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And Away You Go: The Induction Phase
First of all, let me welcome those of you who are starting the book at this point. While I admire your sense of efficiency, I think you are cheating yourself of the information that will provide long-term success. Only by reading the first ten chapters will you have a full understanding of why Atkins works and of the preparations that will increase your chances for permanent lifetime control of your weight, long-term health and well-being.
Induction is only the first phase-the way you get the weight loss ball rolling-not the whole Atkins Nutritional Approach. I call it Induction because its purpose is to induce weight loss by changing your body ' s chemistry so that you will achieve, perhaps for the first time in your life, lipolysis and the companion process of ketosis, as explained in Chapter 6. Induction is designed to do all of the following for you:
• Efficiently switch your body from a carbohydrate-burning metabolism to a primarily fatburning( your fat!) metabolism.
• Stabilize your blood sugar and abruptly halt a myriad of symptoms indicative of unstable blood sugar, such as fatigue, mood swings, brain fog and an inability to function at your best.
• Curb your cravings by stabilizing your blood sugar.
• Break addictions to foods such as sugar, wheat or corn derivatives, alcohol, caffeine, grain or any other food. For people addicted to sugary, high-carb or high-glycemic foods just as for alcoholics-moderation simply does not work.
• Let you experience firsthand the metabolic advantage discussed in Chapter 7.
• Knock your socks off by demonstrating how much body fat you can burn, while eating liberally, even luxuriously, off the fat of the land.
The Induction phase is not going to be your lifelong way of eating. It will last a minimum of fourteen days, after which you should see a significant result.
In a later phase, I will teach you a series of steps that will enable you to craft your own personalized eating plan. This plan will be geared to create the best possible balance between your metabolic responses, your tastes and lifestyle and your total health profile.
Rules of Induction
Another purpose of the Induction phase is to demonstrate to you that even you can lose weight while eating luxuriously. But it must be followed precisely for success! If you do it at all incorrectly you may prevent weight loss and end up saying, " Here is another weight loss plan
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