Did you know that eating fats won't make you fat if you allow your body to burn them? Cutting your carb intake, therefore allowing your body to naturally burn fat are the core premises of the Atkins Diet.
Maintaining even levels of blood sugar provides the added benefit of much fewer cravings or hunger pains! The Atkins diet takes you off the blood sugar "roller coaster", thus stabilizing your energy level, by changing the balance of carbs, fats and protein in your diet.
Carb intake is mainly responsible for fluctuations in blood sugar.
Food doesn't need to taste sweet to be high in carbs: starchy foods like mashed potatoes and white bread, for example, are high in carbs.
When you eat foods composed primarily of fat fiber, and protein, your body produces much less insulin.
And when you limit the carbs that you eat to high-fiber whole foods, which convert to glucose more slowly, your blood sugar level and energy level are more stable and steady.
You also will be much less likely to crave an energy boost and resort to quick sugary, starchy foods.
The Atkins diet allows your body to act as a fat-burning machine.
Metabolism is the breakdown of food and its transformation into energy.
Eating the right foods can improve your body's metabolism, particularly how it handles fat.
When you replace carb foods with vegetables rich in fiber, your body switches to burning your own body fat, rather than carbs, as its primary fuel source.
However, after a carb-heavy meal or snack, your body stops burning fat as your insulin level rises to deal with your rising blood sugar.
Fat calories are stored, rather than being burned off.
Unfortunately, our ability to store fat is almost limitless! Limiting carbs, thus allowing your body to burn fat for energy, is the key to weight loss and weight maintenance with the Atkins diet.
Maintaining even levels of blood sugar provides the added benefit of much fewer cravings or hunger pains! The Atkins diet takes you off the blood sugar "roller coaster", thus stabilizing your energy level, by changing the balance of carbs, fats and protein in your diet.
Carb intake is mainly responsible for fluctuations in blood sugar.
Food doesn't need to taste sweet to be high in carbs: starchy foods like mashed potatoes and white bread, for example, are high in carbs.
When you eat foods composed primarily of fat fiber, and protein, your body produces much less insulin.
And when you limit the carbs that you eat to high-fiber whole foods, which convert to glucose more slowly, your blood sugar level and energy level are more stable and steady.
You also will be much less likely to crave an energy boost and resort to quick sugary, starchy foods.
The Atkins diet allows your body to act as a fat-burning machine.
Metabolism is the breakdown of food and its transformation into energy.
Eating the right foods can improve your body's metabolism, particularly how it handles fat.
When you replace carb foods with vegetables rich in fiber, your body switches to burning your own body fat, rather than carbs, as its primary fuel source.
However, after a carb-heavy meal or snack, your body stops burning fat as your insulin level rises to deal with your rising blood sugar.
Fat calories are stored, rather than being burned off.
Unfortunately, our ability to store fat is almost limitless! Limiting carbs, thus allowing your body to burn fat for energy, is the key to weight loss and weight maintenance with the Atkins diet.