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Atkins offers free phase-specific courses and interactive FAQs to help you get started with the Atkins Nutritional Approach and stay on track every step of the way. Explore these free resources and select the one that best reflects your Atkins phase.
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Phase 1: An Introduction to Induction
Welcome to Induction, Phase 1 of the Atkins Diet, which jump-starts weight loss and begins your journey to permanent weight loss.
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Phase 2: The Importance of Ongoing Weight Loss (OWL)
In OWL, you'll begin the transition to a permanent way of eating, while continuing to enjoy the benefits of burning primarily fat for energy.
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Phase 3: Pre-Maintenance
Learn about Pre-Maintenance, where you'll reach your goal weight and practice the skills you'll need to maintain it.
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Phase 4: Lifetime Maintenance—the Rest of Your Life
The fourth phase of Atkins is actually a permanent way of eating that enables you to maintain your new weight and enjoy a healthy lifestyle.
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Atkins FAQs: The Atkins Nutritional Approach
Learn how the Atkins approach to eating—based on whole foods—helps you achieve and maintain your goal weight and improve your health.
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Atkins FAQs: Induction, the First Phase of Atkins
Here you'll find the most-often asked questions about Phase 1 of the Atkins Diet—along with answers. Be sure to check the other notebooks for questions and answers that pertain to other phases and the whole program.
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Atkins FAQs: Troubleshooting OWL and Pre-Maintenance
By popular request, here are the answers to common questions about Phases 2 and 3, where most people lose the majority of their excess weight.
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Atkins FAQs: Lifetime Maintenance and the Atkins Lifestyle
From how to protect your weight loss, to the role of exercise in weight management, to how to go low-carb minus meat, here are answers to common questions about the Atkins lifestyle.
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Replacing Myths with Facts
Because Atkins differs from other weight-loss plans—and runs counter to outdated but conventional wisdom—it arouses misconceptions. It's time to separate fact from fiction.
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Disclaimer: The instructions and advice presented on this site are in no way intended as medical advice or as a substitute for medical counseling. The information should be used in conjunction with the guidance and care of your physician. Consult your physician before beginning this program as you would any weight-loss or weight-maintenance program. Your physician should be aware of all medical conditions that you may have, as well as any medication and supplements you are taking. Those of you on diuretics or diabetes medication should proceed only under a doctor's supervision. As with any plan, the weight-loss phases of this nutritional plan should not be used by patients on dialysis or by pregnant or nursing women. As with any weight loss plan we recommend that anyone under the age of 18 follows the program under the guidance of their physician.