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  • You know you're on Atkins when

    We haven't done this fun activity in awhile -- please add all your own.

    You know you're on Atkins when....

    You don't even bother to put away the frying pan, but just leave it on the stove since it will be used for the next meal.

    The bags of sugar and flour in the cupboard passed their sell by dates months and months, ago.

    You spend more on heavy cream each month than on entertainment.

    Meat sales at the market send you running -- in a pick-up truck, if possible.

    You sit at your desk at work and dream of having a toilet three feet away.

    You know 17 ways to make cauliflower taste like potatoes.

    You know 23 clever uses for pork rinds.

    You have a minimum of five kinds of cheeses in your fridge.

    You miss at least 35 minutes of a movie because of bathroom breaks.

    Grocery shopping now takes triple the time, because you have to read the nutrition label on anything that you might even consider buying.

    You've actually forgotten what's even on some of the center aisles of the supermarket.

    YOU, personally, feel like you've discovered a cure for much of the world's health problems, but your friends just don't "get it."

    Not only do you know what "stevia" is, but you have some in the cupboard, and can even pronounce it properly.

    You completely understand the phrase "encephalic response to artificial sweetners."

    You're actually considering raising chickens in an attempt to keep yourself fully stocked with eggs.

    Not only do you know that there's more than one kind of lettuce, but you have at least three of them in the vegetable crisper, right now.

    You're intimately familiar with every rest area between your house and Grandma's.
    Last edited by Chris; October 31, 2006, 12:08 PM.
    -Chris



    Male, 58 5'4"
    First time around: 218/147/135 -- 71 pounds lost
    This time around: 193.5/184.5/135 -- 9 pounds lost

    Down 33.5 pounds from highest weight

  • #2
    Re: You know you're on Atkins when

    You have a minimum of five kinds of cheeses in your fridge.
    Too true.

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    • #3
      Re: You know you're on Atkins when

      Originally posted by Chris
      We haven't done this fun activity in awhile -- please add all your own.

      You know you're on Atkins when....

      The bags of sugar and flower in the cupboard passed their sell by dates months and months, ago.

      .
      How true is that one!? I have recently had a new kitchen fitted and when I was empyting the cupboards I actually came across some stuff that had a best before date of December 2003!!!!!!!!
      sigpic260/215/180 Male - 36 y/o

      It never ceases to amaze me of how easy and how effective this ***diet*** is!!




      I have since re-gained a bit of weight, but that is soon to be coming off again!

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      • #4
        Re: You know you're on Atkins when

        don't forget

        your bread drawer has cobwebs

        you know where every bathroom in every building you pass is.

        you have a new addiction to exercise

        and the biggest one is .......



        you know what the initials ADBB and DANDR stand for.
        by the book atkinseer

        started 6/1/02 at 313
        goalie 5/04 at 167 with under 15% body fat ADBB Presidents exercise Challenge


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        • #5
          Re: You know you're on Atkins when

          Chris, your list was awesome!! So funny!

          You know you are on Atkins when...
          You get excited to go to the butcher shop.

          You are thrilled when your "weight loss diet" includes pumpkin dessert that tastes well, like pumpkin dessert.

          You can eat prime rib at a steakhouse one night and actually lose weight the next.

          You can exercise for 15 minutes and be burning fat, when your low-fatting friends just burned off their glycogen in that time.

          You feel like a supermodel, even if you aren't quite in that league just yet.

          I could go on and on....

          No Weigh Until Christmas Day!!!
          Happily Married American Atkineer!(translation, males, please NO PMs asking for my help, please ask the board for advice, thanks!)
          I have lost:
          107 Pounds
          16" from my chest
          17" from my waist
          12" from my hips
          G-Mom's Challenges...
          End of September (Kid's B-Days) Goal: 215 lbs MET
          Christmas Goal: Under 200 lbs
          Valentine's Day Goal: 185 lbs
          Next Summer's Goal: 175 lbs!

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          • #6
            Re: You know you're on Atkins when

            Originally posted by G-Mom
            .

            You feel like a supermodel, even if you aren't quite in that league just yet.
            Well, it may not be "just yet" -- but it sure looks like it's just around the nearest corner!
            -Chris



            Male, 58 5'4"
            First time around: 218/147/135 -- 71 pounds lost
            This time around: 193.5/184.5/135 -- 9 pounds lost

            Down 33.5 pounds from highest weight

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            • #7
              Re: You know you're on Atkins when

              - You find out Chicken Noodle soup has an expiration date (and it's already passed)
              - You giggle quietly to yourself while the WW folks are trying to rationalize what meals they're going to be skipping from the points in that donut
              - You don't look at water and cringe
              - You're more comfortable with how you look than you have been in years
              - You have energy to actually play with your kids
              - You learn that you're not the only person who evaluates all the bathrooms in the malls and grocery stores and will only shop in places that have passed inspection before.
              27/f/5'10"
              HW - 312, LW - 172 (Jul 2007), CW - 205, GW - 160

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              • #8
                Re: You know you're on Atkins when

                OK, I admit, with a 12-year-old boy in the house, there will be carbage here and there.


