Hi Icrenee,
I'm sure we've all done this....lesson learned, of course.
I just want to relate one experience I had in the past (this is not the first time I've done Atkins). Everything Sarahinparis described is absolutely true. You will have to now invest a few days while your body goes back into ketosis again, you may temporarily gain some water weight, etc. BUT....one thing that can happen...and it happened once or twice to me in the past....was that the net result of carb/sugar binge would sometimes be a sudden loss of a few pounds, esp. when you may have been in one of those little plateaus where you seem to be bouncing around at the same weight for an extended period of time.
My rationalization for went something like this...."hmm, I was in a plateau and having that little sugar binge actually shook-up my metabolism and got it moving again". And who knows? Maybe that IS what happened. But the pitfall of this was that this gave me a justification to have more little sugar binges/lapses. And in the long run, it was counter-productive....and would cause me to really stall or to gain back weight.
I learned the hard way that in the big picture, these lapses caused much more harm than good. So this time, there have been NO lapses....as I know that one would lead to two and would eventually lead to several....with me rationalizing that it was somehow being a helpful nudge to my metabolism. For while it may sometimes appear that these lapses can jump-start your metabolism during a little plateau.....they DO cause more harm than good.....mainly, because they justify more lapses.
So I agree with the others here.....get that stuff out of the house. Don't even tempt yourself. I tend to be a little OCD now when it comes to Atkins and NEED to follow the rules strictly but I have to say that doing it this way has made it much easier for me this time around.
Also.....when going through stressful personal events....I have to be honest and say that feeling guilty after having diet lapses just compounds the stress for me. It might feel good at the time....but then later, it just piles more stress on top of the stress that was already there. By sticking to my diet, I at least feel that I have some control over SOMETHING in my life...when the rest of it seems so out-of-control....if that makes any sense.
deena