Atkins diet (Dr Atkins Diet Plan)

Member Name: DebzR

Product:	Dr Atkins Diet Plan
Date:	23/07/02 (1823 review reads)
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Advantages: Will loose weight

Disadvantages: Can't always eat wat you love

The first time I heard about this diet was from my mum, she had heard from a friend about it. We decided to have a look in one of Doctor Atkins book and have a read of it before we decided to do it or not. We thought that it sounded quite good and give it a go.
What you have to do is cut the amount of carbohydrates you eat to 20 grams a day, for two weeks. This means cutting out pasta, rice, potatoes and high carbohydrate bread. You can eat loads of meat, vegetables (only certain ones, you’ll have to look in the book to know exactly what.), fish and nuts. I could tell you exactly what but you would get bored.
So you eat your 20 grams per day by checking every food wrapper for exactly how much carbo’s it has got in it. You can get a low carbohydrate bread from weight watchers if you really need bread but you can only have one bit a day because it has got about 8 grams per slice, and that is the lowest we could find. But as long as you keep the rest of your carbo’s down it doesn’t matter.
I struggled at first with this diet because I do eat a lot of pasta and potatoes. In fact I could live off pasta. So cutting it out was very hard for me, and things like some sauces are high as well, so it was quite difficult. But once you have gotten going then you learn what things you can put with what, and make low sauces etc. You could have a fry up for your breakfast everyday and still loose weight!
When your two weeks are up you can then increase your daily carbohydrate intake to 50 grams a day, which does help.
When I first started, I only done it for the two weeks and I lost 12lbs. I am now doing it again, I have just finished my first week and I have lost 4lbs already. At first I did loose it slowly but the second week I lost the most. You are using up your body fat, because when you eat loads of carbohydrates it is quick energy, so if you don’t use all of your quick energy it will turn itself into fat, which will build up
into body fat. That is why they say that low fat diets will make you gain weight in the end because you are eating more carbohydrates. But by eating low carbohydrates you are having slow energy, which you can use over time and will run out so you have to use your stored energy which is your body fat. (I hope that made sense)
My conclusion is that it is a good diet to go on, but I don’t think I could do it all the while because I love my pasta too much. The Atkins Diet books are very good, one explains to you how your body works while you are on the diet and the other book has recipes in it, most are savoury but there are some sweets in there too. We tried the cheesecake, it doesn’t have the biscuit bottom, but it is very nice. Another thing about this diet, you are never hungry after a meal!

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