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Dr. Atkins' New Diet Value Pack

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If you like healthy and delicious meals, read this one. Fully compatible with most phases of the famous Atkins diet, this book learns you how to cook the good old-fashioned way: rich, healthy and easy recipies that you will just love. The Atkins diet is clearly a diet that not only works remarkably well for most individuals, certainly the obese, but it is also a gourmet diet. This book proves it and makes it easy and fun. I have seen really obese persons, myself included, lose over 100 pounds (!) easily and keeping it off: just by eating the right (low-carb)way. This book really helps with just that.

Most receipies are easy to follow and prepare, some are of high-caliber gourmet cooks - and still full compatible with the life-time maintenance phase of the diet.

Fran Gare, who contributed significantly to this book, wrote other excellent low-carb cookbooks as well. Overall, this is a very good book worth every penny.

Gladly recommended!

This book covers everything from meals to dessert. Low CARB solution meals without compromising the delicious taste.

In a motivated mood, I asked my doctor recently to give me a good diet plan so I could take off many unwanted pounds. He didn't skip a beat. He just said "try the Atkins' Diet." So, I did...and it is excellent! What a great way to lose weight, in a healthy manner, with a minimal amount of suffering. I am dropping pounds, not feeling hungry, and ready to experiment with low carbohydrate food recipes, as I have grown a little bored with broiled meats, fish, omelettes and plain salad.

I picked up a copy of "Dr. Atkins' New Diet Cookbook: With Dr. Atkins' New Carbohydrate Gram Counter," tried many of the recipes and have been thrilled with the gourmet results. All recipes follow the same high-protein, high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet (including the complex carbohydrates). From appetizers, meat, poultry and fish dishes, to scrumptious desserts, the results are wonderful. The cheesecake is loaded with cream cheese, eggs, cream fraiche, uses a sugar substitute and is out of this world. My diet is much more varied now and food actually seems to taste better than before I began the diet. The carbohydrate counter included in the book is invaluable.

I also want to add that exercise is so important in the weight loss process. Even walking for a half hour everyday will help considerably. Dr. Atkins was scorned for many years for his weight loss program and healthy diet theories, but over time, with much research, he has been proven correct. I can't recommend his diet and this cookbook highly enough! Check with your doctor first, as I did. Good luck!
JANA

Unlike fad diets and abstinence, this is a diet that does not require you to carry a scale, or a calculator to figure out if the food in front of you is what you should be eating. True, it helps if you love meat, but I have not met a fat vegetarian, so they should have nothing to worry about. The thought of being able to eat as much of the meat, and eggs that I want is heaven on earth. I no longer munch on pork rinds and feel guilty, but they are actually part of the diet.

There is, however, a misconception that the diet eliminates carbohydrates. This is specifically not the case. The diet allows a severe lowering of carbs, but the allowed total increases somewhat after a short period of time. I have not stopped eating at McDonalds, and other such places, but now I know that instead of a couple of quarter pound burgers, I can get a double burger and stay at my daily carb limit. Once you are at the limit for the day, then you stop the carbs for only that day. Therefore, I can also eat rice, bread, and pasta, but in limited servings. This is not always easy, but I lost 18 pounds within eight weeks.

I have not been as loyal to the diet since that loss, but I remain conscious about carbohydrates and this has kept me from regaining the weight after the last several months. The point is to know what will put on the weight and keep control. My wife and I add our own spices to the book's recipes so as to juice up the meals and to meet our taste needs. I do miss the big plate of spaghetti, but now I can better keep up with my children in play.

I just purchased the Atkins' New Diet Cookbook and have perused it briefly. However,without having started using the recipes, I have some suggestions to the author as to how to improve the usability.
1. All recipes should be for the same number of servings. It is easy to double or triple for more servings.
2. The page number should be included (rather than an asterisk indicating that the recipe is in the back of the book). I spent several hours locating the recipe and writing the page number by the meal plan. This before I even started considering cooking!
3. Little effort was made to make the recipes cost effective. By that I mean, in the first two weeks, many ingredients are perishable but used only one time and small amounts required--such as 4 strawberries!
5. Too much effort to make recipes exotic when more normal and available (also less expensive)ingredients would make the diet easier to manage and still maintain the low carbs.

If you are on the Atkins diet or your own version of it you should pick up this book. It is very helpful and the recipes are pretty good. Since I am not much of a cook I did not try most of the recipes but the ones I tried were all decent (some better than others). I do think a book like this helps you stay on the diet longer.

Its a must red for everyone trying to diet & change their lifes for good!

I KNOW each and every single person is different, ... so please, do not take this as an insult. I'm only telling you what worked for me.

I've tried this Atkins Diet. I lost weight, but I missed my sweets too much.

I also tried the low-fat diet. Again, I lost weight, but I missed my cheese too much.

I'm now following Kevin Trudeau's Level 1 in "Weight Loss Cures 'They' don't want you to know about". I get to keep my cheese, and I get to keep my sweets. Maybe not as many sweets as I'd like, but I DO get to keep them. I'm finding I'm loosing weight with Kevin Trudeau. And with the sweets he does allow, I'm finding I'm craving sweets less.

Every single person has to find what works for them. If Atkins works for you, then I'm honestly glad you found something that works for you. Stay with it. I'm proud of you.

If Atkin's did not work for you, please try Kevin Trudeau. If you've already tried Kevin Trudeau, PLEASE keep trying something else and DO NOT GIVE UP HOPE! There IS SOMETHING out there that WILL work for you. The ONLY time you fail is when you stop trying.

I hope this helps anyone who is trying to make a decision here on weight loss.

God bless you.

have seen alot of stories of people that damage thier livers on a dr atkins diet.

the diet works, if u stay on it, but at what cost to your long term health?