Thanks a bunch!

I'm going to need to take up a hand-held hobby that can travel! I thought I was doing well, was at my friend's house watching an NBA playoff game and BINGO someone brought chips and guac. Even then I thought I was safe until another friend appeared with cake and fresh strawberries. Dove right in.

Actually feel dizzy and sick this morning

Hope this passes too. Was so "wired" I was up until 2 am All ready to have my turkey sausage and eggs this morning... I'm not even going to complain!

Where can I go for some good low-carb veggie and breakfast suggestions?

Hugs to all!!

Hey, check out the recipe section.

OK. How do I get there?

http://www.3fatchicks.com/forum/foru...?s=&forumid=83

It's part of the low carbohydrate lifestyle forum - this forum. There is also a section on frequently asked questions.

Check it out and enjoy.

hi all, i just read ALL your posts. very inspiring and lots of great advice. i have tried the cad twice before and in between , ww pts richardsimmons and a no diet approach. i know i am addicted to carbs, that is all i ever want, not necessarily sweets, but loads of pasta, potato salad, macaroni and popcorn, you get the point. i could never get past three days, i know if i can just get 3 whole days in of eating the cad way, i think i can be on my way. i also am trying to give up weekend drinking. i am trying to start again today. i just turned 38 on monday. i am tired of being a slave to my carb binges. i dont want to do the calp, cause i dont want to snack. i just want to make this simple, three meals and dont think about food any other time. i have to keep myself busy and start moving my butt more. i have been averaging 3 days a week of excercising, that is just not enough. with all my yo yo dieting, i have lost a total of 10 lbs, that is with up and down and staying the same and up and down etc. as of my monday weigh in i was 188, from my all time high of 198. i am 5'3. i really want this way of eating be the way i can eat for life.

i hope i can do this once and for all. i hope everyone else is doing well. oh i did try atkins and somersizing, just didnt like the way i felt. on cad if i need to eat a carb during the day, i will just switch my reward meal from dinner to lunch. looking forward to getting to know you all. i just hope i can stick with it.

Hi Willbethin,

I'm on week 2 of CAD and am still fighting some "nibbling". When I do the three meals (no snack) I do much better. As soon as I try and dabble (even if it's a low carb snack) I find myself wanting to get more wiggle room. Sigh. This really is an addiction.

But, I have to say, I'm not craving sweets for the first time in my life and I'm not too hungry between meals for the most part. My biggest frustration is fatigue. I'm on a couple of medications for mood stability and I don't know if it's the meds or the lack of carbs for energy. All I know is most people on CAD and Atkins have a bunch of energy and I flat don't! I still can't figure that out.

My other difficulty is the Reward Meal - my years of yo-yo dieting make it seem too good to be true so I find myself sabatoging that meal with "low-fat, low calorie" yucky food and then being waaaay unhappy! Yikes! The human mind is a powerful thing!

hi all, kgyaya, about the reward meal, i over did it just a little bit but caught myself, i am not doing the low fat low cal, at the reward meal, i will try to make it as healthy as i can but , the reward meal is what i will be looking forward to each day, and i want to enjoy it, it really will help me stay in control the rest of the day. when i was on this before, i binged at the reward meal and thought i still was not incontrol so i quit. i know eventually i will get in control of the reward meal, so i am gonna give it time and not quit. i ate a good enough breakfast yesterday where it lasted me till dinner, i totally skipped lunch. i am gonna take it once day at a time and keep to this, i always quit everything. i want to make this work. i hope we all can.

hi mitch, i just start cad yesterday. i tried it before but never made it past 3 days, i felt i binged at the reward meal, but i feel like this about it now, even if there are days that i overindulge at the reaward meal, it is limited to one hr, carbs only once a day and that is soooooooo much better then me overeating and bingeing on carbs all day long and sometimes late night. i am not saying i am going to binge for one hr a day, but i will eat what i want and try to listen to my body when it says i am full and not keep eating just cause i have another 20 minutes or whatever till the one hr is up, that was another mistake i made before, i was full, and i said well it hasnt been an hr yet i still have 10 more minutes to eat what i want, and then feel so gross afterward and just didnt think i could handle eating the cad way. i am thinking differently about this way of eating this time. i hope i can make it work.

when i was on somersizing, i didnt like the way i felt, and i really didnt enjoy my carb meals, i mean if i am a carb addict i wanted to enjoy the carb meals i chose to eat. i mean, no fat and no sugar with the carbs?? ewwww, i couldnt eat fatfree sugar free stuff on wheat bread ar whole wheat pasta. i couldnt do it. i hope you can , good luck with it. oh, i cant relate on the caffeine thing, i never drank coffee, or anything with caffeine in it. hang in there.

Hi All,

I also tried the "no sugar, no white flour" route and ended up jumping off the wagon (vs. falling off). I lost 10 lbs. in a month but then binged my way back to 10+.

CAD seems to be working right now because of the Reward Meal. I have much greater control throughout the day when I know I can eat a balanced, yummy meal with sugar and whichever carbs I enjoy.

Willbethin- I didn't do the low-fat, low-cal RM last night and fought my "you blew it" dragon... feel much better this morning. I didn't overstuff myself or overindulge... just ate what I wanted and stopped when I was full! What a concept! Weight loss is slow (always is for me) but I've lost 4 lbs. in 2 weeks so I'm ok.

Here's to all of us making it this time!!

kgy, sounds like you are getting the hang of it. i havent cheated on it, this was day five and i cheated today. i just dont like eating this way. IT DOES REALLY WORK, though. my stomach growling has subsided and i get wait longer to eat my meals. i just am afraid i am forming new bad habits. some days i would only eat one protein meal, skip a meal, than eat junk like pizza or french fries for my reward meal then some candy after wards.

i have learned from this experiment though. proteins definitly suppress the appetite and i use the reward meal to eat junk. this will not work in the long run. i am not eating healthy. so i am not going to continue to do cad. i just want everyone to know cad does work, i just dont want to eat this way for the rest of my life. i think i want to do ww pts, but choose to spend lots of points on more protiens than carbs. if this works for me i will be back to let you all know how i am doing. good luck to all of you.

hey guys, i have been doing cad since thurs, and i thought i didnt want to do it anymore, so this morning i was going to try to do something else, but guess what, i didnt want any carbs this morning, i guess i am getting used to eating this way, i will try my hardest to not eat junk at my reward meal. could it possibly be??, am i really getting rid of my carb addiciton??? we shall see. i will try it again today!!

Shall I start a new thread for CAD/CALP? This one is getting a bit long.

yes, i guess so ruth, but i am afraid i wont be joining it. i made my reward meal a one hour carb binge, it is just the kind of bingeing i need to change. the protien and veggie meals are getting old too. this does work, but i fear i am using the cad way of eating to give me an excuse to keep on eating the junk that got me overweight in the first place, but instead of eating it all day i am limiting it to an hr a day, this , to me is not good healthy eating habits, so i guess this really isnt for me. i will be adding alot more protiens as cad has proved to me that protiens are natural appetite suppressants, for me anyway, but i just dont like the having carbs once a day, i know this is how a carb addict can possibly be cured, but i just dont want to have to eat like this. i hope i can control my eating by changing a few things and use some of the stuff i learned by being on cad. good luck to all. i will let you all know how i am doing.