[dini22]

Originally Posted by celticfairygoddess

Aww thanks

So... I am firmly sticking to my rule of clean induction and not checking the scale but once a week, but I got to say its driving me crazy not being able to weigh in. LOL. ESPECIALLY because I wont reach my first week until Friday. I know its best to get in this habit now, rather than becoming obsessed with the scale.. but its temptation, lol. I dont know how the people on the Biggest Loser do it!? I had to hide the scale under the vanity so that I didnt see it every time I went in the bathroom!

So far though, everything feels right. My only issue is slipping back into the "forgetting to eat" thing. I need to set myself a timer that reminds me to eat.

Anyone else having issues with forgetting to eat?

I can't say I have issues with forgetting to eat. My memory is amazingly sharp when it comes to that.

I do hear what you are saying about the scale though. I try my hardest to only weigh once every week (or two if I can make it) but I haven't done very well with that lately. I freak myself out with every little fluctuation.

[Dragonfly33]

Hi everyone!! Sorry I haven't been checking in as often, it's been busy at home and work glad to see some new people joining!

I am down 19lbs since February 2 almost time for my pedicure!

I started making mim's and I love them!! So filling! I was starting to gag on eggs so I needed an alternative. I am having cinnamon burps this morning lol but that's ok. I am also planning on making low carb pizza again this week.

As for the Atkins products, I bought some of the shakes as a backup. I don't plan on buying the bars anytime soon. I will see if the shakes stall me.

I can't say I have forgotten to eat but I can go almost the full 6hrs in between meals. I am sleeping like I've never slept before which I absolutely love because I always had very broken sleep and never felt rested during the day. I am not 'napping' in the afternoons anymore, I used to crash before dinner which I'm sure was caused by my lack of sleep and consuming lots of bad carbs.

I tried on my pair of jeans that I didn't fit in to last fall and the fit!! But the material wore out between the legs so of course, I can't wear them now lol. I will wait a few more weeks and go clothes shopping.

Have a great day everyone!

[ElizabethG]

I haven't had issues with cravings during the past few weeks but last night I had a dream about being in some high end cafeteria and there were so many yummy choices I couldn't decide what I wanted and it seemed to be all carby foods. lol

I've been debating on moving to higher carb count (still Atkins) or a different low carb diet because I wasn't sure Atkins was 'working' for me since my weight was still right around where it was when I was just calorie counting (kept losing and gaining same 2 lbs just like I did when I was calorie counting). So this morning I said to myself 'If I haven't lost weight again I think I am going to give diet x a try.' and you know what? I weighed 193.4! I got that weight once last week but then it jumped back up. But I told myself today, so Atkins wins. lol

Tomorrow will be my 2 week mark and I was off two days but assuming my weight stays at 193.5 that means a 6 lb difference in 2 weeks which is pretty great in my opinion. Had I not gone off Thursday and Saturday I am sure the weight would be much better.

Hope everyone has a great day!

[feelingthin]

ElizabethG-Way to go about no more cravings! lol I understand the dream thing.. I usually still look at pizza and cake pics/ad like "yummy" but I dont feel like putting it in my mouth! But I'm glad for your another pound lost!!

Dragonfly33-wow!! congrats on 19 pounds!! Thats amazing!! in 20 dayss


I am on Day 8 of induction!! I cannot wait to step on the scale on friday!! But i have started my TOM so I dont know what I'm expecting, but I am definitely expecting something lower than 189! lol.
I'm not even hungry anymore & I haven't been to gym in 3 dayssss
Well technically just 1 bcz I go every 5 days & then take 2 days break. But today bcz of TOM i dont feel like going.. I guess I will consider this one of the 2 days gym break I take! eh

[ElizabethG]

Well I am sick again today. Blah. I am trying to figure out why. I wasn't feeling well after lunch which was just chicken broccoli and a little tomato sauce and mozerella. But it got really bad after dinner tonight which is my 'famous' low carb meatloaf (along with cauliflower mash and a salad). I made up the recipe last year for my hubby and he said its the best thing I had ever made (up to that point). lol And breakfast was a MiM.

