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5 Diets you need to know

December 18th, 2009 admin No comments

One of the most common New Year resolutions is to lose weight. It’s easy to say and difficult to maintain in reality unless you have a plan. The first step to having a plan is to be informed. Here are some basic facts on different diets. These all work for everyone, because this is why it’s important to know more than one. Find a diet that works for you and begin to lose weight!

1. The Medifast Diet Plan. Medifast for a meal is the program that sends you already packaged meals ready to eat. You eat five small meals a day, with choices ranging from soups to stews to desserts to snack shakes. In fact there are more than 60 meal options to choose from. One of the biggest advantages is the convenience. You do not have to cook or serve you, so that nutrition and portion control, you should not think.

2. South Beach Diet. The South Beach Diet is perfect for the person who desperately does not want to part with your crabs. This diet teaches you the difference between good crabs and bad crabs. Eating good carbohydrates are encouraged and let you enjoy good tasting food and still lose weight meet!

3. Atkins Diet. The Atkins diet cuts carbohydrates from your diet and encourages you to eat a variety of lean protein, leafy green vegetables, wholegrain cereals, fruits and nuts. You can also have snacks for Atkins bars and shakes to help you get all day. Since red meat and dairy products are allowed in this diet is perfect for those who don’t want to give up steak and butter.

4. The Diet Oprah. Since the recent news about Oprah’s dropped his weight loss plan, Bob Greene’s Best Life Diet has been in the news. In all reality, is not a diet? This is a change in lifestyle. It encourages healthy eating habits with regular exercise. Do not count your calories, but instead make better choices about what you are going to eat and practice portion control. Instead of stopping the old eating habits cold turkey, this plan allows you to slowly phase out.

5  Master Cleanse. The Master Cleanse is probably the most difficult diets, although in reality it is not the diet. It is a means to clean the body to eliminate unwanted toxins and waste. You can stay on the diet anywhere between 10-45 days, depending on your personal strength. It requires that you drink made from fresh lemons lemonade, maple syrup, water, and cayenne pepper. This diet is not for the faint of heart, and can be difficult to stay on. But if you want to lose a quick 10 to 15 pounds, may be the diet for you.

6. Just Add Water. If any of these diet plans seem a lot to you, always remember that if you just add more water to your diet, you will notice a lot of difference in your weight, and in the way it feels. Drink up to more than 2 liters a day decreases your hunger, and you will also help to eliminate toxins and waste from the body. Bring a bottle with you wherever you go. You’ll be sure to look and feel better in no time.

Whatever diet you choose, know that the best choice to eat is a choice for a better life. Eating properly is a way of life and improving the quality and possibly the duration of your life. Try to be informed about any diet that you try and talk to your doctor if you have concerns. If you ever fall for a diet or slip up, do not worry, keep going. Believe me; it is not easy for anyone.

How To Create Atkins Diet Menu Plan For Yourself?

June 23rd, 2009 admin No comments

The Atkins diet food pyramid places dietary emphasis on the protein sources as opposed to whole grain foods. The only limits that are placed are on the actual type of foods you can eat as opposed to the amount of foods you can intake.

Foods that should be excluded include:

• White rice or foods made with white flour like cake
• White bread
• Potatoes
• Pasta

Here are the foods you can eat liberally on this plan:

All fish including : tuna, salmon, sole, trout, flounder, sardines, herring

All fowl including : chicken, turkey, duck, goose, poussin, quail, phesant.

All shellfish including : oysters, mussels, lobster, clams, squid, prawns, crabmeat.

All meat including : beef, pork, lamb, bacon, veal, ham, venison.

All eggs including : scrambled, fried, poached, soft boiled, hard boiled, deviled, omelettes

The above included foods are made up of mainly proteins and fats as opposed to carbohydrates. With these foods it doesn’t matter about the calories since the prime focus is on carbohydrate minimization.

