The Atkins Diet Works!
The Atkins Nutritional Approach is focused on healthy lifestyle goals and common sense nutrition by incorporating an optimal nutritional mix. This mix focuses on intelligent carbohydrate intake (high fiber and low sugar), adequate protein consumption, optimal intake of vitamins and minerals and a balance of natural fats. The goal is to achieve better nutrition, better health outcomes, increased energy and performance! In addition, you will be building muscle, slowing down the aging process and managing your weight the healthy way.
With the Atkins Nutritional Approach, you’ll enjoy 3 meals and a daily snack that provide you the nutrition you need while limiting your carbohydrate intake based your current carbohydrate level. Your meal plan will be further customized based on your preferences – including whether you want to include butter, bacon and more in your plan!
Basic Atkins Philosophy
By limiting your carbohydrate intake initially to 20 grams daily, you’ll jump-start your weight loss and switch over to fat metabolism. As you get closer to your goal, you’ll slowly add back healthy carbohydrates to continue to promote weight loss and adopt this healthy lifestyle.
The Atkins Advantage Plan consists of five core principles designed to help you keep you energy levels steady and strong from morning till night. Put these five elements together – high protein high fiber, high intake of vitamins and minerals low intake of sugar and the eliminate of trans-fat.
Sample Meal Plan
Breakfast
Greek Omelet with Sliced Tomatoes
Lunch
Ham and Turkey Chef Salad
Dinner
London Broil with Broiled Herb-Tomato
Snack
Cream Cheese with Chives Ham Wrap
The 10 Simple Rules to Atkins Success:
1. Count your daily Net Carbs.
2. Stay at or below your Atkins Carbohydrate Equilibrium (ACE), the amount of carbs you can eat each day while neither gaining nor losing pounds.
3. Adjust your ACE as needed.
4. Eat primarily whole, unprocessed foods.
5. Stay away from added sugar, bleached white flour, hydrogenated oils and junk foods.
6. Don’t go more than four to six waking hours without a meal or snack.
7. Exercise regularly.
8. Take a multivitamin and mineral supplement and essential fatty acids.
9. Drink a minimum of eight 8-ounce glasses of water.
10. Never let yourself gain more than 5 pounds.
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a few years ago i did the atkins and lost quite a bit of weight. Now I’ve been doing it since the end of june and have lost hardly noting. my carbs almost always are under 20 a day, whether it be a few chips, etc… but under 20, would could be wrong