If you’re close to your total carb count and feeling hungry, or saving carbs for another meal, these are your go-to recipes: crepes, spiced meats and crunchy crusts – all made from foods with almost no carbs. Put down the carb counter, forget your worries and slip into the kitchen. The Atkins Phase 1 recipes below have an added bonus.
Planning meals for Atkins Induction phase 1 involves new ingredients and sometimes puzzling math. Give yourself a break from counting carbs with recipes – each with less than 1 net carb.
Atkins Induction limits net carbs to 20 grams or less per day. “Net carbs” are total carbs minus the fiber carb grams. (Fiber carbs don’t spike blood sugar or influence insulin in negative ways, so they’re not included in the 20 net carb limit.) Let’s break down a typical, low carb Atkins Induction meal.
In fact, the Atkins diet is comprised of four phases. The induction phase of the diet is meant to INDUCE ketosis and fat burning. It’s the very first step. The way to encourage fat burning and ketosis is to cut carbs way back. In the absence of carbs, your body will burn its own fat stores.