atkins on TV tonight

[amy_rocks]

OMG! did anyone watch 'superslim me' on UK tv? They reviewed atkins as a diet and said ALL the stereotypical atkins things, showed the woman doing it making copious fry ups, only eating meat and NO veg with no comment about eating veg for carbs. It gave my relatives more fodder to throw at me! GRRR!!

[Elizellen]

No I missed that - good thing or I would have been throwing things at the TV

Apparently there is a programme about 'gastric banding' to lose weight too tonight at 9 pm on BBC1

Fiona Bruce reports on the pros and cons of one of the country's fastest-growing medical procedures - gastric banding. This and other weight-loss surgery can help people lose huge amounts of weight, but the procedures can bring unwelcome complications.

DH is watching James Bond instead though!

[amy_rocks]

Yeah- everyone else is feeling the post-christmas weight so they put out all these programmes to make them guilty and THOUSANDS of new exercise videos (I might get Jordans... NOT).

[LC_Dave]

Jordan has an exercise video! Dear God!

Peter Andre was such a second rate 'celeb' in Australia. He had about one hit song and then nobody heard from him. Then he shows up in the UK and gets married to Jordan!

[Alienore]

Not only was that female eating all meat and no veg but there was no mention of any water she should have been drinking nor exercise she should have been doing.

I was highly suspicious of the programme from the moment I heard about it - and it lived up (or should that be down) to my expectations.

She lost six pounds in three weeks... enough said?


Deborah

[Richt]

Not forgetting that she was also eating sausages!

Everyone knows in this country that the majority of our sausages are full of fillers. It really winds me up. I was in the mood to complain to channel four via email if there was something that wasnt right about it.

But at the start of the programme they put in a disclaimer that the diets were followed as close as they could have been.

Atkins ALWAYS gets such a bad press here.

Did you notice on the plate where she had that massive piece of steak, there was a token bit of lettuce?

Rich

[Alienore]

Not to mention a few mushrooms in with the huge fry-up - that's more of a fry-up than I'd have, thank you very much!

Trying to find decent sausages that don't cost a fortune is not so easy to do in the UK. Looks like I'd better try to find something else for breakfast!

I was furious with that programme - no way in blazes were any of those 'diets' being followed correctly and even if the women lost weight there was no guarantee that they would learn how to keep the momentum going. Induction is NOT the whole of the Atkins WOL....

::feels steam starting to come out of her ears....::


Deborah

[Richt]

Steam's coming out of mine also.

They all lost weight, except for the GI woman. But how many of the other so called diets could you stick to easily!

For example that b***** cabbage soup diet, you can only do for a week at a time. Whats the point in that!"?!?!?!?!? Its hardly going to be a life changer is it?

[Alienore]

Amusingly enough, Weight Watchers didn't even get a look-in!

I tried something like the cabbage soup diet years ago - hardly lost anything but was so sick of soup by the end of the week.

People want quick fixes, not 'life changes' that demand time, commitment and a completely new approach to how you live your life.

Every other diet or dietary approach I've tried hasn't worked for me. Everything else makes me feel deprived and miserable. I don't feel that way on Atkins. I accept that other people may wish to pursue their weightloss approach differently from me - but that doesn't give anyone else the right to mis-represent Atkins.


Deborah

[Richt]

They didnt mention -

Slimming World
Rosemary Connoly
Or Weight Watchers.

I did chuckle when they brought up the F Plan though, as I remember my mum and gran doing that one in the 80's