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  • #1

    Food Frustrations

    This is my second day on Atkins and I have already had a few food frustrations. I've been reading labels and just about everything in my stinking fridge and pantry has some sort of sugar in it. The carb count is low like no more than 1g carb per serving, but sugar is listed, or some other form of sugar is listed in the ingredients list. I can't just do away with it all, I have a husband and a 20 month old that are in the household who are still eating carbs, but I'm just stumped on what to do. Even my all natural Jimmy Dean breakfast sausage has sugar in it...blah..
    Best of luck in all your endeavors,
    Stephanie

    "The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly."
    Siddartha Guatama Buddha





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  • #2
    Re: Food Frustrations

    I love to eat sausage for breakfast...but have been unable to find any that doesn't have some non-induction ingredient. This week while looking around at the store, I picked up a 1 pound roll of ground turkey (80% meat/20% fat) with white and dark meat. I made patties out of it and fried it with a little salt, pepper, and sage. I know what is in it and it's legal and tastes really good to me.

    I have also learned that it can be a pain reading labels, they may look low carb...but when you read the ingredients there is always something illegal. I just try to buy fresh meat and fresh or frozen vegetables, plus no-sugar added bacon, and some cheese. It gets easier to spot what you can have and can't have.

    I have a 21 month old, 9 year old, and 13 year old daughters, plus my biggest kid, my husband and they still eat pasta, fruit, ice cream, cereal....just not as often. Hopefully, you will be able to get in the right frame of mind to make your meals, and something a little different for them. One thing that I do is buy frozen hamburger patties. If they are having something like breaded chicken nuggets I fry up two patties and put bacon and cheese between them with spicy brown mustard on top. Then I add my veggies and I am good to go.

    Good luck!
    Carrie

    Min-Goals:
    175lbs
    170lbs
    169lbs (new tattoo)
    165lbs
    160lbs
    155lbs
    150lbs

    STAC - Restart 9/15/2009 & 11/16/2009

    FLIGHTS - 43/360 (Slieve Donard, Nothern Ireland) Started 9/28/09

    My before pic..roughly 180lbs July 25, 2009:
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    • #3
      Re: Food Frustrations

      Well, just change as much as you can what you keep buying. I look for stuff on sale. Hamburger, chicken legquarters or breasts, Boston Butts or picnics, countrystyle ribs, are on sale a lot here so we eat meals built around this. Even the canned veggies have to be watched for sugar! GRRRR! But as long as its a real food, its pretty good to eat. Anything like the shakes I have had problems with. The other people in the house get their junky stuff, but with a little meal planning with the real foods, they get less of it. "I have made this for dinner people, eat up!"



      My starting weight was 235 lbs and I'm trying to get to 130 lbs.

      1st mini goal: 145! met 12/09
      2nd mini goal: 140!
      3rd mini goal:135!
      4th mini goal: 130!

      I drink coffee. I drink when I am thirsty. I am just a low carber. Not on Atkins at all!!! He has everything to do with my weightloss and nothing to do with it, depending on who you ask.

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      • #4
        Re: Food Frustrations

        Thanks for all the great tips. I think I kinda messed up today with some turkey I added to my omelet, but I'm not going to beat myself up over it. Just learn from it and move on.
        Best of luck in all your endeavors,
        Stephanie

        "The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly."
        Siddartha Guatama Buddha





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        • #5
          Re: Food Frustrations

          Originally posted by VellaNova View Post
          Thanks for all the great tips. I think I kinda messed up today with some turkey I added to my omelet, but I'm not going to beat myself up over it. Just learn from it and move on.

          If it was turkey as in lunchmeat...just count it as a small slip (no where near the worst one you could ever make), brush off the dust and don't beat yourself up about it.

          My best advice is to take it 'one bite at a time'. Good luck and have faith in yourself! You CAN do THIS!
          Carrie

          Min-Goals:
          175lbs
          170lbs
          169lbs (new tattoo)
          165lbs
          160lbs
          155lbs
          150lbs

          STAC - Restart 9/15/2009 & 11/16/2009

          FLIGHTS - 43/360 (Slieve Donard, Nothern Ireland) Started 9/28/09

          My before pic..roughly 180lbs July 25, 2009:
          sigpic


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          • #6
            Re: Food Frustrations

            I believe that Bob Evans breakfast sausage has no sugar. Jones breakfast sausage has no sugar also.

            It is frustrating trying to find foods without sugar. Keep reading labels & you'll find products that you can use. Don't give up VellaNova.

            I love the quote in your siggy! So true!
            "You always had it. You always had the power."~~ Glinda the Good Witch

            Glenda
            F/5'10/47
            261/xxx/???
            "Happiness is a habit~cultivate it." Elbert Hubbard
            "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results." Albert Einstein

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            • #7
              Re: Food Frustrations

              I just eat it... 1 carb of sugar isn't going to stall me... Considering the way I used to eat (before Atkins) being so strict just doesn't jive with reality in my book...
              F/46/5'2" - 249/198/115
              Start Date 03/06/09

              Mini goals:
              1st - 25 lbs down - Met 06/19/09
              2nd - Onederland - Met 03/10/10
              3rd - 75 lbs down
              4th - size 12
              5th - BMI 21



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              • #8
                Re: Food Frustrations

                Keep reading those labels. You are doing the right thing. That is what it takes. You have to turn into the food police.
                In the end whole food rocks and these are the staples you will turn to time after time.
                Even if your family eat carbs (mine does too) they will benefit from you cleaning out some of the chemicals that I bet you have in your cubbard and they will be healthier with you.
                It is a bummer sometimes but it is a good thing in the long run
                Startdate: November 18, 2007. Female 5'2"

                May Challenges 2010
                Push-ups: 450/800
                Abs: 850/1900
                Squats: 650/1200
                Lunges: 500/1000
                Strength: 490/1200
                Running: 50/100 km


                2 Years on Atkins.................. President Challenge Medals earned

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