Original Atkins... 1972 Bantam Version
 

*NOTE* This is from the book, Bantam edition / September 1972 paperback...

Not sixty grams of carbohydrate on this diet but zero grams
Here’s how this diet is significantly different. During the first week on this diet, you cut your intake of carbohydrates down to what is biologically zero.
This creates a unique chemical situation in the body, the one favorable to the fastest possible burning of your body’s stored fat. Ketones are excreted, and hunger disappears.
You see, the first fuel your body burns for energy comes from the carbohydrates you eat and drink. If any carbohydrate is available, your body burns this rather than stored fat-and maintains its old metabolic pathways. But carbohydrates, as such, are not stored in the body beyond forty-eight hours.
So when no carbohydrate is taken in, your body must draw upon the major reserve source of fuel-the stored fat.
It is forced to take a different metabolic pathway. In this process your body converts from being a carbohydrate-burning engine.
This is The Diet Revolution: the new chemical situation in which ketones are being thrown off-and so are those unwanted pounds, all without hunger.
A gradual addition of carbohydrate to keep your body burning it’s fat as fuel. We must maintain this chemical situation if you’re to continue to lose without hunger. And if we add carbohydrate very gradually in tiny amounts-we can do just this… keep your body converted into a fat-burning engine.
So that is just what we do. The second week you might add a few grams of carbohydrate to your diet. Every week thereafter a little more carbohydrate (around five grams) may be returned to the diet.

The Rules of Original Atkins

The Diet Revolution Rules (Level One)
1. Don’t count calories
2. Eat as much of the allowed foods as you need to avoid hunger.
3. Don’t eat when you are not hungry.
4. Don’t feel you must finish everything on your plate just because it is there.
5. Drink as much water or calorie free beverages as thirst requires. Don’t restrict fluids… but it is not necessary to force them either.
6. Frequent small meals are preferable.
7. If weakness results from rapid weight loss, you may need salt.
8. Everyday take a high-strength multivitamin pill.
9. Read the labels on “low-calorie” drinks, syrups, desserts,. Only those with no carbohydrate content are allowed.

The First Life-Changing Week, eat nothing that is not on the list.
Meat: Steaks, Corned beef, Lamb chops, tongue, Hamburgers, Bacon, Any kind of meat in any quantity—except meat with fillers such as sausage, hot dogs, meatballs, most packaged “cold cuts”
Fowl: Duckling, Turkey, Chicken, Anything with wings, No stuffing
Desserts: Gelatin with artificial sweeteners (e.g., D-Zerta [is that still around?])
Condiments: Salt, pepper, mustard, horseradish, vinegar, vanilla, and other extracts; artificial sweeteners; any dry powdered spice that contains no sugar
Drinks: Water, Mineral water, Vichy, Club soda; Beef or Chicken broth, bouillon; Sugar free diet soda; coffee*, tea, decaffeinated coffee
---------*Special note on caffeine and Diet Cola. Because most heavy people have some hypoglycemia, coffee, tea and diet colas, which contain caffeine, should be limited to six servings a day (cups). If you know you have low blood sugar, better limit it to three.
Fish: All fish, including canned salmon, tuna; any kind of seafood, including oil-packed and smoked, except oysters, clams, muscles, scallops, and pickled fish
Eggs: Boiled, fried, scrambled, poached, omelet – any style and without limitations
Salads: Two small green salads a day (each less than one cupful, loosely packed) made only of leafy greens, celery, or cucumbers and radishes. Dressings with vinegar, oil, salt, dry spices, herbs, grated cheese, or anchovies. Or else a sour pickle in place of a salad. Plus… green olives.
Butter & Mayonnaise Fats: Butter, margarine (head New Diet Revolution & eat no margarine with trans fatty acids), oils, shortening (not such a great idea), lard & mayonnaise (fats have no carbohydrates).
Juice: Juice of one lemon or lime
Cheese: Four ounces a day of any hard aged cheese. No cream cheese or cheese spreads.
Heavy Cream: Four teaspoons a day. (Cream has less carbohydrate than milk – so don’t use milk)
Diet Revolution Salad Material: Celery, Chicory, Chinese Cabbage, Chives, Cucumber, Endive, Escarole, Fennel, lettuce, Olives (Green or Black), Onions, Pickles (Sour or Dill), Parsley, Peppers, Radishes, Scallions, watercress.
What Happens After The First Week’s Diet. Most diets are fixed formulas and are therefore short-termed and self-limiting. This diet is fixed only for a week. After that – because it must be a lifetime diet, it is, as variable as are individual tastes.
I’ve labeled the additions of carbohydrate that follow’ second level’, ‘third level’, ‘fourth level’, ‘fifth level’, but in fact the additions are interchangeable and flexible. You can make any of these additions any week that you choose. I am so committed to making this a livable lifetime diet that I am letting you select your own variations, within the rules set up by your biological rulebook.
Put back what you’ve missed the most: The idea is simply to gradually return to your diet first what you missed most. Custom-tailor the diet to suit your carbohydrate additions to suit your lifestyle. All that matters is that you add back to your diet a little carbohydrate at a time, and that you stop adding carbohydrate when you reach your CCL.
How to know when to put back a little carbohydrate: Ask yourself: Are the keto-stix still turning purple? Am I still un-hungry? Have I stopped eating at night? Do I have more energy? Am I still losing weight or inches nicely? Remember, your tape measure is a lot better friend than your scale, not only more accurate, but better able to report on the actual fat (not just temporary water) losses this diet achieves.
The Second Level: Cheesecake for dessert? At each level, remember you add approximately five to eight grams of carbohydrate daily for a week and analyze the results. Most people agree the best way to handle the second level is to add cottage cheese…
The Diet Revolution Vegetables (not for level one): All of the above plus; Asparagus, Avocado, Bamboo Shoots, Bean Sprouts, Beet Greens, Broccoli, Brussels Sprouts, Cabbage, Cauliflower, Chard, Chinese Cabbage, eggplant, Kale, Kohlrabi, Mushrooms, Okra, Onions, Peppers, Pumpkins, Rhubarb, Sauerkraut, Snow Pea Pods, Spinach, String Beans, Summer Squash, Tomatoes, Turnips, Water Chestnuts, Wax Beans, Zucchini Squash

