This isn't a Diet.

[ttdriver]

Re: This isn't a Diet.

HONGRY, EH ALLIE!!??!

Yesterday I went to Longhorn and had the 12 oz ribeye, a full salad, and broccoli with melted butter!

DIET?

Betty

[cleochatra]

Re: This isn't a Diet.

You guys are the best!

If I've offended anyone, that wasn't my intention. I'm just trying to keep it real over here. If you've come in on day 2 of induction and now you're thinking, "OMG. Is she cracked? I'm only on day 2 and she has me on a lifetime prison stayof no parole, even for good behavior."

Atkins isn't prison, and staying away from the substances to which we're addicted, like alcohol, nicotene, caffeine, drugs or carbohydrates really is what makes us free.

If prison is health, fitness, eating dinner with Allie and Betty, hanging out with my friends at ADBB and fitting into size 6 jeans, sign me up, baby, and throw away the key!

[dreamof145]

Re: This isn't a Diet.

I couldn't agree more. People go on and off of diets. Atkins is a way of life.

[Reginia]

Re: This isn't a Diet.

Diet simply means the way a person eats.

[Labarum]

Re: This isn't a Diet.

Diet simply means the way a person eats.

You are absolutely correct, Queenie

See

http://www.webster.com/cgi-bin/dicti...search&va=diet

But the word has come to mean "reducing diet", and therein lies the problem.

It is a word that has been hijacked.

[dreamof145]

Re: This isn't a Diet.

I agree, I'm associating not the definition of diet, but every time I went on/off a new eating routine, I called it a diet. Now, I no longer use the word, Diet. I have a way of eating. It is how I eat for life.

[sallyseachange]

Re: This isn't a Diet.

Too right Cleo! Good one!

[Labarum]

Re: This isn't a Diet.

had the 12 oz ribeye, a full salad, and broccoli with melted butter!

How much woud that cost in the US of A?

[ttdriver]

Re: This isn't a Diet.

How much woud that cost in the US of A?

$13.99 and worth every penny!

I had just finished my 11 mile run and I was HONGRY!

Betty

[Labarum]

Re: This isn't a Diet.

$13.99 and worth every penny!

That's what I thought - would be at least that in Pounds Sterling here.
We can it "Rip-off Britain"

[ttdriver]

Re: This isn't a Diet.

how is the beef there? Here, IT ROCKS! Funny, cuz when we left Nebraska our friends told us "you'll never get a good steak in Florida" .. well they were right; they're not "good" here, THEY ARE GREAT! Florida is a big cattle state (most people don't realize that, but its true!) We grow more than oranges and grapefruits, that's for sure!


Betty

[Labarum]

Re: This isn't a Diet.

British Beef can be extremely good - and safe. Mad Cow disease was an abberation.

Roast Beef of Olde England, and all that. But it is expensive, especially in restaurants.

[Alienore]

Re: This isn't a Diet.

On Atkins you never have to be hungry - which makes it much much easier to stick to than any of the low-calorie regimes where hunger was a constant situation. I love the fact I eat natural and unprocessed foods and that I can enjoy each and every mouthful.

The amount of money that WW and Lean Cuisine make on processed rubbish is crazy - I know it's not always convenient to cook freshly each night but sitting down to a decent plateful of food that makes my mouth water is a real treat.

How can anyone NOT want to live like this?

This isn't a quick fix 'diet' - this is FOR LIFE.


Deborah

[atkinsagain]

Re: This isn't a Diet.

You want to lose 30 pounds by this date or you'll just give up. Give up what? Feeling good? Having a lower blood pressure? Being off of your acid reflux medications? Being able to manage your cholestrol?


I've read a couple of recent threads that said setting a weight loss goal by a certain date is not necessarily a good idea. I have set a goal for myself to lose 30 pounds by a certain date (5 months from starting).

The reason I set this goal is not just because I want the weight off by then, it is because I want to have been able to learn to permanently change for good the way I eat and think about food and exercise and be in maintenance by then after successfully moving through each rung, etc. Which means, I will have had to have met my goal weight by then. If I'm not there by that date, then I may have to modify my goal, but I have no intention of just giving up if I'm not there by then. I also recognize that even if I stick to the plan to a "T" , my body may not let me reach my goal weight by then. But, I also know that I'm the type of personality that if I don't set some kind of goal for that, I will forever be having to go back to induction and in OWL, because what's one little cheat if I can just get back on tomorrow? Well for me, one little cheat turns into days and days of cheats. That's where I failed the last time. I didn't set a timeline and I didn't permanently change the way I thought about food or my health, because what the heck, I had all the time in the world, right?

I just think it is important to realize that everyone is different. What motivates some, may not motivate others. What works for some may not work for others.

[ttdriver]

Re: This isn't a Diet.

There is nothing wrong with short-term goals *AS LONG AS YOU MAINTAIN THE MINDSET THAT THIS WOE IS FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE*. The stumbling block for alot of people who make short-term goals (i.e. for a special event) is, they tend to drop out of the plan after that goal is reached. That was never the idea of Atkins. Its always been presented to be a nutritional approach that you can *and MUST* permanently live with.

Betty