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Summary: Very good day-to-day dieter's companion and guide
Review: I started the Atkins diet on my own, based on the guiding principles described on the book "Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution". I have steadily and comfortably reduced inches off my waist by using the "Dr. Atkins' New Carbohydrate Gram Counter" as a guide to food selection. If it were not for its reduced, concise listing of foods (carbs, proteins, fat) I could not have understood the method I was supposed to follow to achieve weight loss. It is not a comprehensive guide, so don't even think of it as the ultimate compilation of your diet choices. Yet, its tiny size made it perfect to carry it in a handbag, in a glove compartment, every time I need help to navigate through the supermarket maze in search for low-carb foods, and yes, to elegantly cover my tracks when I cheated the diet.
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Summary: THIN SMALL compact yet has what you need to stay on track
Review: This is a super thin and small guide that gets to the point without too much detail and can keep you in the ballpark with your carb counting wherever you are. I like to recommend to anyone dieting or trying to make positive changes in life that you read an amazing book called Effortless Wellbeing by Evan Finer. It will help you feel great in general and also while you make progress with positive changes like weight loss. It will help you boost your energy and just feel powerful again. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED and very helpful! Good Luck!
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Summary: Changed my life!
Review: I would have to start off by saying that Dr. Atkins is wonderful. I bought this book to help me track the number of carbs in my diet. I have been very successful by using the book and its carb levels, in fact, I would not have been as successful with the ANA if it had not been for this book. It does not have all of the foods or brands listed but it has many of the well known ones that can be found almost anywhere. I owe a huge success to this book and would recommend it to anyone who is trying to count their carbs and follow this plan. 30 pounds in a month and half should be worth something.
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Summary: Essential for Anyone Cutting the Carbs
Review: It seems cutting fat and calories isn't working for everyone. The Atkins philosophy includes a deeper awareness of where the carbs are hiding out. Once you find out what you should be eating, it all seems easier. After purchasing the videos describing the diet, I found the small booklet they provided with the videos to not quite be as extensive as I desired. Soon, I looked up other items for the diet and found this tiny book. This has Both "carbs" and "net carbs." Apparently counting the carbs is not enough. Now there are certain carbs that have a minimal impact on blood sugar and the "net carbs" are the only ones you have to worry about. So when you are buying "Frosted Mini Wheats," 1/2 cup has 22.7 grams of carb. The NET is 19.8 grams. I'd avoid them altogether and go with Cheerios which are only 7.6 grams net carbs. So, this can help you pick the best cereals. Also, when thinking fruit! 1 cup orange sections are 8.4 g net carbs, but 4 fl oz orange juice is 13.2 net carbs. And who drinks just 4 fl oz. We are talking 8 or more. So, the choice to eat an orange instead of drink orange juice can have a significant effect on the amount of carbs you are consuming. Now I skip the frozen orange juice and head for the produce department. Plus, I'm getting more fiber. It is going to take me a while to memorize the gram counts on all my favorite foods, but overall, I'm using this book to make the best choices when purchasing food. So, that way I am ahead of the game. Also, this book explains how the 0 g of carbohydrate label might mean there is as much as 0.99 g carbohydrates per serving. The Contents: Introduction - Explains the difference between the low-carb and the low-fat diets. Four Phases of the Atkins Nutritional Approach - You might be able to start at 20 grams and then you can work up to 90 or 120 grams a day. I was eating over 200 grams carbs a day which is too high for me, for sure. How to Use this Book
Portion Size Guidelines Food Categories: Beverages, Breads, Muffins, Crackers, Cereals, Cereal Bars, Pancakes, Waffles, Breakfast Pastries, Fruit, Eggs, Cheese, Milk, Cream, Butter, Yogurt, Sweetners, Jams, Syrups, Sauces, Gravies, Marinades, Seasonings, Condiments, Fats, Oils, Salad Dressings, Soups, Fish and Shellfish, Beef, Pork, Lamb, Poultry, Nuts, Nut Butters, Seeds, Vegetables, Grains, Pasta, Rice, Beans, Legumes, Tofu, Desserts, Cakes, Pies, Brownies, Snacks, cookies, Candies and Baking products. Dining Out
