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    Atkins Diet

    Overview
    Famished over a steak glazed with béarnaise sauce with eggs and bacon? How about cheddar cheese omelets in a roquefort dressing coupled with a steamy silky, smooth avocado cream soup? If you're religiously following the infamous Atkins diet then here is wonderful news for you, you're allowed to munch all of those.

    The Atkins diet is grounded on a belief that overweight individuals take in too a lot carbohydrates. It is a fact that the body burn both carbohydrates and fats for energy but the latter is consumed first. By significantly toning down on carbohydrates and consuming more protein, people will naturally lose pounds.

    Such program of Atkins diet promises not only to shed some weight by not starving yourself but by lessening carbohydrate consumption, you're on the path to an ameliorated heart health and better memory function along with other wellness benefits.

    How It Works
    The body goes into a state of ketosis when you restrict carbohydrates severely to a mere fraction seen in a typical American food- cutback. It means that it burns its own fats for fuel. An individual in ketosis is obtaining energy from ketones, tiny carbon pieces that are the stimulators that are produced by the breakdown of fat stores. As a result, you do not feel hungry thus when you eat, you just take in a little. With the proper application, your body transforms into carbohydrate- burning machine into a fat- burning motor.

    Phases
    In an Atkins diet, there are four phases namely induction, ongoing weight loss, pre- maintenance and lifetime maintenance. They would be briefly discussed below.
    * Induction
    The the bulk restrictive, it's purposely to bring about the body to penetrate into a state of ketosis. The carbohydrate consumption is restricted up to only 20 net grams per day. The permitted foods are only meats, cheeses, creams and salad vegetables that have a particular measure each.
    * Ongoing weight loss
    This consist of a bolster in carbohydrate consumption however, it remains on a level where pounds would be shed off. In a weekly basis, the target carbohydrate consumption is only up to five grams. The goal is to search for the "critical carbohydrate level for losing".
    * Pre- maintenance
    There is once again an augment to the consumption of carbohydrate. It is where the aim is to find the "critical carbohydrate level for maintenance". This refers to the biggest number of carbohydrates that you consume every day without adding some pounds.
    * Lifetime maintenance
    This is where the application of the preceeding three will still be applied. This is to brush off that mindset of having that "common end- diet" where people can now return to their previous habits and weight. Foods advised here are those that are whole and unprocessed.

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