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Follow the Dr Atkins diet and forget counting calories. Watch the fat melt away as a healthier and firmer body emerges. Enjoy more energy as well as freedom from a range of ailments from diabetes to heart disease. Essentially a low carbohydrate plan, the Atkins diet boosts your metabolic rate and once your metabolism is changed, your body adjusts to a new way of burning fat. Dieting can work, and with this medically proven regime you can lose weight without reducing--or counting--calories. On the Atkins diet you can eat luxuriously and feel completely satisfied, experience the metabolic boost the Atkins diet provides, use a maintenance diet that will ensure you never become fat again and enjoy mouth-watering, gourmet recipes. In this new edition the world's number one diet expert has updated his proven programme for a new century to include new controlled carbohydrate recipes for breakfast, lunch and dinner, brand new case studies and the very latest scientific research.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #688 in Books
• Published on: 2003-01-02
• Binding: Paperback
• 560 pages

Synopsis
Follow the Dr Atkins' Diet and forget counting calories. Watch the fat melt away as a healthier and firmer body emerges. Enjoy more energy as well as freedom from a range of ailments from diabetes to heart disease. Essentially a low carbohydrate plan, the Atkins' Diet boosts your metabolic rate and once your metabolism is changed, your body adjusts to a new way of burning fat. Dieting can work, and with this medically proven regime you can lose weight without reducing - or counting - calories. On the Atkins' Diet you can: -Eat luxuriously and feel completely satisfied -Experience the metabolic boost the Atkins' Diet provides -Use a maintenance diet that will ensure you never become fat again -Enjoy mouth-watering, gourmet recipes. In this new edition the world's number one diet expert has updated his proven program for a new century to include; new controlled carbohydrate recipes for breakfast, lunch and dinner; brand new case studies and the very latest scientific research.

About the Author
Robert C. Atkins is the founder and medical director of the Atkins Centre for Complementary Medicine in New York City. A graduate of Cornell University, he went on to specialise as a cardiologist. Now one of the most recognised doctors for diet, nutritional and natural medicine, his books have been international best-sellers: his original Dr Atkins Diet Revolution has sold over 10 million copies world-wide.

Excerpted from Dr Atkins' New Diet Revolution: The No-hunger, Luxurious Weight Loss Plan That Really Works! by Robert C. Atkins. Copyright © 2003. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
The Promise
Lose weight! Increase energy! Look great! This book will show you how it's done.
Not only that, it will show you how to change your life once and for all.
You hold in your hands a book that has sold more than ten million copies since 1992. Probably two to three times that number of people have followed its teachings. Most of you will have heard people say it's the most effective weight loss plan they've tried. It is!
If you're like many people, you've been through the weight loss wars. Name it and you've probably tried it, whether it's a low-fat diet, a food-combining diet, the grape-fruit diet, liquid fasts, other fad diets and on and on. You've learned how to count calories, but ultimately with no success. Even if you lost weight, you were often hungry and always felt deprived. Then when you went back to your old way of eating, those pounds crept back, often joined by a few more.
If this scenario sounds all too familiar, I have a solution that will help end the game of yo-yo dieting once and for all. Instead, I'll help you adopt a permanent way of eating that:
• lets you lose weight without counting calories.
• makes you feel and look better.
• naturally re-energizes you.
• keeps lost pounds off forever with a new lifetime nutritional approach that includes rich, delicious foods.
But in addition to weight loss, there is an even more important benefit: The nutritional approach you'll learn about here is also a revolutionary method for living a long, healthy life. I want my readers to say: "I knew I'd lose weight, but I never realized I would feel so much healthier."
The typical modern Western diet—or, as I sometimes call it, the high-sugar horrors—makes you fat. In the short term, it's also a sure road to daily misery, making you irritable and tired during the day and sleepless at night. In the long term, it leads grimly on toward heart disease, hypertension, diabetes and a host of other catastrophes.
What I'm going to show you is not just a way to lose weight, but a way to eat for the rest of your life so you can be slim and healthy and stay that way. For too many people, the word diet implies not an approach to eating for a life-time, but a two-months-on, ten-months-off weight loss game that they play with themselves—year after year. That is not what this book is about! I believe this so strongly that from now on I'll speak not of the Atkins Diet, but of the Atkins Nutritional Approach or "doing Atkins" or even just "Atkins". It's a shorthand that others have been using, so I'm going to start using it, too.
The Atkins Nutritional Approach will make you healthy because it is different from the typical Western way of eating. Simply put, you avoid the negative consequences of too much carbohydrate intake, all of which can be attributed to too much insulin release in your body.
Would you like to see what I mean? Well, since they say one picture is worth a thousand words, how about two?
The Two Pictures

