Phase 3: Pre-Maintenance
Nov 6, 2009 - Dec 31, 2009
Pre-Maintenance is like a dress rehearsal for Lifetime Maintenance, a.k.a. the rest of your life. Learn the basics of adding new foods and deliberately slowing weight loss, as well as how to customize this crucial phase to your own needs so that you can achieve your goal weight—and maintain it—all the while banishing cravings and out-of-control hunger for good. That spells lasting success!
What You’ll Learn
- The objectives and guidelines of Pre-Maintenance
- What foods you can reintroduce
- How to find your Atkins Carbohydrate Equilibrium (ACE)
- What to do once you achieve your goal weight
Lesson 1: Transitioning to Pre-Maintenance
Pre-Maintenance is the natural outgrowth of Ongoing Weight Loss. Frustrating as it may be, moving slowly and deliberately as you introduce new foods is the key to reaching your goal weight.
Lesson 2: Customizing Pre-Maintenance to Your Needs
As with the rest of the Atkins Diet, you get to customize Pre-Maintenance to your preferences and metabolism. You'll also learn how dietary fat continues to play a major role in weight control.
Moderator(s)
Colette Heimowitz
As the Vice President of Nutrition and Education at Atkins Nutritionals, Inc. Colette Heimowitz has been a driving force behind the scenes at the Atkins Learning Center. She brings a wealth of talents and experience to the job. Colette’s clinical nutrition degree comes full circle in keeping current with respect to the scientific research related to the Atkins Diet and nutrition translating that information for the discussion boards as well as the Atkins web site. As the nutrition voice for the Atkins Companies, Colette has appeared on radio programs nationwide, as well as on national television networks including CNN, Fox News Channel and MSNBC. She also makes frequent trips around the country on the lecture circuit. She has 20-plus years of experience as a nutritionist, which includes the time she spent with Dr Atkins as director of nutrition at The Atkins Center for Complementary Medicine.
Don Freidkin
Don Freidkin is a web content writer and instructor who lives in San Antonio, Texas. He has written general food and nutrition articles, as well as restaurant reviews, for popular audiences throughout his career, and he's written and instructed many courses that have appeared here on the Atkins site. After several years following the Atkins Nutritional Approach, he is presently in the Pre-Maintenance phase.
Reviews
Nov 13, 2009
Phase 3
Informative and clearly presented.
Confirming what I knew. I need to move up.
Nov 11, 2009
Phase 3
This was really well organized and easy to understand.
Great Information!
Nov 10, 2009
PM course
Excellent, lotta good info there. Base on it I know I'm headed in the right direction just need more time.
