If you are going low carb I would stick to something like scotch and water. When you are trying to get only twenty grams of carbs a day you don't want eight of them to come from a couple of beers. Those twenty are usually things like the carbs in cheese and the kind in beef jerkey.
my a cocktail of bourbon, brandy, gin, whiskey, rum and tequila and maybe watermelon juice as a mixer sounds nice
Yeah, Michelob Light something or other. 2.6 grams I think. I was going to grab some, but if it ain't Shiner, I ain't havin' it.
Michelobe has 2.5 grams. That is still too much. If you have two or three all of a sudden you have wasted five to seven point five grams of carbs that should be taken up by carbs that are attached to your daily protein. Most meals, even meat meals, have small amounts of carbs. That is what the twenty a day is for. If you want alcohol have a vodka and club soda or a scotch and water or something with NO carbs. That way you are sticking to the plan.
I bought the Atkins book after hearing all of these success stories here on the board, but I really don't think I can handle cutting carbs out of my diet. I don't like to cook things, and I don't often have the kind of foods in my house to always eat without the carbs. There's really no room for error on Atkins, and I'm gonna screw up every once and a while... So I'm actually going to go ahead and do the low calorie thing. 1000 calories a day from now on. I did that a few summers ago and lost ten pounds in a week and a half, so that works for me I guess.
You must understand that a week and a half is really a catch phrase for crash dieting and crash dieting never works. The atkins is really easy. I actually am like you and use a 1200 calorie diet when I REALLY want to lose wait but the Atkins will work, I just can't sacrifice the strength loss because I am involved in strength training and various martial arts training. If I wasn't involved in competitive lifting I would use the atkins. You just can't lift crap on the atkins. But you will lose weight, and it really isn't hard.
Well, I know that it works... But I don't control the flow of groceries into this house, so I have to eat what's here. And on Atkins, you really need to stick to it. On a regular diet, you can screw up say, once a week for a night of drinking, which I fully intend to do.
You could stay on the diet if you learned to enjoy the wonderful flavor of scotch. Or a martini. I am just saying it is very easy to stay on the atkins if you want to. You can tell you wife to buy you meat and cheese. She can remember that.
LeGrop, is scotch/Canadian club ok during induction and my b'day is coming up, will a slice of bday cake do much damage??
Man, Already this man posts and I have not even gotten in yet... Whomever said you can't cheat on Atkins is simply wrong. You can cheat about one day a week and while it does slow the weight loss down, it does not stop it. I am down to my goal weight of 175, and am thinking I might need to lose about 10 more to get rid of all the fat completely. I have lost 30 pounds in a little over 2 months, I still drink moderately and excercise (basketball) regularly. I have discovered that I do not need so many carbs and have never felt better in my life. I think Atkins had it right, we eat twice as much sugar as our granparents and our metabolisms can not keep up. Good luck with it, I will have another Atkins update later next week. DD
Smeg, Go ahead and have some cake and Ice Cream, just make sure you go right back to the diet the next day...your body will simply burn those carbs for energy FIRST before it goes back to burning the stored carbs in your fat. DD
Or you could buy the bake mix and make an atkins cake the icing might be hard to make though.. it's possible, just melt some chocolate, mix in some eggs and whipping cream maybe..
I would listen to Dak on the cake... you don't want to entirely lose all fun in life. But on the scotch during induction - you just have to ask yourself how dramatically you want the weight to come off. I mean the scotch will not spike your blood sugar so in that regard it is alright because I will not make you have a crash where you start to binge eat - but it will be filling your blood with fatty acids which are going to have to be taken care of by your liver before any other fats are so you won't be burning bodyfat. If you are only having one or two it shouldn't even register. If you are going out and partying aussie style then all those calories from the alcohol might bring your fat burning to a halt.
We've had several birthdays around here, and I'm still losing. I also eat pizza whenever the h*ll I want.
have a presentation night for our basketball club, ticket was for meal and 3 hours of all you can drink (beer, house wine and champagne) but i resisted and went with just the meal and softdrink ticket and will just have water.
btw is glycemic index and carbohydrate content in foods exactly the same???? seems to be more and more evidence about using GI instead of Carb content, and some suggestion if Atkins was still around he probably would have made the change.
Not at all, although you can find some regular patterns such as: Simple sugars have a sky high GI Most fruits and vegetables have a low to middle GI Most proteins and fats have a low GI And then there are tricky aspects to it such as - white bread has a high index, but if you add peanut butter it lowers it. Glycemic index is just your body's insulin reponse to a particular macronutrient ratio and compostition. You want to have less of a response pushing the sugar into the fat cells. There are many resources for finding out the GI of foods on the internet.
