someone help..urgent

[Laurenad]

Hi..I leave on a trip soon and i dont know what to do. I'm on day 4 on induction and i seem tohave gained a .5 ven tho the food was salty last night haha..whatever. i still have around 15-18 pnds more to go..thing is I did induction on and off for a total of one month now or so and i don't know what to do now induction or OWL...i won't have a scale on vacation and I'm leaving today. what do i do...they say u need a scale to monitor OWL..they say that once u do the first 14 days of induction u only needa get on ketosis and then go to OWL. ...or should i do 2 weeks of induction? i'm gone for 6 days and no scale. what do i do? I leave soon help please.

[TravlinLite00]

Maybe this link will help you.

http://www.atkinsdietbulletinboard.com/viewtopic.php?t=66118

[Moochiecat]

Go on OWL, add the extra veggies and don't worry about the scale. You said you're only gone for 7 days, right? You shouldn't be weighing yourself every day anyway, so go, eat the veggies and don't obsess over this....extra salad isn't going to cause any problems.

Did you get your mother to read the posts, or read the book, Lauren?

[Laurenad]

she read the posts and said she doesnt care what u guys say at all bc our doctor and she knows atkins is bad. whatever. im still doin it. ok..atkins today...OWL. I have an extra cup of veggies everyday or 3 times? thanks sooo much. i hope i continue to lose. ill be so sad if i didnt after vacation

[not2late]

Lauren, why do you do this to yourself? The first time you began Atkins, you were on a vacation in a foreign country where you didn't know how to count the carbs of the foods you ate there and where you had a hard time finding the appropriate foods because you left your copy of DANDR at home. The other times you've gone on Atkins have been under similar situations: starting school, going on Spring Break, visiting your boyfriend's family, and now you're going on a 5 day vacation. Each time you've come back to the board to say you fell off because you found it hard to stay on Atkins during these periods of time.

Do you see a pattern here? I'm really concerned because you are consistently setting yourself up for failure.

You'll have to re-read the OWL chapters in the book and read the stickies in the OWL forum because it isn't just adding an additional cup of veggies to your present menu at all!

So do yourself a favor, Lauren, find a time in your life where it won't be interrupted by vacations, visits, etc. so you won't have an excuse to fall off the wagon. Otherwise, you'll be constantly starting and starting and starting but getting absolutely no where.