The Atkins Grapefruit Diet is a diet plan, not endorsed by Dr. Atkins’ estate, 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 expect.

First of all, it is quite difficult to find information on this diet plan. Smart people know that when someone is perpetrating a hoax or scam, they often miss the facts. This is what this type of diet seems to do in an attempt to get people to associate it with two supposedly effective diets.

Does this diet have anything to do with the actual Atkins diet? The answer is no, not only is there no mention of the Atkins Grapefruit diet on the Atkins website, but there is no mention of any kind of fruit on the list of allowed foods in the induction phase of the Atkins diet.

This is what you can eat in the induction phase:

fish of all kinds

Chicken, turkey and other poultry

any seafood

Any meat like beef or pork.

Eggs cooked in any style including fried

Cheese

Any vegetables you can name

herbs and spices

Butter, bacon, any oil

Low-carb drinks like diet sodas.

Not a piece of fruit to be found. Grapefruit and other fruits as fruit juices are specified in other phases of the Atkins diet. But when compared with the recommended amount of grapefruit in such a diet, there is again a disagreement.

The diet in this method recommends a cup of grapefruit juice or a cup of grapefruit wedges, with 8 and 18 carbohydrates respectively. But the Atkins diet requires no more than 7 grams of carbohydrates per day. the two diets just don’t mesh.

Most reasonable people would look directly to the Atkins site the moment they heard of the Atkins Grapefruit diet. When they found no mention of that diet on the site, a red light would flash and an alarm would sound.

In general remember this. Only fad diets (diets to be followed for short periods) are highly dependent on one food because eating that way is unhealthy. The philosophy of the Atkins Grapefruit diet is contrary to that of the Atkins diet.