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    Excuses are Useless around here

    Here's a learning game we can play. I used to be the Queen of excuses when it came to losing weight. I could never stay on a diet because of this and that. Lets list things that we use for excuses and then put solutions that knock those excuses out of the water!

    After holiday shopping a friend asks you to go have a bite to eat at a restaurant. You are afraid because it might not be Atkins Friendly.
    (a) You can go and order salad, fish, chicken or specified low-carb meal that you've asked ahead what the ingredients are and are sure it is safe for you to eat. All you have to say to the waitress is that you are on a special diet. They are always willing to assist.
    or another solution
    (b) You can open your purse and pull out your own list of acceptable places to eat that you have already researched and are sure it is ATKINS FRIENDLY and suggest you go there.

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    You are going to your Great Aunt's house for dinner. They ask you to make a pumpkin pie.
    (a) You can make a pumpkin pie (their way) and then make your own dessert that is Atkins Friendly. When you show up, just say, I also wanted to share another dessert with you, so I brought it along too. (How can they be mad if you bring two desserts instead of one?)

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    You plan to go for a walk after work, but a friend asks you to go shopping with her instead. Now that will ruin your plans to take that walk tonight.
    (a) After you shop a while, ask your friend to go to the mall and do some walking around window-shopping. This is also a good way to get some exercise in when you don't have a treadmill and the weather is bad outside.
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    I've had church friends bring over candies, cookies and cakes as a token of goodwill during the holidays. (Some people also hear you are watching your weight -- so they test you by bringing goodies)
    (a) Thank them graciously and then either give it to other members of family who are not following Atkins -- or -- wrap it, label it and freeze it for times when you need a dessert in a hurry for people coming over who don't want an Atkins dessert)
    (b) Throw it away. Yep. I've done this. They don't know, so their feelings aren't hurt and I haven't jeopardized my plan. (You gotta do what you gotta do, right? Its all up to you!)

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    I have a million more excuses, but I'd like to hear some from others...
    I'm sure if we give people some solutions to excuses that will pop up, they can be better prepared to succeed over the holiday season.
    Starting Date 3/12/04 285/165/145 - F



    Dedication gives wings to our dreams and keeps them in flight! In One Word...COMMITTMENT.
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  • #2
    Re: Excuses are Useless around here

    Ok, what about this.

    You go visit your Aunt whom you don't see very often and she makes you your favorite dish (and she loves to see me enjoy it...that's why she makes it for me)...which is not Atkins friendly. What do you do?

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    • #3
      Re: Excuses are Useless around here

      This actually happened to me last year. A sister-in-law made me some pumpkin bread. I said I was stuffed cause I'd just eaten, and I asked if I could take a few pieces home with me. She wrapped them up, I brought them home and put them in the freezer for my husband when he got home.
      Starting Date 3/12/04 285/165/145 - F



      Dedication gives wings to our dreams and keeps them in flight! In One Word...COMMITTMENT.

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      • #4
        Re: Excuses are Useless around here

        Yeah but we went to her house specifically for lunch...and she made the special meal just for me...there were no other options to eat.

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        • #5
          Re: Excuses are Useless around here

          Yeah, I see what you are saying. I guess she would have been mad at me. I don't go to anyone's house to eat unless they know what I eat and if they disapprove, I bring my own grub. I've had a few people mad at me over this, but l feel that for the first time in my life, I am more important than a specific food. If she loves you and understands that you need to lose the weight for yourself and your health, then she would understand.

          I had some WW friends who had planned some food between themselves. When we got together to critique, they whipped out the food for us to snack on. I politely refused and they really got offended. One even told me that I was taking my DIET too far. I just asked her if what I ate was more important than our critique meeting, then I'd leave. I wasn't angry or yelling...just started getting my stuff together to leave. She apologized and said she was sorry. I know it sounds bad and I've had several run-ins with people over food, but I am proud of what I've done and nobody or no food is going to ruin it for me.
          Starting Date 3/12/04 285/165/145 - F



          Dedication gives wings to our dreams and keeps them in flight! In One Word...COMMITTMENT.

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          • #6
            Re: Excuses are Useless around here

            I've got some:

            It's Saturday. You've been running around doing errands, and you still have many to do. You're thirsty, hungry and a filet-o-fish is singing it's siren song at you. Whaddya do?

            a) best option: plan in advance for this, and either bring your own snacks/lunch and water bottle, or plan enough time in your schedule to stop at an acceptable eatery for lunch.

            b) Go through a drive-thru but get something appropriate. An Arby's roast beef sandwich, double meat, without the bun. A double cheeseburger or bacon cheeseburger with no ketchup or bun. A salad with oil and vinegar dressing. And don't forget a big ol' bottle of water.