Fast Food If eating just a hamburger patty doesn't sound appealing to you, try adding gravy that is low in carbs and eat it with a side of vegetables instead of the hamburger bun. Better yet, go for the steak or a marinated piece of chicken. Having a highligher handy while looking through this book is helpful. That way you can highlight the lowest carb choices and try to stick with those foods. Soon you will be choosing ?green tea with stevia? instead of that lemon-lime soda that has a whopping 38.3 grams net carbs. Yikes. Diet drinks are of course the way to go if you don't mind the taste of the sweetners, which are getting better over the years. Sure, you can cheat now and then. Why not? Life is too short to always
be on a diet. What this diet does is help you make better choices. My weight has been increasing for years and I had no idea what to do about it. The less I ate, the more I seemed to gain. Finally, I had enough. With this diet awareness or carb-counting idea I have stabilized my weight and am now seeing it go down. I also noticed my skin changing and becoming clearer and smoother. This book is small enough to keep in your purse or in a pocket. Don't leave home without it! :)
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Summary: Pointless
Review: This whole Atkins craze is getting pretty ridiculous right now. Carbohydrates are not the problem people, do you still not get it? You gain weight from excessive eating of ANYTHING (if you eat 40 pounds of oranges you're going to gain weight from that too). Exercise and moderation is the key. Good grief, even Aristotle knew this, yet 2300 years later people still don't believe it.
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Summary: It lacks other desired nutritional values.
Review: I was expecting to find the values for saturated fats and sodium for items listed, but was disappointed to see this relatively important nutritional information missing. Instead, it wasted space by listing the net carbs (which seem to be the carbs less the fiber, which are both included). I have been following the "Body For Life" program, rather than the "Atkin's diet plan", so I don't know what is important to you Atkins' followers. The Body for Life program encourages well balanced, nutritional meals, and NOT simply the reduction of net carbs. I was hoping this small, handy guide would help me plan a lower sodium, nutritionally balanced meal while I was on the road. Without listing sodium or saturated fats, I find the listings incomplete and the guide almost useless. It didn't meet my needs at all.
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Summary: Very good day-to-day dieter's companion and guide
Review: I started the Atkins diet on my own, based on the guiding principles described on the book "Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution". I have steadily and comfortably reduced inches off my waist by using the "Dr. Atkins' New Carbohydrate Gram Counter" as a guide to food selection. If it were not for its reduced, concise listing of foods (carbs, proteins, fat) I could not have understood the method I was supposed to follow to achieve weight loss. It is not a comprehensive guide, so don't even think of it as the ultimate compilation of your diet choices. Yet, its tiny size made it perfect to carry it in a handbag, in a glove compartment, every time I need help to navigate through the supermarket maze in search for low-carb foods, and yes, to elegantly cover my tracks when I cheated the diet.
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Summary: The TRUTH about Dr. Atkins death
Review: It is astonishing to read the slam pieces here about Dr. Atkins so-called obesity and overweight condition at the time of his death. Here are the facts:
* He previously had a heart condition called cardiomyopathy -- a serious disease of the heart muscle which is unrelated to diet.
* He died of a head injury because of an accident falling on slippery ice and not of being overweight.
* His actual weight was 200 pounds when he was admitted to the hospital at the time of his accident. The erroneous reports of him weight 258 lbs was based on his weight at the time of his death. The extra weight was not fat, but an accumulation of body fluids linked to organ failure during his coma.
* His previous reported heart attack was due to a viral infection and not diet related. He spoke openly of his condition on various national news programs.
