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Please please please go do you're research again cause what you are saying here is totally and utterly useless.

The findings in this study are already well known and was a waste of money and research resources. The only time in which the atkins or any other fad diets work is when you totally cut out the other food groups and any sane Nutritionist will tell you that's insane. You will never get the complete vitamins etc that you need.

What people must remember is that the human body is a very well tuned scale. What you have to do it spend more energy than you are taking in. My best advice from Tom Venuto is to firstly measure your BMR. Then restrict your diet by approximately 100 Calories a day while maintaining a well balanced and nutritious diet. Then do exercise spending approximately 150 calories per day. This is a 250 calorie deficit and would equate to losing 1 pound of fat in 2 weeks (14 days).

By starving yourself (crash dieting) more than the given amount will place your body into starvation mode. This means your body slows down your metabolism (BMR) and thus you have to eat less to get under that 100 calories. This starts a vicious cycle with you eating less and less and your body continuously decreasing the metabolism. You just can't win this battle.