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Atkins Diet Menu

Atkins diet foods are easy to find and widely available. There is a wide variety to choose from, whether you choose a prepackaged low-carb diet meal or create your own meal. No matter how you want to do the Atkins plan, there is always a solution for you.

You should always keep the Atkins food pyramid in mind when making food choices. The Atkins Pyramid looks a lot different from the USDA Food…

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The Atkins Diet Plan

The Atkins Diet - Is it too good to be true?

You may eat bacon, eggs, smoked salmon, cream cheese for lunch and buttered steaks for dinner. For sure it seems not a weight loss menu ... at the first glance. The only thing you have to learn is to limit carbs. But there are many tasty alternatives instead. The Atkins Diet is nothing for rabbits.

Your diet plan will be rich in protein and fat, but very low in carbs. The inventors promise, you will not feel hungry! The newer versions of the Atkins Diet focuses more on lean proteins, healthy fats and high fiber vegetables. One of the most famous fans of this diet plan is Alyssa Milano.

Here is an overview of foods you can eat:

Meat Poultry Seafood & Fish Eggs Bacon Beef Ham Lamb Pork Veal Venison Cornish hen Chicken Duck Goose Pheasant Quail Turkey Ostrich Flounder Herring Salmon Sardines Sole Tuna Trout Cod Halibut Clams Crabmeat Mussels Oysters Shrimp Squid Lobster Deviled Fried Hard-boiled Soft-boiled Omelets Poached Scrambled Oils & Fats Sweeteners: Cheese Beverages Butter Mayonaise without sugar Olive Oil Vegetable Oils: Canola Walnut Soybean Grape Seed Sesame Sunflower Safflower Sucralose Saccharine Stevia Parmesan Goat Cheese Bleu cheeses Cheddar Gouda MNozzarella Cream Chease whipped Swiss Feta(Cheese contains Carbs => so eat at max. 4 oz. a day) Bouillon sugarfree Club Soda Decaffeinated coffee Diet Soda No Calories Seltzer Herb Tea Unflavored soy and almond milk Water  

You will go through 4 phases of the Atkins Diet:

Phase 1: You try to move your body from burning carbs to fat. This process is called ketosis and the weight loss during it is quick. Your daily menu consists of protein, fat and only 20 grams of vegetable carbs. Vegans can skip this step and start with phase 2 Phase 2: Now you learn how many carbs you can still add while you are still losing weight. You add step by step "forbidden" food back to your menu plan. Phase 3: You start with phase 3, when your target weight is 10 pounds away. Now you are learning, how to maintain your weight and how you get rid of the last 10 pounds. Phase 4: The rest of your life, you follow what you learned while phasing 3 at the maintaining procedure. There are newer versions of the Atkins Diet, which have not that hard rules and it allows to start out with a little carb each day (40 grams).

Efforts to stick with the diet:

You don't need to count calories. Your grocery store list is almost as it was before. But don't underestimate the changes, which come with the change of your meals. You have to cut out white flour, sugar and eat carbs only in vegetable form. Your cooking will change from using prepared components to make your food from scratch. But buying food for the Atkins diet gets easier and easier. The more famous it becomes, the more "Atkins" branded articles are being produced. Furthermore, Atkins doesn't require you to eat meat. If you are a vegetarian, you will get your proteins from eggs, cheese, soy, nuts, seeds, legumes etc. If you need to be on a gluten-free diet, Atkins is made for you. Almost all foods with gluten are high in carbs. There are no costs like membership fees when you switch to this low carb diet. Information is everywhere on the internet!

Health concerns:

Some experts have concerns about high-protein, low-carb diet plans: High cholesterol: Some protein-rich foods can raise cholesterol. But studies showed that the Atkins Diet actually decreased bad cholesterol levels after 2 years Kidney: If you have kidney problems, eating too much protein could cause strain on your kidneys. This could lower kidney function or cause kidney stones. Osteoporosis: As you will urinate more calcium than normal, some experts think, that the diet could cause osteoporosis Read the full article