Rules for Atkins 72
Here's the food:
Allowed foods for week #1:
Meat:
Steaks, corned beef, lamb chops, hamburgers, bacon, any kind of meat in any quantity (except for meat with fillers like hot dogs, meatballs, packaged cold cuts).
Fowl: Duckling, turkey, chicken, anything with wings.
Desserts: Gelatin with artificial sweeteners.
Condiments: salt, pepper, mustard, horseradish, vinegar, vanilla, artificial sweetener, any spice without sugar in it.
Drinks: Water, mineral water, Vichy, club soda, beef or chicken broth, bouillon, sugar-free soda, coffee (under six cups caffeinated), tea.
Fish: All kinds of fish, canned salmon, seafood, EXCEPT oysters, clams, mussels, scallops, and pickled fish.
Eggs: unlimited, any style.
Salads: Two salads a day, each less then 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.
Butter and Mayo: Butter, mayo, lard, oil, shortening, margarine (this was before transfats information, so be careful).
Juice: Juice of one lime or lemon.
Cheese: Four ounces of any hard, aged cheese per day. NO cream cheese or cheese spreads.
Heavy Cream: Four teaspoons a day of heavy cream. NO milk.
Originally posted by Pogie - Excerpts from "Dr. Atkins' Diet Revolution"
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The first week, you stay at 0 carbs. Remember that the '72 plan does not use net carbs (do not deduct fiber or sugar alcohols). Now this 0 carb thing may not make sense, since leafy greens, celery, cucumbers, radishes and other allowable foods contain carbs. Atkins states on p. 134: "PLUS NUMBER 2: GREEN SALADS PLUS . . . The second plus is that you're allowed green salad with our lunch and dinner. Yes, even though this first week of the diet is called a carbohydrate-free diet and lettuce contains a tiny bit of carbohydrate. But in biological systems an approximation can do the job. Biology isn't quite like engineering. Given the amount of carbohydrate in these two salads, what happens in the body is approximately the same in 99 percent of dieters as if no salad had been eaten. ..."
BTW, PLUS NUMBER ONE is the steak plus almost any meat, fish, or fowl. He goes on to explain the protein to fat proportions that occur naturally in most meats, etc. We can have butter with lobster and so on.
PLUS NUMBER 3 he explains is filling, high-calorie snack foods. Rather than celery and carrot sticks (rabbit food) we are allowed imported cheeses of every description, stuffed olives, crisp fried pork rinds.
PLUS NUMBER 4: DESSERTS. The first week you can have carbohydrate-free gelatin desserts. If sweets are what you miss the most, in the following weeks you can have cheesecake (see page 240), macaroons, pudding, fresh strawberries in artificially sweetened whipped cream, mocha pie, chocolate mousse prepared the way this book recommends. ..."
PLUS NUMBER 5: EAT WHEN YOU WANT - BUT START WITH A BIG COZY BREAKFAST. He explains the benefits of eating in the morning.
The first week eat nothing that is not on the list (this list is posted for the most part at the beginning of the '72 Challenge Board).
"The Diet Revolution Rules:
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're not hungry.
4. Don't feel you must finish everything on your plate just because it's 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. Every day take a high-strength multivitamin pill.
9. Read the label on "low-calorie" drinks, syrups, desserts. Only those with no carbohydrate content are allowed."
p. 141 Chapter 13
"How to Follow the Diet - Level by Level
THE FIRST WEEK: EAT THE MOST, LOSE THE MOST." He explains the reason we can lose weight is that when there are no carbohydrates for fuel, the body is forced to burn its own fat. That it doesn't matter how rich the zero-carb foods are, since without carbs very little protein and fat can be stored as fat, so that no caloric deficit is needed. This is why the diet works.
On p. 143 he states that during the first week that cravings should diminish - that our compulsive-eating pattern should be going away. Several other things should be improved; i.e., energy level; heartburn; colitis; headaches .
p. 144: "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 addition of carbohydrates 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 could be very arbitrary and specify exactly what you may add each week. It would be simpler, much less confusing, and with much less possibility for error. But I don't impose that rigidity on my private patients, so why should I do that to you? 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 rule book.
On p. 145 he says, "... At each level, remember you will add approximately five to eight grams of carbohydrate daily for a week and analyze the results. Most of my patients agree that the best way to handle the second level is to add cottage cheese ... if you happen to like it. ... Ricotta or cottage cheese contains about one gram of carbohydrate per ounce, and I think the next addition might be as much as eight ounces of ricotta or cottage cheese a day. You may eat much less cottage cheese and have other goodies instead. There are other things that you might think would be terribly fattening, but they're not very high in carbohydrates. Example: certain kinds of nuts - walnuts, pecans, brazils, and macadamias - are the most suitable. One ounce of these averages under five grams of carbohydrate. Or you may want to have more cream in our coffee. Or use two or three slices of tomato or onion in your cooking. ... Just keep track of the grams of carbohydrate you're adding to the basic diet per day - keep them under eight - and take your choice. At the end of a week on the second level, check your progress. If you are still free of hunger, still losing, still "turning purple," you're ready for the third level." (Note: my ketostix never turned purple; I am fortunate is they register in the "small" zone. I don't worry about it too much, though.)
The third level, you add another five to eight grams more carbs. He does make suggestions of what food you can add, but like he says earlier, it is flexible and basically up to the individual. He does describe levels four and five, but I have not gotten that far, yet. But, in level four, you can add fruit. The fifth level is for those lucky enough to still have all the wonderful benefits - no hunger, good chemistry, purple Ketostix ... they could try using the soy flour. I have to study the upper levels a bit more before totally understanding them.
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