(Moderation)..............

is why I am cold turkey on the white wine.!!

here is another question .... is the energy (calories) from alcohol stored as glycogen. If you don't burn it off will it be stored as glycogen that will throw you off of ketosis?

You aren't supposed to have alcohol on Induction - I think you answered your own question. Some people claim they can do it tho.

Great article on the subject: I'm going to have my weekly Vodka and Soda (water) tonight to celebrate breaking 30 pounds this week!

http://www.leangains.com/2010/07/tr...and-muscle.html

Wow this is all very interesting. I have been on plan for 4 weeks and usually drink more than a few one a week with diet pop. I have lost 15 so far. I now found this low car beer, 1 carb per beer but has lower alcohol content than other beers (2.7) so hope it's all good. Good luck to you!!!

I roll with drinks once a week.. A few more than I should but I am on week 4 and down 14 so far. I usually drink rye and diet or this new low carb beer I found 1 carb a beer- less alcohol tho ( 2.7%) anyways good luck to you! ( and I am always worried they are putting sugar in my coffee instead of sweetener so I hear ya on the mix up thing too!!)

I'm probably wrong but I did 3 weeks of induction with 3 Miller Lights every morning in December and lost 12. I work nights without eating so the beer is on a empty stomach when I need the energy. I did stop the diet (oops) for the last 4 weeks and only gained back 2. Starting again and we shall see what happens.

This is an interesting thread because I find alcohol does set back my weight loss.

When I have drinks, I only drink rum and diet coke so no added carbs so the only reason I can come up with as to why it sets me back is the extra calories are the problem.

I usually lose a pound or two the next morning, surely caused by water loss but by the second day I can be up 3 lbs...probably because of putting liquids back in. It takes me 2-3 days to get back to where I was before I had the drinks and that throws off my weight loss for the whole week.

I've also noticed, the next day, I crave carby, salty foods but I work extra hard not to give in.

I experience this with as few as 3-4 drinks throughout the evening. The other thing I never do is snack when having drinks and if I know I'm going out I cut back during the day on my calories and even after all this, it seems to train wreck my weight loss for the week.

Just one more vice I've had to cut back on.

No, alcohol isn't converted into glicogen. But your body will burn this first, as long as it is in your body. It won't cause an insulin rush, and it won't be stored in the body, but it will definitely hinder weight loss. Your body cannot burn fat while there is alcohol in your system.

Bang. This was my first find on a Google search for "drinking on atkins".

Some good stuff in here. Patina's account is the closest I found to my own experience. I also agree with maxxdunn. I have had weight fluctation with drinking alcohol and then re-hyrating myself the next day(s). Definitely throws me off ketosis a bit for 2 days then I come back. This includes binging on 20 carbs worth of blue corn chips the night of.

*Exeception: I finished a bag of microwave popcorn after a session with the 'Bob Marley' last week, I did NOT drink that week and snapped back into ketosis like it never happended the next day. That was approx. 55 carbs 5 days into the first week of induction.

I suspect there may be a way to 'pay' for your drinking/munching the next day with a solid workout of say 30 to 60 minutes either cardio or weights. I don't think a long walk would do it. If you are active in your work like muxxdunn that would do it.

Either way, Used to be more athletic 7 years ago when I first tried low-carb/atkins/ketosis dieting. I used it as my lazy man's 'spring training diet' to jumpstart my return to the gym and outdoor running.

These days I'm a lot more chair bound due to work. I'm lazier, older and really need to add the excercise component back to my life while on this diet. I also need to reduce salt. Don't want a heart attack!

I'm 9 days into this round of induction, and down 5lbs. Haven't done this for a couple years - but would say I should be down 8-10lbs at this point had I been more of an angel this time round.

Dry white & red wine are best. The hard drinks and low-carb beer seem to knock me off ketosis worse.

Partiers on Atkins beware!

Got two that I love and still use... both based on 0 carb RUM with no flavoring (got to watch those flavored RUMs)

Call this the Slice Shot (Arnold Palmer with Rum... get it?)
-Ice
-Peach Ice Tea (Walmart variety packets)
-Lemon aid (again, just the Walmart variety sweetener packets)
-Rum to taste....

I call this the California Cream (Not Irish cream, BUT CLOSE)
-Silk Almond Milk (unsweetened, low/no crabs)
-RUM
-Liquid Stevia drink sweetener to taste.

Doesn't wine have more carbs than hard liquor? A Jack and Diet Coke are zero carbs yet a glass of wine has....maybe 5?

The alcohol content in hard liquors is much higher than wine.... the alcohol is processed by the body to have the end effect that is similar to sugar/carbs. So though there are less carbs going in your mouth, your body turns the hard liquor into more carbs.