2009 Staying Cheat Free Challenge

[EW78]

Re: 2009 Staying Cheat Free Challenge

Thank you for the welcome!

Day 1 is recorded and now on to Day 2 ....

[sham]

Re: 2009 Staying Cheat Free Challenge

Day 2 nice and clean induction.

[imagood1]

Re: 2009 Staying Cheat Free Challenge

day 9 -- feeling fine!!

[Georgiana]

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Welcome, EW78 and Taksioi!

day 5 today so far so good, can i just ask if you sway for a day do you go back to induction or just continue on as normal with whatever rung you are on? thanks

Well, you should plan not to sway. Did you recently read Chapter 19 in DANDR? And here's a nice video Kent made: YouTube - Atkins Diet: Low Carb Emergency Kit

That being said, if life kicks you in the butt during Induction, you should usually just jump back on track and finish your 14 days but make sure you're in ketosis before moving to OWL. However the charts of metabolic resistance will be useless to you, which does not work in your advantage when you move to OWL. If you do Induction for longer than 2 weeks and then is when life kicks you in the butt, then you just get back on track. If you do OWL and instead of climbing the Carb Ladder you go down the ladder to Carb Land, then a cheat that puts you out of ketosis (like binging on Krispy Kremes at lunch) should be followed by a few days of Induction to put you back in ketosis; then you should move to where you were in OWL.

i have people at work that always offer around cakes, biscuits and sweets, just wave them way that part is easy when im busy at work its when im at home bored thats the problem.

day 4 so far so good i think im still in ketosis.

I'm lucky to live alone, so there's no food I can't have in the house. And I keep dangerous foods (e.g. nuts - portion control issues) on the higher shelves---that way I don't see them all the time.

[sham]

Re: 2009 Staying Cheat Free Challenge

Day 3 of staying cheat free.

[Taksioi]

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Thanks for the welcomes, everyone!

Day 1 of staying cheat through is done! Lots more to go, hopefully

[arcticsp2003]

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The first few are the hardest...get to day 3 and you'll be set.

Day 11 for me!

[Taksioi]

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Day 2 done, day 3 in progress

[Sherikie]

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Im here to say that its been 4 weeks and 1 day CHEAT FREE!!

[focus83]

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well done everyone

its been 7 days cheat free so far for me

[focus83]

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on day 9 today

[Georgiana]

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Good for you, focus!

So did everyone else make it cheat free through the weekend? I was at the office Sat and Sun, and had boiled eggs one day for lunch (in a salad). A guy who works here saw me boiling eggs (we have a kitchen where I work) and his comment was, "don't eat too many of those or your cholesterol will skyrocket."

[happymomto4]

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Hooray, one week cheat free for me! I think that I just needed an attitude readjustment. I realize now that if this WOE is going to work for me for the rest of my life, I cannot cheat a little here and a little there, even if no one is looking. I need to be totally committed--and now I am. Thanks for the help over the hump everyone!

[Keetje]

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oh dear, major slip up - I really must remember to eat breakfast, otherwise I am extremely vulnerable to temptation.

Day 1

Keetje

[Taksioi]

Re: 2009 Staying Cheat Free Challenge

Major slip up for me as well - got bowled over with the flu for the past few days. Didnt really eat much of anything...but all those well meaning friends got ginger ale and soup into me at various points.

So, here we go again...