Atkins for Life: The Complete Controlled Carb Program for Permanent Weight Loss and Good Health - Softcover

Atkins, Robert C. M. D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312315236 ISBN 13: 9780312315238

Verlag: St. Martins Press-3PL, 2004

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Taking it to the Next Level

Whether you've lost weight doing Atkins and want to make your success permanent or you're new to Atkins and are concerned about your health and weight control, Atkins for Life is for you. Filled with advice and tips on navigating the everyday challenges that come with eating low carb in a high carb world, the book provides a simple and straightforward lifetime program that anyone can follow. With Atkins for Life, finding your ideal weight and staying there has never been so easy or so good!

Dig In And Discover:

-200 menu plans-that adds up to over six months of menus! With controlled carbohydrate counts of 45, 60, 80, and 100 grams, anyone can succeed on the plan.

-125 recipes, including tasty breakfasts, fabulous lunches, delicious dinners, and smart snacks.

- How to create special holiday meals and fantastic ethnic cuisines ... the low carb way!

- Before and after photos and success stories -with time-tested tips from those who've been there and won their battle with weight.

- Self-tests and quizzes to help you meet and stay with your goals.

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Atkins for Life

The Complete Controlled Carb Program for Permanent Weight Loss and Good Health

By Robert C. Atkins

St. Martin's Press

Copyright © 2004 Atkins Nutritionals, Inc.
All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-0-312-31523-8

Contents

Acknowledgments, 
Introduction: It's a Lifestyle ..., 
Foreward, 
Part One: A Lifetime Plan, 
1. The Atkins Advantage, 
2. A Lifetime of Health, 
3. Yes, You Can Eat Carbs!, 
4. The Skinny on Fat and Protein, 
5. Putting It All into Practice, 
6. Get Moving!, 
7. Everyday Challenges, 
8. Looking Forward, 
Part Two: Eating for Life, 
Getting Your Kitchen in Order, 
How to Use These Meal Plans, 
Thirty Meal Plans at Each Level, 
• 45g Net Carbs per day, 
• 60g Net Carbs per day, 
• 80g Net Carbs per day, 
• 100g Net Carbs per day, 
Twenty Meal Plans for Special Occasions, 
• 45g Net Carbs per day, 
• 60g Net Carbs per day, 
• 80g Net Carbs per day, 
• 100g Net Carbs per day, 
Carb Counting Made Easy, 
125 Recipes for Success, 
References, 
Index, 

CHAPTER 1

The Atkins Advantage

It really comes down to this: How would you prefer to spend the rest of your life:

A. Munching celery sticks, weighing your portions, and never feeling really satisfied with your food?

B. Eating a wide variety of delicious foods in satisfying amounts — and enjoying every bite?

Why would any sane person not choose answer B? Here's another question: Of the choices above, which one will allow you to achieve and maintain a healthy weight, enhance your health and sense of well-being, and provide you with the satisfaction of being in control of your life? Did you choose answer A? If you did, we have a big surprise for you — the correct answer is B.

This is not a trick question. When you do Atkins, you really do get to eat all kinds of delicious, healthful foods and you never need to go hungry. If your goal is to slim down, your weight will go down — steadily, easily, and for good. If your goal is good health and disease prevention, your energy level will go up — dramatically — and your risk parameters for a myriad of health problems will decline. So say farewell to the daily struggle of a restrictive diet and get ready to embark on doing Atkins for life!

Controlling Carbs for Life

When you follow the Atkins Nutritional Approach&#153, you simply control the amount of carbohydrates you eat. Much depends upon your metabolism, gender, age, and activity level. As you do Atkins over time, you'll learn your own threshold for carbohydrate consumption, which is the amount of carbs you can eat each day while neither gaining nor losing weight. We call that your Atkins Carbohydrate Equilibrium&#153, or ACE" for short. ACE is the place you are aiming for. But first, if you still have a roll around your waist — or other excess baggage to shed — you'll learn to determine how many carbs you can consume each day to achieve your goal weight.

In the weight-loss phases of Atkins (see The Four Phases of Atkins on page 5), your objective will be to eat as many "good" carbs as you can handle and to cut out virtually all "bad" carbs. This means no conventional bread, baked goods, and pasta and nothing made with added sugar. Even nutritious carb foods, such as brown rice, lentils, and sweet potatoes will be off the menu until you are close to your goal weight, when most people can reintroduce a surprising variety to their diet. Does this mean going hungry? Absolutely not, because during weight loss you replace those empty calories with a wide assortment of delicious, nutrient-dense, and fiber-rich vegetables and protein-packed foods such as poultry, eggs, fish, meat, and cheese.

Once you have achieved and are maintaining a healthy weight, you will be able to enjoy many of those formerly forbidden foods, so long as you proceed with moderation. The Atkins difference is quality. Instead of empty carbohydrates in the form of worthless white flour and sugar, you'll be eating highly nutritious fruits such as strawberries, blueberries, and kiwifruit; nuts and seeds; virtually all veggies; and even moderate portions of beans and whole grains.

In fact, when you are doing Atkins for life, things aren't as black-and-white as they were in the initial phases of the program. Instead of "good" and "bad" carbs, you'll learn more subtle distinctions that will guide you in your food choices. You'll find that some carbohydrate foods are more favorable than others. Not surprisingly, the more favorable a carb food, the more frequently you'll be able to eat it. Eating the controlled carbohydrate way will almost certainly lead to weight loss if you're overweight, but Atkins is hardly a fad or crash diet. In fact, it's just the opposite. Doing Atkins is a lifetime commitment to good nutrition and improved health, one that works easily in the "real" world of family meals, social and business activities, eating in restaurants, and traveling. Not only do you slim down if you need to, but you'll be able to keep off those unwanted pounds for life. (If you have a lot of weight to lose, we advise you to begin the Atkins program with its first phase, called Induction.

Why It Works

When you do Atkins for life, you don't count calories, nor do you deprive yourself of a variety of wholesome foods. Instead, you enjoy great, low carb food in satisfying portions. Why does this lead so easily to weight loss, and then to weight maintenance and better health? According to the conventional wisdom about dieting, just the opposite should happen. To answer that essential question, let's take a closer look at exactly what's in your food.

Basically, everything you eat is made up of some combination of three components: protein, fat, and carbohydrates, along with some water and ash (mineral content), as well as vitamins, and other nutrients.

• Protein. Proteins are made of long, complex chains of amino acids, which in turn are the basic building blocks of your body. You need protein to build and maintain your muscles, bones, organs, and other tissues and to keep your body functioning. In fact, aside from your bones and water, your body is made up almost entirely of protein. Complete dietary protein, meaning it contains all of the essential amino acids, is found in meat, poultry, eggs, fish, shellfish, and dairy products and other animal foods. Plant foods such as seeds, nuts, beans, and whole grains also contain some protein, but these proteins aren't complete — they're missing some of the essential amino acids necessary for good health. Soybeans are the most complete vegetable source, missing only the essential amino acid methionine. (The high heat required to process some soy foods destroys some of these essential amino acids.)

• Fat. Also known as lipids, dietary fats are complex molecules that don't dissolve in water. There are different kinds of fat — some that are really good for you, especially essential fatty acids, and others, such as hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated oils that you should avoid at all costs. Oils are dietary fats that are liquid at room temperature. You'd never know it from the fat phobia that surrounds us, but your body absolutely must have fat for many vital purposes, including making hormones, building cell walls, and storing energy. Dietary fat comes from animal foods and dairy products, including...

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: St. Martins Press-3PL
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0312315236
• ISBN 13: 9780312315238
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 394
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