Description
Book SynopsisFollow the Dr Atkins'' Diet and forget counting calories. Watch the fat melt away as a healthier and firmer body emerges. Enjoy more energy as well as freedom from a range of ailments from diabetes to heart disease. Essentially a low carbohydrate plan, the Atkins'' Diet boosts your metabolic rate and once your metabolism is changed, your body adjusts to a new way of burning fat. Dieting can work, and with this medically proven regime you can lose weight without reducing - or counting - calories.
On the Atkins'' Diet you can:
-Eat luxuriously and feel completely satisfied
-Experience the metabolic boost the Atkins'' Diet provides
-Use a maintenance diet that will ensure you never become fat again
-Enjoy mouth-watering, gourmet recipes
In this edition the world''s number one diet expert has updated his proven program to include: new low-carb recipes for breakfast, lunch and dinner; brand new case studies and the very latest scientific research.
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Table of Contents
- 1: Preface
- 1: Why Atkins Works
- 1: The Promise
- 2: Understanding Some Basics
- 3: How You’ll Succeed
- 4: Is This You? Three Types Who Need to Control Their Carbohydrates
- 5: Understanding the Importance of Insulin
- 6: The Great Fat Meltdown
- 7: Is There a Metabolic Advantage? You Be the Judge
- 8: The Complexities of Carbohydrates
- 9: Facts and Fallacies About the Atkins Nutritional Approach
- 2: How to Do Atkins – Today and for Life
- 10: Before You Begin
- 11: And Away You Go: The Induction Phase
- 12: Time to Review Your Results
- 13: Are You Ready for Phase Two?
- 14: Ongoing Weight Loss: The Second Phase of Atkins
- 15: Engine Stalled? How to Get Past a Plateau
- 16: Pre-Maintenance: Prepare for Permanent Slimness
- 17: Lifetime Maintenance
- 18: A Regimen to Jump-Start Weight Loss
- 19: Eating in the Real World
- 3: Part Three – Understanding Health and Well-Being
- 20: Metabolic Resistance: Causes and Solutions
- 21: The Psychology of Weight Loss: Behavioral Changes for a Healthier Life
- 22: Exercise: It’s Non-Negotiable
- 23: Nutritional Supplements: Don’t Even Think of Getting Along Without Them!
- 4: Disease Prevention
- 24: The Perilous Path to Diabetes
- 25: Yeast Reactions
- 26: Food Intolerances: Why We Each Require a Unique Diet
- 27: Lifetime Protection for Your Heart
- 28: Spreading the Word
- 5: Food and Recipes
- 29: Food and Recipes to Help You Do Atkins
- 30: The Recipes
- 31: Carbohydrate Gram Counter
- 2: References
- 3: Index