Looking at what I ate today my only guesses are too much fat(~173g really? stupid dinner, using cheap 85/15 beef though i think alot of that cooks out the meat loaf sits in a little pool of fat that I do not eat) or too much protein (176g). Both are usually high when I eat beef because i use 85/15 because that's the percentage that is most affordable (well i could get worse for less, my husband prefers 80/20 so 85/15 is sort of my compromise with him). So either could be the main culprit.

Its mainly indigestion which the only thing I can link to that is fatty foods. But what is worrisome is the sharp stabbing pains i got after eating the meatloaf. I only had one slice the pain was so bad. I bought some of those Atkins milk shakes in case this happened again but that didn't seem to help. I guess I really need to talk to a dr.

Sorry for the rambles just trying to figure this out.

Hope everyone is doing well, the thread has been less active the past few days.

[ElizabethG]

Dragonfly-Congrats on the 19lbs! That is impressive! Mim's are awesome. I made some in advance this weekend but they aren't nearly as good as they are fresh. Yay to the fitting into jeans too! I have a size 12 pair of jeans that I routinely try on. I am wearing 14s now so I'm close! Keep up the awesome work!

[Elvish Mistress]

Elizabeth - I'm so sorry you don't feel well. I had sharp, stabbing pains and terrible nausea like that for almost 4 months, and I never got any real answers. I had ultrasounds to check out my gallbladder and lots of different barium tests to check my insides and to look for ulcers. I was really miserable. My doctor finally put me on reglan because my stomach wouldn't empty after meals. I was checked for diabetes (which can cause that), but I'm not diabetic. The reglan fixed it though. I took it for 2 weeks and the pain never came back. I still don't really know what caused it in the first place, so I'm always worried it will happen again. Do talk to your dr. Hope you feel better soon!

[Linsy]

A couple of months ago I got these really sharp stabbing pains in my lower left stomach (like where my ovary is). The pain was so bad I couldn't even move. I had to go to the ER where they gave me a shot of pain medicine and the pain went away and never came back. They did blood tests but never figured out what it was. Everything was totally normal. I'm thinking it might have just been really bad TOM pains (which I never get, so that would be weird).

[ElizabethG]

Elvish-That's frustrating that you never knew what caused it. I definitely need to get it checked out. I just thought its this diet or stress or something too and that it will just 'go away'.

Linsy - I have had very painful cramps my entire life. When I was 16 and working at Target as a cashier I once had cramps so bad I fainted while taking someone's money. They rushed me to ER and the doctor there would NOT believe that it was just cramps she was just sure i was having a miscarriage (which was impossible unless I was carrying the next messiah lol). Anyway I went to an obgyn and they put me on birth control which didn't so much help but let me know when to expect it to drug up. I was never diagnosed with anything until last year. Found out after quitting birth control (trying to get prengnant) that I had PCOS but I think its 'better' now. Still very painful periods and now I sometimes even get OVULATION cramps too (which are just one sided but still hurt badly) and my cycles are super short which I guess is better than being nonexistant which is what they were off birth control. It really sucks. Just keep going to your annual exam and telling them your symptoms and maybe one day a doctor can help. But the pain last night is totally different from cramps it was higher up in my stomach. It was like as the food entered the stomach it was stabbing me. Then just indigestion the rest of the night.

Meanwhile I am feeling better today and I am down another pound! Being 100% on track sure pays off. lol I have added raw almonds as an afternoon work snack (just one ounce). I have had them twice this week and it hasn't affected me so I think I am going to keep them in.

Thanks for the comments!

[Elvish Mistress]

Glad you feel better Elizabeth!

The scale finally moved for me yesterday. It took about two days of being really strict with myself and something finally happened. Atkins works, IF you do it right!

