I have an idea but not sure if will work

Question
Im currently starting atkind diet just to aid me in a weight loss goal to summer.  Im a little over weight and i am 16 male.  Summer starts in about 3 months and i wanna look good and im sick of being fat.  My plan is to go to the gym 5 days a week and do cardio every other day.  will this help?  I want to lose about 25 to 30 in three months and i think its realalistic if i try dont you?  well tell me what u think and so forth thanks.  I really wanna look and feel better and its time i took charge ya know

Answer
I doubt if I can sway you away from Atkins, but once you've regained the weight it will probably take off (and about 20% more), PLEASE mark my site so you can take it all off again...hopefully for good.   Nearly 100% of all people who have done Atkins since the 1970's admit to regaining ALL the weight with even more (the average being 20%).  Each time they do the diet, it's more difficult to lose weight.  Eventually, it doesn't work at all.  I can attest to this personally and so can EVERYONE in my extended family, plus every person I've ever, in my life, known who has done this diet.  Weight Watchers and Jenny Craig are two others with the same results.  The advertising is far from true for MOST people (thus the tiny disclaimer, "results NOT typical").  By the way - carbs are what feeds our brain (no kidding).  Atkins/low carb diets are notoriously known to make people moody, cranky, excessively tired and slow on the uptake.  Just what you DON'T need if in school.

The working out is EXCELLENT and by watching what you eat, a weight loss of about 3 lbs per week can be reasonable.  More than this and you might be losing muscle (which weighs more than fat or organ tissue) and too much fluid.  

Refuse to gauge your progress with a scale.  Use how your clothes fit or a tape measure instead.  By working out, you're building and toning muscle, which, again, weighs more than fat.  So, while you might be losing all the excess fat you have, the scale could be weighing the new muscle you're building and the number could disappoint you.  Size, on the other hand, is what will tell you how you're doing.  5 lbs of muscle takes up lots LESS space than 5 lbs of fat, so your clothes should be getting looser as you progress.

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