Things You'll Need:
- basic understanding of carb heavy foods
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Step 1
The Atkins Diet is built on these foods.Avoid carbs - that's the basic premise of the Atkins Diet. I recommend the following: eat eggs, chicken, and nuts daily. Stick to 2 eggs or less, 2 chicken breasts and 15 nuts. The nuts should be almonds, walnuts, or macadamia nuts. If you cheat on your nuts a little, that's ok. You can also have about 3 - 5 ounces of cheese, any kind is fine, but I prefer lowfat string cheese (Trader Joe's has a good one.)
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Step 2
Vegetables have vitamins you need, and they give you energy.Eat as many vegetables as you want. The Atkins Diet limits your vegetables to 2 cups per day, but since vegetables are so nutritious, this modification encourages a healthy appetite of most. Of course, you want to avoid potatoes, and limit carrots and tomatoes. All root vegetables are more carb heavy, and tomatoes are actually a fruit. Eat zucchini, squash, cucumbers, broccoli, cauliflower, bell peppers, and green leafy veggies to your heart's content. You'll still lose weight!
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Step 3
Red wine has many health benefits, and can actually make you LOSE weight.Have a glass of red wine each day. The Atkins Diet says to avoid drinking, but you can have one drink per night on the modification. It should be wine or a mixed drink (with diet soda or seltzer water, not a mixer). Do not drink beer, even low carb beers have more carbs than a glass of wine. Also, do not drink spirits with sugar or fat, like Kahlua or Bailey's.
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Step 4
This type of food will help you avoid Atkins Diet plateaus.Do this diet for about a month or so, then go back to carbs for a few days. No candy, but return to whole grain bread, and fruits like cantaloupe and watermelon. When you return to the modified Atkins, your body will go into high gear of losing again. It will help you to avoid plateaus.
