Steven C \(Doktersteve\) wrote:

In the first phase of Atkins, you are stuck at less than 30 grams of carbs a
day.

In the first 14 days you get as close to 20 as you can without going over.

Obviously you want to cut out the empty carbs like glucose-fructose and
white sugars, and replace them with complete complex sugars, but how many
carbs do you cut out?

Atkins is a process not a menu. It's a process to answer that question
for you, in fact.

But that means that no one can answer it for *you*. Folks can only answer
for themselves or give reported averages. Form that the best you can do is
guess.

So for me: My CCLL is 50ish, my CCLM is 100ish. Those are common numbers.
To lose I need to stay under 50 in ketosis. To maintain I need to stay
between 50 and 100 grams per day.

But CCLLs range from 15 to 150. The only way to find out for yourself is
to follow the process and see what your body's own unique characteristics
take you.