Low Carb Beer and Atkins

So I started this low carb diet, and I like to have a few beers every night.
I started drinking low-carb Amstel Light, which only has a few grams of carbs. I drink about 8 beers a night, which keeps me in the induction stage of Atkins. I've been eating lots of eggs, cheese, meat with my beer, but I have gained 9 lbs over the past week. I don't understand what is the matter.
I've limited my carbs to 24 grams per day. Has anyone experienced similar problems? I am thinking of switching to the Zone or maybe another diet that would let me drink more beer because Atkins doesn't seem to work.

He can't. He's trolling. Amstel Light has 5 carbs. 8*5 > 20 last time
I checked

When I play hoops, I gotta have Gatorade, which has lots of carbs. When I don't I can drink beer and not drink Gatorade, and thusly reduce my consumption of carbs and stay on the diet.

HOW can you do 8 beers a night, and be under the Atkins limit? I don't think you can. Check the carb level of the beer. You are over the limit alone on that.

If you are going to drink beer (NO diet really says to do), then have
ZERO fats and you better work out a LOT. Even then, your progress will likely be nil. Sorry to say, NO diet is going to let you have 8 beers a night.

By the way, the point of Atkins or any low carb diet isn't to get more fats, it is to cut carbs.

- Richard Hutnik

Here are a few rules I used (my own creation), to low carb dieting that worked (I dropped about 4 lbs a week):
- If it is white, it is not right (don't eat any foods that are white.
This rules out processed sugars, white flour, and milk which contains sugars). Egg whites are an exception, as is califlower.
- If it is sweet, don't eat. This means no fruits (except tomatoes), and no sugars. This also means no fruit juices.
- Don't eat anything you can put in a cake (eggs are an exception).
This ends up eliminating things such as carrots.
- Get a minimum of a 45 minute a day walk (1 hour preferred). Do this every day.
- Drink plenty of water.
- Don't make your last meal of the day the largest.
- Don't eat a few hours before bed. You want to sleep on an empty stomach if you can.

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why not just drink water with sea salt?

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"people who read the tabloids deserve to be lied to " Jerry Seinfeld
"if we don't have a sense of humor, we can't have a sense of perspective --Wayne Thiboux