Product Description

Millions of people around the world have already discovered the Atkins Nutritional Approach™ and the remarkable benefits of controlling carbohydrates. Now it's even easier to join the revolution, lose weight, and get healthy the proven Atkins way!

With less of the underlying science and more practical information, The Atkins Essentials gets to the meat of the most popular and effective weight control program ever, providing the basic skills necessary to enable you to lose and keep losing unwanted body fat -- and to keep it off forever!

Providing clear, concise answers to your questions and concerns, The Atkins Essentials is ideal for anyone seeking a healthier lifestyle. For those new to Atkins, it is a quick and effective way to get started -- and for those already on the program, it offers indispensable tips on eating out, stocking your pantry, and more.

Simply put, it is Atkins made easy:

• The ABCs of doing Atkins
• An effective two-week launch into weight-losing mode
• Personal modifications to slow or speed weight loss
• Helpful listings of acceptable and unacceptable foods and
• Fourteen days' worth of delicious, controlled-carb eating ...

And much more!

So get ready to look great and feel great the Atkins way -- it's easier than ever before!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #83447 in Books
• Published on: 2005-01-01
• Released on: 2004-12-28
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 368 pages

Customer Reviews

This book got me to take the plunge into Induction!
After 2 months of studying low-carb diets, I picked up this book and read it cover to cover. It motivated me to finally follow the Atkins way of eating to the letter and commit to the Induction phase of Atkins. I highlighted passages and bookmarked the menu section, which I read everynight during my two weeks on Induction. I was able to stick with the program while living in a house with two other adults who eat an extremely high-carb diet. The book helped to understand the program throughly, so I could explain my new way of eating to others. I lost 10 pounds during the two weeks, and I am now in the On-going Weight Loss phase. Atkins is now my way of eating for the rest of my life!

GREAT WAY TO GET STARTED ON LOW CARB EATING
This is the book to get you started on Atkins. It leaves out all of the scientific explainations for low carb dieting and goes down to the brass tacks of the Atkins Lifestyle. Contrary to what some may believe, this is NOT a quick start version of Atkins (actually, quick start is a Weight Watchers term). This explains the plan to get you started on the 2 week induction and
beyond. It is a great companion to the Dr. Atkins New Diet Revolution. Buy this to get you started and then buy the original book to learn the all the scientific details of why this works.

Excellent book - To rebut urban myth about Atkins.
Hello!

The book is simply wonderful. Atkins has been the only diet that has allowed me to stay healthy and energetic while losing many pounds.

While on the diet, amazingly, I felt no hunger. This was a drastic departure from how I felt on other diets. A big factor in any diet is this: is the diet practical enough to maintain compliance for the long term?

My answer was yes. It allows so many delicious foods. It has been the only diet that has truly worked for me. The pounds just start falling off, just like the book says.

Now, to address the review made by "Why follow Dr. Fatkins? The Dead & Obese WeightLoss Guru, May 15, 2004 Reviewer:"wallis25" (USA)."

The idea that Dr. Atkins died of a heart attack is bunk. He died of a HEAD INJURY. The heart attack story is an urban legend. [...]

...and read down further. Upon admission to the hospital, he was a very healthy 195 pounds. His 60 pounds of weight gain while in the hospital was due to his organs shutting down, and him retaining fluids.

Please, in the future, check your assertations with reality and don't waste people's time with rumors.

But I digress. For all of you out there - go Atkins today! :-)