To those JUST BEGINNING INDUCTION FOR THE FIRST TIME

Dont count calories, count carbs. After you have gotten into OWL and on to Maintenance then you need to worry about them as well. But for the first two weeks of induction, for first timers, calories aren't a big deal.
The second or third time around doing induction, yeah, count calories.


The reason is that your body is having a hard time adjusting to the lack of carbs, don't send it into starvation mode. We learn to eat later on on less calories and we still feel full.


EAT YOUR VEGGIES. LOTS OF MEAT AND NO VEGGIES IS NOT OK.

Great point!!!!

If you do as Dr. Atkins intended, and learn to eat less food than you have in the past, you will never have to actually count calories; just carbs. I do not suscribe to the starvation mode as much as some people do, but I do maintain that proper amounts of proteins are necessary for this plan; especially at the beginning. I agree with Susanna; just do the carb counting and learn when to stop eating and don't start calorie counting. It is antithetical to Induction anyway.

If you follow Induction carefully you will automatically be eating less weight-gaining food from the start. It will be some time before caloric levels have any significance and by then you should be eating such small portions of food that calories will not be a contentious issue at all.

Good Luck!

good info :wink: