Help! I've been eating Nuts!

[JillG]

Okay - i'm a bad bad person for not reading the book. I just wanted to get started Monday and you can pretty much find all the acceptable foods for induction online. For some reason I swore I saw Almonds as one of them! I've eaten at least 4 servings (26 nuts) in the past 4 days.

Why are these bad? What is it going to do? I know alcohol, for example, burns first before fat that's why you can't have it (even vodka which has no carbs.)

I'm on my 4th day and have been feeling great - started my period so felt bloated the last two days but maybe I'm bloated because I'm making myself FAT not thin because of these dang nuts!

HELP!

[SunnySmile501]

The acceptable foods list is set out in a way that you can have liberal amounts of delicious and filling foods, and still stay at 20 grams of carbs without a lot of counting of carbs and we don't have to count calories.

Nuts are pretty calorie dense, contain carbs, and are hard for people to control the amount they eat. They also cause cravings in many people, me included, so they are best left out until after induction, when you have cravings under control and appetite is suppressed. They are added back in by the third rung, so you don't have long to wait.

[JillG]

so - the carbs per serving were 5. I had essentially one serving a day. A carb is a carb, though.... right? it's not going to prevent me going into "ketosis" - right? I kept my carbs down to less then 15 a day so far. I should be okay - right?

[SunnySmile501]

Originally Posted by JillG

so - the carbs per serving were 5. I had essentially one serving a day. A carb is a carb, though.... right? it's not going to prevent me going into "ketosis" - right? I kept my carbs down to less then 15 a day so far. I should be okay - right?

A carb is not necessarily a carb, but you should be okay if you cut out the nuts for now. It might not keep you from going into ketosis, but it might, depending on how sensitive you are to carbs or if you are insulin resistant.

A carb from sugar or a starch spikes your blood sugar much more than the exact carb count from a veggie or even nuts. Blood sugar spikes, requiring insulin, are what you are trying to avoid.

You get into ketosis by the ratio of fat to carbs, so keep the fat high and the carbs low and you will be in ketosis in no time.

[JulieB]

FYI - Be careful of where you pick up information 'online'. The Atkins diet has changed over the years - Dr. Atkins refined it over his lifetime (DANDR2002 was the last version published while he was alive). Atkins Nutritionals, a corporation licenced to use the Atkins name, has changed it since then to make it easier to sell their products (that's how they can say their bars & shakes are induction friendly - they changed the rules!). The Atkins.com website's info is Atkins Nutritionals' version of the diet, not DANDR 2002, which we follow on this board.

[pinkfusion]

Jill, no more nuts for you, young lady! lol

Please get the book and read it. It will help you to understand so much more about this fantastic eating plan.