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Cooking Low Carb
Cooking is an art form and cooking can get even more creative in thought and planning when you or someone in your family starts on a diet. The challenge arises when you have to juggle the needs of your whole family with that of a low carb dieter. For this sometimes awkward problem of cooking, low carb recipes are a God send. Continue reading
Your Mind Over Matter When Dieting
Perhaps you have made a decision to improve your diet. If this is the case, you are like many people who wish to get in healthier shape. More than likely, you have probably tried to lose weight many times only to discover your goal elusive to achieve. What is the reason for this? Usually, a lack of mental preparedness is the reason for faltering on a diet. Continue reading
How To Properly Prepare for a Diet
Have you ever made up you mind to clean up your diet and start eating in a more healthy manner? Perhaps you have done so several times bit have not achieved the success you desired. Why is this? In some instances, a dieter is not properly mentally prepared for what needs to be done. Continue reading
Is The Atkins Grapefruit Diet Real?
The Atkins Grapefruit diet is a diet plan, not endorsed by the estate of Dr. Atkins, that plays on the popularity of the grapefruit diet and the Atkins diet name. A closer look into this diet shows that it may not be all it claims to be. Continue reading
The Atkins Diet
You have decided that you’re going on a diet and you’ve told yourself that this will be the last one that you’ll ever try. The only reason for this is that you’ve already heard so much about the Atkins Diet, that you have total confidence in its ability to help you reduce weight and to keep it off. You know that with the help of the Atkins diet plan you can tailor make your diet to suit your body and your requirements. Continue reading
Low Carb Vegetables
Any diet that asks you to go low carbohydrate and use only low carbohydrate vegetables is saying that you need to hunt for vegetables that are low in carbohydrates. You need to use these vegetables in stead of your regular vegetables. There are many great tasting things that you can do with low carb vegetables. Continue reading
Atkins Dieting (part 1).
When I first came across an Atkins Diet book, I was working in an office in south Wales. I had been working there for five or six years and had accumulated quite a bit of excess weight. I had never enjoyed participating in sport, but my previous job had been working on building sites, which entailed a certain amount of physical activity ” just enough to keep me in reasonable shape. After five years as office-wallah, I weighed 18 stone 12 pounds (264 lbs or 120 kg), three stones more than before and neither I nor my physician were happy about it. Continue reading
The Atkins Diet and Me (part two).
You know how some people just have to try to make your life miserable? It was obvious to everyone that I looked and felt healthier, but some people just had to try to spoil it. I was told that ‘lots of people have died of kidney or liver failure’ after being on Atkins I read it in a magazine; you will have a heart attack because it’s not natural; your cholesterol will go through the roof and you will need your toes amputated or you will have a stroke; it will affect your eyesight. All sorts of exaggerations. So, I went to see my local doctor, who admitted that he had no knowledge of the Atkins diet, but he also said that he had heard nothing bad about it either. He sent me for a series of tests at the hospital and the results were all OK. He was happy that I’d lost 18 lbs and so was I. Six weeks later, I went for another cholesterol check-up, because of the high fat levels inherent in the diet and, although my cholesterol level was up very slightly, they said there was no cause for concern. Continue reading
You Can Lose 20 Pounds the Healthy Way
Do you wish you could lose 20 pounds in time for a special occasion coming up soon- like a wedding, a vacation or a family reunion? Do you find yourself panicking whenever you look at the calendar and realize that you need to start losing weight SOON, or it will be too late? Well, stop panicking and start doing something about it now. It’s NOT too late. Continue reading
Will the Atkins Diet Really Work for You?
Whichever way you turn, someone is hyping a new diet that will make you reach all of your weight loss goals. Some have been established to be beneficial and others have ended up being harmful for your health. This brings us to the Atkins diet, what is it? Will this diet work for you? Continue reading