View Single Post
Old 01-28-2004, 01:48 PM   #3 (permalink)
ratbastid
Darth Papa
 
ratbastid's Avatar
 
Location: Yonder
That's great, suviko! Welcome to Atkins! I've lost 26 lbs in about 4 months.

For your first two weeks, it's all about fat and protein. There's actually a list of acceptable foods during the Induction phase. <a href="http://atkins.com/Archive/2001/12/15-464579.html">See the List</a>.

This diet is really a process, not a menu. After your two week Induction period, you start adding foods back into your diet, one by one and category by category, until you're eating a very well-balanced (though still low-carb) diet.

This morning I had 3 slices of bacon, 3 eggs, and a cup of cottage cheese. For lunch I had 2 bratwurst and a big spinach caesar salad. I had a half cup of peanuts as a snack. For dinner tonight... I'm not sure what I'll have. But it better include some veggies--I'll probably grill up some zucchini and yellow squash in butter.

Note that there are things in what I just listed that you can't have yet (the peanuts and cottage cheese, in particular).

My main piece of advice is to go pick up Dr. Atkins New Diet Revolution (I imagine there's a Finnish translation?), and read it. It has a whole section of recipes in the back.

Incidentally, if you haven't lost weight in the first two weeks of the diet, you're probably not doing it right. Most people lose 8-12 lbs their first two weeks. It slows down to a sane level of weight loss after that. Go get the book and read it, that's the main thing.

Last edited by ratbastid; 01-28-2004 at 01:50 PM..
ratbastid is offline  
 

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 269 270 271 272 273 274 275 276 277 278 279 280 281 282 283 284 285 286 287 288 289 290 291 292 293 294 295 296 297 298 299 300 301 302 303 304 305 306 307 308 309 310 311 312 313 314 315 316 317 318 319 320 321 322 323 324 325 326 327 328 329 330 331 332 333 334 335 336 337 338 339 340 341 342 343 344 345 346 347 348 349 350 351 352 353 354 355 356 357 358 359 360