| Gabby
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| Did anyone see this on the news last night. They said the Atkins Diet Corp was filing for bankruptcy. I guess people are learning that it is not a good healthy choice for a diet after all. They did state they were going to continue making their bars and I think the shakes also. |
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Tue Aug 02, 2005 9:26 pm |
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| audreyh1
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It was pretty clear that Atkins Nutritionals was losing money like a sieve a year ago, so I'm not surprised. They probably overextended themselves in the "low-carb" craze, which they actually started!
Yep - spectacular boom and bust.
Im sure someone will buy all the rights to the Atkins stuff. It's not goingn to disappear - it's still a valuable commodity.
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Tue Aug 02, 2005 9:47 pm |
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| Snotzalot
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It wasn't the diet that made them bankrupt, it was a poor marketing decision.
(Pssssssst......I'm not defending their diet) |
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Tue Aug 02, 2005 10:14 pm |
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| Just2BeThin
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| Haha, I saw that on the news. There is also a huge sale on the atkins products at my grocery store. Buy 1 get one free! It's sad how desperate they are to get rid of that crap. |
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Tue Aug 02, 2005 11:03 pm |
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| Iwannabeskinny
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| actually i read somewhere that they are giving a lot of the stuff away to 3rd world countries where the ppl have no food...atkins food is better than starvation i guess! |
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Tue Aug 02, 2005 11:08 pm |
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| dianeb1944
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| Actually the news and paper out west here says that they filed Chapter 11, so they can continue to do business as usual and only the poor creditors get the shaft. They over glutted the low carb market with their plastic tasting stuff (my humble opinion) and now they are paying the price it seems. I wonder when Somerize will go up as well. She markets everything but the kitchen sink and I mean everything.....including clothes and jewlery and exercise equipment not to mention the huge food lines including desserts and candy....Whew! |
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Wed Aug 03, 2005 1:05 am |
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| mk_sears
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I was really amused to read that. My dad is a staunch Atkins follower. Infact we got into a heated debate over Atkins verses SB. And Finally I said "Dad, after a few months and you put back on all the weight you lost...come talk to me about South Beach ;) "
But one thing about south beach I am irritated at is the woman who owns this exercise Curves knockoff here locally. She charges 30$ a week where she teaches how to do South Beach. Its a 6 week class and she just pretty much reads out of the book. Its disgusting. And there are at least like 10 people in the class. I wanna go up and smack her. Finally, I found out someone I know was taking the class and I told her about the book and she looked so mad that she spent that much money on a class when she could have read the book for a heck of alot cheaper. |
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Wed Aug 03, 2005 5:19 am |
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| RedRox
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Hopefully you gave her the URL to this forum as well!! ;)
And to be just a bit fair, there are plenty of people who follow Atkins without using Atkins Nutritional Inc. products and are able to maintain their weight loss over time as well. I'm really not convinced that the success/failure ratios differ all that much between the various lifestyle change types of programs. I'm glad I'm doing SB and it works for me, but I know others who are just as happy long term with Atkins and don't really perceive much of a difference between the two.
Now that we have the SB/Kraft products we can see how the original program and its intentions can get co-opted by a sanctioned company designed to produce products for its adherents. I think we can draw a similar comparison with the program designed by Dr. Atkins and the food and supplement company known as Atkins Nutritonals Inc.
I was just reading something on the Net today that Americans are tiring of the "low carb" fad and this ANI announcment is viewed as kind of the nail in the coffin of low carbing, so after they reorganize they will probably just continue to operate as a niche nutritional company. I don't know how long Kraft is going to keep propping up the SB logo line either. It just doesn't seem like it is going to be a very profitable line for them and if there isn't sufficient ROI, the bean counters aren't going to keep staying on that path in the wake of polls and trends like this. |
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Wed Aug 03, 2005 5:33 am |
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[quote="redroxco"] "Now that we have the SB/Kraft products we can see how the original program and its intentions can get co-opted by a sanctioned company designed to produce products for its adherents. I think we can draw a similar comparison with the program designed by Dr. Atkins and the food and supplement company known as Atkins Nutritonals Inc." [quote]
Shoot, and here I thought I was sort of, kind of, doing the SBD by eating those Kraft products. Even so, I suspect the Kraft/SBD products will do a lot better than Atkins since the prices are much more tolerable. My goal as I lose the weight, is to eat more of what I prepare rather than the freezer bought SBD meals. I do plan to adhere to the SBD ways since it's geared for a healthy lifestyle and a healthy heart. |
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Wed Aug 03, 2005 3:32 pm |
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| CRUSA
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Ha! I couldn't believe my ears either...
