How to Make It. 1  Pour boiling water over tea bags, sugar, and lemon zest in a large bowl. Stir until sugar is dissolved; cover and steep 5 minutes. 2  Pour mixture through a fine wire-mesh strainer into a large pitcher, discarding tea bags and zest. Stir in 4 cups cold water and next 2 ingredients.
Counting Carbs in Alcohol. The problem with drinking alcohol on the Atkins diet is that alcohol contains around 7 calories per gram, compared to 4 calories per gram in good carbohydrates. The calories in alcohol nearly rival the calories found in fat, which contains about 9 calories per gram.
Count carbs on the Atkins diet. Atkins focuses not on total daily carbohydrates but on daily net carbohydrates.Learn how to count net carbs by subtracting dietary fiber and sugar alcohols from the total carbohydrate count.1  Find the number of total carbohydrates in a food on the foodâs nutrition label.s long as you stick to the principles of low-carb, high protein and fat eating, you can make some variations on the Atkins diet and still lose weight. 2. Jump-start the Atkins diet. Dr. Atkins prepared a section in one of his earlier books about a technique called the Fat Fast, which is based on the Kekwick diet.