Atkins--Ewwwwwwwww!
Written: Jun 15 '00
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Pros: Keeps you full for 6 hours
Cons: The taste, the price, the texture
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| HawkinsRN's Full Review: Atkins Diet Shake Mix |
OK, now I am all for this carb diet thing. In fact I have had good results. I have been searching for a quick meal replacement that is portable, and decided to try shakes. Atkins was the first one that I tried.
**First of all, do not expect a yummy shake. This is after all very low in carbohydrates, the stuff that makes food yummy.
**Second, you better have a blender. Let's just say, this isn't something you can put into a shaker and take to work. You have to BLEND it. I did not know this, and took it to work, shook it up, and was left with this chocolate milk colored water with chew brown bitter lumps FLOATING on top, yeah, you can imagine what that looked like all right. But, I gutted it down. At first, I was OK, but the texture got me and I promptly threw it up. Not the kind of diet trick I enjoy doing.
**Third, the price alone will kill you. I don't know why it is so expensive. It isn't as if it is made of gold or even looks like gold (see above paragraph). These shakes should be coming down in price as the fad passes.
**Fourth, OK, so you went and bought a nifty hand blender. Now you are ready to mix it up and have lunch, SO YOU THINK! You need to use at least 6 ounces of COLD water, the colder the better, you can even add ice. I use between 8-10 ounces of cold water, which gives it the texture of a glass of chocolate milk, but I find it more palatable that way. I still have to hold my nose and not taste it.
**Fifth, the taste. You THINK you are going to taste chocolate. After all, you bought it because it SAID chocolate on the label. NOPE! The bitter after taste of the sweeteners and proteins will kill your tongue for hours. I think that THIS is the best diet tip yet. You can't taste anything!
A previous poster suggested KETO shakes. Yep, do those. They taste MUCH better, and are much less expensive. Sorry Dr. Atkins, your product sucks! The only good thing about it is that because of the high protein, you really don't get hungry for about 6 hours. But, any high protein shake will give you that benefit for less money, and hopefully better taste!
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