Well so far I have made it through the weekend without cheating which is soo good for me. I usually bomb it on the weekends. I have been hanging out with everyone and what not just having a good time and trying to relax. I think all weekends should consist of 3 days.

Morning Ladies:

It's been a real busy few days, so let me try and catch up. :) Chelsea had a show last night in Boulder. I ate that yummy tenderloin salad I know I can have. I had a couple of mixed drinks -- other than that, I have done good.

As for if my "carb-up" worked, it seems to have and so far 4 pounds of the water weight came off, so i'm back down to 184. It has been slower going into ketosis, but i'm finally there. ;)

Susan: I'm glad you're back. I was just going to post this morning, if you had been heard from. I figured you were taking care of everything due to DH's surgery. Glad he faired well, and hopefully he'll have a quick recovery.

Sandra: I soooo hope you get to go to Japan! What a great experience that'll be and being with your guy would be wonderful! Now you really have to bust butt getting in shape! LOL

Brenda: Looks like we kind of have done the same thing, and gotten back to where we were before you fasted and i carbed up. It sure as **** is something, and worth being happy about! *laughing* We struggle to much not be satisfied with what we get. :)

Gotta get breakfast going -- and read the other posts. :)

Good morning ladies.

My plan was to take the weekend off, and get back to Atkins tomorrow. I woke up this morning thinking that I might be ready to get back to plan one day early. All the food (almost) that I've been craving didn't appeal to me as much as I thought they would, and although I still did want to have pizza before getting back on plan I think I could probably forego it. I felt pretty yucky yesterday, and the hands going to sleep at night thing is back after so many carbs.

My son made me mad though. He came into my room last night and said "I'm not trying to be mean, but I think you should get back on your diet."

I said to him, "yes you are trying to be mean". He then said no he wasn't trying to be mean, but with all the foods I ate yesterday I would surely gain weight. Well my son has the same problem with certain foods that I have, and his weight is a little high for his age too, not as bad as mine, but way worse than mine was at his age. So I asked him "What did I eat that everyone else didn't eat?"

He seemed to think I ate worse? Not from what I could see, he pigged out pretty good and had a huge piece of cake at my mother in law's house, several sodas, lots of potato salad etc.

Why is it people don't see what THEY are doing, but notice what you are doing? Yes those foods I ate were definitely not on my normal radar for what I've been eating and no I don't want to eat this way for long. But there was just something awful about it coming from my son. I can't even figure out why he would even be concerned about it, he's only 13, and while in general he has been slimming down a little himself lately, his eating habits aren't the best either. I think he is slimming because his body is growing taller and using some of that energy he has stored.

I'm glad to see that he is slimming down a bit, and maybe it might be partly due to the fact that I haven't been buying much junk since being on Atkins again. But I just can't understand why me taking a few days off should even concern him. It is just plain weird.

Anyway it really annoyed me. Especially since it was a planned day, intentionally taken, because I knew that in going to MIL's house there wouldn't be the kinds of foods that my diet would allow. In fact only the meat she served would have been allowed on my diet. Nothing else she served could have remotely been considered low carb. She had barbequed pork, potato salad, macaroni salad, jello with fruit, beans, sodas, and cake. Also potato chips, tortilla chips and fattening dips.

Her husband is diabetic, she is overweight herself, and every time we go to her house these are the types of foods offered. Sometimes if a vegetable is offered, she'll include corn on the cob. All highly starched or sugary items.

So in advance I know if I'm going to go to her house for a meal that I won't be able to stay on plan. The only way to survive a visit there is to take the day off, or not go.

I guess the part that really bothers me about it all is that she was a nurse. Her husband is a barber (and I understand that for barber training they have to learn all about the human body, which I guess springs back from the times when barbers used to 'bleed' people). Yet this is what you will find yourself eating if you go to her house.

I don't understand people. I don't understand how they can be so oblivious to certain things. Once in awhile I suppose is fine for a meal like that, but I get the feeling that it isn't once in awhile with them.

