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of that.
There are various stages of the Atkins
diet that you can move into, depending on how long you have been on the diet
and at what point of the journey you are. The initial phase is the induction
phase, and this is where I shall stay for the five days that I’ll be trying it
out. There are various rules that you have to stick to on the induction phase,
but the main points are as follows.
1) Eat three meals and two snacks a day.
2) Consume an average of only 20g of net
carbs a day - 12 to 15g of that from foundation vegetables.
3) Eat sufficient protein at every meal.
4) Do not restrict fats.
5) Drink eight eight-ounce glasses of
water a day (just under two litres in total).
I was interested to see what foods I
could eat on the diet, and there are too many to list here, but the main
components are essentially meat, fish, eggs, cheese and vegetables (but not all
vegetables). I’m going to let you into a little secret here and announce that I
don’t particularly care for fish and I detest cheese in its raw state (I can
just about stomach melted cheese in a lasagne or the like). Eagle-eyed readers
may wish to point out that I had fish and chips on a previous diet, and while
that’s true, I was only able to eat the fish due to it being covered in bread
crumbs and then smothered in ketchup, neither of which I am allowed on the
Atkins diet. I’ve never been a fan of cheese, and I remember eating out with my
family when I was young and saying to my brother that his pasta smelled of
feet. That was already enough to put me off it for life but then the waiter
added some grated Parmesan for good measure, in my mind adding the essence of
vomit to the mix. Any ingredient that can smell of both feet and vomit is
definitely off the menu for me. Being fussy about fish and cheese is definitely
a disadvantage on the Atkins diet as it essentially wipes out 40% of my
options, leaving me with just meat, eggs and vegetables, which is difficult
enough to try to make one meal out of, let alone three meals for five days
straight.
My first meal on the Atkins diet was
pure heaven. The days had fallen kindly and my first day on the Atkins diet was
a Sunday. We had nothing planned for the morning, so I took time to lovingly
prepare a breakfast consisting of three rashers of bacon, two poached eggs and
a huge flat mushroom. It was the first time for a long time that I could
prepare what I considered to be ‘naughty’ food and eat it without feeling
guilty. I even got adventurous and tried out a new technique that I’d seen on a
cooking show, cracking the eggs into some cling film and creating a little
bubble for them to cook in.
As much as I enjoyed that breakfast, I
couldn’t help but worry about how I would be able to prepare breakfast over the
coming four days. How would I be able to consume eggs and bacon on a work day,
when I get up at 6am and am out of the house by 6.30am? Firstly, it’s just not
practical to be cooking that kind of thing at that time in the morning, and
secondly, there’s no way I could stomach it. The rules clearly state that I
need to be eating three meals a day, so after a long time pondering what I
should do, I finally came up with the answer.
I decided that I’ll just skip breakfast.
I did say at the very beginning that I would be taking short cuts wherever
possible and even going as far as cheating if it was necessary. I’m able to
justify it because I’m not undertaking a academic study for a university or
reporting my findings to the British Nutrition Foundation, I’m simply trying
out a few different diets in order to see if I can actually lose weight and if
they are easier to stick to when rotated. For me, it’s further proof that most
diets are impractical and unsustainable not just in the long term, but the
short term too. The only diet that I’ve found simple and easy to follow so far
is the balanced diet, and I’m interested to see if it remains
There are various stages of the Atkins
diet that you can move into, depending on how long you have been on the diet
and at what point of the journey you are. The initial phase is the induction
phase, and this is where I shall stay for the five days that I’ll be trying it
out. There are various rules that you have to stick to on the induction phase,
but the main points are as follows.
1) Eat three meals and two snacks a day.
2) Consume an average of only 20g of net
carbs a day - 12 to 15g of that from foundation vegetables.
3) Eat sufficient protein at every meal.
4) Do not restrict fats.
5) Drink eight eight-ounce glasses of
water a day (just under two litres in total).
I was interested to see what foods I
could eat on the diet, and there are too many to list here, but the main
components are essentially meat, fish, eggs, cheese and vegetables (but not all
vegetables). I’m going to let you into a little secret here and announce that I
don’t particularly care for fish and I detest cheese in its raw state (I can
just about stomach melted cheese in a lasagne or the like). Eagle-eyed readers
may wish to point out that I had fish and chips on a previous diet, and while
that’s true, I was only able to eat the fish due to it being covered in bread
crumbs and then smothered in ketchup, neither of which I am allowed on the
Atkins diet. I’ve never been a fan of cheese, and I remember eating out with my
family when I was young and saying to my brother that his pasta smelled of
feet. That was already enough to put me off it for life but then the waiter
added some grated Parmesan for good measure, in my mind adding the essence of
vomit to the mix. Any ingredient that can smell of both feet and vomit is
definitely off the menu for me. Being fussy about fish and cheese is definitely
a disadvantage on the Atkins diet as it essentially wipes out 40% of my
options, leaving me with just meat, eggs and vegetables, which is difficult
enough to try to make one meal out of, let alone three meals for five days
straight.
My first meal on the Atkins diet was
pure heaven. The days had fallen kindly and my first day on the Atkins diet was
a Sunday. We had nothing planned for the morning, so I took time to lovingly
prepare a breakfast consisting of three rashers of bacon, two poached eggs and
a huge flat mushroom. It was the first time for a long time that I could
prepare what I considered to be ‘naughty’ food and eat it without feeling
guilty. I even got adventurous and tried out a new technique that I’d seen on a
cooking show, cracking the eggs into some cling film and creating a little
bubble for them to cook in.
As much as I enjoyed that breakfast, I
couldn’t help but worry about how I would be able to prepare breakfast over the
coming four days. How would I be able to consume eggs and bacon on a work day,
when I get up at 6am and am out of the house by 6.30am? Firstly, it’s just not
practical to be cooking that kind of thing at that time in the morning, and
secondly, there’s no way I could stomach it. The rules clearly state that I
need to be eating three meals a day, so after a long time pondering what I
should do, I finally came up with the answer.
I decided that I’ll just skip breakfast.
I did say at the very beginning that I would be taking short cuts wherever
possible and even going as far as cheating if it was necessary. I’m able to
justify it because I’m not undertaking a academic study for a university or
reporting my findings to the British Nutrition Foundation, I’m simply trying
out a few different diets in order to see if I can actually lose weight and if
they are easier to stick to when rotated. For me, it’s further proof that most
diets are impractical and unsustainable not just in the long term, but the
short term too. The only diet that I’ve found simple and easy to follow so far
is the balanced diet, and I’m interested to see if it remains
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