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Auberge Mendocino Inn Offers Atkins Holiday Spa Retreat 'Get-a-Weigh'; Travelers Take It Off at Seaside Luxury French Country Bed & Breakfast.


Lifestyle Editors/Travel Writers

MENDOCINO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 10, 2003

Auberge Mendocino is offering a series of exercise and diet retreats based on the popular Atkins diet Atkins Diet Definition

The Atkins diet is a high-protein, high-fat, and very low-carbohydrate regimen. It emphasizes meat, cheese, and eggs, while discouraging foods such as bread, pasta, fruit, and sugar. It is a form of ketogenic diet.
 to help guests lose weight, have fun and maintain good nutritional and exercise habits -- all at incredible winter rates.

Called the Atkins Diet Retreat, the five- or seven-night package introduces participants to the popular low-carbohydrate diet Low-carbohydrate diets or low-carb diets are nutritional programs that advocate restricted carbohydrate consumption, based on research that ties consumption of certain carbohydrates with increased blood insulin levels, and overexposure to insulin with metabolic syndrome (the  and to Mendocino's natural beauty via guided walks to beaches, lighthouses and waterfalls This is a list of worldwide waterfalls. Africa
Burkina Faso
  • Tagbaladougou Falls
Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • Boyoma Falls (Stanley Falls)
  • Lofoi Falls
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  • Matakil Falls
 and numerous other program activities.

"We make it easy for people to jump start the Atkins diet and help them stick to it once they return home," said Richard Grabow, innkeeper An individual who, as a regular business, provides accommodations for guests in exchange for reasonable compensation.

An inn is defined as a place where lodgings are made available to the public for a charge, such as a hotel, motel, hostel, or guest house.
 at Auberge Mendocino, who has been following the Atkins diet for 18 years.

Participants enjoy delicious low-carb meals at the Inn and nearby restaurants, including daily gourmet breakfasts and evening hors d'oeuvres prepared by the Inn's fabulous chef. The program features numerous lectures, group programs, access to a local health club, visits to state parks, a swing dance class, plus free time for sightseeing, shopping, birding, kayaking Kayaking is the use of a kayak for moving across water. Kayaking is differentiated from canoeing by the fact that a kayak has a closed cockpit and a canoe has an open cockpit. They also use a two bladed paddle. Another major difference is in the way the paddler sits in the boat.  or horse-back riding.

During their stay, guests can also choose to pamper pam·per  
tr.v. pam·pered, pam·per·ing, pam·pers
1. To treat with excessive indulgence: pampered their child.

2.
 themselves at the Third Court Salon and Day Spa A day spa is a business establishment which people visit for personal care treatments such as massages and facials. It is similar to a beauty salon in that it is only visited for the duration of the treatment. . Services include hair care and styling, facials, makeovers, pedicure and manicures, body treatments and massage.

Both five- and seven-night retreats begin on Sundays and are scheduled for Dec. 7, 14; Jan. 11, 18, 25; Feb. 1, 8, 29; and March 7, 14, and 21.

Guests who book before Feb. 28, 2004, enjoy up to a 40 percent discount on lodging and services. Complete five-day packages begin at $673.25 per person, double occupancy. Single occupancy is $872. The five-day package includes luxury accommodations, daily gourmet breakfast, two dinners, two lunches, five lectures, eight hikes, and all program supplies and venue fees. The seven-night program includes additional features and events and is priced accordingly.

A friendly French-style country bed and breakfast inn on Mendocino's coast, Auberge Mendocino is the perfect place for guests to achieve their healthful health·ful
adj.
1. Conducive to good health; salutary.

2. Healthy.



healthful·ness n.
 goals for 2004.

The Inn offers nine luxurious guest rooms and suites, and two spacious cottages in a setting of informal gardens, century-old cypress trees and hiking trails that wind gently down to the beach.

For reservations visit: www.aubergemendocino.com or call 800-347-9252.
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