Atkins Diet Plan - Get To Grips

Atkins Diet Plan is a diet plan that is based on the belief that food is fuel for the body. By lowering your dietary carbohydrate intake and increasing your fat and protein intake, your metabolism (rate body burns calories) will be changed and your body will begin to burn fat as fuel. This is a process called lipolysis but the state in which the body burns fat as fuel is ketosis. Atkins diet plans and other similar type diets, have weight loss as their goal.

The Atkins diet for weight loss uses a four-phase system. In phase 1, the induction phase, you reduce your dietary carbohydrate intake to 20 grams a day. Phase 2 - Ongoing Weight loss is the time in the plan when you begin to add carbohydrates in the form of nutrient dense, fiber rich foods to your diet in increments of 5 grams a day until weight loss stops. Then you decrease your dietary carbohydrate intake by 5 grams as long as you continue moderate weight loss.

Phase 3 is the time in the diet when you begin to increase your daily dietary intake of carbohydrates by 10 grams increments as long as you continue with a very gradual weight loss. Phase 4 of the Atkins diet, Lifetime maintenance is the phase you begin to add to your diet greater variety of foods with carbohydrate control. The sustained weight loss gives dieters a sense of well being.

The Atkins dietary program seems to be somewhat confusing and apt to allow dieters to experience the yo-yo of typical dieting programs. Unless a dieter keeps a food journal and receives support throughout the beginning of their diet plan, it would be difficult to maintain the finer points of the Atkins diet. Planning meals ahead of time is a preferred way of keeping track of things.

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