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by Tanya Zilberter, PhD
I included in my analysis over 600
reports about weight loss while following Dr. Atkins diet. I used
feedbacks from my community members collected during the period between
1998 and 2000.
Since
November, 2002, I've conducted my own research on a higher-fat Atkins
diet modification (currently available as Banta Diet.)
The statistics revealed that increasing dietary fat % improved diet
outcome for many people who failed or plateaued on Atkins. The diet's
success rate was 92% with weekly weight loss from 0.5 to 11 pounds and
average weight loss of 1.48 lbs a week (read
more here)
Opinions expressed by MDs, nutritionists, and dietitians is that weight loss on Atkins diet to the diet is in fact a water loss. Hard to agree, if you look at this chart.
Did you happened to read, listen, and even view on TV, opinions expressed by MDs, nutritionists, and dietitians, that weight loss due to the diet is in fact a water loss. Hard to agree, if you look at this chart.
What you see here is: how much weight have lost every of over 600 dieters who reported both how much they've lost and for how long they have been dieting.
As you can see, the absolute champion is the person who lost an incredible 248 Lb. in 48 weeks. There're also a few people who were dieting the same 48 weeks with less Lb. lost, but still there are impressive results, from 25 to 100 plus Lb. Can anybody imagine it was pure water?
You can also see that there were failures - look at the dots sitting on the zero Lb. on the time axis. Some people were trying hard up to more than 20 weeks still losing nothing. We'll see later if they gained anything instead, here I'd like to emphasize that nobody has reported weight gain.
There were differences in what weight
could be lost in the same time
span: see how some of the dots are lined up vertically? For instance,
while
dieting for 12 weeks, some lost up to 50 Lb. and one person lost
nothing. It can be easily explained by differences in exercise
regiments or in cheating habits. However, there is the clear trend: the
more time on diet - the more Lb. lost (the red curve). How long did it
last?