Atkins Diet Menu Plan

Atkins Diet - Sample Menu Day 1
Breakfast

3 Eggs, Scrambled with cream
4-6 Strips BaconCoffee or tea with Splenda and cream

Lunch

Chicken Salad(6 oz. Grilled Chicken

1T Romano Cheese

2c dark salad greens

2T Ranch Dressing

1 chopped hard boiled egg)

Dinner

Fish Fry (fish fillets dipped in egg and coated in whey protein and fried in vegetable oil)1 cup salad greens

¼ medium tomato

1 thin slice red onion

1 cup Broccoli rabe with butter

Snack

2 oz cheddar cheese,1 serving sugarfree jello

Atkins Diet - Sample Menu Day 2
Breakfast

Fried egg and bacon.Plus a cup of decaff coffee with single cream.
Lunch

Chicken breast topped with melted mozzarella and 170g mixed lettuce leaves tossed with olive oil.

Dinner

8oz pan-fried rump steak served with 80g spinach topped with soured cream.
Snack
2 slices ham.
Atkins Diet - Sample Menu Day 3
Breakfast

Omelet with Turkey Sausages

Lunch

Chicken salad served over chopped cucumber, radishes and watercress

Dinner

Creamy Dumplings SoupLemon Roast Chicken

Small green salad with vinaigrette

Snacks

10 to 20 olives

Atkins Diet - Sample Menu Day 4
Breakfast

2 hard boiled eggs and 4 strips of bacon

Lunch

4 cups of lettuce salad, w/shredded cheese and chicken breast (cut up)

Dinner

Steak/ chicken, meat crust pizza, 2-3 cheeseburgers, etc. W/ dinner I would have some string cheese.

Snacks

I drank 100+ ounces of water a day and would drink Crystal Light if I needed something else.

Atkins Diet - Sample Menu Day 5
Breakfast

Omelette (3 eggs scrambled with ¼ c cream, then filled with 2T “Spinach, Feta, and Pecorino” pasta stir-thru sauce, any brand)½ ham steak

Decaf Coffee or tea

Lunch

Salami and Cream Cheese roll-ups2 cups salad greens

2 T Dressing of Choice

Dinner

Creamy Almond Chicken (recipe is in the recipe section of this book)1c Broccoli

1c salad greens

1T Dressing of Choice

Snacks

1 ounce Swiss cheese

Atkins Diet - Sample Menu Day 6
Breakfast

Hamfried eggs

decaffeinated coffee

water

Lunch

Salad of 1/2 medium avocado1 small tomato and chicken with olive oil dressing

water.

Dinner

Prawn cocktail with a little iceberg lettuce and mayonnaise dressing, steak, 6 slices of cucumber and 1/2 small onion salad with sour cream, soda water

Snacks

Mocha granita

Atkins Diet - Sample Menu Day 7
Breakfast

Whitefish saladTwo tomato slices

Lunch

Ham, spinach and cheese omeletMixed green salad

Dinner

Pork Chops(Fry pork chops until brown. Remove from pan. Deglaze pan with cream and allow to reduce. Season with salt and pepper, serve over chops)

1 cup mashed cauliflower

(Boil or steam ½ head of cauliflower until tender. Mash with 2T butter and 1T cream. Add salt and pepper to taste.)

2 c salad greens

2 T dressing of choice

Snacks

Celery stuffed with Roasted Garlic and Vegetable Dip

This Atkins Diet Menu Plan is reasonably low in caloriesand would result in a weight loss of around 1-2lb a week for many people. However, it contains way too much fat. Healthy eating guidelines recommend that fewer than one third of calories come from fat, with no more than a tenth coming from saturates. In this day’s diet, 54 percent of calories come from fat and 24 percent come from saturates.

 

It’s also exceptionally high in protein. Most women need around 45g of protein and men around 55g of protein a day. This day’s menu contains around three times these amounts.

 

It’s also very low in carbsand fibre. For good health, around half of all calories should come from carbs and we should have 18g fibre each day. Just 2 percent of calories are coming from carbs with this menu and fibre intakes are considerably lower than recommended intakes.

Atkins diet plan : Induction Phase Allowed Foods

June 22nd, 2009 admin 1 comment

Atkins diet plan is mainly based on consuming high levels of protein and low levels of carbohydrates. It has become a popular weight loss approach for most of us.

Induction phase is the first phase of Atkins diet plan,During this phase, you are allowed to take only 20 grams of carbohydrates per day. You have to avoid caffeine and alcohol completely. Atkins’ induction phase has severe limitations on carbohydrates because the purpose of this phase is to get your body to rely on burning fat, instead of the glucose produced by the carbohydrates.

