Phase 2 Guidelines For Ongoing Weight Loss

Nothing is a better incentive to continue on a successful diet plan than weight loss. Ongoing weight loss (OWL) is your goal during Phase 2 of the Atkins low carb diet. Phase 2 teaches you how to handle and manage your own carb intake by gradually introducing more and more carbs into your Atkins low carb diet week by week. You've been eating 20 grams of carb per week with protein and fat foods, plus 3 cups of salad for 2 weeks throughout the Induction Phase of your Atkins low carb diet.

OWL allows you to add more choices gradually while you continue to lose weight. Once you've established your weight loss pattern you can craft a weight loss regimen that is uniquely yours. 2. Week 2: Add 5 more grams of fresh dairy including 5 ounces farmer's cheese, pot cheese or mozzarella cheese or ½ cup ricotta cheese or heavy cream. If your weight loss continues you can eat 10 more grams a week with the addition of acceptable veggies or dairy.

3. Week 3: Add 5 grams from what you tolerated above or from seeds and nuts including 10 to 12 Macadamias, 14 Walnut, 24 Almond, 31 Pecans, 3 tablespoons hulled sunflower seeds or 9 cashews. If you continue to loss weight you can eat 15 more grams a week with the addition of acceptable veggies, dairy or seed and nuts.

4. Week 4: Add 5 grams from your above selections or add berries ¼ cup of fresh blueberries, strawberries raspberries and cantaloupe or honeydew melon as well as ¼ cup of lemon or lime juice or ½ cup tomato juice. If you continue to loss weight you can eat 20 more grams a week with the addition of acceptable veggies, dairy, seed and nuts and berries and melons.

As long as your weight loss continues steadily, you can go up another level to 25 grams of carbs the following week for a total of 45 grams of carbs per week and so on. When you stop losing weight, you have reached your CLL. Revert to the amount of carb that allowed you to lose weight the week prior. With all these new carb choices you will be encouraged to continue down your path of healthy eating and weight loss. Try my Green Bean Delight recipes as a perfect introduction to OWL.

As you advance toward Lifetime Maintenance, you should proceed slowly. It is not getting to your goal weight that is most important, but learning the eating plan that will prepare you for ongoing weight maintenance. Now is the time to commit to a sensible eating plan. Lifetime Maintenance is about making healthy habits a permanent way of life. Focus on your ACE and you’ll meet the challenge to always stay within 5 pounds of your goal weight, day by day, for the rest of your life.

Continue to select from a greater range of foods and consume more carbs than you did in the weight-loss phases. You can up your carb intake even higher if you are routinely exercising. Try to weigh yourself at least once a week. Whenever you weigh over 5 pounds of your goal weight promise yourself that, within a week, you will begin the Induction phase and quickly switch to Ongoing Weight Loss until you reach your goal weight again. Do this and you will never have more than five pounds to lose.

Weight control is now a constant priority in your life. Adhere to your ACE. Continue to eat natural, unprocessed, nutrient-dense carbohydrates. Continue to take nutritional supplements, modifying your regimen to meet your needs. Develop a strategy for dealing with temptation. Avoid boredom by regularly trying new recipes. Never let yourself get more than five pounds above your goal weight. In this context, a regular exerciser is someone who does vigorous exercise five days a week for at least 45 minutes.

McMillan says: I hate the word detox - scientifically it's nonsense. Your liver has the job of detoxing all the time and there is no evidence that any diet (bar cutting out things like alcohol) does any more detoxing. I think it just plays on our guilt. It's much better to change habits for life rather than doing a few days of a so-called "cleanse".

Thanks found this most helpful, going to try half a dozen and then be back for more. Is there any way to make a crumble topping for fruit. For crumble topping, maybe try streusel? Basically just any chopped nuts with sweetener. “crust” for Fake Cheesecake and as topping! Hi Zeina, I am afraid KitKat is full or sugar, even the dark chocolate version.

And this would be the case with any other mass-market chocolate bar. So you do need to either find some low-carb sugar-free grocery items (plenty of options online if you don’t have specialist shops nearby), or learn how to cook. It’s not that hard, and it’s not really even cooking as such.

Many recipes on this page just need you to mix up the ingredients together. Is it all the dessert above can eat for the induction stage? Hi Bella, these are just some ideas and suggestions. You can eat any dessert if its ingredients are on the Induction food list. Thanks for this simple, yet delicious Induction dessert list. There are a few I haven’t tried… yet.

The Atkins Diet is indeed a unique medical innovation that allows one to stay healthy in spite of consuming as much as one desires. The Atkins diet meals mostly devoid of carbohydrates reduces the extra bulk of the body and maintains the fitness of the body by substituting carb by other major nutrients such as proteins, vitamins and fatty acids. The Atkins Nutritional Approach can be truly called a ‘medical masterpiece’ which has brought in Dr. Atkins diet revolution in the world.

What type of dieter are you? It’s surely another best-seller for the CSIRO. The ahead-of-its-time CSIRO Total Wellbeing Diet captured mass attention 12 years ago with a diet based on the science of its day, allowing about 200g of carbohydrates a day and 35 per cent of total fat. 34.99)released this week controversially reverses the traditional food pyramid, and the convincing science behind it may finally silence raging debate over low-carb and high-protein diets. For CSIRO followers in 2017, greater satisfaction is guaranteed by 60 per cent total fats, compared with 35 per cent in the original diet.

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