 The Atkins
diet was not designed to be a fast weight loss plan. The Atkins
diet was designed to enable sustained weight loss while permanently
changing your lifestyle for better overall health. This weight loss
plan works by cutting processed and refined carbohydrates and processed
foods that the human body was not designed to metabolize without
consequences. Along with changing your regular eating habits, Atkins
promotes taking vitamin supplements and regular exercise to complement
the nutrition program in order to achieve weight loss. |
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| The Atkins diet program is divided into
four stages: Induction, Ongoing Weight Loss (OWL), Pre-Maintenance,
and Lifetime Maintenance. Each phase is meant to prepare you for weight
loss and to change your lifestyle permanently. During these four phases,
you will learn which foods you can eat without affecting your weight
loss, so that eventually you won't have to rely on a carb-counter-you'll
just know, through practice, what is or isn't off limits. The Atkins
diet is a highly individualized weight loss plan, as the foods you
can eat are determined by your own metabolic rates.
It is important to understand that while the Atkins diet will enable
weight loss and change your lifestyle, it will not permanently change
your metabolic tendencies. If you begin to eat refined carbohydrates
or processed food, you will gain weight and return to the way you
were before--the hard work and time you committed to weight loss
will be lost. Your body will react the same way to these foods as
before, secreting insulin in response to your increased blood-sugar
level due to the food. Eventually you will regain whatever weight
loss you initially experienced. The Atkins diet means to permanently
change your eating habits to help you avoid regaining your weight
loss. |
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