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Old June 18th, 2009, 09:15 AM
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Default Re: Day of confessions

Good for you for committing yourself to a clean 14 Day Induction.

I would suggest that you move to OWL Phase on Day 15. See, plenty of people think that the entire Atkins Diet is Induction. I don't know where they got that idea because even in the 1972 book, Dr. Atkins discussed re-introducing carbs after the initial 1 week Induction (it was 1 week back then.) I can only presume that people stopped reading that book after the Induction section, just like many of them do today (if they even bothered to read the book in the first place.)

Also people think that they will only lose weight if they stay on Induction and/or eat at Induction level carbs. During my time on ADBB, there have only been 5 people who could never increase their net carbs above 20: they all had some kind of underlying medical condition that inhibited weight loss and/or were on medications that inhibited weight loss.

So move to OWL on Day 15---you'll enjoy the menu better which will enable you to stick to the Diet better. Plus, you'll continue losing weight and you will learn healthy eating habits.
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