Low Carb Diets, A Brief Look into the Atkins Diet
You have just been to a social gathering and there are tears playing mischief in your eyes. Maybe your being overweight will never let you make an impression while your dumber but thinner counterparts get away so luckily. You need to do something about it and yet everyday when you lazily crawl out of bed nothing seems to right.
Excessive weight gain is almost always due to an improper diet. Most of the calories we injest will be stored as fat in our bodies if we shift our eating habits because our metabolisms follow patterns.
Dr. Atkins elaborated on his groundbreaking low carb diet in his book which was written and published in the 1970’s. There have been many round table discussions since its re-introduction to public awareness during the nineties, because people did not accept it when first introduced. Nutritionists and health experts have made the Adkins diet famous and it has been proven to work.
The Atkins diet is broken up into several different stages based on the portion of carbohydrates included into your food chart. In the archetypal introductory phase, it allows for consumption of 20 gm of carbohydrates per day. In these first two weeks, one subsists on bacon, poultry products, meat, cheese, butter, sausage, seafood and oils and he is barred from consuming food with a high glycemic index like cereals, fruits, milk, grains or breads.
In the maintenance phase, the dieter is recommended to increase his carb intake by 5 grams everyday till he reaches a total of 40-90 gm per day. This when he should limit himself from taking any farther carbohydrate or else he will contribute to the adipose tissue again.
A few of the down falls of the low carb diet are as follows. Things initially take place in a healthy manner when carb intake is reduced and the body begins to release energy by breaking down fat. Lipolysis occurs during starvation causing proteins to break down and take the place of the absense of body fat ultimately causing ketosis.
Leading to permanent brain tissue damage, death or coma, a lack of oxygen carrying capacity from your blood cells is created in the ketone bodies formed during ketosis. So one should stay on the lookout for signs of ketosis. The ketone body mixed with enzymes and bacteria ferment and it causes bad breath indicating ketosis. The breakdown of fat causes your energy levels to fall thereby causing listlessness and lethargy. 1 gm of carbohydrate release 7 Kcal of energy while 1 gm of fat releases only 4.9 Kcal of biochemical energy.
The Atkins diet program is highly beneficial to you if when used in moderation with the combination of regular exercise. Regular exercise reduces stress levels and improves your mood apart from making you lose weight and look better. If you are physically well, you will feel more calm, relaxed and confident mentally.