To keep to Atkinson's diet – it means almost completely to refuse the products rich with carbohydrates. Preference is given to greasy and proteinaceous food, and it is necessary to adhere to such diet long time.
Instruction
- Atkinson's diet – the power supply system developed by doctor Robert Atkins. The purpose of diet consists in normalization of metabolism due to decrease in amount of the consumed carbohydrates. The doctor claims that it is possible to eat food, protein-rich and fats and at the same time to grow thin.
- Atkinson's diet includes 4 stages: the initial or stimulating stage, the stage of continuous loss of weight presupporting stage and supporting stage. Duration of the first stage of weight loss – 2 weeks. You will have to use 1200-200 Kcal a day, but watch that the amount of the accepted carbohydrates did not exceed 20 g a day. For the rest there are no restrictions. You can use any products rich with fats and proteins. It is about meat, fish, bird, shrimps and other seafood and also vegetable and animal oils.
- At your table there can be nuts, olives, seeds, cheese, cottage cheese, sour cream, cream, citrus and low-carbohydrate dietary products. Do not allow emergence of feeling of hunger, but never get up because of table with completely filled stomach. Vegetables choose only what contain no more than 10% of carbohydrates. The sorrel, onions, pepper, celery, parsley, garden radish, cucumbers, fennel, basil, fennel, asparagus, thyme, all types of haricot, rhubarb, all species of cabbage, peas, spinach, vegetable marrows, beet tops of vegetable, blue, pumpkin, tomatoes concern them.
- From drinks all that does not contain some sugar and coffee is possible. It is worth giving preference to herbal tea and mineral water. At initial stage it is impossible to eat fruit, bread, cereals and starchy vegetables. In two weeks the amount of carbohydrates in the diet can be increased to that level which would allow to keep the achieved result. This stage of tests and mistakes. If you notice that weight returns again, return on the stimulating stage, and after its normalization continue to experiment with vykokouglevodny products again.
- When you are able to keep the weight under control, pass to the supporting diet. During this period you also should control the level of the consumed carbohydrates. On average, you are able to afford up to 90 g of carbohydrates a day, but anyway this figure has to allow you to hold the weight on the reached mark. Going on Atkinson's diet, it is necessary to remember that the lack of carbohydrates of organism can lead to development of various diseases. In particular, exacerbation of gout, disease of cardiovascular system, violation of pressure and work of GIT is possible.