Ready to Try a New Diet?

The Kardashian-Jenner family is well-known for plenty of things, including their perfectly-shaped bodies. In fact, it’s fair to say that no one doubts how hard they work to look as good as they do. We’d lie to say we’re not interested in achieving at least half of that.

From Kendall Jenner’s 11-minute ab workout and Khloe’s “revenge body” challenge, all the way to their army-like workout routines, they seem to have plenty of tricks up their sleeve to keep themselves in the best shape. The family’s most famous sister, Kim, is definitely no exception to that.

Kim, along with her post-pregnancy body and the diet she credits has seemed to work truly wonders for her in the past. After she managed to shed no less than 60 pounds following her son Saint’s birth, the most famous Kardashian revealed her plan: a very carb-conscious, fat-burning Atkins diet. To effectively see how the Atkins diet works, we tried it for seven days and marked a series of different results. Here’s how the journey unfolded:

The collective goal

In order to effectively follow Kim’s post-pregnancy diet, here’s the entire seven-day meal plan and recipes, where we ate less than 40 net carbs (carbs minus fiber).

Our initial thoughts

After a couple of surprising and even invasive ends to our time reaching Gwyneth Paltrow’s detox treatment, we thought we might want to aside celeb-approved diets for a while. Well, no. Either because my diet consists of whatever can be found on Uber Eats for lunch and enormous amounts of tacos for dinner, or for other reasons, I was ready to try it.

As someone who doesn’t cook, I was somehow nervous and thrilled to embark on a diet that would require me to even touch a spatula. The goal was to have a diet reset and add a couple of healthy dishes to my day-to-day diet.

Day One

My favorite food to share with the group is definitely pizza, which is closely followed by bread and ice cream. So the mere thought of a low-carb diet was a bit intimidating, in all honesty. Also, I’m not a fan of breakfast, as both the typical foods associated with it and the whole idea of eating in the morning don’t really appeal to me.

The fact that this diet meant that I was supposed to get up in the morning and eat it every day was daunting to say the least. My first breakfast included two eggs scrambled with heavy cream and cheddar cheese, two pieces of turkey bacon, 4 ounces of full-fat Greek yogurt, then 1/3 cup of blueberries.

Coffee was also allowed, as I generally drink black, even if I could have added some heavy cream if I wanted to. I was definitely stuffed, but not sleepy-stuffed until 1 p.m., which was like a dream to me.

Day Two

So here’s the thing: grilling a turkey burger first thing in the morning is definitely not my typical Wednesday morning, but it was interesting to experience something completely new in the morning. I obviously did it and whipped up the Atkins-approved recipe for a great chipotle aioli sauce that would go very well with the turkey burger (which I definitely planned to eat for lunch in a spinach salad).

All in all, it felt very good, but I also thought it was a bit cranky due to the drastic reduction of carbs in my regular carb-heavy diet. I also found myself feeling quite full, but still not as stuffed as I did with more carbs. That being said, the turkey-burger lunch thing was tasty enough to keep it in the “finals” of my day-to-day repertoire, even after I stopped the diet.

Day Three

The third day implied a lot of cooking, which I still find hilarious and exhausting at the same time, even if I DO love cooking. I started with two simple scrambled eggs with cheese and two breakfast sausages, then I cooked a chicken paillard.

The latter was meant to stay on this super appealing and healthy spinach salad with five cherry tomatoes (counted!). After lunch, it was quite hard to stick to this meal plan. Obviously, it didn’t help that I was setting up a long-standing plan to host a dinner party, and I ended up drinking wine and eating ice cream. Well, it is what it is. I would lie to say I wasn’t annoyed by what I did, but I still managed to bet back on the proverbial Atkins train right away the next day.

Day Four

Another day, another cooked breakfast. Who would’ve thought? I made the usual eggs, turkey bacon, yogurt, and blueberry combination. Since I had a very busy day ahead, I knew I didn’t have time to prepare, pack, or even consider a homemade lunch.

I couldn’t help but wonder if I could find something to grab on the go that would also be Atkins-friendly. I don’t know what happened as the day went by, but I remember I ended up eating a sushi taco. I mean, I haven’t of anyone who could actually resist a sushi taco. However, I managed to offset it by cooking an Atkins-approved pesto salmon dish for dinner.

Day Five

Trust me, after five days of actually keeping up with *hehe, got it?* your plans, I turned into this person who plans out her meals every day in advance, then goes to the grocery store and shops for whatever else she might need.

Now I know that before, I was spending too much money on groceries, especially since I didn’t give my all to organize efficiently. But cooking at home, especially compared to eating out is downright affordable. Grass-fed meat, organic eggs, and free-range, antibiotic-free chicken added up would still be less than what I spend on wine and delivery.

Day Six

Today was probably one of the best days since I started this diet, that’s probably because I tried out a dish I’ve seen on Kim’s Snapchat: faux mac and cheese. Obviously noodles aren’t really involved, so that’s already “healthier” than what we’ve been used to, I guess. Instead, she used cauliflower, which at first, I thought was weird.

By the end of it, I completely changed my mind. Thanks to all those high levels of cheese, I was very into this recipe, which felt quite decadent. Served with some grilled chicken breast, it basically made me feel like I was eating kids’ food, in the best possible way.

Day Seven

So I had this Atkins thing on lock at a certain point, I know I did. Everything was textbook: the yogurt, the pecans, and the blueberries for breakfast. For a morning snack, I had some Atkins Harvest Bars. Lunch, as you might guess, included a spinach salad with five cherry tomatoes, five ounces of turkey burger or grilled chicken, and a tablespoon of aioli as a dressing.

Then, the afternoon snack consisted of two celery stalks and one tablespoon of peanut butter. For dinner, I whipped up some zoodles with spicy chicken sausage. I could easily do this all over again with my eyes closed, especially thanks to the app, which definitely helped. Even if it was a fair amount of work, planning did make things easier and better.

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