Hi Everyone! First Day back...HELP!

[Stefanie]

Hi everyone. I have posted on this board in the past and really like the support and honesty of its members. I've done Atkins a few times before, but have always slipped up after a few days/weeks/months. I have tried other diets but this is the only one that works, and so I don't know why I keep fooling myself by thinking I can stop this woe and I will not gain weight back. It's time for me to be honest with myself and also to start taking better care of myself. That's why I decided to go back to Atkins again.

Anyway, today is my first day and I'm really trying to do everything right. Before when I did Atkins, it probably really wasn't Atkins because I ate however much I wanted as long as it was on the acceptable foods list. So I had probably way more than 3 cups of veggies, etc.

So far I've only had one meal today, and I entered it into fitday. I was really surprised to see that it was 13 carbs! I don't know if I entered everything in right or not, but here is what I had:

omelette w/ 3 med. sized eggs (fitday says they are 4 carbs)
2 oz. of cheese (I customized it from the packaging and it's 1 carb)
6 pieces of bacon (0 carbs)
1/2 cup of mushrooms in omelette (fitday says 4 carbs)
1/2 cup of green pepper in omelette (fitday says 5 carbs)
1 tbs of butter to sautee the mushrooms and peppers (0 carbs)

Is this really 13 carbs?! How am I supposed to get in 2 more cups of veggies plus eat 1 or 2 more oz. of cheese if I only have 7 carbs left?

Any help would be appreciated!

[Lynsey]

Re: Hi Everyone! First Day back...HELP!

Welcome back! What is fitday saying your fiber is for the day? Remember you have to subtract the fiber to get your net carbs. Good luck!

[astrogirl]

Re: Hi Everyone! First Day back...HELP!

Some of the veggies need to be lettuce, basically.

Celery and cucumber are very low in carbs too.

edited to add: I happened to eat 1/2 c. of green pepper today, and I use fitday. After fiber, it's 3.5g carbs.

[Stefanie]

Re: Hi Everyone! First Day back...HELP!

Thank you both for your replies! I didn't think about subtracting fiber! And fitday says I have 3 grams, so that's 10 grams of carbs. That's much better, lol!. I'm going to have A bunless burger w/ mayo, one slice of onion and one slice of tomato for dinner. I know that both onion and tomato are pretty high in carbs so I will just have a small amt of those. My aunt is having me over for dinner, so I'm not going to turn down a free, low carb dinner from an awesome cook, lol.

One more question: Are dill pickles allowed on induction? Like, is it considered a cucumber?

Thanks!

[Lynsey]

Re: Hi Everyone! First Day back...HELP!

No prob about the fitday, I posted an almost identical post about a week ago. I consider dill pickes cucumber portions, but keep in mind they are REALLY salty. They cause me to retain fluid, so I have them very very rarely.

[meena-beena]

Re: Hi Everyone! First Day back...HELP!

I wouldn't bother putting eggs into the equation. Atkins says while on induction you can have unlimited amounts.

http://www.atkins.com/articles/atkin...ceptable-foods

[Stefanie]

Re: Hi Everyone! First Day back...HELP!

I saw that in the book...and I thought there were no carbs in the eggs. I was really surprised when fitday said there were 4 carbs! I wonder why Dr. Atkins said we could have unlimited eggs if there were carbs in them. Maybe the carbs don't effect us?

[meena-beena]

Re: Hi Everyone! First Day back...HELP!

I'm pretty sure it's the idea that eggs are a powerhouse protien source--also their ratio is perfect.

[Evermind]

Re: Hi Everyone! First Day back...HELP!

I eat 6-8 eggs a day, and I never deduct their carbs. I guess I would if I was EVER over 20 (before OWL), but I never have been.......