I’ll let you in a little secret the diet companies absolutely do not want you to know: the bottom line is, it doesn’t matter what diet plan you follow! Take just about any diet plan, figure out the calories in one of their typical meal plans and chances are you’ll see a daily calorie count of around 1400 – 1800 calories for women and around 1800 – 2100 calories for men. That creates a nice moderate calorie deficit to lose weight for just about anybody.

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Did you read about that recent low carb study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, where it seems like every news report was saying that low carb diets beat every other diet? It seemed to be everywhere with headlines like, “Low Carb Plan Best in Study” and “Low Carb Diets Earn Praise: Study Shows Low Carb More Effective …” It was hard not to get caught up in the hype!

But the thing is, a lot of people misinterpreted the study and got it wrong.
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The Atkins Nutritional Approach™, as the Atkins diet is commonly known, has worked for several people with weight problems, although the opinion about its efficacy, especially in the long term, is divided among the medical community. Considerable controversy surrounds the program. Most other diets, and there are numberless of them out there, follow the principle of avoiding high-fat foods. But the Atkins diet allows things like red meat, bacon, butter, cheese, eggs and so on, which are all high in fat. Yet, to the utter surprise of everyone who repose their trust in the tried and tested low-fat diets, the Atkins diet works.

The reason is rather simple. The Atkins diet limits the consumption of foods containing large amounts of carbohydrates, such as rice, pasta, white bread, cereal and sugar. Your body burns its excess fat during a process consisting of four phases, which the late Dr. Robert Atkins developed. In his book Dr.Atkins New Diet Revolution, published in 1972, he advised dieters to cut down on only carbohydrates, not both fats and carbohydrates as had been the practice followed until then.

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