            Your son's class is doing a unit on food, and they wrap it up by making a "healthy" lunch for parents and inviting them over to share it. Their version of "healthy" doesn't jive with yours. You don't want to crush your child. What do you do??

            a) remind your child that you are eating in a different way, then at HOME have him make you something that you can eat. He can then bring it to school so that he can serve it to you at lunch. It'll still be something that he made, and he might even get a kick out of the fact that he's doing something to help you.





            JoAnne ~ female ~ 295/208/Size 14ish
            Restart 1/9/06: 245/235/to get rid of 235

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            • #7
              Re: Excuses are Useless around here

              JoAnn, those are really good solutions. It seems that especially during the holidays we are all getting invited to places that I call 'out of my comfort zone'. I have a cooler in my trunk with bottles of water and emergency foods. They are not only because I am on Atkins (but it helps)...but also for disaster emergency or if I get stuck in the snow or whatever might happen...believe me..I am prepared. lolol

              I have made a list of foods in my area at fast food restaurants that I could eat if I had to go there. Most of the time, I don't eat out, but there have been occassions when I must. A lot of times if I'm with someone who wants to go there, if I'm not starving, I'll say I'm not hungry and just get a water. I wait till I can go to my 'comfort zone' which is at home to eat.
              Starting Date 3/12/04 285/165/145 - F



              Dedication gives wings to our dreams and keeps them in flight! In One Word...COMMITTMENT.

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              • #8
                Re: Excuses are Useless around here

                wannabe when you accept the invitation you tell them you are on a special way of eating and discuss it with them.

                And if all else fails when you arrive you boldly announce you want them to be one of your new way of eatting support partners so if you should be tempted to have something yummy that you can no longer have you want them to assit you in not consuming it. I bet that food would never see the light of day while you were there if she truely made it cause she loved you.
                by the book atkinseer

                started 6/1/02 at 313
                goalie 5/04 at 167 with under 15% body fat ADBB Presidents exercise Challenge


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                • #9
                  Re: Excuses are Useless around here

                  Originally posted by 2big4mysize
                  wannabe when you accept the invitation you tell them you are on a special way of eating and discuss it with them.

                  And if all else fails when you arrive you boldly announce you want them to be one of your new way of eatting support partners so if you should be tempted to have something yummy that you can no longer have you want them to assit you in not consuming it. I bet that food would never see the light of day while you were there if she truely made it cause she loved you.
                  My aunt is of Syrian decent....very hard to argue with them.

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                  • #10
                    Re: Excuses are Useless around here

                    Wannabethintoo: It's time you fake a very bad case of mumps / chickenpox / measles and delightfully decline / cancel!!!
                    Ninane
                    Learn to say no to the good so you can say yes to the best










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                    • #11
                      Re: Excuses are Useless around here

                      wannabe no need to argue who wouldn't want to be on your support team?

                      And as a memeber of that team she would not dare serve that dish
                      by the book atkinseer

                      started 6/1/02 at 313
                      goalie 5/04 at 167 with under 15% body fat ADBB Presidents exercise Challenge


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                      • #12
                        Re: Excuses are Useless around here

                        What a great post. I love it. Thanks Dream, I think this should be stickied, but you should share it with the whole board.



                        41 pounds down and counting

                        If you don't know where you are going, you will wind up somewhere else. - Yogi Berra

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                        • #13
                          Re: Excuses are Useless around here

                          Wanna - I have a mother in law kind of like that. She hates Atkins (never did any research - just depends on word of mouth from Doc's that heven't done research). However, she does cut down on the bread and some of the starches "for health reasons" but she sticks sugar into everything. Meat is usually covered with a sauce that has "just a little sugar" - as she puts it - along with most other things she cooks. So, I take a salad over with my favorite dressing and let her know that I can only eat certain foods and that I didn't want to inconvenience her in any way, so I bring my own. It always helps when you add: Dr's orders! .
                          27 F 5' 7"
                          Before baby: HW:230/195 after 6 months on Atkins
                          After baby and current restart: 210/207/120

                          I'm too sexy.....for this bod; WAY too sexy for this bod

                          Phase: Restarting a clean Induction as of 7/29/2007.

                          Minigoals:
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                          To get thru my second week clean: (8/12/2007)
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                          • #14
                            Re: Excuses are Useless around here

                            you can always use One of our former members great line "I'm allergic to carbs I breakout in fat."
                            by the book atkinseer

                            started 6/1/02 at 313
                            goalie 5/04 at 167 with under 15% body fat ADBB Presidents exercise Challenge


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