Atkins doesn't have to be boring!

Advantages: Forget counting calories or fat grams :o)
Disadvantages: Most of us were raised on a high carb diet :o(

...This cookbook has been worth its weight in gold to me while on the Atkins plan. I did find that a lot of the recipes in his actual Diet Revolution book didn't appeal to me and I couldn't always get the ingredients. This book is more down to earth as it is dedicated to recipes and most of the things suggested are palatable to me. There are loads of suggestions for sweets and as I have a very sweet tooth this is a welcome addition to any cookbook I'm sure you will agree, when you are following a set way of eating. The cookbook I am reviewing has a different cover to the one shown and is the companion to Atkins latest bestseller - Dr Atkins New Diet Revolution. I bought this cookbook as I wanted to see the varieties of foods that I could enjoy while on Atkins. Although his actual diet book has recipes I wanted a more focused book...

smileybabe 03.05.2004 · Read review
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Review of Dr Atkins' Quick & Easy New Diet Cookbook - Robert C. Atkins

Atkins Accel - not just for Atkins, it works!

Advantages: I lost pounds and inches over a 15 day trial
Disadvantages: You have to plan what time you eat in advance

...Atkins Accel is a diet supplement, primarily for the Atkins diet and low carbohydrate lifestyles, one of the Core 4 supplements produced by Atkins. It is described as Amino Acids with Botanical Extracts which aid fat metabolism and is ideal for those who have reached a weight-loss plateau. It is not intended for induction of the Atkins diet or as a long term solution, it is designed to be a bit of a kick start if your weight loss has slowed or stopped. Each box contains 45 tablets which is a 15 day supply; you need to take one tablet with 250ml of water an hour before each meal, eating three meals a day. Packaging The tablets are in a sealed bottle within a cardboard outer box with the Atkins logo and ?Accel? written in a blue font, on a yellow and white background with a picture of a happy young slim couple! It is easily...

leopard79 10.08.2004 (14.08.2004) · Read review
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Sick of the Atkins

Advantages: weight loss and health benefits for diabetics etc.
Disadvantages: restrictive diet and illness

...of lipolysis (your body burns fat for fuel instead of the glucose it usually burns) and your fat stores literally burn off. You then enter the Ongoing Weight Loss phase (OWL) where each week you increase your carb intake by 5g a day until you notice you are not losing weight anymore. You then eat the carb level just below your maintenance level so you continue to lose weight. When you reach your goal weight you go to pre-maintenance level and then to maintenance. I had to have a chuckle to myself when I read in Atkins New Diet Revolution that if you were bored with the food in induction you could end it when the two weeks were up (it can be maintained for longer than this) and move to OWL. Then I read in OWL that for the first week after induction you were only allowed to increase the vegetables you were already eating in induction...

ShoeLace 10.05.2003 · Read review
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Atkins diet ok for the short term***UPDATED***

Advantages: quick and easy weight loss
Disadvantages: feeling deprived

...the first few days of going in to ketosis. You defiantly loose your appetite. Around the day 4-5 your appetite goes and you actually forget to eat. I am always hungry and it even made me feel satisfied for much longer. I would miss my lunch and found it hard to eat a full dinner. My sugar cravings went, I got no hunger pangs to be truthful I honestly stopped eating so its no surprise you loose weight on this. There are plenty off books around to read and keep you informed. Dr Atkins New Diet Revolution 7.99 plus the Dr Atkins New Diet Cookbook 6.99.which is filled with loads of recipes for all Phases. What happens is in the first few days of starting the induction your body goes into ketosis were it stops using what u eat for energy and starts using the fat stored in your body. You have to eat a lot of fatty and great food, the first...

karen5416 22.02.2004 (28.05.2004) · Read review
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Lost 5 1/2 stone! Plus ATKINS FACTS (updated!!)

