Atkins Diet Guide

Fish works (if it’s not fried).
Shrimp too.
Pork is good, but watch for the fatty stuff (like bacon).
Cheese is good in moderation (if you can tolerate dairy). Soybeans (including the black ones you get in a can) have less carbs than other beans.

Personally I’ve found the Atkins diet a bit too strict to follow, and allow myself carbs as long as they come with fiber.

I dont suggest the atkins diet at all. It does help you lose weight but it is also very unhealthy for you. Honestly i have tried many diets and many different pills. The one thing that worked best for me, believe it or not, is this diet called the asian noodle diet. I know it sounds weird but it worked 100% for me. I lost 15 in 2wks. I just did a search and found a website that explains the whole thing and gives you a weekly diet as well as receipes. The site is http://www.asiannoodlediet.com. Check it out and let me know how you do on it. Good luck.

The atkins diet is unhealthy and dull.

Hereafter some advices to loose weight. It’s more than a diet; it’s a manner to live and to appreciate tasty, healthy meals preferring quality to quantity.
This diet is long lasting, not annoying, not too difficult and without negative effects. It helps you as well to stabilize your weight than to loose weight, which is of course more difficult.
1. Eat what is at your taste. Have excellent meals with several dishes.
2. Choose what is healthy for you.
3. Try to find out by what dishes you loose weight and by what dishes you put on. People are different in all, what makes put on weight the one, doesn’t necessarily put on flesh to the other one.
4. Eat slowly and without stress. Let smelt tasty dishes on the tongue. Remember that you eat too much and without control under stress.
5. Try to get a scale of food-calories by downloading it out of the Internet, for instance.
6. Don’t eat more than 1500 to 1800 calories per day. It depends on your objective.
7. Fix a maximum of weight you will absolutely not pass beyond. Weigh you every day, the best in the morning. So you can easily find out what makes you gain weight or loose weight. It’s much easier than counting calories every day. And the result is the same if you weigh you every day.
8. Do prefer good tasting dishes with few calories to dishes with many calories: fruit, vegetables, meagre meats, meagre fish, sweets with less sugar or sweetening or sugar mixed with sweetening 1:1. For myself I prefer good savoury meats and fish and then I eat less or I eat several dishes.
An example: I start with fruits of the season. By the way fruits taste better if you put half a strawberry on a slice of a nectarine on a slice of an apple. Half a berry of a grape on a slice of a pear on a slice of a peach. Or make a salad of fresh fruit.
9. Eat several dishes, an example: Fruit / smoked salmon with salad/ main dish/ dessert.
9. Drink at least 2 litres of beverage without calories. Water / Water with lemon juice and sweetening / Water with fresh fruit juice and sweetening.
After getting up drink a glass of warm water.
Drink sometimes water with a spoon of apple vinegar.
10. If you discover in the morning that you have put on weight stop eating the same day five hours before going to bed.
11. Don’t eat much at the evening. Or dishes with few calories: salads, soup of vegetables without butter or cream, prefer milk.
ATTENTION:
12. At evening before TV. When the gustatory papillas are excited by some food even of very few calories it becomes difficult to retain the desire to eat something else. The best is to drink water or tea (peppermint, camomile etc.) without sugar or sweetening.
- If you can control your envy anymore, than do any activity, the best outside or wherever there is no food.
13. Mental preparation is important too: be proud that you eat now very controlled, that you prefer quality to quantity, that you make a healthy and a tasty choice of dishes, that you eat like people who know much about good food, that you are self-controlled and have got a strong will to do right, that you have made new experiences and that you know more than many others about good food, that you can share your experiences with others and give them good advices.
14. Mostly all diets have negative and only short effects.
15. Make sports, I mean physical exercises, which make you transpire.
Fact is, that if you are able to make sports during three hours a day, you loose mostly water, you build up muscles and you loose more or less 1000 gr. One hour of exercises is a loss of 300-400 gr.
Be aware, that the higher you’re overweight, the more you are able to loose weight at the beginning of the diet.
16. Tips for dishes:
- Buy vanilla ice cream, mix fruit (strawberries or mangos or kiwis or.) in a mixer, freeze it, and mix the half frozen fruit with the ice cream 1:1. And you will get an ice-cream, better than those you can buy, with half fewer fat and half fewer sugar, and very easy to prepare.
- Mix fresh fruit; add low fat yoghurt and sweetening. Mix all.
- Eat whole grain bread and rice. If you ask me on this side, I will give you an excellent recipe for whole grain bread easily to bake.
- Eat only chocolate of more than 75% cacao.

Best wishes, good will and good results.

What actual proof is available on the healthy or not aspects of the Atkins diet?