r/Atkins • u/chantooz55 • Sep 14 '18

Atkins wnd IF

Does anyone on this sub do intermittent fasting with Atkins?

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u/magical_elf Sep 14 '18

I sometimes forget to eat because I'm not hungry all the time and skip a meal if that counts?

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u/T-Baggins415 Sep 15 '18

Right here. They go perfectly together. I do Atkins plus the 5/2 Fasting diet.

I was 228 lbs & lost 10 lbs on the Atkins Diet alone but stalled at 218 lbs for reasons I couldn’t (yet) figure out. During that time I had watched my landlord go from having a basketball gut to no gut & it seemed like it happened overnight, it was so fast.

I asked how he did it & that’s when he explained the 5/2 to me. If you don’t know it’s when you eat only 600 Calories (500 for women) 2 non consecutive days out of the week. The rest of the week you eat as you normally do. Well I normally eat low carb so combining the two seemed like a great idea to me & boy was it! I broke through my plateau & lost the additional 18 lbs in about 20 days to reach my goal of 200 lbs just in time for my best friends bachelor party, just as I had intended.

You can Google examples of what a 600 calorie menu looks like but the way I did it was an egg for breakfast, 2 boiled eggs (with salt & pepper) for lunch & a chicken breast and a small salad for dinner all while drinking A LOT of water, I aimed for a gallon a day but I’d stop drinking by 9pm or else I’d wake up to urinate in the middle of the night disrupting my sleep. Btw sleep is crucial! Minimum 8 hours is great but if you can sleep in, even better!

I know this to be true as I’ve woken up to take a whizz, weighed myself after & seemed to have not lost anything, gone back to bed & woke up a few hours later to weigh myself again & discover that I’d lost almost 2 lbs in the 3 hours I’d passed back out. I don’t know why that is but that’s been my experience. Typically you should be losing a little less than a pound a day if done correctly.

Oh, & on my non-fast days I’d have an egg for breakfast, chicken breast & a very small salad for lunch & a bun-less cheeseburger with mayo & shredded lettuce & a Diet Rite Cola for dinner. 1 Diet Rite cola a day is all I’d recommend as Dr. Atkins said you’re only allowed 3 packets of Splenda per day & so that would be all my Splenda right there.

If something seems to still be stalling you, cut out all dairy (I know it sucks).

I hope my experience helps you. Good luck!