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What The Atkins Diet aims to Achieve

Filed Under Atkins, Healthy Diets, Main Content, Weight Loss 

What is the Atkins Diet and what does it aim to achieve?

The Atkins Diet is a long term approach to weight loss and management and is also a low carb diet.  It’s a totally different way to look at food. It works on the premise that eating the right foods can change the way your body works. In other words, it will change you from a fat-storing to a fat-burning machine.  Throw in some fun exercises and you’re on your way to healthy results.
The diet plan teaches you how to eat the right foods. Foods that nature intended you to eat. Lean proteins, leafy greens, vegetables, fruits, nuts, and whole grains. Atkins also provides bars and shakes for snacks. By eating the right foods, your body keeps burning fat no matter how busy you are. It makes it easy to stick to your program at work, at home, on vacation, or when you’re eating out. You are choosing nutritious foods that you purchase in the supermarket, not expensive pre-made diet meals, as in so many different weight loss plans.

The principle behind the Atkins Diet is when you eat too many refined carbohydrates; your body burns some of them for energy and stores the excess as fat. When you are on a low carb diet, you eat fewer refined carbohydrates – such as white flour and sugar – your body starts burning fat as its primary fuel source.

Atkins says you can lose 15 pounds in the first two weeks of the program, but it also says that individual results will vary. Moderate physical exercise, like working in your garden, taking a walk, playing with your kids, or playing sports will go a long way toward helping you reach your goal. It also has a plan to keep the weight off.

The Atkins Diet is divided into four phases. Phase 1-induction, Phase 2-ongoing weight loss, Phase 3-pre-maintenance, and Phase 4-lifetime maintenance. Let’s look at these four phases one by one.

Phase 1 – During Induction, you’ll reduce your net carb intake to 20 net carbs per day, and you’ll start increasing your activity level. You will learn to eat lean proteins, leafy greens, colorful vegetables and sweet Atkins snacks. No sugary baked goods and pastas and you have to hold off on eating fruits and nuts for two weeks. This is called taking control of your diet.

Phase 2 – Now you can start adding more foods back into your diet, like a wider variety of vegetables, plus fruits, nuts, and seeds. You will gradually add more good carbs and learn your personal level of carbohydrate consumption. The fast weight loss pace slows, but you will continue to lose at a steady rate.

Phase 3 –You can continue adding good carbs to your diet each week until you reach the point where you don’t lose or gain any more weight. The going may be slow, but the goal isn’t just to lose the weight, but to keep it off.

Phase 4 –Atkins has a community where you can sign up for free and receive encouragement and support from other satisfied consumers and the Atkins team itself.

The science behind Atkins started in 1963 when Dr. R.C. Atkins started to formalize the controlled carbohydrate approach after studying a series of articles published in the Journal of the American Medical Association that supported this theory.

Atkins continues to educate consumers of the growing research on weight loss/management. There are over 50 studies on the health benefits associated with following the Atkins Diet. Those studies are available on the Atkins website.  Atkins is striving to help consumers achieve a steady and healthy weight loss.

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