The Atkins Grapefruit Diet
There is a diet that really has nothing to do with the Atkins Diet, called the Atkins Grapefruit diet, that combines elements of it’s famous namesake and an all grapefruit diet. Don’t look now, but it may not be what people hope.
It’s a challenge to find clear cut information, such as a web site, for the Atkins grapefruit diet. One common element of cons is that clear information is generally hard to find. The Atkins grapefruit diet is purposely deceptive in its origin to convince people that it is a legitimate combination of two popular fad diets.
Is the Atkins Grapefruit Diet part of the Atkins Diet or endorsed by the estate of the late Dr. Atkins? No, in fact the Induction phase of the Atkins diet is bereft of fruit, and there’s no mention of the grapefruit version on the Atkins web site.
These are the foods allowed in the Atkins diet Induction phase – sorry Atkins grapefruit diet, no fruit here:
Fish of all kinds
All fowl such as turkey and chicken
Any shellfish
Meat, such as beef and pork
Every type of cooked egg including poached, scrambled and even fried
Cheese
Vegetables
Herbs and Spices
Butter, lard, any oils
Drinks low in carbohydrates such as diet soft drinks
Notice one thing – fruit is not on that list. Later phases of the Atkins diet do include limited amounts of fruits such as cantaloupe and even lemon juice, and the pre-maintenance and maintenance phases even specifically allow small quantities of grapefruit. But there is far more grapefruit in the Atkins Grapefruit diet than Dr. Atkins would ever dream of allowing.
The cup of grapefruit juice offered by the Atkins Grapefruit diet has 8 grams of carbs while the cup of grapefruit sections it mentions has 18 carbs. But the Atkins diet calls for no more than 7 grams of carbs in a day. the two diets just don’t mesh.
Most reasonable people would look directly at the Atkins site the moment they heard of the Atkins Grapefruit Diet. It isn’t found there, and that turns off a lot of folks.
Don’t forget the following. Any diet that relies too heavily on one food or food group is going to be unhealthy. The philosophy of the Atkins Grapefruit Diet is counter to that of the Atkins diet.
