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Diet Vs Atkins products

October 2008

The manufacturers claim that Atkins products were a remarkable diet that keeps hunger away and make you lose weight. They further claim that with following the Atkin's nutrition, you can continue to eat rich delicious food and feel satisfied. But your energy levels will increase, and you may soon discover that your cravings for junk food will disappear.

Are these claims by the company real or sales gimmicks? To shift those pounds quickly you simply need to start the day with bacon and eggs, snack on chunks of cheese, top coffee with cream and feast on steaks fried in butter. These are typically the foods people on a diet would want to avoid. They have been indoctrinated into believing that consuming a low-fat diet is the best way to lose weight. The Atkin’s diet states that filling up on high-fat foods needs to be balanced by giving up most carbs including bread, potatoes, pasta, rice, chocolate, crisps, biscuits, cake – even fruit, milk and few types of vegetables in the early stages.

Notwithstanding all the above facts, the Atkin’s diet has captured the imagination of everyone including several celebrities, business men, teachers and housewives. It is reported that during its peak in late 2003, more than three million Britons tried the diet in an effort to shed weight.

Based on formula well-researched by the late Dr Robert Atkins, Atkins is a high-protein, low-carbohydrate diet. Dr Atkin’s theory is really quite simple to understand, when he says you cut out carbs, your body is forced into burning its fat stores to provide it with energy. You burn more calories when your body burns fat compared with carbohydrate, and thus you lose weight faster. Further by cutting out carbs, blood sugar levels remain more stable throughout the day, and so prevent any craving for food.

There is a time-table when you follow the Atkins diet plan. The first phase is called Induction, which must be followed for minimum two weeks. During this period, you must severely limit your intake of carbohydrate to a tiny 20g a day as against an average consumption of around 250g a day. You should completely avoid carb-rich products such as biscuits, cakes, chocolate, crisps, fizzy drinks, croissants and pastry. The list also includes bread, potatoes, pasta, rice, milk, fruit and some types of vegetables. To compensate for that, you can eat unrestricted quantities of red meat, chicken, fish, cheese, eggs, mayo, cream and butter. It’s during this Induction phase that your body switches from burning carbs to fat burners and blood sugar levels stabilize.

The second phase called the Ongoing Weight Loss is somewhat more lenient as it allows you to slightly increase your carb intake – by 5g daily for a week at a time – until you find your Critical Carbohydrate Level for Losing Weight. This is the maximum amount of carbohydrate you can eat each day to lose between 1 and 3lb a week. This phase allows a few more veggies, fruits, nuts and seeds. Bread, potatoes, rice, pasta and breakfast cereals are still not permitted.

Phase three is called Pre-maintenance phase and during this phase, you increase you carb intake by 10g each day for a week at a time. The idea is to tone down your weight loss to not more than 1lb a week in an effort to prepare your body for the final phase. During this phase, you can include some meager amounts of traditional starchy foods such as porridge, bread and pasta.

The fourth and final phase known as the Lifetime Maintenance, aims to help you maintain your weight. While you can have a slightly more varied carbohydrate intake, most people need to limit carbs to less than 90g a day, that is still only around a third of what most of us eat a day. And the catch is you will have to e follow a low-carb diet for the rest of your life.

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