Atkins diet

The previous summer I achieved my objective weight and celebrated by treating myself to an excursion. Amid the get-away, I ate and drank without restriction, and went all over the place in tubes and taxis. After ten days, I was back home, resembling my old self, and prepared to start a better eating routine to lose every one of the kilos I had placed on in Bangkok. I had lost four kilos and put on six. Since this January, I have begun and restarted abstaining from food no less than eight times…

so many ways to diet with little or no success? I know I have. The best diet plan for me was the low carb diet. I personally struggled with my weight since I hit my teen years. I have never been obese, but I have always had to watch what I eat and be careful as to how much I eat, out of fear of gaining weight. When I was in my early twenties I had someone close to me introduce me to low carb dieting. This was the best thing that could have happened to me. I learned that I could diet and lose…

There are benefits to both High Fat Diets and High Carb Diets, they both give you the required nutrients, and they both, if used properly, can help you lose weight, gain muscle, or maintain a healthy lifestyle. But overall, which one is better? High Carb diets include a high sugar content and require eating a lot more food. Whereas High Fat Diets require a lot less food, but a lot more satiety. The media puts a lot of emphasis on High Fat Diets and the Atkins diet and has a lot of celebrities…

The South Beach diet is a commercial diet created by a cardiologist, Doctor Arthur Agatston. Dr. Agatston was a professor at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami Beach, Florida, where he used the diet for his obese cardiac patients who had trouble staying on a standard low-fat diet. The diet became popular in the 1990’s and was originally referred to as the modified low carbohydrate diet, for it is based on low glycemic index foods but then was renamed for the glamorous area of Miami where Dr.…

In my life I've been on tons of diets. I've tried Atkins, Weight Watchers, South Beach, not eating, "cutting back", pills, shakes, juices, powders, bars, and just about anything you can think of. Of course I've also had my thin friends tell me weight loss diets are so easy - just do it! I don't know about you but one thing I don't like is people who have never had a weight problem trying to tell you how to lose weight easily. They think we overweight people have some sort of control problem and…

TASK 1- Atkins & Murphy article What is reflection/reflective practice? i) Reflection or reflective practices is a process where you study your own experiences to improve the way you work. This involves consciously analyzing your practices, refocuses your thoughts to produce better ideas to modify your actions and learning needs. This is supported by Donald Schon (1983) where the capacity to reflect on an action is important so as to engage in a process of continuous learning in order to define…

experience of a cardiologist “The late New York cardiologist Robert Atkins developed his low-carb diet after reading a paper on the approach in the Journal of the American Medical Association in 1963 and trying one himself” (Moyer 3). A cardiologist is an expert people would like to trust, and the American Medical Association is the largest association of physicians. It extremely increases the powerful of the argument that the low-carb diet benefits to people’s health. More than the journal, the…

kinds of diets in the past without positive long lasting effects. I would loose weight but gain it back again. It is not just about weight, I want to live a healthier lifestyle and prevent any of the major diseases…

nuts and seeds. Learn more about what this type of diet is all about. Part 1: Can High Carb Low Fat Help With Weight Loss? Over the decades, people who want to lose weight have been searching for the perfect diet plan. Some people believe that a low carb, high protein diet such as the Paleo or the Atkins diet…

What is a Ketogenic Diet? The ketogenic diet is a low-carbohydrate, adequate protein, high-fat diet that is designed to change your metabolism, help you maintain a healthy weight, and greatly improve your health. Since glucose is the easiest molecule for your body to convert and use as energy, it is used as your body's primary source of energy. However, when you greatly lower your intake of carbohydrates and significantly increase your intake of fat, your body is put into a state known as…