![]() Atkins Diet Food List – All about Atkins Diet and Low Carb Food. How to use the Atkins Diet Food List. Atkins diet and low carbohydrate diet resources for all low carb diet plans: Research, recipes, information, support forums, tools and tips for all low carb dieters. A delicious meal with eggs, bacon and salad. Trust me, I know how difficult it can be to lose weight, I’ve been there. I understand that when all you want to do is lose weight fast and safely, you don’t want to be bombarded with irrelevant or misleading information. ![]() All you really need is a simple food list that tells you what foods you can eat and what foods you can’t. We all know that you need a balanced diet of healthy foods to lose weight, but sometimes it’s difficult to know where to begin. If you work all week, and also run a busy home, then the last thing you want when you’re buying the weekly food shop is to be sidetracked. Having to think about what you need to buy for your weight loss plan as well as for the rest of the family is an inconvenience you could do without. You just want a clear and simple list with diet food – so that selecting the right foods becomes second nature to you, and something you don’t have to keep worrying about. After all, life is complicated enough already! So now you have a list of the foods you are allowed to eat in phase 1 of the new Atkins diet plan. But how do you use this list on a day-to-day basis?![]() ![]() Which is the whole reason why I have put together this site. Why diet in the first place? ![]() Being overweight can quickly become overwhelming. There is a huge emotional factor that can’t be underestimated.
![]() ![]() ![]() Your whole life can become completely consumed first by your unhealthy relationship with food, and then by your desire to change it. Once you’ve made the decision, if you are anything like me, you’ll probably find you want to find fast ways to lose weight, and will start looking for easy weight loss diets. But these quick fix diets aren’t as easy to follow as the Atkins. It may sound like a clich. After the birth of my second child the baby weight just didn’t disappear, in fact more fat just kept creeping on until I had ballooned. I felt that my life was spiraling out of control – even just thinking about starting a diet had me breaking down in tears. I couldn’t face the prospect of failing again. ![]() My moment of clarity came when I went on a trip to the funfair with my eldest son – he wanted to ride on the roller- coaster, it was his first time and he was so excited, but when the safety bar came down it wouldn’t fit over me. We both had to get out of the car in front of everyone – people I knew and who my son went to school with. Humiliating (for me and for him) is an understatement. So why choose the Atkins diet plan over all the rest? There are hundreds of diets out there – believe me when I say I think I’ve tried about 9. The Paleolithic diet, the Special K diet, the yeast free diet, hey I’m even old enough to have tried the F- Plan diet – anyone else remember eating can after can of baked beans? So this time I wanted a diet that was going to be easy to follow, give fast results and be something I knew I could stick to in the long term. After looking around I decided that The Atkins Nutritional Approach seemed like the best choice for me, and besides I already knew people who had shed tens of pounds by following the healthy diet plans, so I knew it worked. How does the diet plan work? If this is your first introduction to the Atkins diet, then you may be asking yourself, what is this diet? Well, the Atkins diet plan was developed by Dr Robert Atkins way back in 1. Atkins was a scientist, who was also overweight, and he devised his diet to help himself lose weight, and consequently help millions of other people worldwide to do the same by following the plan and using the food list – a low carb food list and high protein diet plan that guarantees results. Put simply, tis diet involves limiting your intake of carbohydrates so that your body switches from metabolizing (burning up) glucose and switches over to burning fat in a process called ketosis – so, instead of using carbohydrates for energy your body uses fat. Digested carbohydrates convert to glucose (sugar), which is transported in your bloodstream. This glucose triggers the release of a hormone called insulin. Glucose can’t be stored in the body so the body uses it for energy first, rather than using fat, which incidentally can be stored in unlimited quantities in the body (mostly on my hips and backside it would seem!). Atkins argued that rises in insulin levels after a carb- heavy meal causes the blood sugar to fluctuate wildly, giving us short bursts of energy followed by periods of tiredness and hunger, whereas a low carb diet keeps the blood sugar levels more constant and so your energy levels also remain steady. Eating a diet high in protein, fat and fiber means the body has less glucose to burn first, and so it starts to burn fat instead. Once your body is using fat as its primary source of energy it will mean that you will start to lose weight. To get the body into this fat burning mode foods that are high in carbohydrates