Oh, does anyone know a good flax or almond meal tortilla recipe? I'm looking for something to wrap my bacon and eggs in so I can grab it and go.

[Dragonfly33]

My weight was up this morning so I am looking at everything I am eating to make sure I am not messing something up. I tried the Atkins shakes so I am thinking that could be the culprit so I am not having it anymore. I am cutting my cheese to 2oz per day and reducing protein a little bit. I thought that maybe the mims might be affecting me but I am following the recipe exactly and the flax I bought has 4g of fibre and 0 sugar. I have a max of 2 packets of splenda a day, I have 2 cups of salad veggies for lunch and a cup of either cooked asparagus or broccoli/cauliflower for dinner. I am still in ketosis according to my ketostix and the stick is dark. It was light pink a few days ago but now it's dark again.

So I am not changing my ticker until a few days have passed. It could just be an off day and my weight will be back down tomorrow. The good part is I am not giving up!

[ElizabethG]

dragonfly-Don't be discouraged. The scale does wacky things. According to the latest book they say if you weight daily to average the last 3 days. It could be something you did a few days ago affecting your weight today. Also is your time of the month arriving? or did you have alot of sodium? or are you working out more/different than usual? All of those things cause water retention and would be my biggest suspects before certian foods as long as you are under 20 net carbs!

I personally don't have stalls from the bars, shakes or artificial sweetners (to my knowledge i've only been on this diet a few weeks). Are you using something to track food/weight? I use the daily plate that way I can watch what my weight does according to what I ate easily if I want to go back and look. Oh and I don't change my ticker UP unless I've had 3 days in a row of the same weight. But if I get a down weight I put it on here immediately. lol

Keep up the good work and check again tomorrow. Have a wonderful weekend!

[ElizabethG]

Happy Happy Joy Joy

Just for the heck of it I tried on my size 12 jeans...and they FIT!!! They are probably still too 'form fitting' to wear in public but they EASILY zipped and buttoned. I can sit in them, I can breathe. lol When I started at 240 I couldn't get them up my legs. Then I finally got them up my legs but the button and zipper would not even come close. Then I finally got them to almost close awhile ago but i was doing all those tricks and it still was hard. So I was amazed when they easily slid up and on! I had 2 other pairs and some khakis and some shorts in this size (i was a 12 for several years) and everything else fit too! But again it was all too form fitting to wear in public. I even had a pair of 10s mixed in and they must be really stretched out or something because they fit better than a few of the 12s. :lol I am washing them all so they will be ready to wear in hopefully just a few weeks! I am hoping they dont just fit because I've been trying them on while I was bigger. Though I never tried on the other stuff. But I could have also wore them when I was on my way up too long too because again I was a 12 for so long and hated having to go up in size. None of my size large tops fit still, but my husband is okay with that (mainly because my chest is still the same size my bra size hasn't gone down much since I was 240, i went down in number but not cup size).

What a wonderful start to the weekend!!! I hope everyone else has a great weekend too!!!

[Elvish Mistress]

That's great, Elizabeth! Very exciting and motivating!

[channeen]

So I just found out my work is sending me to Jamaica in 2 months. I am so excited but a little bummed. I'm about 100 pounds over weight. Right now I'm in a tight 18/20.

So the minute I found out today. I made my decision. To lose some weight. I would love to lose 50 pounds by them but that isn't a realistic goal and I'm not on the biggest loser. Plus, I don't want to set myself up to fail.

I have a goal to be back into my size 14s. I figure that is doable if I kick off my work out routine as well and exercise every day.

So I know I can find folks who are supportive here because I know it's gonna be tough to find support at home. My hubby is a non-intentional saboteur.

So I bought my Atkins friendly Induction Phase food this afternoon and I'm grilling chicken for a grilled chicken salad as I type.

So Jamaica here I come...I know I will still be overweight when I meet you but I'll be on the road to skinny me.