Well, hello, cut the fat podcast listeners. My name is Blythe Alberg and I am joined here today with my partner, Dr. Ray Heinich.

Hey guys, how are you? It's good to be with you. Yeah, we're excited to be here. We've got another great topic today like we always do. We are going to be discussing high protein diets and kind of giving our little review. One of the representatives of the high protein diets we're going to be talking about today is the Atkins program. Right. And that is kind of synonymous with most high protein diets. And in fact, when we look at the program and the Atkins program has had a number of

alterations and evolutions over the years, but when you look at the current Atkins style program, it is a good representation of the majority of the high protein diets out there. Yeah. And in fact, most people, as you mentioned earlier, if you were out and about if somebody's on a high protein diet, what are they going to call it?

Oh, I'm on the Atkins program. So everybody kind of knows what you're talking about when we say Atkins.

Right. So the Atkins program is basically broken down into four phases. Okay. So what we'll do is we'll go through each phase and we'll kind of give you the good, the bad, the ugly associated with each of those phases and their philosophies and their principles as to how to apply them to your life.

And what we're going to try to do by this, we're going to try to draw out the golden nuggets and set aside the myths and misconceptions associated with the high protein diets. So we can use what's good and get rid of what's bad.

Okay. You know what? I do have some favorite things about this diet and some not so favorite things. So I can't wait to talk about them.

All right. Well, why don't we start? We'll go ahead and start with phase number one of the program. Okay. Now phase one is called the induction phase.

Yes. During this program, the induction phase basically has you eating a very, very low carbohydrate diet. In fact, the only carbs that are really allowed during this phase is a small quantity of vegetables.

Yes. No bread, no pasta, no rice, no cakes, no candies, no, any other kind of grain or pasta or anything, right?

Well, yeah, that's exactly right. That is exactly what the induction phase is. And it's like the kickstart quote unquote phase.

The adkins diet claims that you can lose up to 15 pounds. And the first phase goes for two weeks.

Right. My favorite part about this is if you go on to the adkins website is I think it's just adkins.com.

You can actually look at a list of all of the things that you are allowed to eat. And it tells you how many grams of net carbs you're allowed to eat.

Right. 12 to 15 grams of what they call net carbs. Right.

We'll talk about that in the next phase because they really get into that in a much higher detail in the next phase.

Right. But you're allowed 12 to 15 quote unquote net carbs during this part of the program. And what that equates to is about six loosely packed cups of salad and two cups of cooked vegetables per day.

Okay. Which is probably more than most people are eating. That's accurate. I'd say.

Yeah. Okay. So my favorite part is that they tell you the foods you can eat. They give you some great.

Just for instance, they list fesent quail, Cornish hen. They list all these things on the website that gives me ideas for new recipes.

It kind of helps you think outside the box a little bit. So you don't get really bored.

I also really like that it's only two weeks. And I think pretty much everybody could get their head around, you know, 14 days of this induction phase.

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