Day five on the Atkins diet and cheated - how much extra weight should I expect to put on this week?

I've stuck right to the diet since day one. I've been eating only meat, leafy greens, cheeses and zero carb yogurt. This morning I woke up with the "atkins headache." It was very painful but in a way I felt accomplished because it meant my body was recognizing the lack of carbs.

Today I went to my grandmothers and she made chili for dinner. Her chili when I'm there (since I'm picky) consists of only tomatoes, mushrooms, ground beef, onions, a can of dark red kidney beans and a can of regular baked beans. Originally the plan was to eat the chili, but pick out the beans. Well... I it my plate and noticed there were only about 10 kidney beans on it, and the baked beans were very few as well. My grandma made sure the ratio from meat and tomatoes to beans was wide, so she used about a pound and a half of beef making up most of the chili. I ate the beans with my meal. And then, I had another couple of spoon fulls after finishing my first plate and got a severe grumbling in my stomach. They say you cant digest things right after you eat them but I think that's a hoax because for the past three days I've been constipated, and after eating the chili I experienced the exact opposite. (I know, it's gross, but lets be mature)

Anyway, how much weight will I gain approximately?
What's the best way to go about this? Do I just continue with the induction phase tomorrow and stick right to the diet like I was before tonight or do I water fast for a few days to clean out the salt and glutcose in my system? I just don't know if a plate of my grandmother's chili, as delicious as it is, was worth gaining all my weight back. I have 120 pounds I'd like to lose.

I have the book at home but I've yet to read it. It's my mother's. I'm sixteen years old (Seventeen in Janurary) I know in induction you're supposed to eat a lot more net carbs than I've been eating but I'm very desperate to lose weight after trying so many diets and so I'd like to make sure it works. I'm 5'8 and 240 pounds. I'd like to be down half my weight by next fall. Unlike most diets, I'm not starving myself on the atkins diet and don't feel hungry. That's what I like about it. Well, that and the fact that I LOVE meat.

So this yogurt I've been eating.. I forget the exact name brand and I can't check as I'm still at my grandmothers, but it's vanilla and it tastes pretty much like nothing. I just remember reading the nutrition fact and it saying 0,0,0,0,0 for everything except the vitamins so I thought I hit the jack pot.

Since milk has natural sugar in the form of lactose, there is no such thing as a carb free yogurt. Atkins works when you do it correctly. Cutting carbs to only leafy greens means you aren't getting enough nutrients and fiber. Please read the book. You could also go to www.Atkins.com and take a look at their Getting Started tab and also the 2 weeks of induction menus. That would be a good help for you in doing this. Also, your goal isn't very doeable. Do you mean when Fall starts in September? 2 months maybe 25 pounds tops. And you need to get in the exercise with that. Good luck. Keep posting.

In five days I've lost six and a half pounds.
My mom did atkins about five years ago and lost over 70 pounds in five months. They say the more weight you have to lose, the quicker you shed the pounds. And I can't believe what my scales are telling me either. But I'm not complaining. I'd like to get more carbs from vegetables but I'm by no means the kind of person who can just sit and eat raw vegetables as a snack, or the kind of person who has the time to prepare them in delicious dishes. As much as I'd like to I have a job now and school will be starting soon. I've been on the website countless times and read all of that stuff. I'm still seeing pretty good results not over-gorging on vegetables. I usually only tend to eat one meal a day, which is supper. Poultry, beef, fish, or pork with a leafy green salad and light dressing. I have a few snacks throughout the day, perhaps a small bowl of yogurt (not anymore I guess) or a piece of lunch ham, and I don't feel hungry at all. So I'm not starving myself with one meal. I also drink TONS. Water water water. LOTS of water. Carbonated water, diet sodas, occasionally coffee (although its pretty hot in Canada right now LOL) and green tea. I cut out the artificial fruit juices which was very hard because oddly enough, along with the potato chips and the other starches my favorite thing to drink with them was extra pulp Orange juice.

I'm pretty positive that on a LOW carb diet, taking in LESS carbs than what's recommended won't negatively affect the diet. In fact, I'm proof it doesn't. I take a multivitamin every day as well as an omega-3 supplement in fish oil tablets.

Jersey girl, I recognize that the odds of gaining all of the weight back after I'm satisfied is VERY likely. Which is why I never ever plan to go back into my old habits again. I've eaten unhealthy all my life, and I've been "trying" to lose weight since I was about eleven or twelve but did things the half-assed way, didn't see results and gave up. I tried the cabbage soup, the grapefruit, weightwatchers and more. I know it's time to make a change. And thus far, the atkins has been beautiful.

Anyway... All of that being said, I suppose I'm now a little discouraged as to consuming dairy. Sometimes I have a glass of milk with dinner to helpr fill me up, or I'll nibble on a piece of cheese sometime throughout the day. Should I not do that? I've been on the website and it says I can, and gives the proper amount but everybody keeps telling me different things. It seems as though everybody has their own version of the diet..

Oh, I know. You're a sweetheart helping me out. If you don't mind me asking, what were your results like say.. A month or so in? Did you do the induction for the full fourteen days or just a week?

Hi Jerseygyrl
I just want to know if you use cream and coffee as I have been on atkins for 3 weeks the first 2 weeks I lost 4 kilo's and the third week I added exercise and I put on 1.9 kilos. could you give me a sample of what you eat.
Thanks so much.
Maxie