Good Morning Ladies

Another day around here,nothing new,Leo has to the hospital for his exercises and I will do my at the same time.

PuncezillaWelcome:welcome1: back. You'll lose those pounds again. Visiting with family,the diet is sometimes the last thing on your mind. I know,that happens to me,when I go to my DD's.Here some just in case you need some.


THINNY-Don't be scared Of course the Atkins will work again.According to the #'s you put down, didn't bring you back to the original ones 162 to 152 is only 10 lbs . Just go strict with induction again your loss.

CLDWV-You're never alone on this board, theres alway one of us to help you along the way.


ROBIN-Sending and crossingmy fingers for you today.



Have to go

Hugs BB

I know, exactly!! thats why I thought I ate TOO many carbs coming from salad...I can never gauge it when I am at a restaraunt and theres a huge salad in front of me, I dont eat carrots or corn in it but i eat all the other veggies and I dont know the correct gauges to tell how many carbs is in what size salad!

I have read the book, 2 years ago, and I never started the diet, and I need to reread desperately!

Good afternoon ladies! I don't have time for too many individual replies, so I'll just say thank you to BB for saying I'm an inspiration to you Whenever I feel like I'm faltering, I'll have that to think about. Also, to Auddie--Rob's a friend of mine. I've already got a boyfriend and he's got a girlfriend, so no worries there I'm friends with him and a few of his roomies here at school and when I was talking about wanting to lift weights a few days a week, he offered to go with me if I wanted a gym buddy! I think he's going to be the first gym buddy not to crap out on me three weeks in

Speaking of weights, I am SORE from Monday's workout--and some digestion issues had me tossing and turning all night (when the Ulcerative Colitis is flaring, I get back/hip pain), so I'm not too well rested. But, today's day two of weights with Rob--so I'll update later with how it goes!

Hi, thought I'd drop by for lunch. I have my daily salad/chicken here, right in front of the keyboard. In my past attempts to do Atkins, I found that if I had more then one salad a day, I didn't get into Ketosis at all. But if I cut all salad, I have disgestion issues and end up taking metamucil which, of course, has 4 carbs/serving. I think we each have to find our own balancing point.
I haven't been using the sticks to check for ketosis this time and I'm a little disappointed with my weight loss. I'm in my third week of induction (I plan to stay at this level for a while) and I've been fairly good (except for a couple of drinks last weekend). But so far, I've only lost about three pounds. I had hoped I could get back into some of my work pants by now. I'm pretty sure I gained about 3 pounds every week all summer and that's why I can't wear the pants I wore in June!! I guess I'll keep trying! What else is there?
I am still new to this board and I appreciate the welcome. I hope to keep posting here and get to know all of you. Lynn

Lynnar, thank you for the tip on eating too much salad...I was kind of thinking the same thing could happen to me if I started eating 2 salads a day!

Missing lilyb.

Hiya puncie - so glad you're back from the Family Visit Thing! 5lbs ain't nothin'! I've gained that in an hour!!! Last week was pretty much The Week From **** for a lot of us - so here's to NAILING the 29 remaining days of October, eh?

IA with beachie on Atkins working a 2nd or 3rd ad infinitum thinny. Done it as a "diet" successfully more than 3 times . . . I'm hoping to have the most success thinking of it as a permanent woe/wol vs diet this time around. Join me?

I also agree with Beloved Beachie that you are never alone on this Board cldwv - I used to vanish when I felt like a "failure" etc from here . . . this time around I've promised to just keep checking in and dusting myself off & Posting the ups and downs - it's working and the support has been amazing!

Hmmmm . . . haven't heard of "CAD Dr. Vanini Heart Book" beachie . . . I'm still getting thru the Age Defying - looking for help on the weight loss when age causes the lack of hormones to slow etc . . . it's a tough but interesting read - I'll let ya know when I get to the secrets! LOL!

So glad you found a bud you can count on azzie - you ARE an inspiration . . . thought of you and your renewed reinvention at 4am this morning when I wanted to eat myself to sleep . . . ended up just going to sleep minus the eating! Tx for being here GF! What kind of lc goodies didja stock up - the larder here is getting pretty bare. Gotta teach hub to make the LC Egg Bread - does the trick (with some cream cheese) when I get nuts.

