What happens if I eat something with sugar?

[shorty1987]

Hey good people. I have a question about the induction phase and the foods you're alowd to eat.

I have a friend who started Atkins October of last year and has lost alot of weight. The thing is, is that he doesn't follow the actual Phases or alowd foods. He keeps his carbs below 20g a day and eats whatever carbs he wants. For example, he goes to the store and buys the beef jerky with like 8g of carb per bag and has sugar in it, he also buys the store ketchup with 2g of carb per teaspoon or tablespoon, not sure on the difference. Also, he eats tortillas and all those goodies but he just remains on the induction phase. Yet, he lost about 70 pounds.

So, my question is, What's wrong with eating things like tortilla's or store bought ketchup and beef jerky.(the good kind )

I would assume that kicking out any foods with sugar in it will help kick the cravings, am I right?

[*Emma*]

Re: What happens if I eat something with sugar?

yeah we kick cravings and learn how to control our body, we learn portion control and things that affect our weightloss by adding them back in gradually, we learn how to eat for life, not just for a diet - we add all those goodies in (cept the sugar) gradually to see what foods make us gain weight or stall.

Your friends is more so following a low carb way of eating and no where near the atkins version of low carb, to each their own.

I personally wanted to find a way to eat that i could stick with for life, i wanted to know what i can and cant eat, what makes me bloat, feel ill, what im allergic to also (so far its just strawberries) I ate them all the time before, yet i had no idea that my skin problems were all down to them, if it wasnt for Atkins, i would of never found that out.

[shorty1987]

Re: What happens if I eat something with sugar?

Thanks Emma for the quick and great response! Guess its time to start making my own ketchup and other goodies from scratch!

[*Emma*]

Re: What happens if I eat something with sugar?

You're welcome.

I believe you can get a store bought ketchup that is low carb? not in england but i've heard people talk about it.

[not2late]

Re: What happens if I eat something with sugar?

Hey good people. I have a question about the induction phase and the foods you're alowd to eat.

During Induction Phase, you eat the foods listed on the Induction Acceptable Foods list and you follow the Induction Rules that Dr. Atkins listed.

I have a friend who started Atkins October of last year and has lost alot of weight. The thing is, is that he doesn't follow the actual Phases or alowd foods.

Then he isn't following Atkins. He's following his own version of a low carb diet.

Atkins is a specific diet with a specific method. It doesn't matter if he keeps his carbs below 20, if he's not following what the good Doctor wrote...he's not doing Atkins.

It's like if he uses a baseball, but follows the rules for lacrosse and whatever rules he feels like making up. Can he rightfully say he's playing baseball? Nope.
He might be using a baseball, but he's definitely not playing the game of baseball.

[alicecop]

Re: What happens if I eat something with sugar?

He also probably lost weight because naturaly he decreased his calorie intake.