"I firmly believe that the low-carb system used by Atkins is a perfect example of hacking your body," writes Sosik-Hamor. "Massive reduction of carbs and carefully designing a balanced diet allows you to safely push the body into a state of ketosis and excrete fat out of the system faster than the standard burn rate of 1 pound per 3,500 calories. When in full induction mode I can eat 3,000 to 4,000 calories per day and lose up to 4 pounds per week."

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Hack schmack. 3-4k and 0 carbs and you will gain weight. Inuit peoples are always in ketosis, and they ain't all skinny. This is hype. Ketosis works, but it works because fat makes you full... so a caloric deficit is easier to maintain. Atkins is no exploit. Active people generally find it hard to exercise on Atkins. Its more like... compiler optimization? :shrug:

This article kinda reminds of me the anabolic/androgenic steroid/supplement community, which definately has a hacker element. Fitness dweebs scouring pubmed extracts of physiology journals looking for studies on any compound, technique, or diet that will give them an edge. They're hacking their bodies with 6 or 7 compounds at a time, highly specific training, precise diet, all carefully selected to produce fat loss while preserving lean mass.

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