Newbie and V.Confused!! Help please :)

[CJ_07]

Hello all!
I'm so glad i've found this forum!! I'm starting the atkins induction today! I've read the book and researched on the net but am still confused about how many carbs i can have, I know it's 20g a day and...

I know i can have meat, fish, eggs, butter and mayo liberally but after that i get lost!
It says i can have
*3cups of salad a day or 2cups of salad and 1 veg (a day)
* 90-110g of cheese a day (a day)
*2-3tbsp cream (a day)
*most spices and herbs (a day)

So does all that mean that all i've stared (*) equals 20g of carbs a day? or do i have to count it? In otherwords if i stick to all the foods above will i be safely hitting 20g carbs a day!?
Hope i make sense, would be grateful for any guidence!
Thank you
CJ xx

[Sera]

You need to count everything you eat into the 20 net carbs.
All your veggies, any cheese or cream or eggs you eat.
During induction most of your carbs should come from veggies, keep that in mind.
It helped me a lot to use fitday, you enter all your food there and it counts your carbs for you.
I mostly used cheese and cream to fill up my carb count (and of course I enjoyed it ).
So if I had eaten 15 carbs of veggies and eggs or so, I'd use the rest for a "legal dessert".
I hope this helps answer your questions.
Good luck with Atkins

[CJ_07]

Thanks for your reply!!
So do I need to Count things like sausages, bacon, eggs, meat, into that 20g or is all meat, eggs, fish free to eat without counting?
CJx

[Sera]

if it's food that has no carbs, there isn't anything to count.
Eggs do have a few carbs, so most count them as 1 carb per egg.
Sausages might have carbs, check what they are made of...I find that here they use starch a lot, plus sausages and bacon have a lot of sodium which could make you retain water...be careful with that.
As I said before, you might want to use fitday...it has the most common foods, you can add your own custom foods and most of all it gives you the carb count + fibres, so you just have to substract.