Only people with remarkable self-discipline or those who really don ' t get pleasure from eating are likely to succeed on low-fat diets. Atkins represents a completely different way.
When you do Atkins, you eliminate virtually all refined sugar and flour and processed foods. Instead, you ' re in an alliance with Mother Nature, who really did provide for us very well. You bought this book to lose weight, and I ' m going to have to make you healthier, too. When doing Atkins, you couldn ' t separate those results, even if you wanted to.
KEY POINTS!
• It is not true that the only way to lose weight is to limit your intake of calories.
• When you control carbohydrate consumption sufficiently, your body will switch from burning glucose, derived from carbohydrate, to burning primarily fat as its energy source.
• You burn more calories when your body is operating on a fat metabolism.
• Atkins has repeatedly been proven to take off more fat than other weight loss programs when an equal number of calories is consumed.
• By drastically increasing the intake of carbohydrate, the American diet has changed dramatically in the past sixty years.
• In the past twenty years the incidence of lifestyle-related diseases such as obesity, diabetes and heart disease has increased by leaps and bounds.
A FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTION:
Is it true that the Atkins Nutritional Approach is really just another low-calorie diet? Some people think this, but it ' s not true. Atkins isn ' t about counting calories. Those who are doing Atkins may be eating fewer calories as a result of being less hungry and less obsessed with food. This occurs for two reasons:
1. Stable blood sugar throughout the day ensures that you will have fewer food cravings or false hunger pains.
2. The food eaten by a person doing Atkins( meat, fish, cheese, nuts, eggs, low-sugar / lowstarch vegetables and fruit) is less processed and more nutritious than the typical pre- Atkins menu. Give a body fewer empty calories, provide it with more nutrient-dense alternatives, and the body will logically be satisfied sooner and require less food.
TIPS:
• Eliminate from your kitchen sugar and all products that contain sugar.
• When grocery shopping, stick to the aisles on the perimeters of the store. The center aisles are where the junk food and processed food lurk.
• Look for-and purchase-the ever-increasing selection of controlled carbohydrate food alternatives to low-fat, high-sugar foods.
• Use a carbohydrate gram counter-such as the one bound into this book-to count carbs.
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