http://articles.atkinsdietplus.com/rss.xml A blog about atkinsdietplus.com daily 365 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://articles.atkinsdietplus.com/?a=35442 <p>by Gregg Hall</p><p>There you were happily reaching your goals in weight loss and then there it was, the weight had started to return. You likely are thinking to yourself, how in the world did that happen? You may not even realize it, but even the slightest violation when on a diet can bring the weight scurrying back. It is important, while dieting, that you are extremely careful.<br /><br />The next few tips will help you remember what you should not be doing while you are dieting.<br /><br />Take it easy on yourself. Diet mishaps happen, mistakes happen, sometimes we miss certain foods so much, and we may start eating them again. This could result in bring some of the lost weight back. It is important that you refrain from beating yourself up over it. Even if you make a mistake, get yourself back on the right track and continue on with the diet as if nothing happened.<br /><br />Do not allow yourself to diet with an alternative. With many diets, you have to give up the foods you typically love such as pizza, French fries, fried chicken, chips, cheesecake, and ice cream. As hard as it is to give up these things, you should take comfort that you can find alternatives to these food. Even though society has raised us to believe that vegetables, fruit, or any healthy low fat foods are not enjoyable. This is not true, even those foods listed above, have fat reduced versions now days. <br /><br />Always have support! This is an important aspect of any diet. Without support, it is extremely hard to begin and keep with any diet plan. Your loved ones should be there to offer you support while you are dieting. Furthermore, thee are a great many weight loss counselors, meetings, and forum groups that can help you along in your journey.<br /><br />What is great about weight loss groups is that they have been right where you are in your journey to weight loss, so they can offer some unique advice and insight. For example, they can give you ideas about new and exciting ideas for exercising or with recipes for eating healthy, as well.<br /><br />Finally, do not give up! When you give into the nagging craving for your favorite foods, you are taking yourself a little further from your weight loss goals each time. Being on a diet does not mean you need to have tasteless foods, but it does mean you need to steer clear from high fat and high calorie foods. Opt for the alternatives instead of the sure to bring your weight back foods.</p><h3 class="popup">About the Author </h3><p>Gregg Hall is an author living in Navarre Florida. Find more about dieting and Atkins Diet Food at <a href="http://www.atkinsdietplus.com/">http://www.atkinsdietplus.com</a></p> 2006-08-12T14:11-04:00 http://articles.atkinsdietplus.com/?a=35441 <p>by Gregg Hall</p><p>When you are trying to lose weight, you will likely find that is a big numbers game, more so than any other factor in this society. Think about all the numbers there are to keep track of, how many pounds do you need to lose, in how many weeks do you need to lose it? How many inches is your waist and how many should it be? What is your body fat and what should it be? When you look at this is way, it is easy to see why so many people have trouble losing the weight they want to lose. <br /><br />There is one very good way to determine where you sit and where you should be sitting in terms of dieting. Even though there are a variety of numbers you are to keep track of, there is only one set that doctors seem most concerned with, and that is your body mass index (BMI). BMI, is a fairly new concept in America. The reality is it has been around for quite a while. The idea was created by Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetlet. He was a Belgian mathematician and was extremely famous both then and now, because of the numbers systems he implemented in improving lives. This system has become the best measurement of determining if a patient is overweight or obese.<br /><br />Many people still do not quite understand what body mass index is and often become confused by it. To them, they see it as another system of numbers that have to document and remember. The body mass index contains the ratio of a persons height and weight. Implementing the formula allows physicians to determine if he or she is overweight or obese.<br /><br />While the word formula may scare you at first, determining your body mass index, is really not all that hard. First, you must determine your height in meters squared and your weight in kilograms. There are many websites available just for that reason, if you do not know how to determine those figures. After finding your metric height and weight, you divide your weight with your height. If you simply do not want to conduct this calculation, your physician should be able to provide you with a body mass index chart. <br /><br />The average healthy person should have a body mass index of somewhere between 18.5 through 25, depending on their height. Those that fall between 26 and 29 are considered overweight. A body mass index between 30 and 39 is considered to be obese and 40 or more is morbidly obese. As the BMI increases, so do the risk of serious health problems.</p><h3 class="popup">About the Author </h3><p>Gregg Hall is an author living in Navarre Florida. Find more about dieting and Atkins Diet Products at <a href="http://www.atkinsdietplus.com/">http://www.atkinsdietplus.com</a></p> 2006-08-12T14:06-04:00 http://articles.atkinsdietplus.com/?a=35271 <p>by Gregg Hall</p><p>If you have made it past the initial induction phase of the Atkins Diet, congratulations on accomplishing the first stage of your weight loss goal. The Ongoing Weight Loss program you are entering into now is where you will being to customize the Atkins program to fit your individual tastes which is what makes the Atkins Diet Program so unique in the diet and weight loss world. <br /><br />Even though you are now allowed a little more flexibility than in the induction phase of the program this second stage will continue to amaze you with the how much the weight will continue to drop and the fat melt off. You will begin to see a gradual slow down of the rate in which the weight loss and inches lost occur. This is a normal and deliberate part of the plan so don't let it bother you. Just bear in mind that just because you are being allowed a few more carbs it doesn't mean you can go back to eating whatever you want. You must eat good quality carbs and steer clear of junk carbs such as white flour and sugar.<br /><br />You must also have a set goal. Do not just make a goal of losing some weight, have a specific amount of weight you want to lose and write the goal down. It is much easier to visualize you end goal when it is written down. You must visualize and see how your body will look and how you will feel when you reach your goal.