The AllNew Atkins Advantage The 12Week LowCarb Program
October 18, 2009 by admin
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The proven diet that will slim you down, get you exercising, and change your life
The All-New Atkins Advantage is more than a diet: it features the Atkins proven-effective weight loss program in a 12-week, step-by-step plan, including instructions on how to incorporate healthy exercise into your life as well as guidance on maintaining the motivation to stick with the diet and exercise program.
Each week builds on the one before it to raise your level of competence and confidence:
Week 1: Combat cravings for sugars and starches with tasty, low-carb alternatives like veal parmesan and trout almondine.
Week 4: Achieve peak fitness with the Atkins approach to exercise. Fully illustrated stretching, cardio, and strength training plans will get you energized.
Week 6: Start an Atkins journal to maintain your motivation and continue your enthusiasm and success.
Week 9: Get out of your lunch rut! Go out for a special but speedy meal at a restaurant, instead of the nearby deli.
Week 12: All the work you’ve done thus far has prepared you for this moment: the beginning of the rest of your life!
Turn your life around and give yourself a dietary, exercise, and lifestyle makeover with THE ALL-NEW ATKINS ADVANTAGE.
The All-New Atkins Advantage will allow you to enjoy a wider variety of foods, tailor an individualized exercise plan, and do Atkins your way.
COLETTE HEIMOWITZ, M.Sc., has been featured on national television networks such as NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox News Channel, and MSNBC, and on radio programs across the country.
Helpful Book
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
This book had a few more suggestions than the first to come out.There are a few that were new to me and would have helped me at the beginning better if I would have known.It recommends exercise while the other book didn’t.A lot of it is the same thing but you do get a lot of different ideas also.
Most beneficial diet ever!
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I’m about a month into this plan and have already lost 14#’s. I can really live on this way of eating. I stayed away from Atkins for so long because of negative publicity but what I found out was that people were judging it by the first two weeks only. Once you’ve passed the critical first phase, you slowly add back in, most of your favorite foods anyway. And you can tweak things like coleslaw to make them carb friendly. This is a great way to eat. I eat fruit, cottage cheese, nuts, and even steak. Best plan I’ve ever done. I loved this book so much I bought one for my dad!
Better than expected.
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I received the book in a timely manner. The book was in excellent condition, looks new. There is a clear cover over the dust cover to protect it, better than new. Thanks!
Fred
An Updated Atkins Diet Book That Even Dr. Atkins Would Be Proud Of
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
What’s with a brand new “Atkins” book being published years after the famous low-carb diet doctor has deceased? Well, it’s not by the late great Dr. Robert C. Atkins, but you could say he was the one who inspired it and may have indeed written it himself had he lived a few more years. It’s called The All-New Atkins Advantage featuring the writing and research of Ironman competitor and orthopedic surgeon Dr. Stuart Trager as well as Atkins Nutritionals, Inc. spokeswoman Colette Heimowitz.
I’m gonna admit I was quite skeptical of this book when I first heard about it. I mean, come on! Do we REALLY need another book to tell us how to do the Atkins diet? Well, yes and no. As someone who lost 180 pounds after reading and implementing the principles found in Dr. Atkins’ New Diet Revolution back in 2004, I couldn’t imagine what this “new Atkins” book would tell me to improve upon what I previously learned. But I try to keep an open and am always willing to learn.
This new Atkins is very focused on giving people a specific 12-week plan for success, including tips about how to implement the diet into your life with menu plans and advice about how to become a success. One of the ways that is done is by providing a myriad of low-carb plans to choose from based on YOUR specific needs.
When I was losing weight on Atkins, my carbohydrates needed to stay around 35g a day in order for me to keep losing weight. Some people need less than that while others can get away with more carbs. Since we’re all different, The All-New Atkins Advantage tries to accommodate and customize this plan to your specifications based on your body. They don’t really tell you which one to follow, so I suppose you start at 20g and work your way up. How is this different from the Atkins diet I did?
Well, there is one major difference about this book that was not given as much space in any of the previous Atkins books. Dr. Trager uses his fitness experience and provides pictorial demonstrations of various exercises you should be doing as part of your healthy low-carb lifestyle. This is indeed a sorely needed addition to the Atkins plan that I’m happy to see.
Answers to the most common questions and criticisms of livin’ la vida low-carb are also included in this book which was inspired by all the positive developments that have been happening in the research world since the passing of Dr. Atkins. It makes you wonder if he would have written a similar book had he stuck around a few more years. Who knows?
