You really need to ask your doctor.
If you're following the Atkins diet, you should look up resources on the web on how to follow it. You have to do this in stages. Suddenly cutting all carbs out of your diet is VERY unhealthy. What are your reasons for doing it? It's a bad way to lose weight-- you have to do things right for the Atkins diet to work, and even then, you're cutting the bottom of the food period out of your diet. If you want to lose weight and feel good, you should be eating a balanced diet that is low in sugar and fat. Exercise daily.
But, my mom's diabetic. She has to be careful about carbs. She also says there are good carbs and bad carbs. Fruits, veggies, and whole grains are good carbs, so if you have to cheat, cheat by eating whole-grain breads instead of white stuff. Oatmeal is also whole grain.
Here are some 0 carb foods:
- meat (fish, beef, bacon, chicken, ham, hot dogs...)
- butter, cheese, milk
- mayonnaise
- peanut butter
- 0 carb meal drinks like SlimFast and Ensure. Atkins diet bars.
- water (8 glasses a day is always great for your health.)
Remember that it's possible to be thin and have high cholesterol at the same time. I hope you enjoy your triple bypass surgery when you're 45.
- Just go through the store and look at the Nutritional Information on anything that catches your eye. They always list carbs. Nowadays, if a food has 0 carbs, it announces it in big, eyecatching words on its front label.
There are also low-carb versions of bread, candy, ice cream, etc.
But seriously, if you're doing this just to lose weight, I'd say DON'T DO IT. Your body is designed to run on 10+ servings of carbs per day. You should never cut a food group out of your diet. Just eat smaller, healthier meals that are low in fat and contain no sugar, and exercise every day.
PLEASE ask your doctor for dieting advice. She'll give you a plan that is easy and enjoyable to follow, you'll get to eat a large variety of foods and won't be hungry all day! A lot of diet plans you get on the internet and in magazines will get 15 pounds off of you fast and then you gain it all back the moment you stop eating nothing but kale every day! You can't trust the internet for dieting advice. Please please please get pamphlets and books and reliable websites and reliable free diet/nutrition consultants from your doctor.
Trust me, you CAN lose just as much weight in a much healthier and enjoyable way.