What Is The Atkins Diet?
Am I going to be controversial with this one?
“The Atkins weight loss diet is based on one simple principle: Your body burns both carbohydrates and fat for calories. If you reduce the amounts of carbohydrates available, it will burn more fat and you will lose weight. According to Atkins, calories are unimportant. The key to losing weight is to restrict the carbohydrates that you eat and force the body to turn to its stored fat as an energy source. ” by Kirsten Hawkins
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beti says > I have been staring at the aforementioned article for about 5mins now…thinking, should I blog it or not? Because I really dislike the concepts of the Atkins Diet!
Being a fitness leader, people come to me for fitness and nutritional advice everyday. The Atkins diet would be the one fad diet (and yes, it is a fad diet) that has had the most impact on me. I have had gym clients not eating carrots because they tell me carrots have too much sugar…CARROTS!!!! What can I say to that?
Other macronutrients we, as humans, use as energy are: Protein and Alcohol. This must also be taken into account.
The answer is simple really: Energy in = Energy out ie if you eat too much high energy food you will gain weight, regardless what diet you are on! And besides, there is only so much whipped cream a person can have (hehehe). Finally, for all the thinkers out there, your brain is limited to glucose for energy, which is a carbohydrate…if you remove this energy source, concentrating may be a thing of the past.