Atkins diet is the easiest way for weight lose and good health. The Atkins diet is composed of two parts – the reduction and support. The first part: changing the metabolic processes and the achievement of physical and psychological habituation to a new style of food. The second part is intended to gradually achieve the desired weight and maintain it during later life without the restrictions of caloric and nutritional values. The first phase continues two weeks, the second, the whole future life.
The proteins allowed include meat, fish, poultry, and eggs, an pure fats such as olive oil, butter, and mayonnaise.
Here are some benefits of the Atkins Diet plan:
- Atkins Diet helps you to lose weight, feel and look better.
- Atkins Diet helps you to lose weight without the need to count calories or fat intake.
- When you cut down carbohydrates, your body converts from using carbohydrates for energy to burning fat as the primary energy source.
Terms of reducing diets.
1. The daily consumption of carbohydrates must not exceed 20 grams per day. For the vast majority of people ketosis – the process of splitting fat, starts at that level.
2. You do not need to observe restrictions on the number of calories and food, but should be eaten only when you are hungry and stop eating when satisfied. With little hunger is recommended to eat a small snack, allowable in the diet.
3. There are some strict limitations. If food is not included in the diet, it is recommended to avoid its use even in the form of samples, as well as the small amount of carbohydrate-rich products negates the effectiveness of the efforts.
4. Diet consists of protein, fat and their combinations. Products that contain combinations of proteins and carbohydrates or fats with carbohydrates, must be strictly EXCLUDED for all 14 days of diet.
Unlimited use of the following products
All kinds of meat, all kinds of fish, all kinds of poultry.
Seafood – contains little carbohydrates, it is desirable to look at the package. Eggs cooked without carbohydrate supplementation.
Cheese – all types of cheese in one way or another contain carbohydrates and therefore always necessary to read the information on the package.
Vegetables for salads: lettuce leaf, radish, chicory, Chinese cabbage, parsley, cucumber, fennel, paprika, celery.
The young shoots of seed sprouts – in small quantities.
Mushrooms. Olives. Radish. Herbs for salads and cooking: dill, thyme, pepper, tarhun, basil, ginger, rosemary, oregano, cayenne pepper, garlic.
For the filling salads it is desirable to use vegetable oil, plus lemon juice, vinegar and spices. You can add shredded cheese, eggs, fried diced bacon.
List of vegetables that can be consumed in limited quantities.
Cabbage all other species. Asparagus. Eggplant. Spinach. Zucchini. Green peas boiled or canned. Avocados. Tomatoes. Onions. Bamboo shoots. Artichokes, etc.
In small quantities, can be used for filling salad cream, but to include it in the total daily number of carbohydrates.
Drinks
Mineral water. Herbal teas without sugar. Alcohol should be avoided during a reducing diet, and further can be used taking into account the content of carbohydrates.
Allowed all natural vegetable oils: olive, nuts, soy, sesame, sunflower .Of the animal fats is preferable to fish oil and natural butter. Artificial fats such as margarine, is strictly prohibited. It is also important to avoid dietary fat products because they contain artificially produced oils and high content of carbohydrates.
After the end of 2-week reducing diet should be the necessary changes in the blood and metabolic processes. The main problem after that – the method of sample to find the appropriate level of individual consumption of carbohydrates, which is consistent with your goals.
If the desired weight has been achieved, it is necessary to stop at a level of consumption of carbohydrates, which do not inflict all the efforts.
October 15th, 2009
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