Diet and Health FAQ

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Question:
Can someone post a sample atkins diet for the first three weeks to get into ketosis? I'd like to try it out for a couple of weeks. I realize the question's kinda vague, but the diet is kinda easy and I don't have time to read his book....

Answer:
There are menu plans in the back of the book. If you try the diet without reading how it works, you COULD be setting yourself up for failure. For your good health, I hope you take the time to read the book before starting something that requires such a big commitment and lifestyle change. In a nutshell, real meat/fish/poultry/eggs, water, and about 3 cups of green leafy vegetables dressed with oil and vinegar daily. But I don't think this is enough info, and the book explains in better detail. What is Dr. Atkins' diet? The Atkins diet is a carbohydrate intake restricted diet, or a ketogenic diet, but it is not a non-carbohydrate diet. The diet focuses on limited consumption of carbohydrates less than 20g a day for the first 2 weeks of the diet, referred to as Induction, after which you are encouraged to gradually increase the daily intake of carbohydrate grams until reaching a level that allows you to still lose weight. Once at goal weight you increase your carbohydrate grams until finding the level which you can maintain your desired weight. One of goals of the Induction phase is to begin dietary ketosis-- read more about this in 3a. Ketosis, a condition in which the body without available dietary carbohydrates will turn to stored fat for fuel.