Atkins diet plan : Induction Phase Allowed Foods

High protein, carbohydrate free foods
  • All meats, fish, seafood such as prawns, poultry
Eat as much as you like
Fats & oils
  • All 100% fats & oils
Eat as much as you like
High protein/fat foods containing small amounts of carbohydrate
  • Eggs
  • Hard cheeses
  • Cream cheese
  • Double (heavy) cream, etc
  • Shellfish
  • Soya milk (unsweetened, 0.6g carb per 100ml or less)
Eat as much as your daily carbohydrate allowance permits
Salads containing small amounts of carbohydrate
  • Alfalfa sprouts
  • Celery
  • Cucumber
  • Dill, basil, rosemary, thyme, oregano etc
  • Fennel
  • Lettuce, romaine, escarole, endive, radicchio etc
  • Olives
  • Radishes
  • Red/green peppers (bell peppers)
Eat as much as your daily carbohydrate allowance permits
Vegetables containing small amounts of carbohydrate
  • Artichoke hearts
  • Asparagus
  • Aubergine (eggplant)
  • Avocado
  • Bamboo shoots
  • Bean sprouts
  • Beet greens
  • Broccoli
  • Brussels sprouts
  • Cabbage
  • Cauliflower
  • Celeriac
  • Chard
  • Courgettes
  • Green/French beans
  • Kale
  • Kohlrabi
  • Leeks
  • Marrow
  • Okra
  • Pumpkin
  • Rhubarb
  • Spring onions (scallions)
  • Spinach
  • Summer squash
  • Turnips
  • Water chestnuts
Eat as much as your daily carbohydrate allowance permits
Other
  • Herbs and spices - these vary in carbohydrate content but in general the quantities in which they are used are too small to worry too much about counting
Eat as much as your daily carbohydrate allowance permits

Atkins diet

June 12th, 2009 admin 2 comments

One day when someone around you recommend you lose weight and go against obesity through eating food with high fat but low carbohydrate. At first, you must distrust it. It is opposite as we think normally. However, do you know that the Atkins diet was first debut in 1972 since millions of people have been successful in their battle with weight loss? The Atkins diet is also good for dealing with many diseases, such as headaches, disorder blood sugars and so on.

atkins diet plan

atkins diet plan

Atkins diet can help us lose weight in a natural way of changing our metabolism which is safe and healthy. As we all know in order to function well, our body needs energy. And the energy mainly comes from the burning of fat and carbohydrates which can convert to calories. There are two results of this process, lipolysis and ketosis. They are the keys to losing weight. The ketosis is quite important. As it has an important influence on insulin production which can hold back the forming of fat. When we enter the process of ketosis, our body starts to use the fat as fuel and our cravings for carbohydrate will cut down.. The Atkins diet even is called “father of modern low carbohydrate diets”. It deserves the name.

The Atkins diet asks those who want to lose weight and get rid of heavy body in a fast way to eat foods high in fat and protein. And the animals’ meat is advised. So it is quite different from lots of others diets which especially limit us from this. The Atkins diet allows unrestricted amounts of protein. Meats, eggs and cheese are included. But be careful with foods which contain carbohydrate such as bread, pasta, rice, salad and other non-starchy vegetables.

There are four steps of the diet.

First is the induction, carbohydrate intake should be restricted to 20g/d.

Second is the ongoing weight loss. The carbohydrates are progressively added to the diet. During the first week, you can raise your carbohydrate level by 5 grams per day until it is proper. How can it be proper? It all depends on yourself, the needs of your body. The Atkins diet encourages the fruits and vegetables to be preferred and the whole grains come second.

The third comes with the pre-maintance. As you are not far away from your goal, the weight loss comes slowly as the carbohydrates are added.

You should be more carefully to figure out the amount of carbohydrates that can be eaten without gaining weight. The last phase is lifetime maintenance. We are all feared to gain the weight back as we have suffered a lot. So we hope we would keep good body forever. Don’t get carried away. Keep your usual diet as the foods you eat are becoming normal. You can not overeat.
Pros

Lose weight quickly and safely. The fact has told the truth that it is successful and trusted.

Cons:

It may be limited to those vegetarians and religious people as it encourages eating more meat

Conclusions:

Just do it now. You can have astonished result

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