost 38 Pounds - You can loose 40 pounds by Easter!

by Deborah R. Dolen Reprint from MWHL December 2008

The last quarter of 2008 I lost weight in more ways than one.    By October 1st, 2008 I decided to stop hurting myself by eating pasta into a frenzy.  The scale was reading 193 and no one has seen a new photo or video of me in two years.  I was 48 pounds over weight and looking like Liz Taylor at her top weight.    By Christmas, 2008, I had lost 38 pounds and him.  As autumn approached I knew I could not fit in any clothes and one thing leading to the next, I never went out much. 

The "Plan" Man

I was in good health, and that is important before you make a commitment to drop the weight.  I started with a lot of walking.  I had to CHANGE my perception of walking.  I had to look at it as "resort time" and a fun thing to do.  When you CHANGE the belief you change the result.  That applies to almost every aspect of life.  My former belief was that walking took into my time and was a drag.    Remember when we were kids we never wanted to go "in"?  Look at it that way when you are out walking.  I even skip like a kid. 

Then I had to change my perception of eating.  Salad began to taste like the finest lobster.  Period.  I kept with an Atkins low carb plan - cold cuts, salads, tuna salad, turkey salad, ham salad on top of salad and keep it interesting.  I also drank a lot of lemon water with stevia or Splenda which keeps the acid balanced in your stomach.  Doing this was not expensive and actually, after four days you start to eat for simple nutrition and not emotion.  You start to eat only when you are really hungry.  And the feeling of that control is PRICELESS.  You can loose 40 pounds by Easter 2009!

Slim Fast High Protein Creamy LOW CARB vanilla dry shake powder [best value] will remain a staple of my lifestyle change.  It tastes great and gives you the vitamin and mineral to support stress we are normally under.  And dieting can be stressful in a certain respect.  I did NOT look at this as a diet, but a total life style change.  Also the RIGHT kind of fiber pills are very important as to avoid issues low carb diets pose.  I picked FiberCon at my local pharmacy which does not dehydrate the colon.  Plus fiber has a tendency to make you feel full also.  I usually took that at lunch and dinner.

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Plateau Strategy: Slay That Dragon!

About six weeks in, I hit a plateau at 172 pounds, meaning-no matter how I went in starving mode and walking more, it was not budging.  Eating a few carbs actually helped at this point, to 170.  You need some carbs to burn fat efficiently.  At this juncture I looked at the alli system and bought HYDROXY CUT to kick in my metabolism.  So, at this point, HC was added in-but not early in the game.

Regarding alli I could not really ascertain on the internet if it really worked, and HOW it would affect a low carb commitment.  After a few weeks on alli-IT WORKS.  But you really cannot be in a public setting everyday.  Because I am in a home setting, I could Guinea pig it.  When I read it was made by GlaxoSmithKline I was elated!  I love that company and they have the best natural solutions to IBS and many other Gastro issues-I have been free of.  I would have used alli sooner if I had known GSK made it.  I got IBS after about evacuation of hurricane #6. I could no longer cope back in 2004-2006.

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So with Alli ANY fat you eat, and I mean ANY fat you eat will never be converted into energy. It will go right out the other end.  So, in absence of carbs and real fat, the body really has to burn your fat.  The operating theory with Atkins is your body would rather burn your own fat than fat you eat-in absence of carbs to fuel it.  And this is true until a plateau.  When you see what fat looks like, you are going to be like "WOW" this is what my enemy looks like!  It looks like orange shea oil.  And I can say there is so much oil on your derrière any hemorrhoids are gone.  Plus, those who tend to be constipated from an early age may find relief here.  It did not make me go more often-just a few times a day.  The issue is you never know WHAT time!  So, I wait after I wake up every day to get things moving-before I run any errands.  Then I have a better idea my next "due" date is early evening. 

So I do love  alli- I eat a pill before any meal I know has fat in it-and I eat all of the fat I want.  But I also know it will be seen again in a few hours-if you know what I mean.  If I had to work in a work environment I would keep ANY fat intake down until after work and eat all the fat for dinner I wanted.  I would also have extra adult diapers on hand and I am serious.  No one is going to know when you are giving a deposition that you are wearing adult diapers!  But "slips" are not as bad as everyone says on the web.  I guess if you are in a 9-5 it may be a challenge-I would not know.

I do recommend you buy a lot of orange underwear!  Like 5-10 pairs.  Because that sure will look like the "mark" and not totally easy to get out.  A bottle of OxyClean stays near the washer now. 

So I lost the next 17 pounds of that 38 keeping with the first plan and adding in alli and HYDROXY CUT six weeks later.  I do not use the HC much-just when I know I am not going to walk or do much that day.

Take CONTROL of YOUR LIFE and make a commitment to your better health. You WILL have far less health issues, back issues, and esteem issues when you make the commitment to your self.  And you will look ten years younger!  Do NOT expect those around you to applaud you.  Often they many motives for keeping you as you are.  One, is the fact they cannot loose weight themselves. So, why should you succeed at it?

Notice I did not spend much money on this whole endeavor.  It must come from your soul and not always from a pill.  Trust your own self and it will set you free.  I am so elated I now want to "tone" my body which was not going to happen if anyone asked me last year.  So, I am going to find my Pilates DVDs stored somewhere in somewhere land. 

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About the Author

Deborah Dolen is the Editor in Chief for Mabel White DIY and author of some 25 DIY books and several TV "how to" Films.  Deborah Dolen is also an environmental writer and has her own content syndication.  Deborah Dolen was widowed when she was on her 30's and went on to raise three great daughters in FL up against many obstacles.  This is the time period she generated her most fascinating books.

Deborah Dolen was born in a Catholic Infant Home on Niagara Falls, the U.S. side.  It was known as Our Lady of Victory.  Deborah grew up in the Adirondack mountains in Upstate New York in a lot of transition.  During her teenage years thoroughbred race horses were her passion and she skipped school a lot in the 70's to walk and groom the likes of Man o' War and Secretariat.  When she was not grooming horses in Saratoga she was hitting the ski slopes of Killington in Vermont, Pikes Peak, or Gore Mountain to name a few.  To this day K-2's are her favorite skiis and Head are her favorite bindings.

Fast forward a few decades and Deborah Dolen is very much into flying and canine rescue as well as DIY projects she writes about and films from her Florida home.  Although her passions have always been with horse racing she is very into auto racing, focus and performance in Daytona and Charlotte, NC.  Deborah presently writes about environmental topics beyond DIY subjects that will always fascinate her.  Her dog Ringo, adopted from Katrina, is usually by her side.

You can join Deborah Dolen her on twitter facebook or check out her home page for RSS syndication.    See demos of her work on YouTube here and Amazon here.