[Tilly]

Hi Guys,
I just started doing the Atkins induction yesterday. I would love some feedback on my choices for yesterday and today.

Yesterday
Breakfast:
2 roll ups with lettuce, turkey, swiss cheese and cream cheese

Snack:
Hard boiled egg

Lunch:
9 pieces sashimi
miso soup
Hijiki (seaweed) in soy sauce (the sauce tasted sugary)

Snack
Small piece of grilled chicken with cheese melted on top

Dinner
Large salad with lettuce, bacon and gorgonzola cheese, ranch dressing
2 glasses of white wine (I KNOW, I KNOW but I read that white wine has no/very low carbs).

Snack
about 10 pork rinds


Today:
Breakfast
2 roll ups, as yesterday

Snack
small beef jerkey
approx 3 oz. tuna salad with mayo

Lunch (planned)
About six oz of chicken with cheese melted on top
Bell peppers and grape tomatoes

Snack
Pork rinds

Dinner
Omlette

I would love feedback!! Thanks

[Pooky]

Looks good to me, but on Induction you aren't supposed to have alchohol of any kind. You may want to incorporate more veggies in there--like even some sliced cucumber with your snack.

[Tilly]

Hi Pooky,
I am confused on the vegetable issue. I would like to allow myself unlimited veggies (avoiding carrots, potatoes, corn) but supposedly we are only allowed three cups? Do you think it would really hinder progress to eat more? It would just make me feel like I had more options, and also make me feel like I am eating a bit healthier. I still feel guilty about being able to eat all the fat I want.

[dyan_q]

Tilly - According to my Dr. I need to eat 5 servings of veggies a day. That's 2.5 cups in most veggies. My problem is that there are very few LC veggies I like: Zuchinni, squash, green beans, onions, mushrooms, and beets. I've been known to eat 4 cups of zuchinni a day, but I can't stand Cauliflower. I think it stinks, literally. It smells bad to me and if it smells bad, it tastes bad. What I'd love to be able to eat are beans. Black beans, kidney beans and chickpeas.

[Pooky]

Go ahead Tilly! I do, I don't say, well there's just these 3 cups and that's it. Better to eat a cucumber than to eat a piece of cake!