A diet plan just is not appealing unless one can see that
it has promise in achieving the desired weight loss. This
is one of the things that are great about the Atkins Diet
Plan in that you can see its promise very quickly in the
way of quick weight loss. Yes, it's true that this diet
offers the benefits of better health due to once again
attaining a healthy weight but the promise of rapid initial
weight loss seems to be the big appeal to this diet.
The Atkins Diet is known as the diet that initially cuts
out those bad carbohydrates and replaces the diet with
high-protein / high-fat foods. It's that diet where one
"can eat all the bacon he or she wants." The science behind
the Atkins Diet is when your body no longer has these
carbohydrates it will switch to burning stored fat during a
stage called Ketosis. The tough part about the diet is that
initially in the first two weeks there are no
carbohydrates—practically none at all.
Those first two weeks are a period of eating a lot of
high-protein, fatty, and oily foods. Most think it's a
great eating a lot of this type of food because it is tasty
too. But as we all know, too much fat of this nature in our
diets can be bad for us in a different way. So you should
eat what we would call "beneficial" fats and keep your
intake low of the other type. Beneficial fats include those
found in products such as nuts, butter (not margarine),
canola oil, and olive oil. Foods containing omega-3 fatty
acids such as fish are also beneficial. Avoid foods with
polyunsaturated fats.
After the initial loss phase, the second beneficial part of
the Atkins diet is the maintenance phase. During this
phase, the goal is to identify the optimum level of
carbohydrate intake a person can have and still maintain a
healthy weight. That level should be one where the person
neither gains weight nor loses weight. So, as mentioned
before, some carbohydrates are allowed back into a person's
diet and results are monitored to identify the optimum
level of carbohydrate intake.
The Atkins diet is also beneficial in reducing the risk of
a person developing diseases associated with being
overweight like Type 2 Diabetes. In diseases like these,
sugar is an enemy. The Atkins Diet is a high-fat and
high-protein diet so there is nothing to affect a person's
blood sugar and insulin levels in a detrimental way. By
losing the weight now, people can avoid all the medical
complications that could come later in life.
And what's really great about the Atkins Diet is that you
as a person will start to look and feel better. Carrying
around a lot of weight is hard. Often people who are
overweight will complain about being tired all the time.
Well, if your blood sugar is unstable and you have to carry
around so many excess pounds, of course you are going to be
tired. People with overweight conditions oftentimes have
problems with bloating from gas and acid reflux disease.
These tend to disappear as the person gets his or her
weight going down because there is less tightness with
internal organs of your body.
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