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I wanted to share with y'all why I'm back on the board and back on Induction...It's really kind of funny.
As I've typed before (ad nauseum), I quit smoking about two and a half months ago, gave myself permission to eat everything in the house and surprise! gained weight. (On top of some weight that I kept telling myself I need to lose BEFORE I'd quit smoking but that's another story.)
The Smoking Cessation Forum over at about.com really helped me through quitting smoking. I highly recommend it for anyone that has quit or is thinking about quitting. Much like this forum. The people are kind and the tone of the forum is helpful, not adversarial.
I continued to think in my head that I was still basically low-carbing it, even though I'd eat a whole jar of peanuts in two days or a whole bag of sugarfree candy. Or even the chocolate dessert at Carraba's.
I saw the scale inch up, felt my clothes get tighter, and started buying size 14s which I haven't been in since my slide down four years ago when I went from 18s to 12s and stopped BRIEFLY in the 14s.
What to do? What to do?? The Smoking Cessation forum has an exercise and weight loss section. One of the girls there was getting ready to do the Master Cleanse. What is that? I spent a whole evening from one end of the internet to the other researching the Master Cleanse.
I had made up my mind that I was going to do it. Ten days of fasting on lemon juice, cayenne pepper, organic maple syrup mixed with purified water into a lemonade. I think I can. I think I can. I think I can. I think I can.
The next morning I woke up and said, "What are you thinking? Why in the world would you do this torture? You can just go back on Induction and straighten your eating habits out. Are you crazy?"
And here I am and feeling great. Eating bacon and eggs, steak and broccoli. Cream cheese muffins. Salad with full fat dressing. Not a lemon in sight.
Now, I'm not knocking the Master Cleanse as I haven't tried it. I'm just saying that for my purposes, Atkins is where it's at.
As I've typed before (ad nauseum), I quit smoking about two and a half months ago, gave myself permission to eat everything in the house and surprise! gained weight. (On top of some weight that I kept telling myself I need to lose BEFORE I'd quit smoking but that's another story.)
The Smoking Cessation Forum over at about.com really helped me through quitting smoking. I highly recommend it for anyone that has quit or is thinking about quitting. Much like this forum. The people are kind and the tone of the forum is helpful, not adversarial.
I continued to think in my head that I was still basically low-carbing it, even though I'd eat a whole jar of peanuts in two days or a whole bag of sugarfree candy. Or even the chocolate dessert at Carraba's.
I saw the scale inch up, felt my clothes get tighter, and started buying size 14s which I haven't been in since my slide down four years ago when I went from 18s to 12s and stopped BRIEFLY in the 14s.
What to do? What to do?? The Smoking Cessation forum has an exercise and weight loss section. One of the girls there was getting ready to do the Master Cleanse. What is that? I spent a whole evening from one end of the internet to the other researching the Master Cleanse.
I had made up my mind that I was going to do it. Ten days of fasting on lemon juice, cayenne pepper, organic maple syrup mixed with purified water into a lemonade. I think I can. I think I can. I think I can. I think I can.
The next morning I woke up and said, "What are you thinking? Why in the world would you do this torture? You can just go back on Induction and straighten your eating habits out. Are you crazy?"
And here I am and feeling great. Eating bacon and eggs, steak and broccoli. Cream cheese muffins. Salad with full fat dressing. Not a lemon in sight.
Now, I'm not knocking the Master Cleanse as I haven't tried it. I'm just saying that for my purposes, Atkins is where it's at.
Great job! It's got to be really tough trying to kick the smoking habit. 
What can I say, I was desperate... and who of us hasn't been there at some point? The best thing I ever did was coming back to the Atkins diet and committing to do it by the book this time. 
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