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The Essential Atkins for Life Kit: Tools, Tips, and Techniques for Maintaining a Low Carb Lifestylefor Perman Ent Weight Loss and Optimal Health

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This kit includes everything you need (except food) to lose weight and enjoy a low-carb lifestyle. The dining out guide is especially helpful. If you are a meat lover, Atkins is the way to go! I lost 20 stubborn pounds and have been keeping it off for months now without ever feeling deprived. Also, my blood pressure and cholesterol are lower. Thank you Dr. Atkins and Amazon!

I was on Atkins a few years back and I lost 85 pounds from it. I gained it all back because I didn't go through all the Atkins phases and went right back to my old eating habits. Seeing as South Beach and a few other diets have become more popular for whatever reason, its harder to find Atkins products than it used to be. I'm sure South Beach is nice, but Atkins really helps get the pounds off, builds energy, and it really simple to do. In the beginning meat, veggies and cheese are allowed, as well as butter, oil and spices. You can also use a bit of artificial sweetener(Splenda recommended). So, you can have a cheesecake that tastes like real NY style cheesecake, instead of being on a diet where everything tastes fake and you never feel satisfied. Maintenance allows other kinds of food, but in more moderation, suited to the individual's tolerances.

I just bought this kit today and it had everything in it that I expected. Delicious, low carb recipes for when I start maintaining my weight, food planners, carb counters; basically everything I need to keep the weight off once I'm done. Seeing as I got my kit for 99 cents and it's being sold on the marketplace for not much more, there really is no excuse not to buy this. I recommend that every skeptic try Atkins(according to the book) for two weeks, and see if I'm wrong.

This is a very handy kit which allows me to sit the box almost anywhere and use the items I need without taking up much space. It also makes it easy to find the information I much faster.

this book is more about explaining the diet and teaches you how to be successful. it has recipes in it but this isnt the purpose of this book. if your looking for just a cookbook then find something else. if you want to learn alot about this diet this is a great book

The kit was pretty worthless overall. Save your money, buy "Dr. Atkins New Diet Revolution" 2002 version, and join some online low carb lists. You'll be better off.

all that was sent was the carb counting little book.. thats not what is was supposed to be.. i used to have this and i know. this is only the little carb book that came with all the other stuff.. what a joke . not funny

This is the unrevised version of Atkins, and it is still too heavy on protein to be a safe sustainable diet. Interesting to have on the bookshelf, but I found it unusable. Has lots of recipe cards and a fold out carb counter and a little book and suggestions for daily food plans based on certain carb levels.

As a nurse, I say, unsustainable, way too high in fat and protein, seen plenty of people sick and on the verge of collapse from not eating as the book suggests and chowing down on steak and eggs and sausages and more eggs and wondering why they get dizzy and palpitations and they lose 5kg of water and go off the diet within two weeks and gain 6kg.

Try the Zone. It may look complicated, but the key to modern day fat loss is insulin regulation (insulin is a fat storage hormone and it blocks fat releasing hormones), and high protein diets mess with your insulin levels as well as high sugar diets do.