Overweight leads to an unshaped body and unfitness body. This may be caused due to lack of time to do exercises, laziness or excessive consumption of fast food stuffs. But here Atkins diet can guide you best how to keep yourself fit and impressive. Atkins diet was formulated by Dr. Robert Atkins in 1972. Carbohydrate is the primary reason of weight gain and so Atkins diet says to avoid food stuffs like potatoes, grains, sugar, fruits and pastas. As these food stuffs contains huge amount of starch, sugar, gums and cellulose.

By following certain principles to avoid carbohydrate contained stuffs, an individual can reduce his weight according to Atkins diet. But this won't lead to loss in muscles as protein is the main nutrient in maintaining a good health. Cereals should also be avoided during the diet phase as they contain huge amount of carbohydrates. Foods stuffs like barbeque sauce, ketchup, fruit juice, cough syrup, bacon and flour should be avoided as they contain hidden sugar.