I was (on and off) Atkins for the past three years, and yes, I even bought some of their products some times, especially their breakfast bars. But to be perfectly honest, it doesn't surprise me that the went bankrupt.
Like 'someone' said, Atkins products are really expensive, and their taste is just horrible, I was able to chew only once one of their shakes and bars... dianeb1944 is right, they taste like plastic :P .
Whyam I here? Yesterday I decided to quit Atkins and start on SouthBeach (I still have to read the book) because it was simply TOO BORING, I can't live without fruits, and three years have been enough. Besides is way too restrictive, and one small cheat puts you back where your were before... specially if, like me, you abused Induction while trying to loose more weight. |
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Wed Aug 03, 2005 4:02 pm |
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| oldpjams
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i've read little pieces in a number of sources recently (fitness mags, cycling mags, outdoor mags, men's mags) that the "low carb" diet craze has ended -- or is about to end. they report that we are now in a vacuum waiting for the next craze to fill the void.
not sure if i agree (or care).
interestingly, i was at the doctor's the other day reading a mag focused on issues of running a medical practice. one of the articles was about diets and their possible side effects. they listed SBD as "restricted carb" which is better than "low carb" i thought...but still isn't it only restricted when compared with the more typical and unhealthy eating that is so common?
my only fear is that failures related to Atkins often are used as predictions of future failures of SBD? |
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Wed Aug 03, 2005 4:13 pm |
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| audreyh1
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I remember reading that the low-carb craze hit a major slump late last year. Atkins Nutritionals was in serious financial trouble. So was a pasta company that had invested big time in low-carb pastas.
I guess it's just been a slow lingering death after that.
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Wed Aug 03, 2005 4:49 pm |
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| dianeb1944
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| I am concerned too that SB will get lumped into the low carb craze and begin to fade as well but sites like this and people like all of you (us)will keep dispelling that, I hope....I know that when I first started into SB, I too, kept thinking "low carb" aand would buy low carb products instead of eating the good carb grains and dairy, etc; People on this site have set me straight and I finally understnd what SB is all about. But the name, itself, South Beach, doesn't really lend itself to what this WOE is reallyall about. I think the name is rather, faddy" sounding, but I am sure no one is going to change the name. As I learn more about this WOE, I am now just beginning to realize that counting carbs and worrying about what foods I am or am not combining is not what this WOE is all about. It is about eating lean proteins, and the right carbs and not eating the bad carbs (I call the white stuff). Isn't that a lot like the Mediterrean Diet that has lasted a long while? Although the Med. Diet, I recall, relies heavily on grains, and legumes and wasn't big on animal proteins, and being a Type II prediabetic, I can not consume so many grains, and legumes and eat carb meals. When I try and eat large quantities of grains and legumes or my blood sugar will still spike up, so it didn't work for me at all. That is also what I found wrong with the vegitarian diet. I just cannot tolerate a large amount of carbs, even the good ones.....This WOE seems just perfect for life. |
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Wed Aug 03, 2005 5:29 pm |
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| RedRox
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oldpjams wrote: i've read little pieces in a number of sources recently (fitness mags, cycling mags, outdoor mags, men's mags) that the "low carb" diet craze has ended -- or is about to end. they report that we are now in a vacuum waiting for the next craze to fill the void.
not sure if i agree (or care).
Not sure I do either. It's just interesting to observe. This article talked about the same "void' as there just is no good (?) "fad" diet going around right now. They mentioned Suzanne Somers, the 3-Hour Diet, the French Woman's program or whatever it is called, and a few others. SB was mentioned, of course, in the low-carb category and it mentioned that the book was still selling well and that they expect about 2% of people who ARE dieting to keep with low-carbing. They also mentioned that "healthy eating" was making a comeback, you know, the new gov't guidelines with whole grains, low sat. fats, lots of fruits and vegetables, that sort of thing! ;) I just groan!! SB is "over" but healthy eating is "in". Makes perfect sense to me! :? :roll: |
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Wed Aug 03, 2005 5:38 pm |
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| Ms Misha
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I think the lesson to be learned in all of this is that "selling out the the big corporate idiots" is not good for ANY way of eating.
The success of any diet is that you move away from all that processed, prepackaged, chemically-enhanced food to whole, nutritious foods. Does anyone really lose weight on Lean Cuisine? No. Those are better than McDonald's in a pinch, but, as Atkins shows, the prepackaged stuff isn't the "miracle" it promised to be.
I fear SB going the same way. And that's such a shame. My doctor, yesterday, when discussing weight loss, said, "I don't eat bread. Ever." LOL. Then I told him about whole wheat pasta and he said he was going to have his wife get some.
It's all about real foods. Americans continue to look for quick answers in pretty little packages. There is no such thing as a free lunch! |
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