Advantages: NO HEALTH PROBLEMS WHATSOEVER, healthy, confident and happy!
Disadvantages: People who haven't done their research like to criticise

...I've been eating low-carb for a year now. And contrary to popular belief, I am not dead, dehydrated or constipated, and my boyfriend still hugs me, so I can only presume I don't smell too bad. However, I am five and a half stone lighter - and I lost the weight at the safe rate of 1-2lbs per week. It upsets me to see my mother taking diarrhea -inducing diet pills, and it upsets me to think I took two stone off my body in my teens by resorting to anorexia. I thought I had no chance of changing the way I looked, so I lived with it. If only I had found out about Atkins sooner. Before I begin, let me tackle some the top-ten myths about low-carb and Atkins specifically. 1. Low carb is unhealthy. Absolutely incorrect. Low-carb dieters consistently lower their cholesterol, lower stress levels, lose phenominal amounts of weight and keep...

antsss 01.07.2003 (03.12.2003) · Read review
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Lots of New ideas, but nothing Great

Advantages: New enemies, New Power-ups and New Levels
Disadvantages: Repetitive, Familiar and much more possibilities

...When the new super mario bros. came out for the ds it was a ground breaking development it sold out in minutes and was the must have game for the Ds. unfortunately this cannot be said for the wii release. although this version has the ability of multi player on one system and a different story line it still feels very repetitive, the 4 selections of players are. Player 1 must be Mario Other players have the ability to choose from, Luigi, yellow toad and blue toad. the first few levels put you into the retro feel of Mario with the first ever level port and same old monsters attacking you, after the first 3 - 4 levels it will start to get different with new monsters, new challenges and new thumb mashing levels. other new features are 3 new power-ups, one is a snow suit where you fire snow balls that freeze enemies, another is...

Danthevicker 15.11.2009 · Read review
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If you're on Atkins please do me a favour!!

Advantages: ?
Disadvantages: ?

...Hi Ciao'ers, Now I'm not sure what the general consensus about this 'review' (if you can call it that) is going to be, but I'm going to give it a try. I'm not a dieter and I don't need to lose weight but as you will see I know alot about diets and dieting and I am going to write about the Atkins Diet within the context of the wellbeing of the participant. I am a second year PhD student enrolled at the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne and I am conducting my research into relationships between diet, eating and wellbeing. This is a fascinating and very valuable area of research given the current climate of 'fad' diets and the rapidly rising obesity rates that are currently observed in the Western World. ***The Diet: Basics*** Now everyone knows about the Atkins Diet and consequently I am not going to spend alot...

nickyturnill 16.02.2005 · Read review
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Atkins - for me it was incredible

Advantages: apart from the fact that it works?it is easy to stick to when dining out!
Disadvantages: all that meat can be expensive

...won a runner up slimmer of the year contest to boot! A year later I am still a size 14 and very happy with the results I have achieved. Not only did the Atkins diet restore my body but it rebalanced my life and brought back my self esteem. I realise it isn't suitable for everyone (read the warnings in the front of the book - Dr Atkins New Diet Revolution) but for the people who have tried every kind of diet before and had limited success then it must be worth a try at least. As an interesting note, my parents saw the results of my diet and started out on it themselves and also lost alot of weight.The fact that as doctors they initially considered it to be defying medical science only served to amaze them even more when it worked for them aswell. I'm not going to go into how to do it because you really need to get the book and read it...

volpina 04.05.2005 · Read review
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The Atkins diet.

Advantages: You really will loose weight.
Disadvantages: Can't always eat what you love.

...The first time I heard about this diet was from my mum, she had heard from a friend about it. We decided to have a look in one of Doctor Atkins book and have a read of it before we decided to do it or not. We thought that it sounded quite good and give it a go. What you have to do is cut the amount of carbohydrates you eat to 20 grams a day, for two weeks. This means cutting out pasta, rice, potatoes and high carbohydrate bread. You can eat loads of meat, vegetables (only certain ones, you’ll have to look in the book to know exactly what.), fish and nuts. I could tell you exactly what but you would get bored. So you eat your 20 grams per day by checking every food wrapper for exactly how much carbo’s it has got in it. You can get a low carbohydrate bread from weight watchers if you really need bread but you can only have...

debdeb 23.07.2002 · Read review
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Atkins in ME and Epilepsy

Advantages: Weight control, more energy, reduces seizures
Disadvantages: Cost of food, starting

...For the last four years or so I have had ME or PVS. Without boring everyone with the names this is a (now at long last recognised) disease thought to be produced by one or more viruses, which produces weakness and lassitude, and, in extreme cases, a state of being more or less permanently bedridden. Fortunately I never went down that far, but it certainly provoked early retirement. The problem that I still find is that the weakness, a sort of background trembling, sends the wrong messages about hunger, and, to try to counteract the effects, one eats. In point of strict fact this is a waste of time because it isn't hunger that is causing the problem. The effect, nonetheless, is to encourage overeating, and a spiralling weight problem. I first came across the Atkins diet when my eldest daughter recommended it to me. The basic...

Rookgun 11.04.2003 (30.06.2004) · Read review
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