can you eat cream and mayo on atkins..and..?

Question

can you alternate say 2 cups of your salady veg with 1 cup of the other veg or does it have to be either/or?

Answer 1

in phase 1 of atkins diet you can eat 2 cups of salad plus 1 cup of the vegs allowed in phase1.
You can't eat cream, but you can eat mayo (consist mostly of eggs and vegetable oils which are allowed in Atkins diet

Answer 2

Heather starts with the false claim: "Atkins is one the worst possible 'fad diets' out there...This will put your body into a state called ketosis or ketoacidosis, which is a serious condition that occurs when dangerous levels of acidic substances called ketones build up in the blood. This is where your body goes into emergency mode due to not getting enough carbohydrates, and then begins to burn muscle and other proteins for energy."

This is a bold faced lie. Ketosis and ketoacidosis are two very different things. On Akins the former occurs which is perfectly safe. Ketoacidosis is essentially exclusive to diabetics and alcoholics. Regarding mean muscle loss, again Heather is incorrect. A University of Illinois study published in August 2005 issue of the Journal of Nutrition showed that the women who ate a low-carb, high-protein diet had more productive workouts by burning more fat and building more muscle mass than those who ate a low-protein, high-carb diet.

Bad breath is possilble on under 50 carbs a day. (Not really typical bad breath, more a chemically smell as your body is literally burning its fat stores to convert to glucose) But that should only be for two weeks at most and if you don't like it just up the carbs.

Atkins a fad diet? Hardly, low carb is what humans basically ate for millions of years before they learned to farm rice, wheat and other grains. Don't listen to the Atkins bashers. They are so wrong its really sad. But then again, they have invested a great deal in college educations that have taught them incorrectly. Its hard to give up 40 years of brainwashing.

Study after study shows that low carb diets such as Atkins, when properly done, show lower triglycerides which are much stronger markers for heart disease. I wouldn't worry about cholesterol if I were you, a blood glucose fasting test is more important.

"Nutrition experts generally agree that 55 percent to 60 percent of your total daily calories should come from carbohydrates": And this old chestnut is the reason for so much obesity, diabetes, and coronary heart disease running out of control in this country. The above recommendations are based on junk science. Get your hand on the book "The Great Cholesterol Con". It will blow you away about how we have been fooled by the medical establishment.

Some things Atkins left out. (I have the old book). Avoid polyunsaturated oils, like soy or canola to cook with. They are the real heart killers. Fry/cook your own food in refined organic coconut oil. Don't eat fried food from any restaurant since they certainly use the soy bean or canola oil.

Remember: Atkins is not a diet, it is a change in eating habits forever. When you do it right you will be eating more vegetables and more fruits than the Standard Amerca Diet, or SAD.

And yes you can eat mayo and some cream in your coffee depending on which phase of Atkins you are on.

REMEMBER: Fresh whole foods are best, stay away from frankenfoods even if low in carbs.

Answer 3

Make sure it's real mayo, not "whipped dressing"/Miracle Whip type stuff. And check the sugar content. Homemade mayo is best :-)

Cream in very small amounts only, (like if you need it in your coffee, but better to do without the coffee if possible).

I don't really worry too much about going over my veggie limit, just make sure that's where the majority of your carbs are coming from.

Answer 4

If you do the Atkins you get bad breath and start to smell of dog meet. Oh and your cholesterol goes through the roof

Answer 5

Cream is Fattening. Mayonaise is worst can you just imagine how much egg yolks make a mayonaise?