Can you eat
Hot Dogs on Atkins and lose weight?
Find out about a person's
experience eating hot dogs on what seems to be something
similar to the Atkins diet.
The Hot Dog Diet - Is it
Healthy and Does it Work?
By Coleen
Watson
Have you heard of the Hot Dog Diet? I don't even know where
it came from, but I have friends that swear by it. If you
haven't heard of it, it is one of those part-time diets that
has you eating hot dogs one day, tuna the next, and eggs on the
third day. It is a 3 day diet you move on and off over the
course of a few weeks that claims to help you lose as much as
30 pounds in 40 days. So, if that's true, can it be healthy and
does it work?
Like almost every fad diet, it is severely lacking in
nutritional balance. Hot dogs, cheese, eggs, saltine crackers,
an apple, tuna, peanut butter, vanilla ice cream... very little
of fruits and veggies. I suppose supplements can get you by for
short time, but the problem with this diet is that when people
start seeing results, they tend to break the rules. Obviously,
sticking to a diet like this for an extended period of time is
not going to be recommended doctors and nutritionists -- common
sense should tell you that. Occasionally, desperate people take
desperate measures. When you don't follow the rules, you could
end up being hospitalized for malnutrition if you do it for too
long (yes, it has happened).
All the health issues aside, people are still determined to
lose weight quickly, and will usually try anything. So, does it
work? I tried it. It does work, but I couldn't stick with it
long enough to achieve the results I needed. The food was bland
an unsatisfying to me, and I really don't like peanut butter or
vanilla ice cream. This left me feeling like I really needed to
fill a void on my days off from the diet. My "four days off"
period tended to be a little counterproductive, and this is
where the diet won't work for some people. It's not that it
won't get your metabolism going, or that the system won't help
you lose weight quickly, because it can. It's just that some
people just can't do the part time diet without overdoing the
days off, and I guess I'm one of them.
The result for me was, I did this diet for 2 weeks and got
bored. I lost 4 pounds, but I really wasn't committed after my
second round of hot dogs, eggs and tuna. Maybe it can work for
you.
Would you like to know what really worked for me? You can
get a copy of the hot dog diet from me, too -- but what really
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learn more.
My name is Coleen Watson and I am the author of this
article. Most of my life has been devoted to being healthy and
fit, but like countless others I have had continual struggles
with weight gain and loss -- especially after pregnancies. If
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