Atkins: A Guide to Eating Right and Living Low-Carb and Low-Sugar: How to Make Smart Choices for a Healthy Lifestyle

alainearj: The foods are very tasty. This book has the best recipes. I use recipes from this book every day and also have other family members eating the food. It is also helping to get my A1C down (diabetic). LOVE THIS BOOK.

United States on Jan 04, 2022

Book lover: Why only two stars for "Atkins: Eat right not less"? As I read through the book I felt more and more frustrated with the author. She did not add any shopping lists so you have to go through the meal plans then search the book to find the recipe to create your shopping list and you have to do this for every single recipe. She also does not warn on the meal plan that the recipe for lunch or dinner may take 2.5 to 3 hours to cook. So you get ready to cook dinner at 5:00 and find that you have to let it simmer for 3 or more hours. I also do not want to have to simmer lunch for 2 hours. I don't have this kind of time. I have a life! On top of that there are snacks that must be cooked. I don't want to cook my snack. In some recipes you do not know that it you have to let dinner simmer for hours until you are actually in the middle of preparing dinner. That's the first week then you get to the second week and find that it has the exact same food as the first week just on different days. The food is not bad, not great but tolerable except that you eat the same food over and over several times in one week then of course more of the same the following week. What seemed okay the the first...

United States on Jul 28, 2021

Sanae: I bought this book and I assure you that it is the best, very easy to read and well explained, especially the 3 phases of the Atkins diet. I recommend it 100%.

Canada on May 19, 2021

Amazon Customer: Not what I expected,too many creative recipes of things I don’t have on hand,plus the Atkins basic diet isn’t 20 carbs per meal.returning book.

Canada on May 17, 2021

Linda Buckland: Easy to follow

United Kingdom on Aug 22, 2020

geminga: I like that you are given three levels where you can start. Cold turkey is good for some but not others. There is much emphasis on portion sizes. I can restrict food choices but starving and being hungry all day has always resulted in failure. I have chosen to go the cold turkey route and cheat on the portions.. I have lost 7 pounds in three weeks. I guess that is OK. So far I plan to stick with it for two months then begin to add complex carbs. We will see how it goes.

United States on Jan 24, 2020

Tvalib: The Atkins diet has moved on and improved enormously. It encourages the eating of 'good' carbs by the method of using a net carb value. A net carb is the carbs per 100g minus the fibre per 100g. It is similar to the Keto diet.
The book is well structured and the recipes are interesting and innovative. Many are fairly simple but still delicious. It is a new way of eating rather than a limited diet plan.
I would recommend it.

United Kingdom on Jun 17, 2019

Justo Roteta: This book gives you an adequate but not exhaustive or too-detailed overview of The Atkins diet, how and why it works and also covers the basics of both the "classic" Atkins 20 and the "new" Atkins 40 variations as Atkins has certainly evolved over the course of the years. Case in point: Regardless of which version or variation of Atkins you choose to do the diet both allows for and recommends that you consume a far greater amount of "foundation vegetables" than it did 30 or 40 years ago and the program is also a bit more flexible (overall) today. There are also many tasty recipes with accompanying pictures and most (but not all) are acceptable on all four phases of Atkins. If you are unfamiliar with and/or being introduced to Atkins for the first time I would, however, very strongly recommend that you get and read the book "The New Atkins For A New You" before reading this one as it is far more informative than this one.

United States on Oct 11, 2018

VanIsleLin: This is the first "Atkins" book I've purchased in years, and I'm so pleased I did. Firstly, Colette Heimowitz clearly explains the excellent rationale for using the Atkins approach to eating. Secondly, she has wonderful charts and images that illustrate an updated approach to choosing the low carb way of eating (and dieting, if that's your initial need), an approach that emphasizes more vegetables, and some fruits. And, finally, she has wonderful recipes, many with enticing photos. I believe that the book is suitable for first-time Atkins explorers, and long-time Atkins converts.

Canada on Jan 21, 2018

A. Howard: I have collected Atkins book as the "diet" has evolved over time. In 1970, I'll concede, it was easier to provide nutritional info and write recipes using ye olde English dry and liquid measurements. Flash forward to this book's publication date and then to this New Year, it is actually easier to weigh ingredients and calculate nutritional info using a digital scale. I bought my scale here on Amazon

Here's an example. What is a half cup of broccoli? Is that a big sprig? Is it broccoli chopped and stuffed into a 1/2 Cup measuring cup? You know what's actually easier? To say 100 grams or 4 ounces of broccoli. Doesn't matter if it fits into a 1/2 Cup measuring cup.

Plus, with those new-fangled digital scales you can plop a ceramic bowl on the platform and it'll set the scale to zero and then add five consecutive ingredients for a salad without using measuring cups at all. Instead hit "tare" between ingredients, resetting the weight to zero, and jot down your weights.

Online programs allow you to calculate calories, net carbs, fats and protein using the WEIGHT of the ingredient which is far more ptecise than even saying 1/2 Cup of X ingredient. Sure, saying a...

United States on Jan 07, 2018