Sharing here because you can choose to ignore it if you want instead of inflicting my yammering on the people I know IRL that are too nice to walk away
So I'd already decided to start Atkins yesterday, ate through all the carbs in the house, stocked up the fridge with good stuff...and came down with some sort of mutant flu. I decided to go ahead with it anyway since I've heard the first few days of the diet you can feel pretty rough, so why not get it all over with at once and feel really bad for a week instead of not so great for two.
Anyway, except for forgetting some of my planned snacks, I thought yesterday was going fine...until I realized I was looking at the sugar free cough drops and picked up the regular ones instead (I wouldn't have bothered, but it sounds like I have kennel cough, lol). THEN I realized that I never put a plan in place for what I'd do if I had to work late - and I had to work late. I stopped by McDonalds with the intention of getting a burger with no ketchup and a side salad, and giving the bun to the dog. When I got home, though, there were also fries in the bag and I'd already coated the salad in ranch dressing before I realized whatever brand they use was a lot higher in carbs than I expected it to be. At this point, I gave up, ate everything in the bag and went to bed. Started over this morning and it's going much better. I have to cook tonight and plan to bring a serving in to work and freeze it for emergencies.
I DID manage to drink twice as much water as I normally do yesterday and spent a lot of time running back and forth to the bathroom, which was reflected on the scale this morning (-2lbs) and helped me understand just how important staying well hydrated is. I'm not a huge fan of drinking water and just don't usually do it like I should.