I really believe you need to read the Atkins book cover to cover before you start if you haven't done so already. It will answer many of your questions.
1. Calorie restriction is not a part of the Atkins nutritional approach. You will most likely find that after 2 days of restricting your carbohydrate intake to 20g or less, your hunger will evaporate. I've been in ketosis for a few days and have to remind myself to eat. I believe my total calorie intake has reduced greatly without my having to keep track of it or worry about it.
2. Store-bought mayonaise most likely contains hydrogenated and trans-fatty acids, which are very unhealthful. If you really want to use it, though, the amount of sugar in it is negligable. I just looked at the label on my jar of Hellman's (same as Bestfoods) and it said 0 carbs per 1 tablespoon serving. In the USA labels can still say zero even if the amount of carbohydrate is a fraction of a gram in some cases. Personally, I see no need to use mayonaise very much because I normally think of it as a sandwich spread; I eat no bread, so no spread is needed. If you normally use it as an ingredient in salad dressing, you may want to try to make an emulsification using white wine vinegar, dijon, and while beating with a whisk, adding oil (canola or olive) slowly in a thin stream. Continue beating until the mixture thickens and is very opaque.
3. Saccharin is allowed on Atkins, or at least was in older editions of his book. Look on the ingredient label. If you see anything on it that looks or sounds like "maltodextin", it'd be wise to count each teaspoon or packet as 1g carbohydrate. If it's just saccharin, though, you don't have to count it towards your daily carbs. Be mindful though that your body will release some insulin whenever it thinks it's getting sugar, and the sweet taste of many artificial sweeteners may cause such a release of insulin, which will slow down your weight loss.
4. You can use tofu, but beware that it contains carbohydrates. Measure your portion and count the carbohydrates towards your daily 20g.
5. Look for the carb count on the label of your chili sauce. If you can find none, I personally wouldn't use it. You may want to try an American style hot sauce like Tobasco brand. The ingredient list is: peppers, vinegar, salt, which are all alowed on induction. The label says 0g carb.
6. The small amounts of sugar in something like a hot dog won't really effect one's blood sugar or insulin lever very much or at all. A tiny amount of sugar and starch, when combined with considerable protein and fat, is absorbed much more slowly than a teaspoon of sugar in one's tea.
7. Breaded anything is a bad idea and should not be taken. It would have too much starch. One alternative I use (I'm not doing Atkins per se so I don't follow all the induction rules) is to chop some nuts very finely into a powder in my food processor. I dip a pounded chicken breast into a beaten egg, and then coat it with about 2 tablespoons of the nut powder, and fry it in my large skillet.
8. Try writing down what you consume. I shoot for about 10g CHO (that's short for carbohydrates) a day to give myself some wiggle room. I do that because I'm incredibly insulin resistant (and want to manically loose weight quickly so I will fit in the airplane seat when I fly to San Francisco in December) Fortunately for you, even if you ate a few grams more than the 20g CHO allowed you'd probably still maintain ketosis, especially in the first two weeks of the diet.
9. There's almost always sugar in cole slaw even if it doesn't taste like it. I'd avoid it. I do plan on attempting a low carb dressing experiment soon though. I'm going to try to make the traditional california sweet and hot cole slaw boiled dressing with splenda.
10. If you have anything like a Whole Foods or Wild Oats or some other health food store with a bulk bin section. Look for rice bran among the bins. I find that a tablespoon of it with food twice a day works well.
11. Always follow the label on the food product. Carb counters are a fall-back tool for foods that come without labels, like fresh fruit and veggies, etc.
12. According to my glass pyrex measureing cup, 8 fluid ounces equals one cup. I would always measure a beverage like soy milk. Atkins does exclude regular milk from induction though. Personally, I'd avoid soy milk all together.
I hope this answers some of your questions. Good luck on your weight loss! Just remember that approximately the first seven pounds you loose will be water. You may want to over-shoot your goal a bit.
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