Sample menu, level one:
Breakfast: Scrambled eggs with spicy ham, Diet revolution roll and butter, Bouillon, coffee, or tea
Lunch: Cold cuts sandwich on Diet revolution Roll w/ mayo or mustard, 1 cup of salad (loosely packed), oil & vinegar, or a dressing from the recipe list, Raspberry gelatin, Diet soda, coffee, or tea
Dinner: Chicken soup with Matzoh Balls, Your favorite cut of steak, Caesar salad with Caesar Salad dressing, Gelatin, diet soda, coffee or tea
Snack: baken-ets, stuffed celery, diet soda.

Sample menu, level two:
Breakfast: Lox and stuffed onion omelet, caraway Diet revolution Roll with cream cheese, Bouillon, coffee, or tea
Lunch: Avocado stuffed with crabmeat, Tossed green salad with dressing from recipe list, diet soda, coffee, or tea
Dinner: Mixed grill with garlic Butter Sauce or Béarnaise Sauce, Tossed salad with French Dressing, Gelatin Parfait with whipped cream, diet soda, coffee, or tea
Snack: Assorted smoked fish, Hard cheese, Diet soda

Ok, there it is 'By The Book', but I am wondering if there was an earlier version? Interesting the differance between this one and the new one. I will post some recipes later in this thread :)

Interesting Linda... Thanks for the post!

Great Job! Thanks for all your hard work with this list!
I wish they would make Gelatin with Splenda. If they do I want to know where YOu can get it!

jolly rancher's brand, I've heard, makes jello with splenda, but I think it is premade in the refrig section.

There is more to the diet of course and it has differant levels... not unlike his New Diet Revolution, the second Level only allows 5 to 8 grams of carbs though... I think that is what I understand. It is not quite laid out like the new one is...

Here is the recipe for Diet Revolution Rolls

I did some corrections on the diet and added some more stuff--maybe more than I need to... :D but it all comes from the book.

Debi Warne... I don't think we have any Jolly Rancher Brand Jell-o, but I will look for some. It would be nice to have some made with splenda... thanks for the tip!

I wouldn't mind having a copy of the 1972 version for my LC bookshelf. The oldest versions I found on abebooks were copyright 1981 (Bantam), I assume this is the 1972 version, just in a later printing of the paperback? They are only $1.