have to be avoided during the first two weeks of the diet (the induction phase), after which time they are gradually reintroduced. It’s all made a lot easier by using the food list to select the right foods which will induce ketosis, and therefore encourage weight loss. If you want to know more about the science behind the diet and how it works, then take a look this page, What is the Atkins Diet? For your motivation, take a look at this short video: The Four Phases: The diet is broken down into four distinct phases. These phases are there to ensure that you lose weight fast and safe. It also means that you won’t be on the same restrictive phase forever! The food list for Atkins diet followers explains what you are allowed to eat in each phase. Phase 1 Induction. This lasts for two weeks and is the most restrictive phase of the whole diet. You eat three main meals a day (or five to six smaller ones if you prefer) choosing items from the Atkins diet food list. There are a few basic rules you must follow.* You should not go for longer than six waking hours without eating. This means you can choose how many meals a day you will need to have based around your working hours or lifestyle.* Every meal should be made up of at least 1. See the foods to eat during the diet induction phase for a list of high protein foods.* If possible, include one tablespoon of oil, or a pat of butter, on your meat, salad or vegetables at each meal.* Eat up to 2. Acceptable Foods List”, you can find details of this diet food list below.* Each day you can also have up to 1. It is recommended that you should drink at least eight glasses of water per day. Make those normal sized or big glasses, not too small.* You are also advised to take a daily multivitamin tablet and some omega 3 oil (like fish oil or krill oil). There is more detail on this first phase if you go to the Atkins diet induction page. Phase 2 Ongoing Weight Loss. The OWL phase, where the net carb allowance is gradually increased to a point where weight loss is still ongoing. This is done by increasing your daily net carbs by 5g a day, so that you keep losing weight. If your weight plateaus or you start to put it back on again, you’ve added too many additional carbs! It’s a balancing game to find out how many carbs your body can take in and still be able to shed fat. You can use the Atkins carb counter to help during this transitional phase. Phase 3 Pre- maintenance. This phase starts when you are within ten pounds of your goal weight. Once again, you will start to increase your net carb intake as well as introducing extra foods until your weight loss slows and starts to maintain at the same level. Phase 4 Lifetime maintenance. Here, you commit to a healthy lifestyle to keep the pounds off! You will still need to keep an eye on what you are eating, using the food list and Atkins carb counter will help you to do this. An “Essentials” Food list for Atkins diet followers. I just wish that someone had written out an food list for me when I first began. Knowing what foods to eat would have made the first month or two a whole lot easier for me. A trip to the food store would have been a treat and not the chore it would inevitably turn into. I would stand in the aisles and panic, not knowing what foods were on the Atkins diet plan, then I’d pick up what I thought I could eat only to find out when I got home that it was not suitable for Atkins recipes. Fortunately my steady weight loss kept me going, and I soon got the hang of the Atkins diet menu. But you don’t have to struggle like I did. I’ve done all the hard work for you, just use the food list for Atkins diet followers that I’ve compiled especially for all of my fellow weight loss friends out there! Foods to eat during the induction phase. The induction phase lasts for two weeks, it is designed to kick start your body into burning fat. All of the foods below are carb free and can be eaten freely.* Meat. This means all types of unprocessed meat: beef, pork, lamb, veal, mutton, ostrich, reindeer, crocodile, kangaroo, camel – and anything else you can find at your butchers. If the meat is processed you will need to check for any added carbohydrate, if you see it listed in the ingredients then either count the carbs or avoid it.* Fish and shellfish. Any unprocessed. Haddock, tuna, cod, prawns, oysters, lobster, crab – any, yes any fish and shellfish.* Poultry, fowl and game. Any unprocessed. For example, chicken, turkey, duck, venison, pigeon.* Fats. Butter. Oils (vegetable and olive). Mayonnaise (with no added sugar).* Eggs. In any style, scrambled, deviled, fried, poached, boiled, etc. Hen, chicken, goose,duck – all types of eggs are included.* Cream. Single or double. Use in your coffee instead of milk (you can water it down first if you prefer).* Drinks. Water, diet tonic, zero calorie flavored waters,tea and coffee. Caffeine should be taken in moderation, and decaffeinated is preferable.* The following herbs and spices can also be eaten freely (as long as they do not contain sugar): basil, cayenne pepper, coriander, dill, oregano, pepper, rosemary, sage, tarragon. Foods to limit during induction.
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