With these fad diets where you take off five pounds in a weekend, I'll guarantee that you're going to get it back, as 97 percent of the people do. As for an exercise program, there's no need to go out and join a gym or buy expensive exercise equipment that will wind up serving as an extra clothes rack. Any exercise program should be combined with muscular conditioning. It doesn't do you any good if you've got a great heart and the rest of your body can't keep up with it. The Atkins Diet first came out in 1972.
People certainly lose a lot of weight quickly with the diet, but at great risk.
The chief danger is ketosis, a condition in which the body lacks carbohydrate as a source of energy, so the liver begins making sugar out of whatever protein it can find including your own muscles. This results in the formation of ketones and a state of ketosis. The body is burning fat and protein as fuel. Along with that, you start urinating more, and that is one reason people lose weight initially on a high-protein diet. It is the loss of water or fluid.