In the first picture, I am standing behind a huge table heaped with food. My expression is a mixture of pride and anticipation, and no wonder. There are mounds of seeds and nuts, platters of fish, a lobster in drawn butter, well-seasoned fish, turkey and duck and certainly a juicy steak. You'll spy an omelette that would do any breakfast table proud. There's no lack of variety here. I see vegetables in abundance, fresh green salads drenched in healthy olive oil-based dressing overflowing their bowls, and peeking out through the foliage, blueberries, strawberries and raspberries topped with whipped cream. There's a variety of cheeses. And since this is a picture of the food you'll be eating after you've lost your extra pounds and have reached the Lifetime Maintenance phase of Atkins, you will also notice a glass of wine, pan-fried sweet potatoes, a platter of melon and slices of peaches and plums. Finally, developments in creating low-carbohydrate substitute ingredients make it possible also to place a pleasing array of low-carb bread, cheesecake, ice cream and cookies on the groaning table.
It's a mouthwatering spread, and I'm hovering over it with a hungry eye. To my mind, the food I've just envisioned is quite luxurious. If you believe that weight loss requires self-deprivation, I'm going to insist on teaching you otherwise. I equate healthy eating with gastronomic pleasure and, soon, you will too.
My second picture is of you. I'm very hopeful that it resembles the future you.
The you in this picture I'm conjuring up is finally the weight you've always had as your goal, or fairly close. You feel great—full of energy. Your skin is glowing with health. If you've been exercising, your toned muscles show it. The you in this picture isn't worried about weight loss anymore. You no longer need to spend your time planning the stages of a new diet, constantly concerned about your eating, feeling guilty when you break promises you've made to yourself. After all, you've found a nutritional approach that will last you for a healthy and vigorous lifetime, and it's become so natural you hardly have to think about it anymore. It's second nature.
This is an obvious win-win situation. It offers you the pleasure of eating and the promise of being healthier than before. The major reason for turning it down would be skepticism. "How could anything be so perfect?" you might ask. If that's it, here's my answer: Read this book. When it's all boiled down, what I'm going to show you in New Diet Revolution is how to eat what's in the first picture and look just like the second.
Delicious eating and lifetime health. Not a bad bargain!

Customer Reviews

Dangerous diet
I used this book to diet 4 years ago. I enjoyed the food but not the results. Yes, I lost weight but it appears to have left me with Irritable Bowel Syndrome. I had no such problems before spending 4 months on this diet. Just be aware, it may not agree with everyone

If you just interested in losing lots of weight fast this book is perfect.
If you just interested in losing lots of weight fast stick to the induction phase only, your looking at 4 or 5 pounds a week. A month of hardcore induction Atkins (which isn't difficult after just expensive) and your looking a good stone and a half.

The entire thing could be stripped down to a fifth by removing all of the drama (real life stories) and the final three steps of the diet. This book need to lose weight. Needless to say it works.

This book is a main component to my happiness and I highly recommend it if you feel like your overweight.

This is the number one diet
I am sorry, but as a dieter of over 25 years, this booksays it all. Basically, all diets work. Why? Because they focus on keeping the insulin levels down. The Atkins is no different. However, unlike othe diets I have tried, Atkins doesn't count calories, and this has to be a good thing. I have weighed and counted calories for years. Can you imagine eating all you want, providing that it does not include carbs? It does work. I lost a stone in three weeks and was really difined. It is claimed to be the number one diet. All I say is, once you have achieved your target weight, you eat sensibly, introduce green leafy veg, and don't go back to eating sugary, starchy carbs.