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The Mysterious Atkins Diet

The Atkins Diet is also known as the "low carb diet." The reason for this title is simple. Dr. Atkins revolutionized dieting as we know it. When he developed the Atkins diet, he turned the diet world upside down by proving that high fat and low carbohydrate intake makes for a very successful weight loss program.

Dr. Atkins' Theory of Diet

Previous to Dr. Atkins' theory all diets were about eating the least amount of fat as possible, while maintaining minimal intake of just about everything else. This was the era of "low fat." Of course low fat meant more sugar. Most all products for dieting were either low in fat and high in sugar content or low in sugar and high in fat content.

The theories at the time were that if you took in lots of fat in your food, you'd just start storing what you didn't "burn off" and that was why you accumulated all the fat on your body. It sounded logical at the time.

Dr. Atkins came along and with some even more logical research discovered that it is not the fats in food that are causing the build up of fat in the body but rather the carbohydrates.

This did not make a lot of sense to the more traditional scholars and without actually studying his theories, they just lambasted and ridiculed him incessantly. However, Dr. Atkins knew that his theory was sound and he stuck by his guns.

Here's the gist of the Dr. Atkins diet theory: there are two main hormones that the body uses to control the amount of the accumulation of fat. Those two hormones are insulin and glucagon.

When fat is consumed, it is not immediately stored away as was the previous theory. It is actually turned into a carbohydrate and then is either burned off by the body in the metabolic process and if not burned off it is stored for use at another time. The hormone that causes this storing process to take place is insulin.

Where Does Insulin Figure In the Atkins Diet?

We all know about insulin or lack of insulin in diabetes, however, insulin has several uses in the body. One of those uses is to cause unused molecules of carbohydrates to be stored away in the body to be used at another time. Insulin is very good at this process and readily stores carbs away. The problem is that continued consumption of carbohydrate products causes the body to be saturated in insulin. This is known as "hyperinsulinemia" (hi-pur-in-suh-lin-ee-mi-uh). When this occurs, the body is constantly storing fat away all over the place. Thus, your body looks and feels fat. The more carbs you eat, the more fat is stored away.

However, there is another hormone that works in the opposite way. The hormone glucagon (gloo-ka-gawn), when released, causes the body to actually "break down" excess fat into carbohydrates so that they are either used up or excreted as waste. The less carbs you consume, the more glucagon is released and the more fat is burned up or excreted. Nice, huh?

Glucagon In Action

Now that you know about the two hormones and how they work let's further explain Dr. Atkins and his diet.

Bringing All Those Low Carbohydrates Together

You see Dr. Atkins discovered that if one takes the sugars or carbohydrates out of the picture, the body is actually forced to convert the fat into carbohydrates for energy because there are none coming in to replace the ones already burnt. When there are no carbohydrates coming in to be burned for energy the ones that are already stored as fat are broken down so that the body has a source for energy. The body must have energy to work. Some of that broken down stored fat is actually excreted in urine and feces.

So, if you are not eating excessive amounts of carbohydrates the body actually has no reason to store the fat that you're eating. Therefore, it uses the nutrients from the fat, passes the fat on through to excretion and breaks down the stored fat for energy. When the stored fat in your body is used up over and over, you start losing weight and best of all, inches.

So, Dr. Atkins and his diet have proven to be highly effective as a diet. The nice thing is, the diet is fairly rapid and the lust for food is actually significantly diminished.

So, in summary, if the body burns all of the consumed carbohydrates for energy and there are very few of them, it turns to the stored fat and begins to use it for energy thus breaking down all that fat around your gut, your butt and your thighs.

The thing about the Atkins diet is this: you have to severely limit any carbohydrate intake. If you continue to eat sugars and carbohydrates, the process cannot work so you must have a certain amount of discipline in order to have success with this diet. You also must drink large amounts of water regularly in order to keep the kidneys from stopping up with all the fat they are trying to excrete.

As Dr. Atkins himself said, (paraphrashed)"this is not just a diet, it's a lifestyle change." And that is the truth. You do lose significant amounts of weight and inches but if you start eating sweets and carbs again, you'll gain it all back very quickly.

The distinct advantages of the Atkins diet are that you can eat as much fat and protein as you want. Where you have been told for years not to eat high fat foods, with the Atkins diet you can eat plenty. You can eat lots of meat, eggs and cheese. You can't eat cookies, candy, cake, bread or potato chips. Some people cannot tolerate life without some of those carbs. If this is you, don't even attempt to use the Atkins diet or you are just setting yourself up for failure.

