Let’s Keep It Simple. The Atkins Edge

, uses a number of metaphors to help make Atkins easily understandable and easy to follow. You’re probably already familiar with one: the blood sugar roller coaster. The interplay between glucose and insulin that occurs in your blood stream after you eat a lot of carbohydrates is complex, but if you think of it as a roller coaster of energy highs followed by energy lows that make you ravenous and stimulate your cravings, it’s pretty easy to understand the basic message: Don’t feed your body this way and you’ll find it easier to moderate your appetite and therefore lose weight. Another metaphor—this one named by Dr. Stephen D. Phinney, one of the three authors of the book, who also dubbed the metabolic bully—is the Atkins Edge. If the metabolic bully is the bad guy in this scenario, the Atkins Edge is the hero, charging in to save the day. Edge has many meanings, but one of them refers to the advantage of an improved position, which is how we use it. When you eat the Atkins way, reducing your intake of carbs—particularly, those bad carbs I mentioned above, you can vanquish the metabolic bully. Why? Because your new way of eating forces your body to burn its own fat for energy. And it doesn’t stop there, once you’re burning primarily fat, other wonderful things happen, including natural appetite control. Most people find that their cravings for sugary, starchy foods vanish—or at least moderate—enabling them to exercise the self control that eluded them. Once you know your tolerance for carbs, you should be able to keep the Atkins Edge and kick the metabolic bully out of your life. Meanwhile, I’ll continue to make every effort to write in simple English. And if I occasionally forget, I know you’ll let me hear about it! Tagged: atkins edge Permalink Comments (100) (100) Comments Post Comment 1 2 3 Next »