Living Low Carb with Today’s Atkins™

The first step towards a successful low carb lifestyle is understanding the importance of reducing your carb intake to better your diet.

When you eat foods high in carbs, like a plate of pasta, your body converts it to sugar in your bloodstream. Any excess sugar in your bloodstream that isn’t used as energy is stored as fat. Unfortunately, it’s the overconsumption of these carbs that raise and drop your blood sugar levels, making you crave more and sending you into a blood sugar rollercoaster.

Whether the sugar comes from bread or a candy bar, it has the same effect on your body’s blood sugar.

On average, Americans consume over 250 grams of carbs per day¹, including 22 teaspoons of added sugar² every day!

73% of consumers either try to limit some or all carbohydrates in their diets.³Join the low-carb/low-sugar movement!

A carbohydrate is any of a large group of organic compounds occurring in foods including sugars, starch, and cellulose. Refined/simple carbs are highly processed carbohydrates (refined breads, cereals, and pastries) that quickly raise blood sugar. These refined carbohydrates are not only higher in sugar but they also break down more rapidly into glucose and enter your bloodstream far faster than vegetables and other complex/higher fiber carbs, like vegetables, fruits, nuts, legumes, and whole grains. So if you eat refined carbohydrate foods, you stay on the blood sugar roller coaster ride of highs and lows.