That "bread" travels well too robin & kraw! When I went to Tunica I kept a baggie of it in my purse and ate it along the 6 hr trip and also at the buffets with whatever else was out - remember it was the first vacay I ever LOST weight on - while eating my fill!

Gotta get busy on the MF house cleaning exercise plan - I say it COUNTS - especially if you could see this place - have really let it go from my travels last week and looooong hours at work this week.

Oh yeah . . . this mess definitely counts . . . .

Missing you too bouncie!

Where ya at today lynnar?

Been cleaning house like a MF! My hair is drenched . . . not sure if I'm working hard or having a hot flash! Has this started happening to you yet fitin?

Misery. So I'm taking a break for one last read and one more cuppa.

Found my exercise ball and using it for a pc chair . . . definitely needs way more air - I'm typing almost from UNDER the desk!!! (But using proper CORE form and adjusting my CORE balancing) . . . *sway*sway*sway - to and fro*

Well, thanks for the BB, but it didnt work too good

But I had a wonderful time, met some amazing women, came home with a head full of ideas & and have already implemented one of them. Hubby had a chuckle....I came home, and talked non-stop and a mile a minute He has to admit tho, that the ideas I came home with last night, wont cost us anything!

Ok, so I didnt do so good last night, but not too terrible. Just not op foods. So.......today starts fresh. Nothing tasted as good as I remembered anyway. I woke up this morning with sore feet and stiff hands. So, no, it wasnt worth it! .......oh and as I figured, there was nothing and I mean nothing healthy to eat there. A room of over 400 women, and they had chicken fingers and pot stickers?!?!?!?!?!?!? Must have been a man who planned the menu

Off to make my lunch for today.........have a great day ladies!

Robin, business related food is always bad! You feel pressured to eat something and there's never anything healthy! I had a salad for lunch at the thing I was at the other day, but it had no meal on it and who knows what was in the dressing. I was hungry all afternoon. What I hate most is when they have pizza at a lunch meeting. I have a hard time resisting pizza! And sometimes it's really hard to whip out your lunch box at a business meeting.

This is one of my loooong days. Had to get in to town early so the 15 y.o. could go to cross country practice and I have a late meeting, so I get to eat all three meals at my desk! Since cross country is a couple of times a week, I bought a carton of egg beaters (real eggs upset my stomach), a pack of "natural" ham and some cheese to keep in the office fridge. I also bought a corning ware bowl and some Pam so I can make microwave omelets. My co-workers think I'm a little strange, but there's very few of us here in the office so there's plenty of room in the fridge. I had left over chicken thighs that I cooked in the crock pot the other day so they're in the lunch box for dinner along with my usual lunch-salad with grilled chicken.

Kraw (is that what we should call you?), I didn't mean that you shouldn't eat two salads a day. I know Jerseygyrl is right about the book. I've read it a couple of times. I beleive I'm "weight loss resistant" and I'm trying to do what that section of the book recommended by cutting my 20 carbs a day down even further. You may not have to do that. I miss my veggies! and I don't plan to do this forever. My plan was to slowly add them back after losing enuf weight to wear my own clothes. It would be so much easier to buy a new wardrobe! But that's not the right attitude is it?

Since I'm here so early, I'll probably check back later and you will get sick of the newby who is talking way to much. Lynn

HI Ladies

Up on the scale today,but I average it out for the week,so it not too frightening. Its just going to bring my average weight up by a point or two on Saturday. Going to watch very carefully What I put in my month for the next two day. Wish me luck ,that I don't blow it this time.Or maybe I need myself.

AZURE-I meant what I said, you're so in control,whenever you out of the zone you go right back into it again.I wish I could so something like that. DH & I switched out eating patterns by having dinner at noon,and the both of us are still battling over one pound rocking back and forward this week. How long will it take for us to lose,this pound and keep it off. Wish I know the answer.


LYN-Don't know if staying on induction is a good idea. My doctor said it would be ok,as hes was on induction for a few months land lost. To me I would be bored eating the same thing over and over again,and I would CHEAT until the cows came home Thank goodness I'm retired and don't have to worry about business luncheons and what they serve. Hey!! LYN Don't say that about yourself. We're all hear to learn and if you have at point to make we could all learn from that point.