* The report that was released about him being overweight was leaked to the press by a group named "Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine", which is an ardent opponent of the Atkins diet. In short, they distorted his weight by reporting the weight at the time of death - 258 lbs, and not at the time of his admittance - 200 lbs...an obvious attempt to discredit and distort the facts surrounding Dr. Atkins death.
* A formal complaint has been filed by the Medical Examiner of New York regarding the suspicious leak of this information to the public by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine."
* The disinformation surrounding Dr.Atkins untimely death is politically driven by the AMA and other detractors of the diet. Dr. Atkins book, New Diet Revolution has turned the AMA and other nutritional views upside down and has created a furor over the standard edicts of the medical profession. What is not said among the detractors of the Diet is that it is safe and it works. The information contained in this book will not only help you lose weight, it could save your life. The food industry, especially the bread and pasta industry have lost hundreds of millions of dollars because of the low carb revolution. Is it any wonder that this diet is under so much fire? Keep an open mind and read the book. As a side note, ignor the mumbo-jumbo rantings and ravings of the "Elixir Diet" system (see below). The hatred and mis-information spread by the reviewer is evidence enough that the Elixir system is phony as a three cent penny. Nuff said. The guy hasn't even read the Atkins book!
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Summary: Why Follow Dr. Fatkins? The Dead & Obese Weight Loss Guru
Review: Why model yourself after failure? Dr. Atkins is dead. At only 72. And he suffered clinical death from cardiac arrest a year before he died. Autopsy showed he had suffered a heart attack, congestive heart failure and hypertension. As if this wasn't bad enough, Dr. Atkins was morbidly obese at his death! 258 pounds!! Why kill yourself learning to count carbohydrate grams? And end up like Dr. Fatkins? Er, Atkins. The funny thing is it's harder to count carbohydrate grams than calories! But more importantly, Why model yourself after a diet guru who was fat, fat, fat?? 258 pounds at the time of his death! And why risk the same "side effects" as Dr. Atkins got -- heart attack and hypertension? Not to mention the other side effect. Which can destroy your social life. Horrible bad breath! Why not model yourself after a guru who has really stayed slim? The secret of success is to model yourself after success. After the Atkins diet failed me miserably, a very successful friend introduced me to The Elixxir Program. The Elixxir Program is based on the only scientific way to achieve dramatic weight loss. And keep it off for life. And the guru Elixxir is his own best testimonial and proof that The Elixxir Program works. Ever wondered why all the Orthodox Jews, Moslems, Hindus and Buddhists can stay on such "impossible" religious diets? Is it because they're stronger than you and me? No, it's because they have a philosophy/worldview and lifestyle which SUPPORTS their diets. And this is why The Elixxir Program works. And why Atkins diet and all the other diets do not. The Elixxir Program comes with an exciting philosophy and lifestyle which will empower you to lose weight and keep them off. It is in this book The ImmorTalist Manifesto on Amazon. Read The ImmorTalist Manifesto to get the worldview to support your weightloss efforts and make it stick! And then run to the elixxir.com website and find out about the Executive Memo telling you all about The Elixxir Program. If anything can make you slim for life, The Elixxir Program can. I should know. I had a "love handle" or "beer belly" around my waist that I couldn't get rid of no matter what. Until I got on The Elixxir Program. It's a miracle. Actually, totally scientific. The only diet program that is documented with an overhwhelming body of scientific research and articles. Why follow a weight loss guru who was fat? Why not follow a weight loss guru who is as fabulously slim and healthy as you want to be? Elixxir is your man! Not Dr. Fatkins.;) Bonus: Unlike Atkins regimen which speeds up your aging, The Elixxir Program is also the only scientific anti-aging eating program! So "kill two birds with one stone," lose weight and stay young!
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Summary: Great way to have less money
Review: If you want to get rid of a few bucks you can do it quickly by buying this and other books meant to rip off fat people. Or you can throw that money in the trash, or burn it in the fire place. Either way you will weigh the same in the end. Or you could eat better, get regular exercise, lose weight and feel good about yourself.
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