Good Morning! 1-23 Roll Call

[Outback Jess]

Good morning STACers. It's another day, of our lives, of our plans. I've been noticing a lot of activity here in STAC and alot of reaching out and welcoming or helping each other.

I want to remind every one to keep revisiting the book. The book holds the "reasoning" for a ketogenic diet, as well as the phases of this diet, and it took me a long time to get past the induction part and realize there is a lot more this book addresses. It's easy to get in the rut of induction and stay there...It's great to see results...I found myself at the lowest weight ever, after my mother died this past april, and yet I was totally unprepared for Phase 3 and Phase 4....Dieting is much easier than maintaining weightloss....Eating induction is much easier than dealing with the rungs.

To become mentally healthy with food and habit, I've got to deal with the information available in the last half of this book. I am comfortable, my weight is great, I am no longer seeking agressive weight loss, but my behavior is very erradic! My old habits and relationships with food are challenging me. The book has much to say about behaviors to be dealt with...as well as the fact, my metabolic tendancies never go away, my body loves to store fat!!!!

Just things to know....

[OzLover]

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Embrace your DANDR book & keep it handy at all times!! Mine is showing signs of use...heavily highlighted & some pages coming out. Time for a repair job & maybe a new copy. Every time I refer to my book I find what I need!!!

Have a wonderful day everyone!
Glenda

[cgdat136]

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i am here!! home from the gym...and i took a day off from work today! i worked out for 50 minutes this morning and.....the weather seems so nice out that i just may go for a good 3-4 mile walk later

[Sheepie]

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Good morning! My advice for today: ziplock bags are your friends! It's such a habit of mine to use the whole thing. Even last night, I cut off part of an onion and put the big piece in a bag. I chopped up the small part of the onion and it was too much. Normally I would just throw it in and I almost did, but then I remember to put it in another bag to use another day. Same thing with a green pepper. I know, it's a simple thing, but not one that comes naturally to me. I always want to use up everything. You don't have to used up everything. Just save it for later. Save it for later. Save it for later. A little lecture for myself. It seems obvious, but I needed the reminder.
Happy Wednesday!!!

[jrnyback2life]

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I am here, ugh i am so glad its Wednesday lol, i am ready for the weekend - but glad its not. I am feeling kinda out of control and am afraid i am going to spiral and its easier to maintain control while at work than facing a weekend of no real structure. I am totally psyched though, i ordered the Turbo Jam tapes yesterday night and it has a 60 days money-back guarantee so i am going to give it my all for 60 days and i an send it back. But based on the reviews from here a lot of people seem to enjoy it. So now i will have something to do with NO EXCUSES lol in the mornings before getting ready for work!

Hope all are having a great day.

[chicamarun]

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Morning everyone! My husband laughs cause I'll grab the book on my way to the bathroom or on the way out to look something up.

Well I feel gross this morning and I hope it will pass and I really want to go to my pilates class. I don't know if something I ate upset my stomach - but I feel very nauseaous and was up at 4 and 6 with the same feelings. I'm wondering if today's evil feeling is from the konjac noodles I had last night. Not sure - but it was the only "new" thing I've had. So I'll go grab a bunch of water and hope it helps...funny thing is - I can't remember the last time I was sick like this and then in 2 weeks I've been sick twice. Very odd for me.....

Oh well..... enough of that My weight is the same - but with the heavy feeling in my stomach I'm pretty sure it will go down as soon as this passes. I'm dressed and ready to go to my class which doesn't start for a few hours - but it was exciting putting on a shirt that was tight when I bought it (at least weighing in at 160) and having it lose this morning. And it's one of those nice workout shirts with the lil air holes - so kinda sexy too That tells me the # of inches in it's own way as a lot of stuff just was "no way" just a few short pounds ago.

Off to get some water and to feed chickens

[lisadallasr]

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Good Morning Everyone!!! Have not checked in lately in here but have been to my journal, so not missing in action completely. Ok Jess thanks for reminding me I have got to get the book again, i let someone borrow it and never got it back and im sure they have no idea where it is. Also thats great advice sheepie, yesterday i went to target and got some veggies for a salad, cut up all the red bell pepper, cucumber and put it in a ziplock back, it makes getting my salad made easier lol, i can get a bit lazy sometimes and hate cutting all that up so if i do it in one sitting and its ready for me to just open the bag up and put some where i need it, i do so much better. Well i did get some excercise in yesterday, not as much as i would like, my hips start hurting, i guess it does no good to add the extra 30lbs i gained in the last 6mths to add to my already heavy self, my poor hips lol. I know it will take time to get back to where i was but im going to one way or another. IM so ashamed to know i was kicking butt this time last year with excercising and it was nothing getting out there and go hiking but now boy im good to do a mile, everything starts aching. Ok well its humpday and im happy this week is half way done. I hope you all have a great day!!!

[kislandmom]

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Good morning all!

Jess - thank you for the words of wisdom. I am getting ready to move to Rung 1 and you hit the nail on the head when you said that it is easier to stay on induction then to move on. But, that is the reason that I am here for a second time around! I never learned how to make this a way of life. Just a way of losing weight.

Chica - I hope you feel better. It sounds like your immune system is having trouble fighting off the bugs.

Jrny - Stay strong! You can do it. Start planning today for what you will eat this weekend. Having a plan of attack will help ward of impulse eating and binges.

[Evermind]

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Morning, all.

