The information contained in this program is based on the works by Dr. Robert C. Atkins
and is the result of over 30 years of medical practice as the head of the prestigious Atkins
Center in New York, where he is still in practice.
If you are suffering from a medical condition, please consult your doctor before starting
this program.
Many dramatic changes can occur in a short time, and if you or someone you love is on
medication, your physician should be made aware of your progress.
Although you can lose weight quickly on this program, we suggest that you set safe, realistic
goals for your weight loss.
Losing weight too quickly can, of itself, be unhealthy.
Review the materials.
You will pick up new pieces of information the second and third time you review the material
that you may have missed the first time, especially in the rare case that you encounter difficulty.
When you fully understand how simple and easy this method is, you will have new, stable
dietary laws that will make and keep you at your goal weight forever, a worthwhile endeavor.
Welcome back.
Now it's time to get started on personalizing the diet.
Understand that you're my patient, and this is your chart, and that we're now talking about
how the diet, the program, is going to work for you, how it's going to be individualized
for you.
The first place, I promise you that no matter which level of the diet we end up with, that
you're going to lose weight without being hungry and with a remarkable sense of being
satisfied, that you're going to eat foods that you thought shouldn't even be on a diet
– in fact, they're going to be the mainstay of this new diet program that you're going
to be on.
And you're going to have many chances to make this diet more delicious than it would
be otherwise because you're going to have recipes, you're going to have ways of making
that food so delicious that it won't seem like a diet.
You're not going to be counting calories, you're not even going to be restricting your
quantity, you're not going to be hungry.
You simply are not even allowed to be hungry.
And all I want you to do is some of the simple things that I'm going to be teaching you.
I'm going to teach you how to change your diet without cutting the quantities of the
diet, without cutting the quality of the diet, just leaving out certain ingredients which
just happen to be the ones that we're putting weight on.
When you cut them out, you won't miss them, at least not after a day or two when you realize
that this is different from what you've been doing before.
This is not a sufferer's diet.
This is a very pleasant experience.
I loved it.
I couldn't believe it.
My wife said, we're going on this diet.
Oh, brother, now what?
Another one?
So we started on the diet.
Hey, this ain't bad.
Boy, I was eating eggs.
I love eggs.
Omelets, eggs, upside down.
Anyway, sausage, bacon.
We went on the diet and like I said, the first day I lost two pounds and it just kept falling
off.
The first two weeks of induction, I could almost do nothing and watch the weight just
drop off.
I lost approximately 25 pounds on the diet.
I was surprised that it went so fast because I've never lost so much weight in my life.
It was just incredible.
It's so easy to follow this diet that to me, it's not being on a diet at all.
This is how low you can go.
It's incredibly exhilarating to have lost four and a half inches in one week and I don't
even think it's been a week.
It's been six days so that's even better and I never expected it.
It's absolutely amazing and if you want to do it, you want to have the same kind of feeling
that I do because I'm about to cry, she's going to cry and it's really cool and you
really need to go for it.
Before we go any further, let's make a commitment.
Let's make sure we're on the same page and that you're on board with us.
So in case you have any doubts and don't think that you want to try it, this would be the
time to drop out and not get started.
So make your decision now whether you're on board with us.
As a matter of fact, I'll wait.
Now as a matter of fact, I think that you'd be crazy not to get started.
So I'm going to assume that you're on board and so now that we're on the same page, we're
on the same wavelength, let's get started.
The following instructions will help you understand the basics and get you started right away.
To fully understand this material, please try to watch this video in a distraction-free
environment.
Get a pencil and your product components.
This will come in handy as we go along.
Okay we're getting started now.
We're going to start off by getting the basic diet manual.
Get that because there's questionnaire there which is exactly the same one that my patients
fill out at the Atkins Center.
So I'm going to have the same information and you're going to have the same information
that I have when I see a patient.
Okay let's look at that basic diet manual.
You'll see a lot of things, there are questions about your waist to hip ratio and your weight
and how long you've been overweight and all sorts of questions about the problem itself.
But you'll also see that there is a diet questionnaire for you to fill out about what you eat.
I'd like to focus on that right now.
You have to fill out not only what you usually eat but also what you eat under exceptional
cases.
Sure you have this one breakfast on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday but what do you do on
the weekends?
And then what about what do you put in your mouth that's not at meal time?
Things that are called snacks.
What about the things that you don't want to eat or embarrassed to eat but get them
in your mouth somehow?
