Low Carb Diet Plans: The Vagaries Of The First Two WeeksThe first month I was on Atkins, I lost 16 pounds. There really was no magic to it. I didn't buy any prepackaged foods or special vitamins. There are foods you can eat practically without limit and some you must avoid without question. This article will give you an overview of the toughest part of low carb diet plans: induction and will provide you with some ideas as to what to eat and do during that time period. The first phase of the diet is called induction and induction is tough, especially for those of us who believe the four food groups are sugar, fat, salt and alcohol. The good news is that two weeks aren't forever. Typically, here's how an Atkins diet works. You have a two week period where your diet is very limited. The diet is based on putting the body into ketosis. Ketosis happens when your body is burning fat for fuel, rather than storing it. This happens when you deny your body carbohydrates, forcing it to give up fat. Here's a secret. Fat does not make you fat. Carbohydrates do. Simply, when you eat more carbohydrates than your body can use for fuel, your body is forced to create cholesterol, which is then floated in the blood stream. If you're a track star, you probably do need to eat lots of carbs for fuel, but, for the rest of us desk jockeys, we consume far more carbohydrates than our bodies are able to burn.
When we normally think of a meal plan, we think of measuring and weighing food, of checking lists for quantities and foods. One of the beauties of this plan is that some foods are fairly well unrestricted. If it's leafy and green, you can pretty much go to town with it safely, provided you don't slop it over with tons of dressing. Foods that are high on the glycemic index are disallowed for the first two weeks. Glycemic index is simply another way of saying sugar. Whether it is fructose or sucrose, sugar is sugar and your body reacts to sugar in pretty much the same way. So, during the induction phase, you don't eat sugar in any form. Stay away from your diet things like bread, pasta, fruit, alcohol, and sodas. You know you shouldn't eat those things anyway. Increase the protein you eat, include good fats, drinks tons of water (Atkins diet plans allow unsugared beverages, even diet sodas). Various vegetables are allowed as well, especially things that are leafy greens and foods that are low in sugars and generally high in fiber, like bok choy and asparagus. Most proteins are generally acceptable. Unlike some plans, Atkins' proteins do not have to be organic or high end items like salmon. I normally had eggs and bacon for breakfast, with coffee, no cream. Lunch usually consisted of protein, often tuna or a chicken breast and an enormous salad (any of his low carbohydrate foods is permissible) with chunks of bell pepper, drizzled with a little olive oil. Dinner followed the same suit. I drank a ton of water and, occasionally sinned a little with a fresh squeezed lemon added for flavor. The funniest thing I recall about being on a low carb diet plan was that I was never hungry. The program tells you that if you are hungry, eat more protein. Cutting out all those carbs was tough at the beginning, but the more I did, the more energy I discovered I had and following the plan really began to make sense and yield results. I tried some of the low carb diet recipes at the beginning and some were pretty good. Remember, induction is tough, but you can do anything for two weeks. |
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