How Long Can You Go???

[maribelle]

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It is with a sad heart that I post the following:


Those who have not posted in a month or more:
Onepoundatatime
Roshan 362
Kim123
NewMein2006
Roxy
Dotsamantha
Starmaker
BeccaResRN
gabrielleK19
Lynsey
Jasmain
MotherCooter
Pinklady
Miss_World
Kislandmom
Beccanae
Terry
Jerrica
Dofiddle2
darn75

As of today I will no longer be updating these name until an update is posted in the challenge. I pm'd as many of these names as I could get through to, and not one has responded. Hope you all come back to us, but if not, wishing you the absolute best in your weight loss endevours!

[maribelle]

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Member List Update:

Lady_Hawke--Tamariah....4 months, 2 weeks, & day 5
KKat--Kat....4 months, 2 weeks & day 3
Outback_Jess....3 months, 3 weeks, & day 5
Saty111.....3 months, 2 weeks, & day 2
Waterbabe_Helena... 1 month, 3 weeks, & day 1
Tryin2lose....1 month & day 6
Cavecricket.... 3 weeks & day 5
Princessleah.... 2 week & day 5
JCapulet.... 2 weeks & day 3
Maerow.....2 weeks & day 1
Twilight....1 week & day 6
Desertthorn.....day 7
Maribelle: day 3
Shilorunamok....day 3


To those of you still with us, congrats with all my heart! Let's keep this going together, and make it through the tough holiday season ahead!

[Alexa]

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Hi Maribelle,

Congratulations on being pregnant! And good luck with your maintenance plan.

Well done to everyone on here who hase managed not to cheat - particularly those who haven't done so for months! You are very inspiring!

Can I join this thread please? I am having problems not cheating since moving into OWL.
Do you have a definition somewhere of a cheat I can look at? I'm assuming a cheat means either - eating non-legal food - eating more carbs than you've set yourself that week - does it also mean eating something from a rung that you have not yet reached?

Thanks,

Alexa

[maribelle]

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Hi Baarb and Welcome! What you listed was what we had defined as a cheat. Too many carbs, non legal foods, or a food from an advanced rung. But again, alot of common sense goes into this. If you get too hard on yourself, it alone can set yourself up for a cheat. As soon as I do an update, I'll add you to the list. If you'ld like, heres a link to the How Long Can You Go buttons that you can put in your siggie line....just added motivation: http://www.atkinsdietbulletinboard.c...t=32529&page=1

[Waterbabe_Helena]

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I was wondering what constituted a cheat, too.
You see, my big weakness is chocolate, and to be off it for 51 days now is an amazing acheivement for me and something I never thought I could do. Second biggest weakness is bread, ditto 51 days clean.

However, I had too much salad one day, too much carrot one day, a bit of fruit one day and 1.5 potatoes and a parsnip one day. I called all of these cheats and adjusted my siggy to re-start at Day One.

[Alexa]

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Thanks very much Maribelle, I managed to insert a button - yay! I can be kind of competitive so i don't want to lose it or go down again.

Thanks for the definition too Waterbabe. Right, cheat free living here I come - I am starting at the worst possible time - I'm going on an all day trip with some friends in London tommorrow which will almost certainly centre around drinking tea and eating cake and then drinking alcohol and eating carbs from Gourmet burger. Anyone in the UK ever successfully negotiated gourmet burger? Also my friends don't even know I'm doing Atkins...but thoughts of my button will keep me strong!

Thanks,
Baarb

[Twilight]

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So, today will make one week cheatfree. Therefore, I demand a little button thing in my signature!

LoL, forget the demanding part. I went to the thread full of buttons, and there was a little picture of the button, but I couldn't figure out how to insert it into my siggy.
Help?

[Alexa]

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Hi Tori,

I just right clicked on it with my mouse and when the menu came up clicked on 'copy' and then used the paste button in 'edit my signature'.

Hope that works. Well done on the week

[maribelle]

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Sorry...didn't want to type it out again, so here is the quote from the buttons thread on how to do it. Hope this does it for ya! Once you get into editing your sig line, it gets to be quite fun and motivating:

First you come to this (the buttons) thread, and select the button that you want, right click on it with your mouse, and select copy. Than at the top of the page, you will see a double blue line with white words. Choose USER CP. Then on the left hand side, you will see a list of selections, and you pick "edit signature". When that opens, you'll see a post window. Right click in the post window, and select "paste" and your button should appear in the window. Then choose save signature, and you're done. Hope this helps.

[maribelle]

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Member List Update:

Lady_Hawke--Tamariah....4 months, 2 weeks, & day 6
KKat--Kat....4 months, 2 weeks & day 4
Outback_Jess....3 months, 3 weeks, & day 6
Saty111.....3 months, 2 weeks, & day 3
Tryin2lose....1 month & day 7
Cavecricket.... 3 weeks & day 6
Princessleah.... 2 week & day 6
JCapulet.... 2 weeks & day 4
Maerow.....2 weeks & day 2
Desertthorn.....1 week & day 1
Waterbabe_Helena... day 7
Twilight....day 7
Maribelle: day 4
Shilorunamok....day 4
Baarb....day 2

[Shilorunamok]

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Hey Mari. I'm at Day 0 right now. I am going to do a restart tomorrow, so hopefully I'll have my day 1 finished by Sat night. (Sorry Guys)

[Shilorunamok]

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I have officially restarted today, no change in weight from last week - which is good. I am going to see if I can pick up some keto sticks today. I will post tonight, hopefully cheat free.

*Edited to add* Best wishes to all those who left the challange, I'm sure you are all doing great!!

I still need to take it day by day, maybe I can get back up to 1 week again .

[Alexa]

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Oh dear,

As I said I went out with some friends and I managed to eat fine but have 1.5 units of vodka. My friends persuaded me - but I was up for being persuaded to be honest. So I stripped myself of my button and I'm starting again. How do you who don't cheat for months do it?

I think I'll be ok when I've worked up some more rungs so that I have choices (i.e. like in social situations), but it's no excuse - I'm still on veggie rung.

[Shilorunamok]

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Hey Baarb . . . don't be too hard on yourself. The fact that you're trying again is what matters. I lost my cheat free button a number of times, I almost gave up this challange because of it. But today, I'm on day 2, and I feel just as good today as I did when I got my 1 week button before. Don't give up

"0 days cheat free "

No sad faces, OK? Tonight you will get you're cheat free button back.

[Alexa]

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Oh my goodness, I do not deserve to have nice words written to me Kristi - I cheated again. I went to the cinema and had some popcorn (like 10 pieces and I don't even like it). I think I did it because I was looking after it for someone and just totally forgot what I was doing! How dumb is that?!

So today is a new day I have been very vigilant! I will earn that button back by tonight.
Thanks for you support though