times like this i want to cheat can someone give me a few pointers

[mitzimarie]

Re: times like this i want to cheat can someone give me a few pointers

Although I only eat bacon once or twice a month, I don't think that is what your problem is. Atkins is not a high protein diet - it is a high fat diet with moderate protein.

I know that the thought of going to only water is a huge bummer at first if you've never been a water drinker, but it really is the best way to go. Once you've done it a while, it is not so bad. I promise! It is something that I struggled with at first, too.

OK - here is a fact that you probably don't want to hear, but it speaks volumes... Atkins is about changing your whole lifestyle... not trying to keep your old lifestyle and fitting in Atkins where you can. I know... it sucks at first. But when you finally stop fighting it and embrace it, the Atkins lifestyle is AWESOME and much easier than you think it is now.

About being a scale person rather than an inches person... my advice is to change that, or you are going to drive yourself insane. The scale is NOT the best way to measure lost fat... if using a tape measure drives you nuts, then keep a pair of pants that are too tight and try them on often. The scale can be evil and play games with your head. Nobody knows what your number on the scale is unless you tell them... they do know whether you look better in clothes or not.

Good luck!

[fatty mcfatison]

Re: times like this i want to cheat can someone give me a few pointers

5 pieces of bacon alot? lol my 37 pound 6 year old can eat 5 pieces of bacon. By the time you fry it up it shrinks to little bitty pieces. I agree with Mitzimarie its probally that you need to give up everything and start drinking just water and lots of it. Be proud of your progress and tweak your food a bit. Best of luck to you.

[plsmachic]

Re: times like this i want to cheat can someone give me a few pointers

breakfast;
1 cup egg whites, 4 sausage links or 5 strips of bacon, 12oz cup of decaf coffee with 3 servings(6tblsp) of half and half and 5 packets of sweet n low

lunch:
chicken breast and a wing rotesserie style, and 2 cups of lettuce or 1 cup of mixed veggies

Dinner:
1 can of tuna with mayo and onions and peppers(not a lot) and 1 cup of lettuce. Or sometimes I have a chicken leg and thigh rotesserie style with the lettuce.

I had sugar free gelatin 3 days last week for desert.

I also weight train 4 days a week and I run 3 days a week so I'm keeping active everyday.

There's no need to eat egg whites - the yolk is packed with nutrients your body needs. And you're SUPPOSED to eat fat on Atkins. Up you fat intake, that alone will get more into ketosis.

Lay off the sugar free everything for 2 weeks. Don't drink ANYTHING but water for 2 weeks, and skip the sugar free dessert. If you're already active that's great, and that may be why the scale isn't moving as much as you want it to, invest in measuring tape and measure your success that way not just by scale.

Good luck and hang in there - you'll see this is this best way of eating to lose weight and maintain a healthy weight/lifestyle.

[plsmachic]

Re: times like this i want to cheat can someone give me a few pointers

and I didn't even catch the sausage/bacon portions... watch out for nitrates in them!! And those both have relatively high carb content for meat... You probably don't realize how many carbs you're actually eating...

Just be careful.

[plsmachic]

Re: times like this i want to cheat can someone give me a few pointers

Personally I think you need to have a think about what you're EATING

5 PIECES OF BACON FOR BREAKFAST!?!??!!!? Are you serious??? No one - and I dont care how hungry you are, what size you are, where you are - no one needs to eat FIVE pieces of bacon for breakfast! Thats WAY TOO MUCH. Its too much food ANYWAY plsu its BACON. We are meant to eat proteins. That DOES include bacon, but that doesnt make bacon GOOD for you!!!! Besides that, its likely to be cured in suagr, and it has way too much salt which will make you retain water!

ALSO - if you're putting 5 sweet n lows in your coffee, you obviously dont LIKE the taste of coffee (without the fake sweet), and since the coffee is DECAF there is no point in drinking it. Find a splenda sweetend drink and have that ONCE instead - or have a herbal tea without sweetener if you cant hack just drinking water.

Eww.

Wow... attack the poor girl...

[Hopeful1]

Re: times like this i want to cheat can someone give me a few pointers

I almost can't buy bacon because it gets fought over if I just buy one pack. I'd be in heaven if I could get 5 pieces at one time without being tackled.

[SunnySmile501]

Re: times like this i want to cheat can someone give me a few pointers

OK - here is a fact that you probably don't want to hear, but it speaks volumes... Atkins is about changing your whole lifestyle... not trying to keep your old lifestyle and fitting in Atkins where you can. I know... it sucks at first. But when you finally stop fighting it and embrace it, the Atkins lifestyle is AWESOME and much easier than you think it is now.

Absolutely awesome, priceless advice!! Well said! We all need to hear it every once in a while!

Sunny!

[thinkinthin247]

Re: times like this i want to cheat can someone give me a few pointers

Thanks everyone for your advice. So I stopped drinking the coffee and having the sugar free jello and my cravings are gone whew!!! Thank god!!! I read a post about the 5 strips of bacon being a lot??? I don't think that's a lot and on atkins it is ok. I only eat bacon 2 to three days a week anyway. I like the egg whites better than the whole eggs because of taste not because i'm trying to cut the fat. I try to get the fat from the mayo in my tuna or the skin with my chicken and the bacon has a lot of fat too. I've also been drinking my water at 3 liters a day. thanks guys

[mitzimarie]

Re: times like this i want to cheat can someone give me a few pointers

Thanks everyone for your advice. So I stopped drinking the coffee and having the sugar free jello and my cravings are gone whew!!! Thank god!!! I read a post about the 5 strips of bacon being a lot??? I don't think that's a lot and on atkins it is ok. I only eat bacon 2 to three days a week anyway. I like the egg whites better than the whole eggs because of taste not because i'm trying to cut the fat. I try to get the fat from the mayo in my tuna or the skin with my chicken and the bacon has a lot of fat too. I've also been drinking my water at 3 liters a day. thanks guys

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