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Originally Posted by pyrogen  |
I hope you don't mind me throwing in my 2 cents, since I've tried that.
I did a high-protein diet on the advice of my Doctor. He really liked South Beach. I bought the book and gave it my best shot. It worked for about 3 weeks, then weight-loss plateaued, then I started feeling terrible. It also sucked I couldn't *ever* go out to eat. I suffered through a few more weeks of feeling absolutely yucky and hating my food, then finally gave up. Any weight loss I achieved vanished the moment I ate normal food.
South Beach or Atkins (i.e. over-emphasis on protein) is not the same thing as a balanced lower-cal diet and/or a veg'n lower-carb diet, at least not in my opinion.