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I'm finishing up my 9th week on Atkins and I have been very successful (I think so at least) by losing 32 lbs in 60 days. I have stuck to the basics as I'm afraid to get off track and lose the momentum; I have another 10-15 lbs to go. My typical daily routine is as follows:
Breakfast - Always three eggs, sometimes with mushrooms or onions or sausage cooked in butter
Lunch - Pork chop or chicken (sometimes both) with broccoli and green beans mixed together with butter. Once in a while I make an imitation crab salad with fish and celery, or an egg salad.
Snack (if any) - Cheddar cheese and salami slices
Dinner - Chicken, steak or chicken wings from either Buffalo Wild Wings or KFC (twice a week) with a tossed salad with mushrooms, onions, celery and or cucumbers and ranch or blue cheese dressing. Sometimes scallops to mix things up a bit.
The only things I have added along the way are sometimes I add homemade green chile to my eggs in the morning and I've increased the amount of ranch or blue cheese dressing I use on my salads and I have also started eating the chicken wings with sauce and not just plain. Oh and at dinner I have been making fajitas with some tomatillo salsa as well.
I have been able to have a couple beers one or maybe two nights a week during the last three weeks without losing pace.
I've yet to do any type of working out but I know that will be required once I begin maintenance.
It's been very easy to stay the course by keeping things very routine, my shopping list is always the same and I haven't been burdened with "what do I add next" questions. I'm I setting myself up for failure by not sticking to the rungs and adding the other things in?
Sometimes I feel hungry but realize that my satisfaction now comes from looking in the mirror or how I look in pictures and not from the quick and easy pleasures of shoving something bad into my mouth
Breakfast - Always three eggs, sometimes with mushrooms or onions or sausage cooked in butter
Lunch - Pork chop or chicken (sometimes both) with broccoli and green beans mixed together with butter. Once in a while I make an imitation crab salad with fish and celery, or an egg salad.
Snack (if any) - Cheddar cheese and salami slices
Dinner - Chicken, steak or chicken wings from either Buffalo Wild Wings or KFC (twice a week) with a tossed salad with mushrooms, onions, celery and or cucumbers and ranch or blue cheese dressing. Sometimes scallops to mix things up a bit.
The only things I have added along the way are sometimes I add homemade green chile to my eggs in the morning and I've increased the amount of ranch or blue cheese dressing I use on my salads and I have also started eating the chicken wings with sauce and not just plain. Oh and at dinner I have been making fajitas with some tomatillo salsa as well.
I have been able to have a couple beers one or maybe two nights a week during the last three weeks without losing pace.
I've yet to do any type of working out but I know that will be required once I begin maintenance.
It's been very easy to stay the course by keeping things very routine, my shopping list is always the same and I haven't been burdened with "what do I add next" questions. I'm I setting myself up for failure by not sticking to the rungs and adding the other things in?
Sometimes I feel hungry but realize that my satisfaction now comes from looking in the mirror or how I look in pictures and not from the quick and easy pleasures of shoving something bad into my mouth
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