There is also a nutrition carbohydrates food list to calculate how much carbohydrates you are consuming. This will help you understand your daily carbohydrate count. We also provide low carbohydrate recipes for the recipes needed to follow the diet. We are looking into adding additional menus to add to the experiment, if you have any to add please submit them here.
If you would be interested in participating please fill out this simple questionnaire. Although this diet may be a great way to lose weight, it is strongly recommended that you consult a physician before you have any major change of diet. This is merely an experiment to measure the weight change for those wishing to follow Dr.Atkin’s recommended diet and is not providing a recommendation to follow this plan.

Atkins Diet Details

Like the South Beach Diet, the Atkins Diet is separated into three phases, and the initial phase, or Induction phase can result in rapid weight loss – between 8 and 10 pounds, attributed to fluid reduction – common in most diets.

Induction Phase: lasting 14 days, places a limit on carbohydrate intake (limited to 20g per day – less that the amount of carbohydrate contained in one banana). The diet consists of meat, chicken, fish, eggs or cheese with some green and salad vegetables, butter and oil. All carbohydrate-containing foods such as fruit, many vegetables, bread, cereals, rice, potatoes, pasta, biscuits, sugar and so on must be avoided, as must milk and yoghurt.

Ongoing Weight Loss Phase: lasting from completion of the induction phase until the weight loss target has been achieved. The diet remains similar to the Induction phase diet, but with an increase in the amount of carbohydrate allowed – about 40g a day on average – to enable ongoing weight loss of 1 to 2 pounds a week. In food terms this basically means adding some berries or melon, some more vegetables, nuts and the occasional crispbread. Vitamin and mineral supplements are advised on the diet.

Stabilisation Phase: Once the target weight has been achieved the aim is to slowly increase the carbohydrate intake until weight stabilises. The amount of carbohydrates at this stage of the diet should not go over 90g a day. (However, a balanced diet has on average around 250g a day).

Why Choose The Atkins Diet?

The diet has many critics, not just because of its calorie-related claims, but because it is high in fat and low in nutritious foods such as fruit and whole grains which should for part of a healthy diet. There is also limited research about how healthy it is in the longer term. Weight can return quite quickly when you stop the diet, again not offering a long term solution to weight loss. Unlike the South Beach diet it has a high drop out rate for the induction phase.

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The Atkins Nutritional Principles
Four principles form the core of the Atkins Nutritional Approach and are supported by a solid foundation of medical and nutritional scientific research.
1. You will lose weight. It’s hard not to. Both men and women who follow the Atkins approach to weight loss readily take off pounds and inches. For the small numbers who have a truly hard-core metabolic resistance to weight loss, there are ways to overcome the barriers that prevent a successful outcome. Optimizing body weight is a valuable element of any health-oriented program because, by and large, being significantly overweight is an indicator of health problems, either now or in the future. When you’ve pared pounds, you’ll see benefits flow in to take their place—and they’ll be more than merely cosmetic.
2 You will maintain your weight loss. This is where the Atkins Diet Menu Nutritional Approach leaves most other weight-control programs in the dust. Almost every experienced dieter has embarked on a weight-loss program, worked hard at it, lost a lot of pounds and gained them all back in a few months or perhaps a year. This is usually due to the expected consequence of low-fat, low-calorie diets: hunger. Although many people can tolerate hunger for a while, very few can tolerate it for a lifetime. Deprivation is no fun. Once the biological gap between hunger and fulfillment grows too large, the rebound can be rapid, as well as heartbreaking and humiliating. But that’s the problem with diets that restrict quantities. The Atkins program refuses to accept hunger as a way of life. People who do Atkins Diet Menu gradually find their effective individual level of carbohydrate intake, the tool that allows them to maintain a healthy weight for a lifetime.

3. You will achieve good health. The change is amazing. With Atkins Diet Menu, you meet your nutritional needs by eating healthy, wholesome foods and omitting junk food. As a result, fatigue drops from your shoulders like a heavy winter coat you mistakenly wore in summer. This occurs not merely because the pounds drop off, but because the physical consequences of a truly dysfunctional blood-sugar and insulin metabolism are reversed. People who do Atkins Diet Menu start feeling good long before they reach their goal weight. Once they abandon the catastrophic American diet of refined carbohydrates for whole, unrefined food, they start to live again.
4. You will lay the permanent groundwork for disease prevention. You will change your life with the Atkins Diet Menu, which—believe it or not—is even more important than looking good on the beach next summer. By following an individualized controlled carbohydrate nutritional approach that results in lower insulin production, people at high risk for chronic illnesses such as cardiovascular disease, hypertension and diabetes will see a marked improvement in their clinical parameters.