Hi. Today I shopped for foods on the Atkins' Phase One list.
Petty excited. Cannot wait to take care of my diabetes.

But . . . . . .

I was looking at foods that had zero or near zero carbs.
Amazing, as I've never thought about "zero carbs" before.
All of the zero to low carbohydrate foods had calories.
Atkins said to enjoy the foods on the phase one list and
I do assume to have moderation towards most foods.

Question: All the no-carb foods have calories,
so, if I eat 20grams of carbs and 1500calories of food a day,
am I going to gain weight???

Do I have the concept correct?
Or is it 20grams of carbs and 1000calories, or whatever the plan is?

This is such an obvious question, but please point me
to a link or article or report to probably re-explain
what I may have heard before or misremembered. Thanks.

Low carb works by removing the processed carbohydrates that increase BG and Insulin, which leads to fat storage. Low insulin allows the fat stores to release that energy. You do not count calories, because those zero carb foods are nutrient dense and combined with the energy your body can now provide, hunger decreases. You do eat less, and less often, but without hunger. Your body does not care about calories, but it does care about a slew of hormones, satiety, and other signals, just not calories. Dr Fung has hours of lectures on the topic, but a good one hour recent interview overviewed calories, insulin resistance, etc. http://robbwolf.com/2016/05/10/epis...ght-management/

I've mentioned the LowCarbRN site before, a resource for most any LC question, She has even more links than I do Here's her excellent answer WHY LC works, with some short and long articles from experts, good videos by Westman, Phinney, etc.
https://lowcarbrn.wordpress.com/start-here/lchf-why/

To achieve your goals, I suggest that you start with the Two week challenge, the strictest form of an Atkins type plan and watch Dr Westman's clinic class to hear his own explanation. He does not mention "tracking" or macros, just foods you can eat. You do NOT count calories, NOT even carbs because the plan has counted them for you (possible but unlikely you can eat more than 20g if you follow the limts). You may have a longer transition due to meds and previous diet history, but your hunger and cravings will lessen, you may forget to eat a meal, your BG will drop, etc.
Since you do take diabetes meds, test, test and PLEASE READ the Caution thread: http://forum.lowcarber.org/showthread.php?t=452693

^^ excellent explanation and information!
Hope you follow Janet's advice.

Just to clarify some very basic things:
1. ALL foods other than water contain calories.
2. There are 4 basic types of calories- carbs, proteins, fats, and alcohol.
3. Some foods contain calories from proteins, fats and/or alcohol, but not from carbs.
meat= fats and proteins, but no alcohol or carbs.
butter= fat, but no protein or carbs or alcohol.
vegetables= small number of carbs, little protein, no fat or alcohol (this is where most of your daily carbs should come from).
note that foods like eggs and cheese and cream contain small numbers of carbs, even if label says 0, as it was simply rounded down. you should track these carbs in your daily totals. an egg is roughly .6 per egg, an oz cheese is roughly 1.
4. the body needs calories to function, so no 1500 calories will not make you gain weight. don't worry about calories for time being- some people find they need to closer to goal weight, others do not. but in the beginning, just focus on carbs.

read the induction thread stickied at top of atkins forum. it is very useful ad easy to understand

Thank you, Robin and JEH100.
I will begin to read the links.