After experiencing the Induction and OWL phases of the Atkins diet, your next step is to enter the pre-maintenance phase. This phase will set you up for a lifetime of healthy and balanced eating and living. You should begin this phase as you come within 5 to 10 pounds of your target weight goal. Your weight loss will be slowed down even further but it is for a purpose. You want to learn the practices and habits that will determine your long-term success.
In the OWL phase, you will be adding carbohydrate grams to your daily count in the increment of 5 grams per week. During pre-maintenance you will increase that to 10 grams per week. As long as you are continuing to shed weight (no matter how slowly it is coming off) you will continue to add grams. Ideally, toward the end of the pre-maintenance phase you will be losing …
The final phase of the Atkins diet plan is lifetime maintenance. This is the time to continue your new eating plan at a maintenance level and keep yourself at your goal weight. The habits you have created will now become a permanent way of life. During the third phase, pre-maintenance, you learned exactly how many carbohydrate grams your body can tolerate and still maintain your ideal weight. In this phase, you’ll put this approach into practice and learn to live with your ideal carb count on a daily basis.
During lifetime maintenance you will continue to expand your food selections and eat more carbohydrate grams than you did previously. Depending on your specific metabolic needs, you can eat some of the foods that you enjoyed prior to starting your weight loss program. If you do choose to eat these foods, they must be moderated and used sparingly.
Keeping your daily carb …
If you have tried dieting within the past couple of years, there is a really good chance that the kind of diet you used was one of the countless low carb diets available in the market today. Although, this kind of low carb diets have exist for over 30 years, the trend for this method of weight loss have only reached its popularity very recently.
The Answer To Obesity?
You may hear a lot of people and see lots of advertisements say that this kind of diet is the answer to the overgrowing obesity problem of most people.
This type of media hype can be explained because of the countless number of genuine success stories. Not to mention that when you add a celebrity or two into the mix, you definitely get the right formula for a new fad. In no time, everybody is on the bandwagon.
Is It Really For You?
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