The Atkins Grapefruit diet is a diet plan, not endorsed by the estate of Dr. Atkins, that plays on the popularity of the grapefruit diet and the Atkins diet name. Don’t look now, but it may not be what people hope.
First of all it’s pretty difficult to find information on the Atkins grapefruit diet plan. One common element of cons is that clear information is generally hard to find. This possible con does it’s best to make people assume it has something to do with the official Atkins diet.
Does the Atkins grapefruit diet have anything to do with the actual Atkins diet? 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:
An type of fish
Chicken, turkey and other fowl
Shellfish of any variety
Meat, such as beef and pork
Every type of cooked egg including poached, scrambled and even fried
Any variety of cheeses
Any vegetable you can name
Herbs and Spices
Fats and Oils
Low carbohydrate beverages including diet soft drinks
Unfortunately for the Atkins grapefruit diet, there no fruit. Later phases of the Atkins diet for fat loss do allow fruit juice and even specifically mention grapefruit. But when compared to the amount of Grapefruit recommended on the Atkins Grapefruit Diet, again there is a disagreement.
The Atkins Grapefruit Diet recommends a cup of grapefruit juice or a cup of grapefruit sections, with 8 and 18 carbs respectively. But the Atkins diet calls for no more than 7 grams of carbs in a day. That’s a severe disagreement.
Most reasonable people would look directly at the Atkins site the moment they heard of the Atkins Grapefruit Diet. It starts to sound fishy when there’s no mention there.
Truth about diets review: In general remember this. Any diet that relies too heavily on one food or food group is going to be unhealthy. The Atkins diet frowns on eating the way the Atkins Grapefruit Diet recommends.