Atkins Diet Foods to Eat
Dr. Atkins introduced his low carbohydrate, high protein diet to induce ketosis so that your body will burn your fat naturally for energy rather than glucose. This type of diet was initially mistaken to mean that people who do the Atkins diet should gobble lots of fatty food which is not the case. You can successfully obtain the ketosis state in this diet by making sure that you minimize your intake of fat and increase your intake for protein based foods.
The first two weeks of the diet plan will be a pain. This is actually the induction period that will help trigger the ketosis process to begin. Under this diet, you can take in as many protein based food that you can lay your eyes on. This will include chicken, turkey, tuna, salmon, catfish, trout, flounder, duck, goose, quail, peasant, oysters, shrimp, crabs, clams, eggs, beef, pork, ham, bacon, lamb and venison. Make sure that you avoid the processed variety of these hi-protein produce. Processed meat contains a lot of sodium so exclude luncheon meats and processed ham. White meat products like poultry and fish should not include the skin when you eat them. Set the skin aside and don’t include them in your diet. Continue Reading »