Atkins diet, what do you know?

[Rhiannon]

I've been on a diet for a week which someone told me today is called the Atkins diet. I'm not mixing protein and carbs and eating as little carbs as possible. What else should I eat/not eat? I have 3 stone to lose.

susanmt - sorry - I don't want to have an argument ! I understood your message to say that your kidney specialist warned you not to try Atkins - and thus asumed that you must have a kidney problem to have a kidney specialist ?? Maybe I'm thick - but I think that is what you said ?

Anyway - it's not the end of the world if you can't do Atkins - it's just rather good for quick weight losses for something special - weddings, holidays etc I couldn't do it forever as I love my carbs - but it is great for me to shed the blubber once in a while !

willow2 - there are a few other diets very like Atkins but with more fruit etc in them - I think one is called FatFlush - I think I read about it on ivillage, there's also another newer version but I've forgotten it's name. Maybe one of those would suit you better ?

Sorry, not looking for a fight. Never looking for a fight.
Just trying to make the point that you might not know that your kidneys are in any way impaired, like I didn't before the stones started, and if I had been on Atkins in the 'latent' period between the stones beginning to form and beginning to pass I could have done myself a LOT more damage than I unwittingly did. That's all, hope it makes sense.