Yep, the book is not one of those tomes you read thru once and set down and don't pick up again for years. You gotta keep reading.

Yesterday was a long day -both teaching and an evening class. Got thru both very well, and when I came home, made myself some spaghetti squash for dinner and went to bed. JUST as I was dropping off, with no warning, I got that box under my tongue - you know, the one that says "it's coming UUUUUUP!" No nausea, no nothing. I made it to the bathroom and upchucked my entire dinner..........then I felt fine, and went back to bed and IMMEDIATELY fell asleep. WHAT is up with THAT?

I'm fine this morning. <shrug> Who knows?

Anyway, just teaching today, and then dd and I go to the gym for a major workout. Yay! I missed working out yesterday.

Have a wonderful one, all.

[DebOnAtkins]

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Timely message this morning Jess as I found myself struggling yesterday and made some bad food choices. I made the mistake of buying some Endulge bars the ones with the peanuts on them, kind of like a Pay Day bar. Well that set my system off. No more of those things for me. Big mistake. For right now I need to stick to the Rung that I am on and work through it. I don't think my body will tolerate any funny business from me LOL.


Debby

[sadie147]

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Morning everyone! We got a bit of snow here yesterday, not much about 5 cm but it was enough to get me out shovelling for 45 mins which at least got me exercising!

Great post Jess, you are exactly right about maintaining being harder than the losing itself, no one knows that more than me. I lost my weight in 10 months, and have struggled staying there for 3 years (i go up and down 10 lbs), it's a constant learning experience, and life seems to get in the way alot, but it's worth working at!

My biggest struggle was getting over my 'carb phobia' and trying to eat a more balance diet, i stayed with induction foods far too long. of course the second one is exercise. Exercising came naturally to me while I was losing because my losses kept me inspired to keep going..once i got to maintenance this really became a challenge for me, and a chore really....and for some reason, even having to lose a good 8 lbs at the moment (still haven't weighed...scared too!), i just can't get that motivation back.

I think one of the main things that will help anyone be successful in maintenance is doing OWL, and doing it slowly, and properly! I did modified OWL, so even though I added back every rung, in order, i never let my carbs get over 30 gs per day, which was silly (I can have up to 100 if i'm exersing, 70 if i'm not)....I think doing this made my maintenance that much more of a struggle, and alot more work.

Sorry for the ramble! Maintenance talk always gets me yappin!

[ValidRouge]

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I agree with the maintaining being much harder than the losing!

Jess, your post was timely for me this morning. Last night I was feeling ho-hum because my CCLL is around 40 grams net carbs. I think I remember Mitzi saying she was down because she really thought hers would be higher. I did too. But, I got to thinking yesterday that I recall Dr. Atkins in one of his books tell us that his CCLL is around 40 or 45. So, I dug out DANDR last night and while he didn't reference his CCLL specifically, he does mention 40-45 quite often as a "normal", "average" CCLL number. So, I guess I'm normal/average, which is reassuring. It is disappointing that I don't fall into the category of 60-90 net carbs per day as a "regular exerciser". Boohoo.

[spirittalker]

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Morning all. I wish i had good news to report but instead i am just pissed off. I got on the scale this morning to see 172.4 I don't really know what is going on. Makes me sad really. I think stress and my cheat this weekend and maybe a bit too much salt is affecting me. I bought my fit ball yesterday and did half of a fit ball workout before i had to get dinner on the table. That's another thing that i think is killing me. I cannot afford to cook 2 seperate meals so what i generally do is cook some atkins friendly casserole or something and then ad a carby side or two. But what i really need to be doing is sticking to simple things. Salads with grilled chicken , steak and fresh cut green beans. Things like that. But because the family likes variety i am using lindas wedsite and recipes and doing more of the creative cooking which i think allows for carb/calorie creep. The food is delish, but i think i am overdoing it or something. I wish my man would get on board. He is only slightly overweight but complains about it all the time. Yet refuses to give up his candy cookies soda and daily bread with dinner.

[bivium6]

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Hey all

I've been sick the past couple days, stomach flu. Today is the first day I'm back to eating. Its hard to stay on plan and eat when you are sick, all I wanted was crackers. I didn't (don't have any in the house and I so was not driving anywhere)

But I like to look at the postive side, think of all the weight I'll lose!! My stomach has shrunk and its easy to fill it up now.

Have a great day everyone.

[julirama723]

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Hey all!

Evermind--that's very strange. Could it be a reaction to the squash or the sauce? Are either of those things you'd eaten before? It could also be due to going to bed immediately after eating. One of my med school friends said that if you've been drinking (or I suppose it would apply if you have just eaten) and you go to bed, lie on your left side--your cardiac valve (the valve that lets food in and prevents food from going back up your esophagus) is on the RIGHT SIDE. So by doing this, you're letting gravity be your friend.

It's funny you should mention CCLL. The last time I was losing very regularly was when I was at 75g/day. This summer I got up to 90+ grams and was losing, though it was sporadically. My exercise has changed since then, too, less weight lifting more cardio. I've been staying under 75g as of recent and I think it's been working...but I feel so stuck right now. I'm 10-15 pounds from goal (I'm not sure of exact weight, not weighing until February!) and I haven't lost "pounds" since August...well, technically I lost pounds in October, but I stayed the same size clothing-wise and went back up a couple of pounds.

I can't decide if I'm eating too little or too much, too many or too few carbs, etc. I'm second-guessing myself constantly...