You feel the tears rising up--even though you have just attended a party. Perhaps being obese means you don't leave a good impression while someone with less to offer but who happens to be thin wins every time. When you slowly crawl from your bed each day, nothing seems to be quite right and you should take action.



Nine out of ten times, it is noticed that an improper diet is responsible for the excessive weight gained by an individual. What we forget to pay heed to is that our body metabolism follows a certain pattern and if we go on disrupting it with our shifting eating habits, it will gradually fail and most of the calories ingested will get stored as fat in the body.

For the need to address the matter, Dr. Robert Atkins created a dynamic low carbohydrate diet in the 1970's, and had a book that elaborated on the diet. It wasn't popular when it was first released, but thanks to it's reintroduction to the United States in the 1990's, it has become more popular and fueled numerous coffee table discussions. The Atkins diet has attested to be favorable in many instances while nutritionists and health experts dismiss it as being a popular fad.

The Atkins diet brakes up your portions of cabohydrates into different stages, as part of your food chart. Typically in a beginning phase, 20 grams of carbohydrates are permitted on a daily basis. In the first couple of weeks, the high protein diet consist of meat products such as bacon, poultry, and seafood. There is no allowance for high carbohydrate foods such as cereal, grains, and bread.

Dieters are recommended to increase their carb intake by 5 grams a day until the total of 40-90 gm per day is reached. At this point he needs to restrict further carbohydrate consumption since it would just promote the development of more adipose tissue.

Some of the disadvantages of the low carb diet are as follows. When a person reduces his carb intake and stresses the body metabolism to breakdown fat to release energy, at first, things take place in a healthy manner. But when lipolysis occurs due to starvation or if protein breakdown starts taking place in the absence of body fat, one risks the peril of ketone body formation or ketosis.

During ketosis, ketone bodies are formed in the blood stream that impede the capability of your blood cells to carry oxygen and may permanently damage brain tissues leading to coma or brain death. So one should stay on the lookout for signs of ketosis. Ketone is the body forms in the digestive system and interacts with enzymes causing bacteria to ferment and this leads to bad breath. When fat is broken down, less energy is released which can make you feel sluggish. 1 gm of carbohydrate release 7 Kcal of energy while 1 gm of fat releases only 4.9 Kcal of biochemical energy.

All in all, the Atkins plan will work if executed in moderation along with a regular exercise regimine. Regular exercise reduces stress levels and improves your mood apart from making you lose weight and look better. Being physically fit has numerous benefits such as being more relaxed, confident, and having an overall calm about you.