They should be written down.
And what about your beverages?
It's not always just water.
Sometimes these beverages are very important.
So now you are going to have a list that is absolutely honest.
There's no point in exaggerating one way or the other because this is the old you.
It's not the new you.
The old you must have made mistakes and let's find out what they are.
Fill out your diet questionnaire honestly.
Be honest and thorough.
I want a true life assessment.
Don't worry if you don't like your answers.
Everything will change for the better.
I've seen it time and time again.
Restart the tape when you are done.
Okay now that you've completed that, let's analyze this diet for carbohydrate.
A lot of people don't know what carbohydrates are.
For instance, do you think your vegetables are carbohydrates?
Well they are.
Do you think your frozen yogurt is carbohydrate?
Not only is, but it's absolutely loaded.
What about your juices?
Very high in carbohydrate.
What about a cracker, a melba toast?
Very high in carbohydrate.
Are you beginning to get the picture?
Maybe you know now that it isn't you.
It isn't that you are a glutton.
It's just that you didn't know how much carbohydrate you've been snookered into.
But now you'll see it and you'll have a chance to go to a carbohydrate gram counter and actually
analyze what your carbohydrate intake is.
It might just blow your mind to know how many grams you're eating a day, particularly when
the new you comes in with a considerably lower number.
This can be the most revealing bit of information you will ever get.
To see that you're thriving in the very near future on 20 or 30 grams of carbohydrate and
that without even knowing it, you were eating close to 200 or more grams of carbohydrate
thinking you were doing what was right.
Now you've listed all your foods.
Using your carbohydrate counter, tabulate the approximate number of carbohydrates you
are currently eating.
Don't be afraid of your answer.
Just write down as best you can the approximate amounts you are currently eating.
We're going to be cutting this area of your diet down.
Okay now you have added up your carbohydrate.
I wonder if you're a little bit surprised how many grams of carbohydrate you've consumed.
I wouldn't be surprised if over 60% of your calories turned out to be carbohydrate.
That might explain why you're suffering from being overweight, why you may have mood swings
or cravings or fatigue or brain fog or trouble concentrating or a variety of other things
which you just thought were you.
Well they're not you, they're just you when you eat that many carbohydrates.
You are free to eat as much as you like of protein foods but we are going to restrict
carbohydrates.
Carbohydrates from rice, bread, potatoes, chips, once in your body basically turn into
a form of sugar.
This causes a dramatic rise in insulin to push the sugar out of the bloodstream.
Insulin is the fattening hormone.
The rise and fall of blood sugar is what makes you tired and hungry all the time.
That and the accompanied rise and fall of insulin are what can also cause a variety
of insulin related health problems but we're going to fix that.
Okay now it's time we describe what's bad about all that carbohydrate.
Maybe you heard what they say about Chinese food.
You fill yourself in a Chinese restaurant and then an hour later you're hungry.
What does that actually mean?
What it means is Chinese food was a high carbohydrate meal but how many times have you been hungry
after your breakfast or after your lunch and it wasn't Chinese, it was high carbohydrate.
What's the lesson?
Carbohydrates stimulate your appetite.
On the down slope of your blood sugar, first it raises your blood sugar and you feel pretty
satiated but because you have an insulin disorder it doesn't take long before your sugar starts
down, down rapidly, crashing down and as your blood sugar falls you get hungry.
That's the Chinese restaurant syndrome.
That's the high carbohydrate diet syndrome.
Now you're beginning to get some insight as to why you had your eating misbehavior that
you were so upset with.
It wasn't that you're a bad person.
It's simply that your blood sugar was dropping so rapidly that you were getting hungry.
Okay, what do we do about it?
Well here's what we do about it.
We will in just a few moments change your diet to one without carbohydrates.
You'll have salad, that much carbohydrate and then you'll have a main course, steak
or chops or chicken or fish.
You'll have that sort of food and you will see the difference.
We'll go into greater detail about the food that you eat in just a few moments.
Right now I'd like to focus on just how much carbohydrate you may be taking in.
Carbohydrate is a chemical that contains glucose.
Glucose is the fuel that comes from carbohydrate and it's a sugar.
It comes from sugars to begin with but it can come from starch because a molecule of
starch, the sort of thing that's in a potato, is just a bunch of glucose molecules which
are broken down by the enzymes in your body into glucose, sugar again.
Let's take a look at just what these sugar equivalents are in the various foods that
you may be eating.
