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31 July 2007

I'm getting a little frustrated with being so hungry. I'm just used to other diets where you have to ride out the hunger pangs. I just ate a 9-0z. fillet minon (went for quality over quantity) and 1/2 lb. of king crab and a side of broccoli for lunch and it filled me up very well. But only about an hour later I'm starving. I just worry I'm eating too much, even though I know large portions are okay. I feel weird eating when I'm hungry. And I'm being careful not to stuff myself, but eat until I feel comfortable.

Went out to lunch with my brother at Outback. Although I'm good at resisting temptation it would have been easier if I hadn't been so hungry. I wanted to eat before leaving the house, but my brother talked me into picking him up and going out to lunch. Like I said, I had the fillet minon, but it had a horseradish crust. I made sure it was just straight horse-radish, but I started worrying halfway through that it wasn't straight

Wondering if the being hungry already is proof that there was more to the horseradish or proof that there wasn't.

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31 July 2007

I'm already feeling much better about Atkins than I ever have about any other diet. I lost 30 lbs. right after high-school on eight Watchers and that was great, but I was practically starving myself. The next time I tried to go back on I found out I was pregnant a week later. When I tried to do it again after pregnancy I just failed miserably. But whether I did well or not on Weight Watchers, a key issue was that I was just always miserable and felt starved. I don't feel starved on Atkins. Sure, I'm battling some cravings, but those are diminishing. I always get a (nauseous) kick out of the fact that I can eat cheese and stuff now but when I'm eating it I'm not totally rabidly craving it. On Weight Watchers, fats were my downfall. I would just insanely be craving fats and I'd get my 'serving' of cheese and oh my god.. it'd be orgasmic. So, I'm a little sad that cheese is just ho-hum, but really that's a good thing! I also think if anything my sugar cravings are less on Atkins because I'm not allowing myself just thatone soda a day or that occasional sweet. Looking back, my downfall each time I tried Weight Watchers was usually a craving of fats, not sweets. I'm also learning not to run to quick sugar fixes when my energy feels low. Also, my headaches I was experiencing the first few days have gone away. :D

I weighed myself twice today. :\

I'm going to go with the lower weight (1 lb. difference), not because it's lower, but because I got it second. The first time I weighed myself, I was just getting up to pee in the night. The second time was when I was up for the day. I also (*sigh*.. I'm going to go through these thing like hotcakes) got a darker result form my morning ketostick than my middle of the night ketostick. I am having some trouble telling the difference between the light and moderate colors (one is like pink, the other more dusty rose or mauve).

I really need to chuck the scale. I thought of taking it to my in-laws, since we go there every weekend, but then I couldn't weigh in the morning, which I would prefer. Maybe I should just allow myself daily weigh-ins for a little while? It's really nice to see a lb. slip off each day. ON the other hand, it could be fun to see all my progress at the end of one week. Of course I know if I had a one-day 2-lb. weight gain I probably wouldn't even notice it if I weren't weighing but it might seriously depress me if I were.

Weight:	Lost so far:	Still to go:	Diet followed:
124.5 kg	5.2 kg	20.2 kg	100%

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30 July 2007

Oh holy crap.. lost my post. If only the weight would disappear so quickly. ;)

Anywho, long story short.

Cleaned out my fridge and got rid of all the expired crap or insanely sugary stuff that I was the only one who ever touched it-- fiance's sugary stuff is relegated to the bottom shelf of the fridge and bottom rung of the door, along with a few OWL-friendly items that I'll use later on. The rest of the fridge is solely Induction-friendly.

I got Ketone strips today! I used one and got a mid-range reading; out of the 6 levels shown, including 'negative', I got a 4. I'm on my 5th day of severely limiting carbs and my first day of 100% Induction. Wondering if ketones can go up too quickly?

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30 July 2007

Awfully long first journal entry.. I know they're public, but it's my journal so that doesn't matter right? :P

So, this is my first day doing Atkins Induction 100%. I started cutting sugar months ago and then last Thursday decided to do Atkins, but had no real info on it. I got a little from this site, but over the weekend picked up three different Atkins books from family and friends. Turned out Thurs/Fri I was constricting a lot of carbs, but not enough for induction, and then Sat/Sun I was on target for carbs, but made the mistake of eating a serving of fruit each day. I also had some difficulty eating at my fiance's parents house and was tempted into a rib with a sauce of unknown origin. So, although I'm counting my Atkins as starting Thursday, I'm only considering Induction starting from now. I have a lot of weight to lose so I will probably stay on induction more than the two weeks.

So far, except for the fruit, think I've done okay. I'm also happy to see that only net carbs are counted, which I was confused about after perusing this site. This is especially good as I take 4-8 carb grams from my fiber supplement daily, but it has no net carbs.

One of my goals right now is to stop weighing myself everyday. It's so tempting and I really did have a good reason to yesterday and today. Yesterday I weighed myself because Friday I'd been told I weighed 279 (I say 280 on the weight history because the nurse flubbed it a little). Well, I thought surely something was wrong with their scale, as a few months ago I weighed 286, so I re-weighed myself Friday and my scale agreed with theirs! Well, Sunday I got to thinking it still must be a fluke, so I weighed again and I'd gone down! Today, as my first official day of induction, I've weighed myself again. I am going to try my best not to weight until Sunday. I think I may ask my fiance to keep the scale in his car. Or maybe I'll take the batteries out. Still.. it is nice seeing the numbers go down.

Must work on getting sugar out of the house. My fiance and I have agreed to keep all sugary items in the garage food cabinet so I don't have to see them every day. We're eventually going to just phase out the sugar (he wants to lose weight to and just generally eat healthily, but his eating habits have mirrored mine since we got together and he's greatly upped his sugar intake and put on weight; I'm hoping just through my dieting he'll lose weight too-- he's been really happy about all the nice [low carb] meals I've been making!), but it would be a waste to throw everything away. Also, I've spoken to my fiance about it and he said he's sorry and will try better, but he hasn't really been helping matters-- it was frustrating me that he wants me to lose the weight so badly, for health reasons, but he was kinda teasing me about food. I tried to explain to him that no, one cookie is not alright. And he said stuff like 'Guess I'll have to eat this whole box of Golden Grahams by myself'. And I'd conveniently forgotten I'd even bought them. He said some of his slips are genuine mistakes (like asking if I wanted taco bell) and its just going to take him awhile to get used to things. He also has a bad habit of picking at my food, which has always really upset me on diets like Weight Watchers where everything is portioned. Now it's not so bad, but I've tried to explain to him not to pick at my carbs, which I've measured out carefully. Anywho.

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30 July 2007

Weight:	Lost so far:	Still to go:	Diet followed:
125.2 kg	4.5 kg	20.9 kg	Reasonably Well

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