Low Carb Weight Loss Diet The Atkins Way

Early this century, we saw a huge diet fad based on the low carb weight loss diet. Such diets are based on the idea that the obstacle to weight loss is carbohydrates. One of the most popular one during that time was the Atkins diet.

If someone visited your house during those days and politely declined your offer of a snack, the most likely reason they would offer is that, “I’m on the Atkins.” No further explanation was necessary. You couldn’t move for newspaper articles analysing the Atkins diet.

The diet was developed by and named after the US physician Dr Robert Atkins who based his theory on the fact that too many diets are concentrated on saturated fat as the main problem causing weight gain and heart disease. A better and more beneficial diet could be built around the principle of cutting out refined carbohydrates (such as sugar and flour) and “trans fats” (unsaturated fats with no real nutritional value).

One of main reason why Atkins diet is so popular is that it allowed for a liberal amount of meat products to be consumed. Many people  are quite happy to give up on bread if they could eat sausage, bacon and egg for breakfast every morning and steak every night. Although this wasn’t a particularly wise approach, and indeed was not encouraged by Atkins, people chose to believe otherwise.

Should you follow the Atkins Diet strictly, you can be certain to see some results. In fact, it was reported that some people had been losing weight of up to ten pounds a week. Unfortunately, such low carb weight loss diet results in the process of ketosis. And the side effects are:

• bad breath,
• body odour and in some cases
• the sparse growth of thick black body hair.

Dieters on such low carb weight loss diet often opt for the pick and mix approach. As such, sometimes it becomes incompatible with the idea of weight loss. Interestingly, Atkins Nutritionals, the company founded by the doctor, was declared bankrupt in January 2005.

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