Thu, Sep-05-02, 22:13
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Senior Member
Posts: 120
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Plan: Mostly atkins
Stats: 198/165/140
BF:don't know
Progress: 57%
Location: South Idaho
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Well, here is what I meant to point out about your question of how many eggs are too many?
I found out the hard way one day that I couldn't eat all the eggs that I wanted on top of a normal meal day. I gained 2 lbs from the whole experience, Yuck! Me personally, I would just watch how you incorporate the eggs into your total daily diet.
Just my 2 cents....
Atkins faq and answers says:
"There is no need to count calories. The Atkins Nutritional Approach counts grams of carbohydrates instead of calories. In Induction, you are allowed 20 grams of carbohydrates. When you progress to Ongoing Weight Loss, you gradually add carbohydrates in 5-gram increments as you move toward Pre-Maintenance, and finally to the Lifetime Maintenance phases of Atkins.
Although there is no need to count calories, they do count. Gaining weight results from taking in more calories than you expend through exercise, thermogenesis (the body’s own heat production) and other metabolic functions. Research has shown that on a controlled carbohydrate program, more calories are burned than on a low-fat, high-carbohydrate diet, so there is a certain metabolic advantage to the controlled carb approach. But understand that this does not give you a license to gorge.
If you are used to counting calories and it makes you uneasy to not do so, know that women usually can safely consume 1,800 calories a day and still lose weight; men can typically take in 2,000 calories, and in some cases more."
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