I thought caffeine was no good...

[Grant]

On Atkins.com in the phase 1 food section:

"Caffeine can cause cravings or blood sugar spikes with some people. If you’re one of them, you should drink only decaffeinated beverages. If you don’t have a problem with caffeine, you may drink one or two caffeinated beverages a day, because evolving research indicates there may actually be health benefits to a limited amount of caffeine. However, if you have a true caffeine addiction, it will be best to break it during Induction, because any food addiction can cause problems if it isn’t taken care of. Once you’ve broken the addiction and moved on to OWL, you can carefully try adding caffeinated beverages back into your food intake, as long as it doesn’t trigger the addiction again."

what the heck?

[Brook]

Heh.

The stuff they've written since the good doctor has been gone makes my eyes roll so hard it hurts.

[boonie stomper]

That sounds like the OLD version of DANDR stuff to me. Do you have the revised version Atkins wrote before he died?

[Grant]

I have 2002, that quote is from the Atkins website today.

[Jace]

Caffeine certainly isn't recommended, but--like most things--it has different effects on different people. I drank coffee while in the weight loss phases of Atkins and it never caused a problem with me. I would only suggest testing your reaction, though, if you have the self control to fight any possible cravings that might occur if caffeine has an adverse effect on you...it would be terrible for a cup of coffee to be the trigger for a huge carb binge.

~Far la bella figura!

[boonie stomper]

OK, pulling out my book..... where was that at? What I was reading was for the induction on page 124 and was saing avoid caffeinated beverages....may cause cravings...


Anyhow, I used to drink a whole lot more caffeine bevs. than I do now, but had supplements with caffeine & other stimulants from day 1 without trouble. Guess the bottom line with it is as I've seen put elsewhere on ADBB is, "your mileage may vary".
So I did have a problem (1200-1600mg /day) but had cut back to a managable 100-200 /day before starting Atkins, roughly the same end result as if you did what you read.

[Grant]

I don't really want to drink caffeine. I'm just concerned that here I have this book I'm using as my bible essentially and I thought it basically said no caffeine. Then I see on the website it saying you can have a couple caffeinated beverages a day if you can handle it. I suppose it's the wording in the book that through me off and I read "avoid" as "do not have at all"

[Brook]

The website is own by Atkins Nutritionals. They are *not* Dr. Atkins. They've been pushing all that low-carb junk food and garbage hardcore since about the day the good doctor passed away. They've really tried to take the more media-saavy/consumer-warm-fuzzy approach for a long time. They're much more likely to attract new customers if they tell people that they can eat *their* chocolate bars and fudge the rules a bit than to go hard-core.

<shrug> Such is capitalism at it's finest.