I have one printed in 1973, but I think 81 is still the same.

Thanks for this link. I had lost it and had been looking for it forever this morning.

Great information.....interesting no sausage and that is all I have been eating for four weeks could be why I stalled...

great info....

yep. nothing with fillers.

On induction I ate real meat, like steak, with my eggs.

ETA: wrong thread

as CLOSE to zero as possible.

"what is biologically zero"

you'll get about 6 to 8 carbs a day on its induction. REALLY measure any greens, etc. Eat all you want of meat, eggs, fats.

Thanks! I moved my reply to the buddy's thread before I saw your resonse,

Thank you for the info!!

Can anyone tell me what date the book changed to some new way of Atkins? I hear people saying they prefer the 1972 version. I don't know what the differences were but I'm trying to get an older version book to buy and can only find back to 1989 so far. Don't know if that's a later printing of the 1972 or not.

Comparison wise, what are the big differences between the two.

Kris,

I *think* Atkins changed in 1992 and again in 2002 and then again more recently. here is a link to a recent thread on Atkins '72. I can't tell you all the differences for a comparison but some of the diffs are:

A72: no net carbs
A72: more strict induction (as close to zero as possible for one week) and more "limited" choice of foods for the first week.
A72: different "ladder" - add 5-8 carbs per week.


I'm sure there are other differences but, because I'm at work and do not have the books handy, I can't list the other differences.

I have been considering this. I have a few things of fresh broc. I want to finish, then thinking of doing the "induction" like listed. I have been wondering just what the differences in 72, and the "new revol" version. Thanks for info!

Cyn - check the first post or click the link in my signature. I don't know of a comparison between the original and revised versions but the original rules are simple.

Wow, posters to this thread vanished? By accident I ended up here looking for information on the old version of Atkin's...I feel like a traitor looking for answers or to place blame since I can find no reasons on my side for the 2002 version not being "enough"!

Well I'm hoping for support as I have just ordered the '72 book, feeling as though the original version may help propel me forward...I lost 8 pounds then gained back 2 then have held for over 2 months with no loss...I had a sneaking sucpicion cream cheese, too much whipping cream, splenda and playing around with LC recipes was what was holding me.

I am in menopause as well, I believe I must go simple and am looking forward to hearing from any of you who may be struggling currently with the 2002 DANDR...thanks!

This isn't the Atkins '72 Buddies Group thread. You'll find that here.

I'm not currently following '72, although I did for about a year ... maybe longer. The group looks as though it's still active. I'm sure the current group members would love to have you join in. :)

If I remember correctly after the first or second week you are allowed to add 5 g carbs weekly.
Now sure how long really, to stay on each level. I guess as long as you are losing weight. But once the weight is lost, you increase the carbs up to maintenance level. This could be as high as 60g daily. It all depends on the INDIVIDUAL!!
I remember when I first did Atkins back in the '70s, my limit for maintenance was 60g daily.

Is May 8, 2010 really the last time someone posted here?

BTW: why is my signature cut off? When I check the preview it is shown correctly.

There is another thread for Atkins 1972. Click the link in my signature.

I just finished cleaning out my fridge and cupboards giving everything away that I can't have...thankfully my kids and grandkids are close by and took them right away because I couldn't believe all of the good food I was in the habit of eating that is off limits! Well, temporarily anyways since I'm starting induction tomorrow. I've decided to use the old version of the Atkins diet as opposed to the newest one that I used last time. I seemed to have such a hard time getting into induction and staying there! I think they give you too much leeway and your body is all over the place, mostly out of ketosis (well mine was anyway) Wish me luck!

Atkins Diet Revolution 1972 Edition was the best
 

I have been a low-carber since 1998 and I have read all of the Atkins books. The one I read first was his 1972 edition of the Atkins Diet Revolution. I think it was his best book because it was written before he was lambasted by the diet "experts" for promoting a diet high in fats. Its from the the heart. Its what he truly believed to be the best way to do the diet. Fascinated by this evolution in his writing, I wanted to go back and read the original - the one that started it all - but I was dismayed to find that it does not exist in electronic form AT ALL. For me, thats the most convenient way to read, so I set out to find a PDF version. And I found it. If you are interested in a copy let me know.

Thank you. I would really appreciate the link to the PDF.

saving this. Thanks!