                But last night I did a house-wide roundup of candy, gum and other snacks that had been there awhile uneaten, to add to the Halloween treat basket I'll put on the porch tonight...

                ....and found quite a large number of EMPTY completely intact wrappers (still in the original shape of the candies they once held!)
                ~Susan
                49/f 5'7" Start 2-27-06 SW222/11-18-09 @ 160-ish/G135-150ish??

                Doin Miles, Flights, & Kid Ketchin'...
                2 Ab Chal's; 6WEC#27 slug-Free; & more; 50# LOST in'06-
                but regained ~20# in '07 in less than 3 weeks! And again early '08 ...Was in HEAVEN -got to 150, for awhile, then got too busy, and gave in too much... and... OK holding pattern "keep it together..."

                .................OMG how did I fail AGAIN
                (((on temporary break)))
                Sigh ... I'll be back... life isn't always fair 10-07-09

                "Goal: First you have to dream of it. Then you have to do it." Author unknown

                sheesh

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                • #9
                  Re: You know you're on Atkins when

                  When you go to a restaurant for breakfast, and you order 3 eggs, fried in butter, a side of sausage, a side of bacon, and a side of ham, and the waitress asks if you'd like any toast with that you and respond, "No thanks, I'm on a diet".

                  And then she looks at you like this.

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                  • #10
                    Re: You know you're on Atkins when

                    Chris!



                    Originally posted by Chris
                    Well, it may not be "just yet" -- but it sure looks like it's just around the nearest corner!

                    No Weigh Until Christmas Day!!!
                    Happily Married American Atkineer!(translation, males, please NO PMs asking for my help, please ask the board for advice, thanks!)
                    I have lost:
                    107 Pounds
                    16" from my chest
                    17" from my waist
                    12" from my hips
                    G-Mom's Challenges...
                    End of September (Kid's B-Days) Goal: 215 lbs MET
                    Christmas Goal: Under 200 lbs
                    Valentine's Day Goal: 185 lbs
                    Next Summer's Goal: 175 lbs!

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                    • #11
                      Re: You know you're on Atkins when

                      ROFL!!!

                      ((would love to see that, Miss Phode!! Heeheeee))
                      ~Susan
                      49/f 5'7" Start 2-27-06 SW222/11-18-09 @ 160-ish/G135-150ish??

                      Doin Miles, Flights, & Kid Ketchin'...
                      2 Ab Chal's; 6WEC#27 slug-Free; & more; 50# LOST in'06-
                      but regained ~20# in '07 in less than 3 weeks! And again early '08 ...Was in HEAVEN -got to 150, for awhile, then got too busy, and gave in too much... and... OK holding pattern "keep it together..."

                      .................OMG how did I fail AGAIN
                      (((on temporary break)))
                      Sigh ... I'll be back... life isn't always fair 10-07-09

                      "Goal: First you have to dream of it. Then you have to do it." Author unknown

                      sheesh

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                      • #12
                        Re: You know you're on Atkins when

                        Originally posted by boonie stomper
                        ROFL!!!


                        ((would love to see that, Miss Phode!! Heeheeee))
                        Oh Boonie. You're so silly.

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                        • #13
                          Re: You know you're on Atkins when

                          You know you're on atkins when your refrigerators crisper is actually a crisper and not a rotter (because you are using your veggies before they mold)

                          28/F

                          Team Butterfly





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                          • #14
                            Re: You know you're on Atkins when

                            Originally posted by Miss Phode
                            Oh Boonie. You're so silly.
                            Sorry - guess I just needed to laugh at the time - picturing the puzzled look on the confused waitress's face who's thinking you're headed for a heart attack with all the fat...

                            now I'm hurt.
                            ~Susan
                            49/f 5'7" Start 2-27-06 SW222/11-18-09 @ 160-ish/G135-150ish??

                            Doin Miles, Flights, & Kid Ketchin'...
                            2 Ab Chal's; 6WEC#27 slug-Free; & more; 50# LOST in'06-
                            but regained ~20# in '07 in less than 3 weeks! And again early '08 ...Was in HEAVEN -got to 150, for awhile, then got too busy, and gave in too much... and... OK holding pattern "keep it together..."

                            .................OMG how did I fail AGAIN
                            (((on temporary break)))
                            Sigh ... I'll be back... life isn't always fair 10-07-09

                            "Goal: First you have to dream of it. Then you have to do it." Author unknown

                            sheesh

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                            • #15
                              Re: You know you're on Atkins when

                              Miss Phode!!

                              When you go to a restaurant for breakfast, and you order 3 eggs, fried in butter, a side of sausage, a side of bacon, and a side of ham, and the waitress asks if you'd like any toast with that you and respond, "No thanks, I'm on a diet".

                              And then she looks at you like this.
                              __________________
                              THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED TO ME THIS WEEKEND!!!! LOL

                              Stacy
                              F/45(!?)/5'11"
                              Highest Weight: 254
                              Current Weight: 248 (7/30/09)
                              Lowest Atkins Weight 196
                              Desired Weight: unknown, but below 180
                              1st Goal: 245

                              Don't be afraid that your life will end,
                              be afraid that it will never begin.
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                              Yes, these are wolves. Glorious wolves!

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