2009 Read The Book Challenge

[imagood1]

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WHoooo Hooooo -- I have my highlighter & I'm going to bed to read the book!!

[yahaira]

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Hi I am in too great idea and thanks Georgiana for letting me know.

[jimmie 48]

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Hi I am in too great idea and thanks Georgiana for letting me know.

then you are added to my list of reading challengers!

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challengers,
i have posted the reading the schedule in the very first post for ease of location.

[jimmie 48]

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are you reading? has anybody cracked the book today?

i have finished chapters 1 and 2 while i biked. the first part of this is the cheerleading section. nobody should pass it by. good stuff

[steffi44]

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I finishished chapter 1

[RosieC]

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Can I still join? I only started Atkins today and didn't read the book yet so this would be perfect for me.

I think I have ordered the wrong edition ... I read that the new one was maybe not so great so I went for a REALLY old one and I'm waiting for it to come from Amazon. I will try to get the PDF that somebody mentioned assuming that is the 2002 edition.

Thanks for setting this up and letting me in if you do!

Rosie

[imagood1]

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i have finished chapters 1 and 2 while i biked.

I remember those days.....I got on the bike for the first time in a long time today....read while I was riding!

[jimmie 48]

Re: 2009 Read The Book Challenge

Can I still join? I only started Atkins today and didn't read the book yet so this would be perfect for me.

I think I have ordered the wrong edition ... I read that the new one was maybe not so great so I went for a REALLY old one and I'm waiting for it to come from Amazon. I will try to get the PDF that somebody mentioned assuming that is the 2002 edition.

Thanks for setting this up and letting me in if you do!

Rosie

it would be really bad form for me to not let you join us. bad bad me. so, yes, you can read along with us, using the schedule in the first post. post questions and i'll try to answer. point out interesting parts as you read if you like.

i will mention this about the pdf. i'm not so sure of the legal ramifications of passing that along. seems like tom, the admin/owner told us one to not use it. i'll see if i can recheck the facts on that.

[jimmie 48]

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carole, i figured you would be biking and reading. sure does help to pass the time!

good job, steffi, getting some pages read!

[steffi44]

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Chapter 1, page 4

"What I'm going to show you is not just a way to lose weight, but a way to eat for the rest of your life so you can be slim and healthly and stay that way. For too many people, the word diet implies not an approach to eating for a lifetime, but a two-months-on, ten-months-off weight loss game that they play themselves-year after year. That is not what this book is about! I believe this so strongly that from now on I'll speak not of the Atkins Diet, but of the Atkins Nutritional Approach or doing Atkins or even just Atkins."

[Georgiana]

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are you reading? has anybody cracked the book today?

Reading....... I was reading about veggies this morning (pp. 87-89), so I followed Dr. Atkins' advice and had eggs fried in butter with sauteed mushrooms for breakfast, and arugula with chili for lunch (the chili had green and red peppers, chili pepper, tomatoes, onion and garlic --- great Atkins ratio for garlic!). Yum!

[RosieC]

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it would be really bad form for me to not let you join us. bad bad me. so, yes, you can read along with us, using the schedule in the first post. post questions and i'll try to answer. point out interesting parts as you read if you like.

i will mention this about the pdf. i'm not so sure of the legal ramifications of passing that along. seems like tom, the admin/owner told us one to not use it. i'll see if i can recheck the facts on that.

Thanks Jimmie. I did get the PDF, but I promise I will buy the book too. I want it on paper and I'm not going to print out the whole thing! It would cost way more in printer ink than buying the book!

Although, since it's out of print and I will have to buy a used copy, the copyright owners will not benefit anyway ... but I think you are right from a legal point of view.

I read the first part quickly last night, and also the section about induction

[imagood1]

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Although, since it's out of print and I will have to buy a used copy, the copyright owners will not benefit anyway ... but I think you are right from a legal point of view.

when I started in January I went to www.amazon.com , www.half.com and www.ebay.com - I found my copy (with shipping costs) under $5.00 for a brand new copy on amazon.

[jimmie 48]

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i'm glad to see a few challengers checking in

i got chapter 3 read tonight. i like all the cheerleading that dr. atkins wrote in these chapters. it was nice to re-read the success stories. i'm blown away every time i review those stories.
and i find myself wondering, are these folks still on atkins? still maintaining? maybe i could google them.

[Georgiana]

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and i find myself wondering, are these folks still on atkins? still maintaining? maybe i could google them.

Wouldn't work... The names are bogus to protect the patients' privacy.

I like the "Facts and fallacies" chapter.