Lose weight easily with Atkins

Easy weight loss: carbohydrates

How can you lose weight easily? With a low-carb diet! To prevent you regaining weight again it's important to find a sustainable diet to follow rather than a crash diet. On a low carb diet, you eat fewer carbohydrates. You replace carbohydrates with protein and healthy fats. This gives you longer satiety and you're less likely to crave unhealthy foods which are often full of sugar.

We will explain how you can lose weight easily with a low carbohydrate diet, start with five simple steps:

Step 1: The first step in losing weight easily with a low carbohydrate diet is to stop eating simple carbohydrates such as pasta, rice, fruit juice, bread, potatoes, sweets and biscuits.

Step 2: Drink water, tea and coffee (no sugar) and avoid sugary drinks. This includes alcohol and soft drinks such as cola, but also fruit juices contain a lot of sugar.

Step 3: Limit your fruit intake. Fruit is often seen as a healthy snack. However, the sugar in fruit is also stored as fat fast. If you find it hard not to eat fruit then choose fruits such as strawberries, blackberries, blueberries, raspberries or cantaloupe.

Step 4: Eat plenty of healthy fats. Do you find it difficult to determine if you're getting enough fat? Check out our meal plans. Find the right balance of fats, proteins and carbohydrates.

Step 5: Eat enough protein. This is the same as in step 4, in our meal plans you'll find the right balance between the three macronutrients fats, proteins and carbohydrates.

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Easy tips to lose weight

Tip 1: Avoid sugars and grains

We explained it above, avoid simple carbohydrates and foods with sugars and grains. The best way to avoid these foods is to clear them from your home so you aren't tempted by them. Try to resist this temptation of the candy machine and instead opt for a healthy snack.

Tip 2: Eat fats and proteins

When you eat fewer carbs it is important to eat more healthy fats and protein. You will see that you are more satisfied and you don't feel the need for products that are full of sugars anymore. You get your fats out of nuts and seeds, oils and oily fish. You will get protein out of milk, eggs, meat and chicken.

Tip 3: Start with small steps

One of the pitfalls of easy weight loss is that you often make it difficult for yourself by being too strict. By starting with small steps you can slowly get used to the changes that will make it easier in the longer term. For example, if you have 2 granola bars as snacks, reduce to 1 and have a handful of nuts as another snack. In this way it is more easy to stick to it so in the long term.

Tip 6: Eat on a smaller plate

Using a smaller plate will mean you'll eat less automatically. This, combined with regular meals and eating more slowly, ensures that you do not eat more than you need.

Tip 7: Drink water

Also, drinking water helps to lose weight easily. Do you feel hungry? First drink a glass of water before you eat. This can often satisfy your hunger. Don't you like water? Add flavour with mint, lemon, lime or some strawberries.

Tip 8: Intermittent fasting

We have become accustomed to eating three meals and two or three snacks per day. When eating fewer carbohydrates and more proteins and fats, you will find that you feel less hungry. To promote the weight loss process you may occasionally find that fasting can help. We already wrote an article on intermittent fasting, You can read more about here.

Tip 9: Don't weigh too often

When trying to lose weight, you can become obsessed with the scale but don't weigh too often, Choose a day, once a week, and weigh yourself at the same time on that day. Don't be tempted to weigh too often as scale weight does fluctuate naturally and you may be demotivated if you don't lose any weight on any given day, but you could lose more over the week.

Tip 14: Get enough sleep

In addition to avoiding stress, getting sufficient sleep is important when you are trying to lose weight. Getting enough sleep controls your appetite and we often feel hungrier when sleep deprived. It also helps to reduce stress and increase your energy. Want to read more about sleep?

Tip 15: Move enough

Exercising to lose weight is often associated with going to the gym or running. However, any movement will help and choose activities that you enjoy. Even small changes such as taking the stairs more often, do your shopping on the bike and walk for half an hour daily, can help. Exercise is associated with burning more belly fat. Want to know more about losing weight around your abdomen? Read this article about belly fat.

Tip 16: Start now!

We often tend to plan our start date for the future but why not start losing weight today? Right now? We can help you with that! Losing weight with Atkins is easy. Register now for free and receive a weekly meal plan, recipes and tips for easy weight loss.

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Easy recipes to lose weight

Losing weight easily is better when you have great recipes to make. This makes it fun to follow and easier to stick to. Here are some easy recipes to lose weight that don't take long to prepare!

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Easy to lose weight lunch

Greek salad

Ingredients for 2 persons:

• ½ cucumber
• 2 tomatoes
• ½ paprika
• ½ red onion
• 50 grams of feta cheese
• 10 black olives
• 1 tablespoon of vinegar
• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• Oregano, salt and pepper to taste

Preparation:

• Wash all vegetables
• Halve the cucumber and remove the seeds out. Cut coiled
• Cut each tomato into six pieces, the pepper into strips
• Halve the onion and cut into loops
• Mix in a bowl with the feta
• Make a dressing of vinegar, oil and spices and pour over the salad
• Within 10 minutes you have a delicious low carb lunch on the table!

Easy to lose weight dinner

Pizza Wraps

Ingredients for one person:

• 1 Atkins Tortilla Wraps
• 1 tablespoon tomato puree
• 1 handful of grated cheese optionally
• ½ tablespoon olive oil
• 30 grams of mozzarella
• 25 grams of roquefort
• 2 mini tomatoes sliced
• Pepper, salt, fresh or dried herbs, garlic powder
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Preparation:

• Mix the tomato paste with olive oil and season with salt, pepper, garlic powder and seasoning
• Spread wrap with tomato mixture
• Cut the mozzarella and Roquefort into pieces and spread it with tomato slices on the wrap
• Divide the grated cheese over the wrap and put in a preheated oven for 10 minutes at 190 degrees Celsius.
• Within 20 minutes you have a delicious low carb dinner prepared. You can invest the wraps of your choice!

Easy to lose weight meal plan

If you want to start losing weight , find recipes to like makes it easier to stick to. Below is a meal plan that's suitable for Phase 1 of the Atkins diet where you eat up to 20 grams of carbohydrates per day. More information and explanation of the phases of Atkins can be found here.

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