The Atkins Essentials: A Two-Week Program to Jump-start Your Low Carb Lifestyle [Mass Market Paperback]

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Book Description

Publication Date: December 30, 2003

Atkins Made Easier!

Millions of people around the world have already discovered the Atkins Nutritional Approach™ and the remarkable benefits of controlling carbohydrates. Now it's even easier to join the revolution, lose weight, and get healthy the proven Atkins way!

With less of the underlying science and more practical information, The Atkins Essentials gets to the meat of the most popular and effective weight control program ever, providing the basic skills necessary to enable you to lose and keep losing unwanted body fat -- and to keep it off forever!

Providing clear, concise answers to your questions and concerns, The Atkins Essentials is ideal for anyone seeking a healthier lifestyle. For those new to Atkins, it is a quick and effective way to get started -- and for those already on the program, it offers indispensable tips on eating out, stocking your pantry, and more.

Simply put, it is Atkins made easy, with:

• The ABCs of doing Atkins
  
  
• An effective two-week launch into weight-losing mode
  
  
• Personal modifications to slow or speed weight loss
  
  
• Helpful listings of acceptable and unacceptable foods and
  
  
• Fourteen days' worth of delicious, controlled carb eating ...

And Much More!

So get ready to look great and feel great the Atkins way -- it's easier than ever before!

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 368 pages
• Publisher: Avon (December 30, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0060598387
• ISBN-13: 978-0060598389
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 4.2 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (25 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #361,950 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

57 of 58 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This book got me to take the plunge into Induction!, April 20, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: The Atkins Essentials: A Two-Week Program to Jump-start Your Low Carb Lifestyle (Mass Market Paperback)

After 2 months of studying low-carb diets, I picked up this book and read it cover to cover. It motivated me to finally follow the Atkins way of eating to the letter and commit to the Induction phase of Atkins. I highlighted passages and bookmarked the menu section, which I read everynight during my two weeks on Induction. I was able to stick with the program while living in a house with two other adults who eat an extremely high-carb diet. The book helped to understand the program throughly, so I could explain my new way of eating to others. I lost 10 pounds during the two weeks, and I am now in the On-going Weight Loss phase. Atkins is now my way of eating for the rest of my life!

36 of 37 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars GREAT WAY TO GET STARTED ON LOW CARB EATING, January 24, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: The Atkins Essentials: A Two-Week Program to Jump-start Your Low Carb Lifestyle (Mass Market Paperback)

This is the book to get you started on Atkins. It leaves out all of the scientific explainations for low carb dieting and goes down to the brass tacks of the Atkins Lifestyle. Contrary to what some may believe, this is NOT a quick start version of Atkins (actually, quick start is a Weight Watchers term). This explains the plan to get you started on the 2 week induction and
beyond. It is a great companion to the Dr. Atkins New Diet Revolution. Buy this to get you started and then buy the original book to learn the all the scientific details of why this works.

32 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Atkins Essentials: by Atkins, August 19, 2004

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Joseph S. Maresca "Dr. Joseph S. Maresca CPA,... (Bronxville, New York USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Atkins Essentials: A Two-Week Program to Jump-start Your Low Carb Lifestyle (Mass Market Paperback)

To answer some of the other reviewer critics, I say that no diet
regimen is complete without a program of exercise to aid in
optimal metabolism.

The Atkins Low Carb regimen is sound science because the author
very carefully points out the food groups highest in carbohydrates.
Foods like pastas, breads, cakes, bagels
and most wheat products are high in the carbohydrate count.
Fresh fruits and veggies are much lower.

In my own experience, 25 pounds was lost permanently by controlling
the carbs and doing little else. The regimen has included
exercise for most of my life. Atkins is not saying that
we should eliminate all carbs.

He calls for a reduction in the carbohydrate intake.
A strength of this work is that it provides model menus for
emulation by dieters. Besides sensible dieting, it is prudent
to eat earlier in the day so that the food is digested prior
to bedtime. Meals at bedtime tend to aggravate the classic
middle-age conditions; such as, IBS, Crohns disease and many
other gastrointestinal conditions too numerous to list here.

This work is still an excellent value for anyone serious about
weight control via sensible dieting routines.