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Fast Weight Loss Techniques Are Not Always Effective

Let's get something straight so you'll know why we're here in the first place. The sad truth is that fast weight loss techniques, that you read about and hear about all the time, are not always effective. That's right. Many of them do not provide the results that they promise. Fast weight loss is, to be fair, a relative term. "Relative to what?", you ask. Well, relative to what you consider "fast." Is your weight reduction goal one week or one month? Is it 10 pounds or 100 or more pounds?

You see, unfortunately, most people don't want to hear the truth and they'll fall for an advertisement claiming that they can lose 10 pounds a week when, in reality, that kind of weight loss can be very dangerous and unhealthy. Most people don't seem to want to know the truth about fast weight loss and they'd rather go on believing that there is a way to lose weight ridiculously fast enough that they'll be able to shed those 30 pounds in two weeks. Then, unfortunately, they are very disappointed and frustrated when the truth sets in and the highly marketed diet plan that they bought into turns out to be an exaggeration.

We Know What You're Going Through

That's why we, at Repair My Weight loss, are here. We want you to know the truth despite what others are trying to get you to believe. We're certainly not saying that diets don't work. We know that diets work but we also know that they're never a walk in the park. Diets take hard and often frustrating work. Most people give up on a diet just as the diet is about to show results. We know because the staff at Repair My Weight Loss has experienced most of those diets right along with you. We've suffered through the seemingly starvation type diets, the low carb diets, the low fat diets...just about every one of them. We understand what you are going through and we want to help you.

Fast weight loss diets are, for the most part, unreal. There are a few fast weight loss diets that actually work initially but after you've lost the first few pounds rather rapidly, they stall out. There's a reason for that.

Other proclaimed fast weight reduction diets don't even come close to their claims. Then there are those that are highly effective if you can stand to stay on them for any amount of time. No matter which diet you use, believe in or want to try, we've found that one thing always seems to make the initial phase of any diet work much more effectively.

Cleansing

The cleansing of the colon by certain methods seems to allow the body to move into diets a bit more easily. The initial shock of any type of diet to the body is tolerated more readily if the colon is cleansed appropriately first. Does this mean you have to experience some form of diarrhea for a week or something nasty like that? No, not at all. Some forms of colon cleansing don't have much to do with bowel movements but rather what you put into the body over a certain period of time.

We don't condone or sponsor ANY specific colon cleansing product here at RMWL, but we do promote, strongly, the use of some type of colon cleanser either with or without a diet. Why? Because your health starts in your colon and that's the orgination of most diseases. This is a private thing. No one has to know that you practice colon cleansing. Just don't tell them but, for your own sake, DO practice it. Here is a great site for learning more about colon cleansing.

We have lots of information for you to go through at this website and we'll be adding new information fairly frequently. A lot of our pages have more than one subject in them. Read the entire page before moving on or you might miss some important information. Our goal is to help you understand what's out there and how it works before you decide whether or not to use a specific kind of diet. Regardless of which diet plan you choose, you should be able to find good information about it before taking the plunge. Stick with us and see if maybe we can help you get through this difficult time. You'll thank us for it in the long run.

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Why is it that you want to lose that thigh fat? Because thigh fat is often considered to be unsightly, right? Tremendous anguish and frustration can be caused by this not-so-pretty thigh fat. The fact is that there are millions of people who are overweight and many more on the way to being overweight. Unfortunately, in today's ocular society, people tend to judge others by their appearance and though this is a cruel fact of life, it is the cause for so many people mistakenly believing that they must have a much thinner body. You see, all the TV and visual merchandising tend to hard-wire our brains into believing this. Because the media determines who is attractive and who isn't, their influence is, unfortunately, our obsession and with this visual attraction social world, the desire to lose weight grows more and more everyday; thus, your God given natural thighs appear to you to be much more distorted than they really are. Your desire to lose that thigh fat is pounded into your brain hourly by every media known to man... READ MORE

The Weight Loss Plateau

So, you were overweight and decided to change your life and start dieting. You may have purchased some type of diet plan or read a book, whatever. You were committed and you began your program and it was working beautifully for a while and it was coming off pretty fast. Faster than you thought it would. You were happy, elated and things were going right for you. You were committed to the program and you were continuously losing about 1-2 pounds of body fat every week. Then suddenly, out of the blue, after a month or two, you noticed that the pounds you were losing are getting less and less and eventually the entire weight loss thing grounds to a halt. "What has happened?", you wonder in total frustration. "I've done everything right and now all the work seems to do nothing further. "Am I destined to never lose more than this?" Au contraire, mon ami...READ MORE


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