What I'm going to show you is that your body turns carbohydrate food into sugar.
Let's start with a typical breakfast of cereal, toast, orange juice and a banana.
Cereal has about one quarter cup of sugar.
Toast has about one quarter cup of sugar.
Orange juice has about one quarter cup of sugar.
Banana has about one eighth cup of sugar and that's just breakfast.
Let's say around 10 a.m. you get hungry so you have a snack.
Let's say you have a fruit on the bottom yogurt.
This fruit on the bottom, low fat yogurt, has a whopping one quarter cup of sugar.
And for lunch, let's say you're watching your weight so you have a skinned chicken breast,
baked potato and some bread.
There is no sugar in the chicken but the potato has a heaping one quarter cup of sugar in
it and the bread also has a quarter cup of sugar in it.
So now three o'clock rolls around and you're feeling a bit tired so you have a few pieces
of candy and a soda pop.
The candy is about a quarter of a cup of, you got it right, sugar.
And the soda is about a quarter of a cup of sugar as well.
Now for dinner, you're a good low fat dieter and you're really trying to do the right thing
so all you eat is pasta, pasta, bread and a soda.
And the pasta again is about a quarter of a cup of sugar, the bread another quarter
of a cup and the soda about a quarter of a cup of sugar.
Now are you getting the picture?
Look at all this sugar in the foods you're eating, incredible isn't it?
Keep in mind now that these spikes of sugar demand a spike in insulin to push all this
sugar out of your bloodstream.
Now that's just one day's worth, multiply that by 365 days and then by how old you are
and you should be getting the picture of why most of us have had such a hard time losing
weight and why many of us suffer from such a variety of health ailments.
I guess you're ready to start doing it now and we can.
First of all I want you to get the meal planner book which contains some special recipes as
well.
Now I want you to pick out all of the foods that are listed there that are designed to
get you into ketosis, ketosis by the way simply means burning your own stored fat, obviously
that's the first thing that you'd like to accomplish.
And so pick out all of the foods that do that and make your decision which of those would
be your favorite foods, which are the ones that would make a nice meal plan for you,
make you happy eating what you like to eat.
In other words, if it says lamb chops and you don't like lamb chops and would rather
have a steak, fine.
If it says duck and you'd rather have chicken, fine, so on.
Make those choices.
There's only one thing I would ask you to do, don't hit upon the same food day after
day.
Try to get a variety, at least a rotation of waiting four days before you go back to
the same food.
Two reasons for that, one is that there can be food intolerances developed if people eat
the same food over and over, as a matter of fact that may be something you've been suffering
with with regard to wheat and things that you do eat over and over, very important point.
Secondly, even more important is it's nice to have a nice variety of foods.
We're here to enjoy eating, isn't it wonderful, we're here to lose weight but we're also
here to enjoy eating.
The best way to do that is to have the widest variety of foods that will get the job done
that you can possibly imagine.
So let's do that now.
The objective is to get into ketosis and may I remind you what ketosis is, it's that delightful
condition meaning that your fat is serving as your primary fuel for energy, perfect combination.
People have said things about ketosis that simply aren't true.
This is a dieter's delight and you'll know the benefit, it is so dramatic.
You're not hungry.
All the cravings that you had before aren't there.
You put more on your plate than you're able to finish.
All of this is the benefit of ketosis and you know it's there even if you're not in
ketosis.
You also know it by the fact that your energy never fails, it stays up.
All of this is beneficial.
That's the principle behind the Atkins program and that's the principle you're learning.
You'll be able to use that the rest of your life and you'll not only enjoy eating but
you'll enjoy very good health.
So enjoy.
Doesn't this look delicious?
As hard as this may seem to believe, these are the core foods that you will be eating
on my program, a literal banquet of food.
Now doesn't that look delicious?
This is how low you can go.
It's incredibly exhilarating to have lost four and a half inches in one week and I don't
even think it's been a week, it's been six days so that's even better and I never expected
it.
It's absolutely amazing.
Dr. Atkins would like to personally thank you for purchasing the Atkins Answer basic
program.
To further ensure you have the success you deserve, Dr. Atkins has authorized us to offer
you his personal progress diary free of charge.
You will only pay the shipping and handling charges.
Simply call 1-800-952-7873 for your free personal progress diary.
The personal progress diary will help you chart and review your progress as well as
reveal your successes and personal health challenges.
That's 1-800-952-7873 for your free personal progress diary and thank you.