Well, its Day 28.....

[AWAaviatrix]

Here I am 28 days later quite surprised by the fact I haven't put a bread/sugar/alchol product in my mouth. Do I miss them? At times I'd love a potato or a beer at night and I had one day I almost gave up because I wanted something sweet so bad. The board kept me from doing that so many thanks to those that told me not to do it!

Overall I feel good. No more everyday bloaty feeling from crappie foods. I still retain water when I fly several days in a row. Seems like most of the women I talk to do that. Design flaw I guess. :sarcasm I've been lucky to have been off most of the last 2 weeks though as it is easier to not have the pressure of coworkers wanting you to eat something bad.

My weight loss has been stalled the last 2.5 weeks. My own fault for not being disciplined enough to exercise on a consistent basis. I did join my local gym yesterday and was there bright and early this morning for my 45 minutes of cardio. I'm am confident that this will get me out of my rut and make me feel even better.

Where do I go from here? I don't feel ready to move to OWL yet. I prefer to have a stricter regiment to follow to keep me in line. I have made one adjustment this last week as I felt eating a mock danish everyday was to many calories. I went back to drinking 1-2 cups of coffee. Bad? Probably but I feel like it is the most decadent thing I put in my body these days. I never thought I'd love the taste of coffee with just cream and a Splenda. Me, Miss "vanilla creamer," WOW! I have found it keeps me from wanting to eat too. If I see that with exercise my weight is still stalled I'll stop.

Misty

[2big4mysize]

don't stop exercising because of a temp hesitation in sclae weigh change. your body is morphuing and losing fat mass while adding some lean mass making you healthier and smaller even though the scales can't tell the difference in mass type. It is very normal with a new exercise program to axctually gain a few pounds as your muscle will retain fluids in the start. you will be a smaller person in apperance even when the sclaes don't validatew all the hard work you are doing. HAve you been checking your inches of fat lost to see how well you are doing when the scales don't move.

It is also very natural 2-4 weks into any weight loss program to see a hesitation in scale weight theis is where many mnay folk decide hey it isn't working for me and quit their program. Please get out your tape measure and se you are becoming a smaller healtheir you.

As to your coworkers recruit them to be diet support networkers as Dr Atkjins tells us to in DANDR that helps keep those food temping times to a minimum.

You will find OWL is very rigid too with lots of rules just different foods can be tried out in specific amounts in specific orders. many folk move the scales better in OWL when they reach the hesitation period in INduction. Read your DANDR chapter 13 and 14 and see if you are in fact ready to move on.

Happy low carbing.