Need advice, think I'm messing up

[Fletch]

I'm not losing weight. I'm on day 9. Went into ketosis day4. The next night a friend visited and against all better judgment I let him turn my "one drink" into four. There were no carbs in drinks but I didn't get back into full ketosis until day 8.

I made a cheesecake recipe but didn't realize that eggs, splenda, and vanilla extract all contain trace amounts of carbs. Embarrassed to put my meals on here, but I know there are some real experts on the board. Where did I mess up? Other than splenda and too much cheese and whipping cream?

Week 1 sample

Breakfast:
5 egg whites with cheese
1 egg over easy
Lots of bacon or sausage. Lots. Love breakfast

Lunch:
Steak or chicken
About 4 servings of sugar free jello (JUST learned about the aspertaine)
Lots of whipping cream that I sweeten with splenda and whip.

Salad with some sort of meat
More jello and cream

Snack:
Pepperoni and/or cheese. Ate so much cheese in the first few days that I haven't touched it since.

This week:
Haven't wanted breakfast guess appetite is finally suppressed

Lunch
Steak or chicken wrapped in bacon
3 servings of my nasty cheesecake recipe (it asked for 8 eggs!)

Salad and meat
More cheesecake

Snack:
Bad habit of having 10-15 almonds a day

Water:
Always drink lots of water, often mix a little sugar-free koolaid.

Possible Carb creep:
Been marinating meat in: mustard, soy, worscester
I brush my teeth 3-5 times/day it contains sugar and I feel that there is some residual in my cheeks must contain at least 1 carb.

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I was a pig in week 1. Was so scared of craving carbs that I overate. I'm usually a great dieter my problem was lack on info. Wish I knew about this place sooner. Did I mess-up induction from too many carbs? Did I waste my induction? I'm back in ketosis now and optimistic.

Thanks for any advice!
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Male, 6'3, started at 215pounds
probably got up to 218 after the first few days. 214 now.

[Desertthorn]

Re: Need advice, think I'm messing up

Why the egg whites???
Remember you must eat breakfast. MUST MUST MUST MUST. Dr Atkins talks about starvation mode and it's in the FAQ section if you want to read it. But what happens when you skip a meal is that you body doen't want to release any fat cause it thinks your starving, something like that.
Cream is limited , and your eating way to many sweets. Try to cut them out as your feeding your sweet tooth.
Also, you should try to spread you veggies out over the day, salsa on your eggs, using lettuce to wrap with, small sides at dinner.
Saying all that, its very common to hesitate and not lose for a week or so. Your body is still adjusting to the WOE

[Fletch]

Re: Need advice, think I'm messing up

Why the egg whites???
Remember you must eat breakfast. MUST MUST MUST MUST. Dr Atkins talks about starvation mode and it's in the FAQ section if you want to read it. But what happens when you skip a meal is that you body doen't want to release any fat cause it thinks your starving, something like that.
Cream is limited , and your eating way to many sweets. Try to cut them out as your feeding your sweet tooth.
Also, you should try to spread you veggies out over the day, salsa on your eggs, using lettuce to wrap with, small sides at dinner.
Saying all that, its very common to hesitate and not lose for a week or so. Your body is still adjusting to the WOE

Great reminder on breakfast, thanks!

This board is more valuable than the book because it's live and up-to-date. I really thought this would be simple but carb-creep got me!

Think I was eating jello trying to beat the craving before they came. Was dumb. Then I ate more of it thinking it was allowed, I was probably just hungry. Veggies: thought it was only salad... I can have tomatoes??

Funny you mention lettuce wrap, the best meal I've had so far was lettuce tacos. Made me wonder why everyone doesn't eat them that way!

[Elizellen]

Re: Need advice, think I'm messing up

The book is handy for looking stuff up like the list of allowed vegetables

There are two lists of about 54 options, choose 2 cups from the first list (called salad vegetables) and one from the second list (called other vegetables) to make the most of your carbs.

Remember of our 'up to 20 net carbs' we are supposed to get 'most' from our veggies, so limiting yourself to lettuce means you should be limiting your eggs, cheese, cream and sweeteners as if you have only 1 or 2 net carbs from veg you ought not to have more than one from the other foods.

So choose veggies which give you 10 or more net carbs to allow you to have 6-8 carbs from other sources.

And use all of the egg as the yolk contains most of the nutritious stuff!

[pipee_pl]

Re: Need advice, think I'm messing up

i think you are eating too much salty meats- bacon, pepperoni- can you switch that up?

[liv]

Re: Need advice, think I'm messing up

You're doing better now. Still need to get with the rules.

*Do not skip breakfast under any circumstance
*Ditch the almonds for now - have something legal for snack (deviled eggs - leftover bacon)
*Don't put kool aid in your water - it does not count as water if you do.
You are probably eating too much sweetener - kool aid and cheesecake so think about that.
*Eat your veggies.

[Sunny_0ne]

Re: Need advice, think I'm messing up

Also, you need to hold off on the almonds until you get to the nut rung on OWL.

I was a pig in week 1. Was so scared of craving carbs that I overate.

I think this is pretty normal. I binged (on legal foods) several times during induction. Once your appetite stabilizes on the plan you won't feel the need for all that extra food.

Do check out the induction friendly recipes. They are lifesavers and keep you from getting bored and craving something "good." I made a legal breakfast taco this morning that was awesome, complete with avocado, lettuce, cheese, taco meat (leftover homemade), salsa and sour cream.