Regardless, you’ll enjoy this book immensely if you are new to the Atkins lifestyle or if you are seeking to learn more about low-carbohydrate dieting. Don’t miss the comprehensive list of low-carb studies in the back of the book to see all of the amazing science that has been flooding health research journals in recent years.
Wow, what an improvement over the old atkins…
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I just spent several hours reading this “all new” atkins program and I am truly impressed. The book emphasizes all the healthy reasons to do this program and holds your hand for 12 weeks. It has continual motivational tips and ideas to prevent back sliding and to achieve a long term healthy weight and lifestyle. As for a recent post who gave it 2 stars because of “bad” vegetable oils encouraged…hmmm I’m confused… when did olive oil, flax seed oil and avocado in moderation become harmful and bad? I don’t think so. I highly recommend this book!
Falls short of “Classic” atkins books
Rating:1 out of 5 stars
Previous Atkins books went much more into detail the science behind how the low carb diet works. this one just gives a brief overview. The rest of the book is simply recipies and stretching excercies. The Akins books of old were much more informative. I have read all of the diet books written by Dr. Atkins and suggest to anyone interested in his diet to read one of the books he actually wrote. The 2002 edition will surfice.
Wrong Fats
Rating:2 out of 5 stars
I picked up this book to look at it in the book store and did what I always do when I look at a new diet book, look at what fats they recommend. After seeing that they recommended the tired old vegetable oils that are all wrong for us……..I slammed the book shut and put it right back on the shelf. These vegetable oils are one of the reasons our country is so sick. If they don’t recommend coconut oil and other healthy fats from the past, then I know I should be careful about trusting anything else they say. Most of those oils in the grocery store are bad news and it is hard for me to believe people still recommend them. It is common sense to note that these oils were not around until recent decades and our bodies are rejecting them. What did generations before us eat without getting heart disease and cancer? Not these highly processed fats. Even though Atkins should get some credit for making everyone aware of what carbs can do to us, hence the two stars, I was hoping this book would be updated with new info as a way of improving on the old Atkins diet. I was disappointed. To understand what fats are healthy read “Know Your Fats : The Complete Primer for Understanding the Nutrition of Fats, Oils and Cholesterol” (Paperback)
by Mary G. Enig
Well-written, accurate, and easy-to-follow
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
The low-carb diet has been evolving over the last 10-15 years as the nutritional power and availability of vegetables have increased. I can’t understand a dieter like Delores Haze today. I’ve been on low-carb for 7 years and have almost never had a “hunk o’ meat and veg” for dinner. Tonight I had a delicious stir-fry with broccoli, red and white onions, snow peas, grated carrots, large, vine-ripened tomato slices, cut-up chicken sausage and diced fresh chicken from my last evening’s dinner. I cook this slowly in extra-virgin olive oil and a splash of canola oil. Absolutely no seasoning is needed. I made a lot and it’s a good thing. Both my younger kids had friends over and they had seconds and thirds. “We never get food like this at home” was a typical comment. Interestingly, nobody even noticed that the meal was very low in net carbs. So, my suggestion to Delores is to put a bit of effort into your dieting and you’ll be amazed at how much delicious variety you can eat.
I do agree with Delores (and others) who experience headaches a few days into the diet. However, she is incorrect to say that using addiction terminology is wrong. It is, in fact, right on. Just watch very heavy people gorging on ice cream, candy, cake, cookies, and Grape-Nuts (yes, they have a huge amount of sugar disguised as barley malt). Why do they do it? They really need to, physically and mentally. That’s addiction. Like all addicts, when they gorge on their addictive substance (that first drink of alcohol, the first bite of ice cream, that big bowl of Grape-Nuts, etc.) they feel great. But we all now what happens down the line. So, get through the headaches (mine came on after three days and did not fully disappear until about ten days). That was seven years ago and I don’t remember ever having another headache. I do remember effortlessly losing 65 pounds (it’s still all off), controlling my blood pressure without medication, and dropping my frighteningly high fasting triglycerides (over 400) to 89. Oh and my cholesterol did nothing. It was at 155 when I started and it has been at 155 (plus or minus 10) the whole time. With my HDL at 60+, I’m not worried.
Bottom line: If you are creative and determined, the low-carb diet is a very easy one to follow and this book, with all its delicious recipes, sensible advice on exercise, and an excellent overall discussion of why low-carb works is a great place to start.