Please check my menu

[Stargirl]

Hi!

I've been suggested to post my menu as I am gaining weight instead of loosing it. I appreciate all suggestions.

Today:

1. 1/3 cup heavy cream (already whisped)
2. Omlett (2 eggs) with 25 g tomato (two Cherry tomatos), 1/2 pcs of Mozarella (60 g) and 25 g (1,5 tbsp I guess) hard fat cheese fried in 2 tsp butter + 1 ssp fresh basilica.
3. Salmon ( 1 filet) fried in olivoil, spiced with lemonpeppar (no sugar!). 2 cups green salad (small leaves, I have no idea what it is called in the States. Here it is "Maschesallad") with 1 tbsp olivoil and 25 g (almost 1 ounce) hard fat cheese. 60 g Mozarella (the other half of the pcs). One hardboiled egg.
4. Chickenbreast 8 oz fried in butter together with 3 cups (one cup is about 30 g isn't it?!) green salad. 1 tbsp olivoil.
5. 0,53 gallons of water, pepparmint tea
6. 1 tsp flaxseed and vitamins

Yesterday

1. Omlett (2 eggs) with 15 pcs shrimps and some dill. Fried in butter.
2. White fish fried in butter. Green salad with 1 tbsp olivoil and 1 ounce hard cheese.
3. before training 6 oz chickenbreast fried in butter and 1 egg (hurry...)
4. after training (late in the evening) 2 slices roastbeef ( I realized after eating it, that it contains sugar) 1 oz hard cheese as a snack.
5. Some cream in my hot tea and a lot of water. Plus vitamins and 1 tsp flaxseed.

Maybe my vitamins are causing the problem? It is a liquid called Total Nutrient nova with Beta-glucan, Ribos and L-carnitine and contains about 70 minerals and vitamins. Unfortunately there is no information about calories, fat and so on on the label. Anyway I am counting 1 tbsp with 4 carb to be sure.

It is difficult to get Atkins products here in Europe so I have to do kind of my own race.

What is annoying me besides the weight gaining is the fact that I haven't been on the toilet since 4 days. The last time it took four days as well and it only started moving because I was eating 3 tbsp of flaxseed and two pumpernickel breads the evening before. I don't want to do this again as I will ruin my introduction again, but it is making me crazy to go from 2-3 times a day to once a week. This can't be good for my body.

Please keep in mind that I am training 4-5 times a week and actually I feel like I am eating to little. My problem is that I am starting to get a profound aversion against fat, egg and meat. I almost feel the way some women feel while pregnant, smelling or tasting something that will make them throw up immediatly. What can I do???? I don't want to quit. The whole concept sounds convincing to me.

Pay attention that I started the introduction with 165,5 lb, less weight than I'm having now. The weightloss before is coming from another diet.

Thank you so much for your tips.
Stargirl

[ConfusedAndNeedHelp]

Re: Please check my menu

One thing that sticks out is too much salad in today's plan. ::back to reading::

If you have 2 cups of salad, you can do 1 cup of other legal veggies. But no more.


Do you use fitday.com? I'm a brand new atkins'er and love it. I plug everything I eat into it.

[boonie stomper]

Re: Please check my menu

I assume you are currently trying to do induction. Have you been following the rules for induction in the 2002 edition of D.A.N.D.R.? You can find the allowed induction food rules in the stickies section of the induction forum here, as well.

You are only allowed a max of 4oz (~120g) of cheese, of certain types. You are only allowed 3 cups of vegetables, from 2 separate lists - 2 from salad veggies, 1 from the other.

You may wish to enter your daily foods & drinks into www.fitday.com so you see how your daily totals look in terms of carbs, fiber (which you subtract from total carbs to get your induction total for the day), nutrition, and food type percentages. You want during induction to have 30% protein, 66% fat, and 5% carbs (% of total calories eaten).

At first glance, today so far, your cheese & veggies are over, plus protein vs. fat is probably off. Excess protein can also be converted to sugar by the body and slow your losses. Yesterday, your menu could have used more veggies; cheese was within limits. Try to even the meals out so you have some protein, fat and veggies in each. Also, try to choose veggies higher in fiber, which although are part of the carb total, you don't count. That should help you be more regular.

Working out strenuously can cause muscles to retain water. So can TOM. Constipation can add weight needing to pass, for which you can take a laxative if necessary, with lots of water.

[ConfusedAndNeedHelp]

Re: Please check my menu

Also, you shouldn't go more than 3-4 hours without eating something.

[Alexa]

Re: Please check my menu

Hey Stargirl,

I would also add that I have found it best to measure food in cups rather than weighing it. The UK (and possibly all European versions) of the book has weights instead of cups and I found this meant I was eating a lot more salad at first than I should have. So I bought some US cup measures and just use them now - on induction that 2 cups salad and 1 cup heavier veg. The UK book wasn't that clear, so maybe the same problem has occured?

As I said with your other post, possibly limit the meat, cheese and eggs and replace with tofu, and other suitable meat substitutes, especially as you are not used to such foods.

Let us know how you get on good luck

[Stargirl]

Re: Please check my menu

Hello to all of you!

Thank you so much for all the helpful comments! I will definitely check the vegetarian link plus trying to find a measuring cup. Even so I have this idea that grams are much more strictly, because you can "squeeze" totally different volumes into a cup, but what so ever... anything that works will be fine.

Susan: I can't take laxatives, as I get sick of it immediately. Actually I am kind of happy about this as it made that I never ever could overuse (or even use at all) this stuff to control my weight/manipulate my body. If I would want something to happen, I would need to take it from the other side... with plain water.

I have thought a lot about the thing with my workouts and of course, I am training often and intense. I am definitely shaping my body in a way that I build up muscles. Actually I need to build up muscles, as I need to have power to do my martial arts. As I haven't trained in years, my body was quit week (can you say that?!) and maybe, because of all the animal protein under the introduction (compared to my almost vegetarian lifestyle before), I gained extra muscles the last days. I don't know... just a theory... anyhow, I am training because it is so much fun, the body shaping is honestly just a very nice side effect.

I will keep you updated on how it is going! One more time: thanx for your attention!


Stargirl

[Elizellen]

Re: Please check my menu

Here is a useful post which one of our members made where she lists the weight per cup of vegetables
http://www.atkinsdietbulletinboard.c...ad.php?t=41620