Advantage Shakes on Induction?

[SamGregory]

I've been using a 2 week meal planner from the Atkins website, and on it it says that the shakes can be used as my 'snack', but I have also read that it is not good to use the shakes during the induction period. What do I do?!

[Georgiana]

Re: Advantage Shakes on Induction?

Find other snacks if you need a snack, i.e. you are hungry or six hours have passed since your last meal. Stuff like cheese, a boiled egg, left overs, muffins, slices of quiches, veggies with some dip make a healthy, Induction-legal snack.

Atkins shakes and bars often stall people. You do not want to risk this during Induction (and even later, imo), because a clean Induction is essential in order to be able to determine your degree of metabolic resistance (see the charts in DANDR, Ch. 13).

[SamGregory]

Re: Advantage Shakes on Induction?

Muffins? That doesnt seem 'Atkins legal'?

[Brook]

Re: Advantage Shakes on Induction?

I've been using a 2 week meal planner from the Atkins website, and on it it says that the shakes can be used as my 'snack', but I have also read that it is not good to use the shakes during the induction period. What do I do?!

Read the tag line in red in my signature. It sorta sums it up quickly.

Muffins? That doesnt seem 'Atkins legal'?

They're perfectly legal, with the right recipe

[Georgiana]

Re: Advantage Shakes on Induction?



This is one recipe: http://www.atkinsdietbulletinboard.c...e-muffins.html

And this is something between a savory cheesecake and a quiche: http://www.atkinsdietbulletinboard.c...st-change.html

Also, don't forget that Induction is only the first phase of Atkins. If muffins is what you want, there are many OWL-friendly recipes out there.

[liv]

Re: Advantage Shakes on Induction?

How wonderful that you looked before you leap.
I think some of us would have likely though: I am allowed a shake - I am going for it. But as I experienced it was not a good idea. I cannot lose with them. I assume it is the sweeteners that are the problem for me.