Atkins Diet
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Overview
The Atkins Diet™ is now referred to as a nutritional long-term plan for weight loss and weight management. The website for all things Atkins™ promotes a totally different way to look at food. Sexy and fat-burning machine are clearly the mantra for the new version of the old diet. We say, get over the “sexy” buzzword and show us a real weight loss plan for real people in the real world! The new Atkins™ combines their trademarked food products with the diet to improve their market appeal.
Method at a Glance
The Atkins Diet™ is a low carbohydrate diet where you eat mostly protein.
Method in Focus
The diet consists of eating lean protein, leafy greens, vegetables, nuts, fruits, and limited whole grains. The new feature of the diet is the inclusion of Atkins™ bars and shakes. The website emphasizes that exercise is essential to get you on your way to the “sexy” (there it is again) results you’ve always wanted. The whole plan is intended to show you how to eat the right foods that can change the way your body works. You will apparently go from a fat-storing body to a fat-burning machine.
Positives
• The new Atkins Diet™ appears to be more balanced than the older version.
Negatives
• It may be necessary to supplement the Atkins Diet™ with weight loss supplements that improve fat burning and provide appetite suppression as the body adjusts to the dramatic change in eating patterns.
• High protein diets typically cause constipation, it may be necessary to use a reliable fiber supplement like Glucomannan.
• High protein diets have been shown to be hard on kidney function.
Final Thoughts
Atkins™ has come along way with their weight loss method and so kudos to the company. Supplements may improve the dieting efforts for all diets, but especially high protein diets like Atkins Diet™. Look for a product which combines an ingredient for fat-burning as well as one to control appetite and cravings.
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September 27th, 2007 at 9:09 pm
The South Beach Diet is actually far more balanced – it is designed to help keep your blood sugar more level, which is the key to raising your metabolism (energy), controlling hunger, and ultimately losing weight and being healthier. You can pick up a variety of SBD cookbooks at any bookstore, and most grocery stores also carry a lot of prepackaged meals and snacks now too.
September 27th, 2007 at 9:46 pm
I am on Atkins and am not a heavy meat eater.
I personally like making lettuce tacos. You can use TVP (textured vegetable protein) to make it look like ground hamburger. I cut out lettuce leaves as my taco shells and fold them in half. I add cheese (you can use soy cheese), tomatoes, and sour cream. It is low carb and good for you.
I do lots of stir-fries with vegetables. A good one for vegetarians can include low-carb, low-glycemic products like tofu, celery, and broccoli.
I also like making fake mashed potatoes with mashed cauliflower, sour cream, and chives.
I've made funnel cakes using vanilla protein powder, eggs, baking soda, baking powder, salt and Atkins vanilla shakes. Then dusted with a little Splenda.
I have made cheesecake using an almond meal crust (almond meal, splenda, & butter). If you follow the cheesecake recipe on the Knox gelatin box, it works great!
I also like having fake spaghetti. I found shirataki noodles at a Japanese grocery store. They're made with tofu and yam flour and there's only 3 carbs per package. These noodles are WAY better than any so-called low-carb pasta or whole grain, whole wheat pasta. Or if you can't find shirataki noodles, you can use spaghetti squash!
September 29th, 2007 at 11:05 am
Its rubbish and makes you ill, dont do it. We NEED carbs in opur diet, to cut them out is dangerous and that Atkins should have been shot for the damage he did. Carbs are not the enemy, they are the backbone of a healthy diet. Atkins gives you headaches, bad breath, weakness and lethergy and it screws up your body. You lose weight in the short term but gain it all back once you start eating normally again. The body begins to digest muscle with the Atkins diet and that can kill you. Someone else mentioned ketosis, well thats what its called medically when your body is digesting its own muscle supply.
Look at the GI Diet, its healthy, sustainable and proved to work. It uses normal foods and is balanced for optimum nutrition and energy, its also scientifically approved! I have lost almost 80lb with it in 6 months;