Diet Comparison
Here is a side-by-side summary of eDiets and Atkins to help you compare diets and choose a weight loss plan that will work for you.
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Best for...
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Flexible and convenient fitness and nutrition programs designed to suit different lifestyles. Prepare your own delicious meals.
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Meat lovers.
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Risks
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None noted.
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Some who try Atkins may experience constipation, fatigue, and/or headaches. There are voices in the medical and nutrition communities that fear the short and long-term effects of a diet so high in fat and cholesterol, the jury is still out on whether these fears are substantiated.
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Basic philosophy / approach
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Maximum flexibility and customization: diet and fitness routines customized to match your lifestyle and food preferences. Online support from both peers and fitness and nutrition experts.
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Portion control? No way! The diet strictly limits—but does NOT forbid as some have suggested—carb intake. It allows unlimited amounts of many allowed foods, such as meats and cheeses.
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Foods that are / aren't allowed
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Restrictions are calorie-based, and determined by your goals, starting weight, and preferences.
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Carbs, bad. Protein, good. Fat in all its delicious forms, no problem.
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How much work involved
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Depends largely on personal approcah and goals. E-diets offers tool, information and support, but does not prescribe a detailed "one size fits all" approach.
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I can’t imagine a simpler approach. There is virtually no measuring or weighing or record-keeping involved. And when you eat out you simply have to tell the waiter "save the shrubs for a rabbit—I only want the MEAT".
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Cost
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$35 for 9 weeks or $99 for one full year.
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Generally speaking, meat and cheese are more expensive than fruits, veggies and bread. That said, the Atkins Diet does not require that you buy more costly prepared meals.
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Speed to results
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Once again, it depends on individual approach and goals. Despite the site's name, e-diets is useful to anyone, whether his/her goals are weight loss, general fitness or increased athletic performance.
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Here is where Atkins draws much of its popularity. If you follow the diet, you will lose weight. Many will lose weight dramatically at the outset, and continue at a steady clip after that. One reminder: a weight loss rate of 1 to 1.5 lbs. per week over a period of time beyond two weeks (the initial drop not uncommon to many diets) is considered healthy, and anything above that is considered unhealthy.
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Review
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Our review of eDiets
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Our review of Atkins
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