Anyway I'm not sure what the plan for today is. I did promise the family pizza for tonight. If they hold me to it, then I will be back on Atkins tomorrow morning, but if not I'll see if I can't get back today. Today will be a transition day. Scale is up as expected, but I think I managed to get some extra fiber and empty myself out better than I do when on plan. So that was a benefit of carbing up. I also no longer look at the oatmeal I bought for the family with longing. The oranges which were calling me tasted as good as expected, but I think my need for them has been satisfied now. Most of the other things I had weren't so wonderful that I can't live without them, so I'm ready again.

Maybe he is just worried about you Sherry. I wouldnt really take it so personally. I wish that someone in my family had the courage to tell me that I was fat and I asked my brother that in conversation the other day why he didnt say anything, and he said that everytime that someone mentions weight to women, we freak, which is true. So I have designated him as the person to tell me hey you really need to do something about your weight cause sometimes we need someone to break us away from our denial that we are living in. Just look at it this way, he wouldnt have spoken up if he didnt care for you.

Well said Sandra. And by the way Sandra, I hope you get to go to Japan to be with your husband. That would be awesome.


Yesterday I got so much food prep done. I'm excited, I cooked some chicken, made some cheeseburgers, made a great salad with yummy lc dressing, cooked some bacon, grilled some steak tips. I have to have food ready to take with me to work. I love this way of life and love it even more when I'm prepared.

Not much going on in my neck of the woods today. It is :sunny: and mild temperature outside. I sure hope Spring is here.

Sherry, .....ask him why he said that. Im thinking he was watching his grandparents, and realizing (maybe) he doesnt want you to end up like that? Im sure he wasnt being mean, and Im sure there was something going on in that 13 yr old head of his that made him say it out of love and concern for his mom :)

Sherry:

I really think kids look to us to be the ones in control. In control of anything in general, really.. Maybe he had been so proud of you for loosing what you have so far, being in control of your weight loss, and the foods you put in your mouth. Teen boys have a hard time saying they are proud of you, but inside they are. It could be, that at your inlaws, you weren't in "control" like he is used to seeing, and became a bit scared that you had lost all sense of what your original intentions have been.. to get healthy.

This is just what ran through my mind. A possibility..

As he see's you regain your footing again, he'll feel better about it. :hug:

I wish my family would've said something too, instead they always just kept silent or made excuses 'you just had kids, you just had surgery, work is stressfull, blah blah blah'.

today my brother weighed on my scale, he's 5'6 and weighs 250 and he asks me "Do you think I'm FAT?" I didn't know what to say. I just said "When I weighed 250 I didn't feel fat" and left it at that....what are you supposed to say in that type of situation??

anyway, g'night girls, I'll yack more in the morning and hopefully be down a pound or two by then :)

Everyone in my family knows I'm fat. We talk about it all the time. It doesn't bother me, and it doesn't really bother them. My boy is "fat" too. Not really. Just a bit chubby. My daughter and husband are as thin as rails, with a metabolism to match. Never do they gain weight, lucky things.

I did ask him. He said he said it because "I'm not used to it" and he knows that when I'm not used to higher carb foods and then eat them I sometimes get sick from it. He said he didn't want me to get sick. I thought that was a weird explanation since he didn't say anything while I was eating the foods, but after the day was over.

So maybe Falon is right. He is looking to me to set the example for how he should eat. Maybe my not eating on plan is scaring him with regard to his own tendancy to eat wrong. Maybe he feels like he has lost weight because of the foods I've been buying, and he's worried that I might buy more junk? That he will then eat more and gain back what he's lost?

I'm not sure. Anyway I start back on plan tomorrow. I'll have to relose a bunch of pounds, but I'll start back with renewed enthusiasm.

Well I made it through the weekend cheat free. I am noticing improvements in my lower stomach roll this time, usually it is my top one. Well I am running late, so I will have to catch up later.

You have been doing SO GOOD!!! Way to hang in there, that is fantastic!!!

Have a good day everyone!!!:hug:

Way to go Sandra on your cheat-free weekend...especially since you went out. Beer is my downfall if I go out...I just CAN'T say NO!!! SO I think you did fabulous in that department for sure!! :cheer:

I had a good weekend too. Hope the week goes the same way. I'm off to bed, I'll catch up with you all later. :smug: