"Drop weight quickly" is different than "drop *FAT* quickly." That's where you gotta be careful. Between fluid and muscle loss, you can drop a lot of "weight" really fast, but that's not going to make you healthier.
As an Atkins dieter/fan, I have to tell you that following the atkins diet, both regular and the "fat" fast - eating cream cheese or other high fat foods, 5 times a day, under 1000 calories, both do put and keep you in ketosis. This is not water loss, muscle loss, JUST weight loss. This is fat loss. The perfect thing about Atkins is that it is ONLY the fat you lose, if you follow the diet as prescribed. The fat diet that was previously described is done for a max of 10 days, for those who have a very difficult time to get into ketosis. It works. Staying under 15 grams keeps you in ketosis, even the hardest cases. Most of us can do quite a bit more - start at 20 grams, go down if you have to, up if you're able. You measure on a ketostix, to be certain you are staying in ketosis. And as long as you are in ketosis, you do lose FAT, and only fat. When you run out of fat to lose your body uses hhe protein you are eating, converts it to glucose, which it can do, though it prefers the carbs, and turns next to your fat reserves, going to the protein you eat only as a last resort. And if you are doing the diet correctly, by the time you get to that point, you are slowly adding carbs, slowing down your weight loss, preparing for going into maintenace, where you still limit carbs, but only to the level where you don't gain weight. Many folks eat 60-80 grams on maintenace, though there are folks who can only eat 30 before gaining weight - people who have severe insulin resistance. At any rate, just trying to clarify the fat loss aspect. Joy
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