Hi Destiny

Glad to see you've started Atkins and want to do it right. I assume you have the book to guide you. Even if you've read it once it is good to read it again as you can miss a lot of helpful stuff first time through. I see you also posted this in the Atkins thread and so you will get two lots of answers, I hope they agree.



I mainly ate relatively plain meals, eggs and bacon for breakfast, tuna or chicken salad for lunch and meat and vegetables in the evening. There was a thread on jazzing up induction on this forum, but at the moment I can not find it to give you the link. As Disneybebe says I put my menus in my journal - thanks for the plug there Bebe - but as I did not find this forum until I'd been doing Atkins several months, my initial menus are not there. You may find it helpful to join Fitday.com to keep a track of your food. Although it is an American site and the measures are mainly in ounces or cups, it can be a very useful guide.



The cheese question has already been answered. You can have lots of mayo, make sure it has minimum carbs. I use Hellmans which has 1.2 g carbs per 100g. This has a high fat content, so after induction you may need to eat it in moderation. I usually have three tablespoons with my salad.


Yes, but after induction look at the labels to see how many carbs are in it, and take these into account, as it is mainly a starch. I don't use it personally.



I would either include a good multimineral and perhaps additional chromium and potassium - in the chelated form. Don't worry about the small amount of artifical sweetners in your current vitamins, however, when they run out you might want to choose tablets which you swallow whole and hence do not have this coating.

You will find lots of extra info in the hot tips section for which the link is.
http://forum.lowcarber.org/showthre...0081#post240081

Keep us informed of how you get along.