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Nothing is a better incentive to continue on a successful diet plan than weight loss. You'll find after your induction phase on the Atkins low carb diet you are so revved up by your success you are more than ready to move on to Phase 2. Atkins Low Carb Diet: Ongoing 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. New Foods for Phase 2 of the Atkins Low Carb Diet 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. Easy Steps for Finding Your Atkins Carb Level for Lo...

I spent two years losing over  140 pounds  the old fashioned way: proper diet and exercise. No fads. No pills. No surgery. No crazy machines. I was 30 years old and 340 pounds. With a history of heart disease and obesity in my family, I decided it was time to shed the pounds. Almost every day I get people I haven't seen in years coming up to me saying "Wow! You look great!" and then the next question... "What have you been doing?" That's why I wrote this article. Disclaimer Now, of course, as a general disclaimer, I have to say that the tips I'm sharing with you here are just from my own personal experience. I'm not a professional health expert - although over the past couple of years I've read dozens of books, and hundreds of articles on nutrition, exercise, and weight lifting. I'm not a doctor. You should, of course, seek your own doctor's advice before starting any kind of a weight-loss or exercise plan. I firmly believe that w...

Weight loss continues to be a raging hot topic in America - as it should. We are number eight on the latest top 10 most obese nations list, as defined by the World Health Organization, or WHO. That's out of 196 countries in the world, by the way. Interestingly, all of the nations ahead of us are small island countries whose citizens are obese due to the spread of our country's dietary bad habits into their lands. It seems that Samoans, Tongans, and people from the Cook Islands, Nieu, Nauru, Micronesia, and Palau have largely replaced their native diets of mainly fruits and fish with western fast foods. Simply sounds like a calorie issue, right? At the end of the day, isn't weight management all about calories-in versus calories-out? The short answer is yes, but this is a bit like looking at a forest and completely missing the trees. Obesity can rear its ugly head in situations where calories are empty of nutritional factors that allow our bodies to function at their bes...