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Atkins Groupie
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Plan: Atkins
Stats: 265/250/150
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jamaicaker!
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I was recently on some birth control that was messing with my blood sugar...Haven't been eatting raw veges much.
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Many prescription medications also inhibit weight loss, among them birth control pills and hormone replacement therapy, steroids and anti-arthritis medications, beta-blockers and antidepressants. Talk to your doctor to see if an alternative approach can be found.
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Will the Atkins Nutritional Approach interfere with the efficacy of birth control pills or will the pills hinder success on Atkins?
There has been no research to evaluate the effect of any weight-loss program on the efficacy of oral contraceptives. However, because birth control pills contain estrogen, they may impact your ability to lose weight on Atkins. Estrogen causes more fat to be stored in your tissues rather than being burned as energy. This increases insulin resistance, making weight loss more difficult. Estrogen also lowers thyroid function, which is necessary to keep your metabolism at an appropriate active level. If you have no choice but to take birth control pills, be prepared for the fact that your carbohydrate threshold my be lower than it would be otherwise, requiring you to be extra vigilant about your carb intake.
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Make no mistake: Vegetables are essential to the Atkins Nutritional Approach™.
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Because controlling carbs will stabilize blood sugar, most people doing Atkins limit the amount of vegetables they eat. Eating too many veggies, especially starchy ones such as beets, potatoes and carrots, can undermine your weight-loss and weight-maintenance efforts. To spend your carbohydrate grams wisely, choose vegetables that provide the most antioxidant protection in combination with the fewest grams of carbs. (See Vegetable Superstars).
During the Induction phase, you'll eat three cups of certain vegetables each day, primarily salad greens and other raw salad ingredients. (See list of salad greens in Acceptable Foods). You can also have up to one cup of vegetables that are slightly higher-carb (but still permissible) all-stars. Here's where you'll find kale; Swiss chard; cancer-fighting cruciferous vegetables, such as broccoli and Brussels sprouts; beta-carotene-rich peppers and pumpkin; and lycopene-dense tomatoes, which help protect against prostate cancer. (See other vegetables in Discovering New Vegetables: Crucifers). As you gradually increase the amount of allowable carbs during the Ongoing Weight Loss, Pre-Maintenance and Lifetime Maintenance phases, your veggie intake will continue to increase.
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OKay...did ya read it? What is happening is your body is trying to readjust itself and you're have fits about it...give it some time (like two weeks or a month even--whenever you have your next natural tom). The hormones you took will have to work itself out...you stopped the bc pills already...so that means your body is now suddenly required to step in and increase your own production of hormones...then you zapped it with a morning after pill...which is basically a very large dose of hormones. Then on top of that you're skipping the veggies you need each day. Especially your salad greens (a cup has only 10 calories you know)(although Fitday says it also has only 1.6 grams of carbs and 1.2 grams of fiber for a grand total of .4 grams of carbs????? Whoa, is that right?)
Hey, maybe you're PMS-ing???? All those hormonal changes at once?? that's why you feel so lousy right now...
Give yourself a break, girl! It'll sort itself out... |
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