Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution

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Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution
Robert C. Atkins | 2001-12-01 00:00:00 | Harper | 560 | Diets

Weight loss, weight maintenance, good health and disease prevention through the Atkins nutritional approach.

Dr. Atkins' original Diet Revolution helped millions lose weight and maintain their weight loss for life. His sensational follow-up, Dr Atkins' New Diet Revolution, concentrated on total wellness in addition to weight loss -- and spent more than four years on the New York Times bestseller list. Now the world's #1 diet and complementary medicine expert has updated his proven program for a new century-offering essential new information based on scientifically supported controlled carbohydrate principles that helps people re-energize their life by re-balancing their nutrition so that they look good, feel good, lose weight and keep it off.

The new updated diet revolution includes:

• All you need to know to jump-start your weight loss and lifetime of well-being
• New controlled carbohydrate recipes for delicious breakfasts, lunches, dinners and desserts
• Brand-new case studies

Detailed information in the Atkins Nutritional Principles and the solid foundation of medical and scientific research to support them

With Dr Atkins' New Diet Revolution, you can eat the delicious meals you love-from cheeseburgers to mouth-watering gourmet entrees (recipes included)-- and kick-start your metabolism so that you burn fat for energy. You can reduce the risk factors associated with certain major health problems, including chronic fatigue, diabetes and high blood pressure. And, you can increase your energy level, improve your overall health and well-being and apply the knowledge and tools you need to truly achieve and sustain permanent weight loss.

Designed to catapult your body into a state of fat meltdown, Dr. Atkins's diet has taken America by storm. It targets insulin, the hormone that regulates blood sugar levels. The bodies of most overeaters are continually in a state of hyperinsulinism; their bodies are so adept at releasing insulin to help convert excess carbohydrates to fat that there's always too much of the hormone circulating through the body. This puts the body into a bind; it always wants to store fat. Even when people with hyperinsulinism try to lose weight--especially when they cut fat but increase carbohydrate consumption--their efforts will fail. This is why Dr. Atkins refers to insulin as "the fat-producing hormone."

Dr. Atkins's diet is extremely low in carbohydrates, which helps to regulate insulin production and decrease circulating insulin; less insulin soon results in less fat storage and fewer food cravings. The diet is far from torturous, though--those who've tried it attest that hunger is not a part of this plan. Ninety percent of Dr. Atkins's patients--more than 25,000 of them--have experienced dramatic weight loss. The book includes recipes for such luscious, low-carb dishes as lobster soup, zabaglione, sea bass, and blueberry ice cream, and even includes a carbohydrate gram counter and menus.
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This is the first diet that's worked for me. After college and as I aged I started picking up more and more weight. I tried many of the popular diets but the weight kept gradually coming on despite my being an active sportsman.



Then at work one day after I commented to a friend about all the diets I've tried with no success, she suggested I borrow her book on the Adkins Diet. I liked what I started reading so I bought my own copy. I noticed it consisted of 3 sub-diets--and the first sub-diet is the one that gets all the flak. The first is the 2-week boot-camp version where where you're cold-turkey cutting out carbs like breads, cereals and noodles and other carbs and sugars. I tried this and noticed weight loss gains within those first two weeks. Impressive. I then switched to the 2nd sub-diet with continued weight loss gains. I'm now on the 3rd sub-diet. That means I eat disciplined almost all of the time and then for a special occasion like a weekend or party, I'll enjoy a little something. Like noodles, which I love, or a pie and ice cream.



What's great about the diet is it gives you control. You know now what affects your weight so you can decide when to get on and off the diet. When you have that control you realize you're in command of your weight--which means you can realize your weight is your responsibility and your weight is under your control. You're at the helm. So when you look in the mirror you realize this is where you have gotten yourself and if you want to change it--you know what to do.



A last comment. You'll realize by watching your weight level being under your control that it's a function of your diet and your exercise level. As I get older I don't have as much time for the exercise part so that means I have to put more emphasis on the diet side. I still exercise 20-30 minutes a day, but I used to exercise 60 minutes a day. Again, though, the Adkins diet gives you the controls over your weight. And my annual physical results at the doctor have continued to show great results over the 10 years I've been on this diet.



I would recommend to anyone that, assuming they have no special diet issues, they try this diet and see if it works for them. But try it sincerely. Really eat and stop eating what it says for that first diet/sub-diet. Good luck and happy weight loss and then weight control for the rest of your life.
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If you're contemplating doing the Atkins Diet, this is the book to buy. The version of the diet in this book is far better than the newer book that has been published by Atkins lately.



What can I say about the diet? It's not an easy diet. No bread make lunches a challenge, and the ability grab fast food for a quick meal is definitely a drawback. If you don't cook, this could be a problem.



But when I am on the diet, I can say the following:



1. I feel GREAT! My energy level is higher.

2. I sleep better

3. Heartburn completely gone. No more need to take Prilosec daily

4. I am much more alert and awake

5. I think and focus better

6. My blood tests come back with much better numbers

7. I am never sleepy after a meal

8. I lose weight without starving myself

9. The diet is a natural appetite suppressant. I never find myself snacking.



My doctor thought the Atkins diet was dangerous. In the 90s he totally tried to get me off the diet, but 1 year later I was 75 pound lighter and blood chemistry looked great. Way better than it was a year earlier.



I won't lie to you. I have fallen off the wagon twice, for extended periods of time. And every time I go back on the diet, I am absolutely amazed at how GOOD I feel when I am eating low carb. I am on it now, and hope to stay on it for good. I really don't want to give up feeling this good every day.
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this book is great... if you are apprehensive about Low carbing...Don't be. this book will tell you it all and you will lose weight trust me... i have lost 20 pounds and a lot of inches. I've changed the way I eat and have changed my mine on eating the way I used to. This book helped.... Thanks
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I personally would rather a straight forward "DO THIS" approach, rather than all the explanations and history of this diet. I think a book on "why" and a book on "how" would have set me in the right direction much sooner. Over all good book however.
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Im not into long reviews. I don't like reading long reviews myself so I wont bore you. I tried the diet and it worked. In the first two weeks alone I lost 20 pounds without exercise. In 6 months I lost 70 pounds. I put other friends on it and they had similar results. It's now 5 years since I went on Atkins and Im still thin and energetic. Im 40 years old and look as if Im in my late 20's. (A by-product of the glutathione and other vitamins found naturally in beef). It works and its as simple as that.

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