Mike Roussell: So what if you most of them will mess about the Atkins diet is that it's really four stage plan that it starts with an induction phase, which last two weeks or you restrict 20 grams of carbohydrates a day, that's your limit.
So, the goal there is to get your body into ketos as fast as possible and help switch over your body's enzamatic machineary, so you start using fat and protein as your primary fuel sources and not carbohydrates because if you used to using carbohydrates as your primary source of fuel that uses specific enzymes so you'll have high levels of those but when you start needing to use fat as your primary source of fuel that uses a whole different set of enzymes.
So, you need to up regulate the production of those and down regulate the high carb production enzymes. So that's the goal of the induction period. Basically, stages two to four is you're slowly adding back more carbohydrates, specifically in the form of green leafy vegetables and then more fruits and vegetables and finally some grains.
So, as you increase your carbohydrate in take and add more carbohydrates back to your diet, here then you got more slowing of weight loss until when you're on this stage four, the maintenance phase, which is basically year kind of you're and you're not giving old losing weight, but it's still a carb restricted and start to restrict a diet, especially compared to a most people eat.
So as we talked about, when you're curve your carb, your body's physiology and metabolic machinery change and in regards to carbohydrates that you want to focus on nutrient carbs and fibres, carbohydrates. So those are the ones you don't want to eat when you are on these ketogenic Atkins style diet.
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