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Here is the book that started it all: Dr. Atkins’ original Diet Revolution. Inside you’ll find the story of how Dr. Atkins personally discovered the incredible effects of a high-protein/low-carbohydrate diet and how it came to revolutionize his thinking on nutrition and health.
Here is proof of how the diet works, why you’ll never feel hungry again, and how you can get started. Imagine eating such foods as steak, eggs, butter—even bacon—and still losing weight! Now with this simple but incredibly effective diet, you can stop counting calories and measuring portions. What’s more, you’ll feel healthier than you ever have before!
Inside you’ll discover:
• Why the Atkins Diet Revolution is not just another fad diet, but the way we were biologically meant to eat
• The alarming truth about carbohydrates: how they are responsible for some of our most deadly modern diseases
• How the Atkins diet differs significantly from other low-carbohydrate diets
• Why you can expect a drop in cholesterol and blood pressure levels even while eating a diet high in fat
• How to achieve your weight loss goal and develop a personal maintenance plan
• Plus sample meals, mouthwatering recipes, answers to the most commonly asked questions, weight charts, and much more!
In this breakthrough book, Dr. Atkins explains why we don’t need just another diet. We need a diet revolution. Now you too can join the millions of others who have become part of this revolution to lose weight, feel great, and reduce their risk of serious illness.
Publisher : Bantam (October 1, 1981)
Language : English
Mass Market Paperback : 336 pages
ISBN-10 : 0553271571
ISBN-13 : 978-0553271577
Item Weight : 5.6 ounces
Dimensions : 4.13 x 0.84 x 6.84 inches
Customers say
Customers find the book informative and helpful, with well-written content. They find the diet effective and easy to follow, with great results. The book is praised as the original and authentic version of the Atkins diet, with interesting recipes that are healthy and filling.
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Liz Benn –
Important Book
Iâve been using the Atkins book & diet on & off for about 25 years. Iâm an RN & Atkins is smart, realistic, competent & his diet is safe.
Probably 75% of all Type II diabetics could lose all unnecessary weight, eat & feel better & get off of insulin (but thatâs just my guess).
I finally had to purchase this book because my original one was falling apart. Thatâs how much I refer to it.
Anne B –
So So Easy to do this diet!
I forgot how easy it was to do Atkins and how well it works. A few years before I had my first child, I was able to lose about 60 pounds in just under 6 months. Fast forward to 4 children (2 of them being a set of twins), and about 11yrs later, I have gotten Way out of control. I couldnât find my old copy of this book so I bought my new copy and started re-reading to brush up on the basics. Good grief I forgot how much I love this diet and how easy it is to follow. The Main key for me to succeed is food prep. I read all of the rules and food lists before shopping and I pre-cooked several chicken breast tenders (un-breaded, of course), several hamburger patties, and a good sized batch of egg salad to get me started. Iâm never hungry and this book answers all of my questions. Need something sweet? I make sugar free jello and put a little bit of real whipped cream on top. Need something salty? Have 4-5 macadamia nuts. Each time I have these cravings, I eat my treat and a big glass of water then wait 20 minutes. All good!
Best diet ever! Love love love.
Casey –
Great book. It lead me to a 60 pound loss.
The Atkinson diet is the real thing and scientifically proven. There is no shortcut to weight loss and all you need is this book and the will power to stick it out. For most people needing to lose weight, it will be a months-long journey but the first day leads to the next and soon youâll see progress and in weeks/months youâll transform to the person you want to be.
Mrs. Lori Newton –
Wish the mainstream hadn’t vilified this man’s work for 3 generations I would have tried his regimen years ago !
I gave him 4stars because just like the Amish with their quilts nothing is absolutely perfect but can be darn close ! Only God can “do” perfect ! lol
This is the ORIGINAL program and not the newer revised program. Stick with the original is my advice especially if it turns out you are seriously carb sensitive as I am.
Being that this was written more than 40 years ago it IS understandable that some of the ingredients may be difficult to find or are no longer being manufactured. I was surprised what is still around and available.
The food is GOOD, filling and healthy. Putting red meat back into the diet is absolutely beneficial and necessary for women. We women (and men) have been sold a bill of goods and have been suffering because of it ! I have energy I haven’t felt in literally decades. Depression symptoms and even PMS symptoms have more than greatly improved for me. Weight is coming down and I want to make the effort to try and exercise ! It’s a lifestyle change you can live with.
This article from the Wall Street Journal on saturated fats and heart disease is what convinced me to give Dr. Atkins program a second look.
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Forget the naysayers and see for yourself.
Veronica –
Old Scool Without Today’s Marketing Tactics
Original and good. Effective as Dr. Atkins would not have stood for the Atkins products today. Si.ple and to the point to allow you to be mindful and point blank. It is what it is and this is how you do it.
Jeremy David Stevens –
Great to Read the Original Version
Low carbohydrate and ketogenic diet books are all the rage today, but that wasn’t exactly so back in the seventies and eighties. Dr. Atkins changed that almost single-handedly with his diet plan.
If you’ve read the newer books by Atkins (Dr. Atkins’ NEW Diet Revolution), you’ll notice immediately when reading this version that he wasn’t holding back as much when he originally wrote this book. He essentially stated repeatedly that people can eat as much as they like as long as it was primarily meat and fat. He still allowed for modest salad intake, even during induction. He also placed more emphasis on protein in his later books instead of just removing carbohydrates and eating fat.
I don’t know if his beliefs changed or if he felt he had to change his position to conform to the mainstream, but either way, it was a change.
Stargazer Trading –
Amazingly Awesome Cookbook!!!!
This books is awesome! It provides recipes for “real” food. Straight forward, easy to read, recipes that use every day, non-exotic ingredients that don’t take forever to make. This has recipes for the original Atkins’ Diet and the original Atkins’ low-fat diet! I am so very glad I found this book, I am excited each day to try out a new recipe. This cookbook makes this life style exciting all over again. Personally, the Original Atkins’ diet is changing my life. I feel better, I have more energy. My numbers are much better (cholesterol, blood pressure, blood sugar…) I ate the Atkins’ style for years and felt wonderful, then I started eating as recommended by “health care professionals” my numbers and my health went downhill and my weight went uphill. After my last physical I knew something had to change or I was going to be housebound and diabetic. After experimenting with several diets where I was miserable or my life revolved around what I ate, I decided to go back to the original Atkins; best decision ever!
Donovan Emerson –
Dandy!
Atkins was the father of âketoâ. It works. Book arrived in great condition, kind of like a treadmill you buy out of someoneâs garage.
carol –
I was on this diet before (20 yrs ago). I am on it again because it works and you don’t gain your weight back. (only over time) and I have so much energy.
Also you really don’t feel hungry.
Amir –
I am happy to have it ð.
Has a lots of good information ð.
Jauregui –
…Having been on the Atkins diet for quite a long time I have full faith the book will fill in the gaps in my knowledge, or things I have forgotten. I have read Atkins books before, so am quite well versed. I wanted this book as my last copy of an Atkins book seemed to transport from my bookshelf to a friends, and never came back.
hoofdog –
Small and compact a great book Iâve read it before followed. The diet works like a charm.
Mollie –
WOW!! brilliant way to diet!!!!thanks…mind you had to up the indigestion pills!!many thanks and to be honest…got fed up with bacon..for a while!!