Yes, but you'll likely miss out on the rapid initial weight loss. Although the Atkins diet doesn’t emphasize the necessity of the induction phase the way South Beach does, the morale boost dieters receive when they drop pounds quickly during Induction can keep them motivated to stick with ...
Improvements in lipids and lipoproteins were greater for participants in the very-low-carbohydrate diet during the weight-stable phase but were greater for those in the high-carbohydrate diet after weight loss and restabilization; overall the low-carbohydrate and weight-loss effects were reported to ...
Of those who started, all but 3 subjects completed the study: 2 withdrew from the control diet and 1 withdrew from the low-carbohydrate plant-based diet for reasons unrelated to the study protocol (Figure 1). The mean weight loss after 4 weeks of the metabolic phase was similar for both ...