Atkins Diet ATKINS DIET Low Carb Weight Loss Plan Parting Recommendations. For those of you who have been successful, your nutritional voyage seems to be almost over. It will continue indefinitely, I hope. I want to leave you with eight basic principles for your life time doing the Atkins Diet .  .  .

ATKINS DIET   Some  Parting Recommendations

For those of you who have been successful, your nutritional voyage seems to be almost over. It will continue indefinitely, I hope, but you’re driving the car. I want to leave you with eight basic principles for your life time doing the Atkins:

1. Be food aware, remember that fresh meat, fish, fowl, veggies, nuts, seeds and occasional fruits and starches are the foods nature intended you to eat. That packaged refined carbohydrate stuff in the supermarket puts money in somebody’s pocket, and it puts garbage into your stomach. This is the only body you’ve got. Notice how good it feels now! Notice how much better it looks! Keep it that way!
   
2. Be wary, endlessly wary of sugar and corn syrup and white flour and cornstarch. Look at the labels of any packaged food you are considering and avoid those contain sugar, corn syrup and honey, and read those labels for the carb content of the foods you want to eat.
   
3. Individualize your personal eating plan. Try new foods, increase the variety of foods that you like and enjoy, it will help to prevent you from going back to eating foods that you enjoyed in the past, but which simply aren’t good for you. Use low carb alternatives.
   
4. Continue your already established and effective plan
   
5. Consume caffeine and alcohol only in moderation
   
6. Remember that addictions can be managed only through abstinence.
   
7. Take care of weight regain promptly and effectively by returning to the induction and OWL (ongoing weight loss) phases for as long as it takes to get back to your goal weight. Swear that you will never allow yourself to be more than 5 pounds and two weeks worth of induction away from your goal weight.
   
8. Make exercise a regular part of your life.

One final word. It is well known that virtually all individuals regain all or most of their hard last pounds within 5 years. But when a program changes the composition of the diet, not the quantity, and when pre maintenance teaching and the 5 pound rule are consistently applied, recidivism is a rare phenomenon; indeed, my experience resoundingly confirms this fact. Instead of bouncing you back into the land of the fat, Atkins welcomes you permanently into the home of the slim.

Good luck!

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