its been 6 days...

[icandothis2010]

6 days ago I messed up greatly on the atkins .. as I posted in my other post. However i came to a break through today. I am finally back down to where i was 6 days ago. I went grocery shopping and got the Diet Rite to just have on special occasions and I got more splenda for the mock danish i have been fixing. However, even tho i keep the splenda down to just 3 servings a day each time i have anything with splenda in it now i crave ( like horrible cravings) anything sweet chocolate cake brownies doughnuts you name it i crave it. Now before i had my incident where i completely messed up i could have splenda within the 3 servings and not have any cravings. Any ideas to why this would be? Also i made the sausage muffins on Linda's menu pages and they are great frozen then reheated. Another problem I am having is i am finding it very hard to force myself to eat and drink my water for example today consisted of the following menu:

Breakfast:
Sausage Muffin 2net carbs
Lunch: BK Double stacker only 1 slice of cheese no bun no sauce: 2 net
Snack: 1 oz of left over steak with grilled green peppers and a hard boiled egg:3 net carbs
Dinner: Side salad with low carb dressing, tri tip steak with garlic and basil seasonings, and mashed cauliflower with bacon and butter no cream or cream cheese added. :3, 2, and 3
Snack: Mock danish 2 net carbs
Total today: 17 net carbs

any ideas on improvement or am i still doing ok? advice would be helpful still feel blah for the mistake last week.


Thanks loves!

[Georgiana]

Re: its been 6 days...

each time i have anything with splenda in it now i crave ( like horrible cravings) anything sweet chocolate cake brownies doughnuts you name it i crave it

If Splenda triggers cravings for you, then you should have none.

You might be able to use it occasionally later on... or you might have to go with no sweeteners at all.

Looking at your menu... Are over half of your net carbs coming from vegetables?

[Desertthorn]

Re: its been 6 days...

I am so afraid of fast food that I won't go near it, just because I don't believe anything they tell me, Does the meat have fillers, etc. I read just this week that Health Choice is fudging on their calorie counts, so you can't even believe that any more.. and my personal favorite IHOP putting pancake batter in their eggs...

I know it's a pain, but I would try making my own meals for a couple weeks and see how that goes.

[icandothis2010]

Re: its been 6 days...

yea normally i do not eat out at all yesterday i went to lunch with a friend in the food court cuz i was out and about with her and the choices were bk a pizza place planet smoothie manchu wok and charleys sub so i figured bk but i normally dont eat out i have been cooking all my meals. and for my half bein net carbs yesterday i had .. 8 net carbs from veggies most from the cauliflower for dinner last night. but most of everything i ate i had to sit down and make myself eat because i am just not hungry at all . Also i am finally starting my exercise routines today just by walking and possibly and hopefully goin to the gym to do some bike or something .