AUD-Hes into the syndrome X idea,about insulin resistance .The Hellers of the CAD & him teamed up and he wrote the Heart & vitamin section of the book.


ROBIN-Sorry the didn't help.Wish I know the answer for you guys,but I don't,but happy to hear you had a good time anyway
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BY THE WAY WHERE ARE YOU LILY I MISS YOU AND YOUR POST


Have to go have a nice morning will check in later

Hugs BB

Lynn, thanks for the tips!

I have been on induction, strictly for about 3 weeks now...well it'll be three weeks at the end of this week I think. I have lost 0lbs. It's really weird. My weight has gone more UP than down. I started at 135 and this morning I was 137.5! And I've had my period all three weeks (and will have my "real" one for the next 7 days)

In my second week I decided I wasn't drinking enough water, and now I drink TONS, and in my third week I cut my caffeine consumption down to 3 caffeinated drinks a week. I don't see how caffeine would make me gain weight, it does not make me eat more or less or different food and I do not drink it with sugar or milk or anything else.

So, I think I am with you (Lynn) in that I should extend induction and see where it takes me. I really can't see why this diet just wouldn't work for me. I also have to pull the Atkins book out of the closet, I read it so long ago and I really have to read it again because I'm sure I'm forgetting parts of it!

Also, I only have 18 more lbs to lose, losing the first 25 was easy!! So that factors into the very, very slow as a snail weight loss!!!

Lynn, Kraw... about staying on induction. I stay on near-induction carbs to lose weight after the first week on induction. I have found that if I go above 40 carbs a day, I just don't lose.

With the salads, two a day should be fine (great in fact) But you want to be careful about what's on the salad. Avoid higher carb veggies like onions, tomatoes, and carrots. Also, your salad will have more fiber/ fewer carbs if yous stick to dark green lettuces like red leafy, green leafy, or romaine. Spinach can be higher in carbs by comparison to the leafy lettuces. The number one problem with salads is the dressing. Commercial dressings often have unnatural salts and MSG which cause swelling and food cravings. Alot of the diet dressings out there have sucralose and/or sugar alcohols which will increase your carb count(even though they get away with labeling it no carbs). I highly recommend making your own dressing with liberal amounts of olive oil, a splash of vinegar, and mustard. You can play around a little and add a dash of tomato paste, or perhaps a little peanut butter for different flavors. Just remember, only a splash of the flavorings, as they add carbs. You want your dressing to be 99% olive oil, something commercial dressings just don't do.

Okay, stepping off my nutrition mumbo jumbo horse.... I'm still having really good luck with the cinnamon. I've been putting a half teaspoon in my tea twice a day, and it seems to really increase energy. I think I'm gonna try and join Gold's gym next week to keep up with my exercising. Exercising at home has gotten to be boring to me lately.

I had good news on the scale this morning. I lost all my PMS water weight, and now I'm back at my ticker weight. We'll see if I can make that ticker move by next week!

Missy, this is all great advice - it is EXACTLY what i do! I do not eat high carb veggies and I stick to dark lettuces and olive oil or apple cider vinegar dressing (just plain, not commercial kinds...) and I always put plain meat on my salads.

I'm crossing my fingers that the weight i'm holding onto is just PMS weight, and that once this week is over it'll be gone!!!! hopehopehope!

Kraw... I'll cross my fingers with ya! I lost 5 lbs in one day the day I got my period. By the third day, I'd lost 8 lbs of water weight! That pre-period bloat can look really ugly on the scale.

Hi Aud!

You know what used to happen to me, I used to sweat like crazy at night while I was asleep. But since I've lost those 36 lbs, I don't sweat anymore, but I do sweat while doing some exercise or any kind of movement. But then I have always been a sweater! LOL

Oh by the way, I lost a 1lb!!!! I'm working out on my elliptical and it kick start my weight loss again!!! I'm also taking L-Carnitine to rev up my metab. So all is well with my soul!!!!

Hope you all are doing good! Hang in there, we can do whatever we want to do if we put our heart, soul and mind to it!!

Take Care Ladies!!!