<br /><br />With the Ongoing Weight Loss Program you will learn to continue to burn and dissolve fat, maintain control of your appetite, learn how many more carbs you can take in and eat a wider choice of foods. <br /><br />The following are the main rules of Ongoing Weight Loss:<br /><br />Keep protein and fat as the mainstays of your nutritional regimen<br />Do not increase your daily carb intake by more than five grams a week<br />Add new foods in the order listed in the Atkins carb ladder<br />Only add one food group at a time<br />Stop new foods immediately if they promote weight gain or increased cravings<br />Continue on Ongoing Weight Loss until you have five to ten pounds to lose.<br /><br />If you follow these guidelines you are sure to be successful in your quest for weight loss.</p><h3 class="popup">About the Author </h3><p>Gregg Hall is a business consultant and author for many online and offline businesses and lives in Navarre Florida with his 16 year old son. Get your Atkins Diet products at <a href="http://www.atkinsdietplus.com/">http://www.atkinsdietplus.com</a></p> 2006-07-30T15:25-04:00 http://articles.atkinsdietplus.com/?a=32582 <p class="MsoNormal">The key to any diet being successful is discipline and sticking to the outlines of the program. This has never been truer than with the Atkins Diet. This diet elicits a biochemical response from following a prescribed regimen of certain foods going through prescribed phases. If you deviate from the plan you will not have success and may even gain weight. So the first key to success is to stick to the plan.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal">Secondly, just because the Atkins diet plan allows you to eat fat that doesn&rsquo;t mean you have to go out and eat everything fatty that you can find, you should still eat mostly leaner meats and fish and only eat meats like steak for one of your meals. Another thing you can do that will help you is to do as bodybuilders have done for years and eat several smaller meals instead of three large ones.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal">I know there are many diet plans on the market that claim you can &ldquo;melt the pounds off while you sleep&rdquo; and &ldquo;lose weight without exercise&rdquo;. Believe me; these methods will not work long term. Have you ever seen someone who lost a lot of weight but still look out of shape and devoid of muscle tone? This is because they lost muscle and still have fat on their body. </p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal">So, how do you lose fat and preserve muscle? There are two things that you must do. First, you have to be sure that you are taking in enough protein. What is enough? Generally, most doctors agree that you should take in about one gram for every pound of bodyweight. An average woman should take in about 100 grams a day while the average man might be closer to 170 to 200 grams. Also, the protein intake needs to be spread out and you need to drink plenty of water. The body can only absorb and use around 30 grams at a time so utilizing the method of several smaller meals will achieve this. </p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal">The other thing that is an absolute must is exercise. You will meet your goals much more quickly and have a better toned body by exercising daily. The other benefit is that the more muscle you have the higher your metabolism. In other words fat burns muscle.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal">Keep these tips in mind and your diet will be successful.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal">Gregg Hall is a business consultant and author for many online and offline businesses and lives in Navarre Florida with his 16 year old son. For Atkins Diet products go to <a href="http://www.atkinsdietplus.com/">http://www.atkinsdietplus.com</a> </p> 2006-03-17T09:02-05:00 http://articles.atkinsdietplus.com/?a=29983 <p class="MsoNormal">The Atkins Diet so named for the late Dr. Atkins who created it has been around for years and is one of the most popular diets in history. Many people are both puzzled and confused by how it works. Let&rsquo;s take a quick look at some of the things that the Atkins diet can do for you.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal">By following the Dr. Atkins&rsquo; nutritional approach to dieting as a lifestyle change you will accomplish four main things:</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal">1. You will definitely lose weight; it is difficult for anyone who follows the Atkins diet as prescribed not to lose weight. Men and women alike who embrace the Atkins lifestyle will quickly begin to lose pounds and inches. Reaching and maintaining your optimum bodyweight is a very valuable component in any health related program because just being overweight is an indicator of potential health issues presently or in the future. Once you have lost the extra weight you will see immediate benefits and they will be much more than cosmetic.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal">2. Unlike many other diet programs available on the market you will maintain your weight loss. This is the area in which the Atkins Diet far surpasses most other diet programs. If you have dieted before you know how so many times you work really hard to get the weight off and then end up gaining it all back within a few months. This is normally due to the normal consequence of a low fat and low calorie diet which is hunger. The ability to tolerate hunger for short periods of time varies among people. Although many can tolerate hunger for a short time nobody can deal with it for the rest of their life. Depriving your body of food is no fun and it isn&rsquo;t healthy. Once you have passed the biological gap between hunger and being satisfied the rebound and binge eating can come incredibly fast and be humiliating. This is the inherent problem with diets that restrict quantities. The difference with the Atkins Diet is that hunger is not acceptable. The plan includes foods that have enough fat and protein to prevent hunger from being an issue like it is with other diets but still allows dieters to maintain a healthy weight for the rest of their life.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal">3. You will achieve good health by following the Atkins Diet. The change you will undergo is nothing short of amazing. By following the Atkins Diet your nutritional needs are met with delicious, healthy, filling foods and avoiding the carbs and sugar that many foods are loaded with. This results in more energy and endurance for you not just because of the weight loss but also due to the reversal of the bad physical consequences of a dysfunctional blood sugar and insulin metabolism. When following the Atkins program you will start feeling good even before you reach your weight loss goal. </p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal">4. By following the Atkins program you will lay the permanent groundwork for preventing disease and you will change your life which is even more important that looking good on the beach.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal">Gregg Hall is a business consultant and author for many online and offline businesses and lives in Navarre Florida with his 16 year old son. Get the Atkins Diet products you need at http://www.atkinsdietplus.com</p> 2006-02-14T09:50-05:00