Re: Low Carb Beer and Atkins

So I started this low carb diet, and I like to have a few beers every night.

> I started drinking low-carb Amstel Light, which only has a few grams of > carbs. I drink about 8 beers a night, which keeps me in the induction stage > of Atkins. I've been eating lots of eggs, cheese, meat with my beer, but I > have gained 9 lbs over the past week. I don't understand what is the matter. > I've limited my carbs to 24 grams per day. Has anyone experienced similar > problems? I am thinking of switching to the Zone or maybe another diet that > would let me drink more beer because Atkins doesn't seem to work.

HOW can you do 8 beers a night, and be under the Atkins limit? I don't think you can. Check the carb level of the beer. You are over the limit alone on that.

If you are going to drink beer (NO diet really says to do), then have ZERO fats and you better work out a LOT. Even then, your progress will likely be nil. Sorry to say, NO diet is going to let you have 8 beers a night.

By the way, the point of Atkins or any low carb diet isn't to get more fats, it is to cut carbs.

- Richard Hutnik

Here are a few rules I used (my own creation), to low carb dieting that worked (I dropped about 4 lbs a week):

- If it is white, it is not right (don't eat any foods that are white. This rules out processed sugars, white flour, and milk which contains sugars). Egg whites are an exception, as is califlower.

- If it is sweet, don't eat. This means no fruits (except tomatoes), and no sugars. This also means no fruit juices.

- Don't eat anything you can put in a cake (eggs are an exception). This ends up eliminating things such as carrots.

- Get a minimum of a 45 minute a day walk (1 hour preferred). Do this every day.

- Drink plenty of water.

- Don't make your last meal of the day the largest.

- Don't eat a few hours before bed. You want to sleep on an empty stomach if you can.

- Richard Hutnik

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He can't. He's trolling. Amstel Light has 5 carbs. 8*5 > 20 last time I checked ;-)

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jmk

True. Best to give up alcohol completely, but certainly no beer, even LC beer, which on maintenance I drink about 10-14 a day most days of the week. I didn't really touch beer for the first 6 months.

No. It is not. What you are doing is called "blowing out your ass." You are speaking as if you know what you are talking about when even you know that you don't, an uneducated guess. Alcohol does not cause an insulin reaction. It is not metabolized to glucose, but to ketones.

Why do I always have to be the meanie and correct people who post out their ass?

--Bryan 198/149/152/155

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