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Originally Posted by Rose74

Thank you Sunny! I'm trying, I keep telling myself drink lots of water! It's so hard for me. I've been drinking Crysatl Light, I think that's ok to drink, right? I'm working on the coffee, 1/2 & 1/2 and splenda reduction. I've got it down to 3-4 a day 2weeks ago I was drinking a pot or two a day!....any thoughts on how to control my caffiene addiction....besides cold turkey~I don't want the withdrawls.
One more thing, I don't eat breakfast until 11am. I've always been like this, food just isn't appealing to me any earlier. I usually have my coffee, get on the tread mill~ 3miles but only 2 today, then eat breakfast about 11. Any suggestions?

Crystal Light is not okay. It has aspartame, fruit solids and other forbiden stuff. It's worse for you than caffeine. You are also limited to 3 servings of artificial sweeteners a day.

I don't know what to tell you about your coffee. I cut way back, but didn't give it up. I tried cutting it out for six weeks one time, two weeks for some tests I was having, then since I was over the detox, I decided to stay off longer, but nothing improved and when I started drinking it again, I lost faster. Caffein does not cause a sugar spike and then drop in everyone.

About breakfast: this was my challenge, too. I have not been a breakfast person since a child. This was my second time doing Atkins and I sat down and made up a list of everything I had to change to be successful. Then I made a plan as to how I would bring it about. I actually wrote a contract with myself.

I used to start eating about dinner time and then eat until midnight. At that time I had terrible acid reflux, which kept me up most of the rest of the night.

My contract stated that I would eat breakfast before 9:00 a.m. and I would finish dinner by 7:00 p.m. and eat nothing after. It didn't happen right away, but when I stuck to the cut-off time for all food, slowly I was hungry earlier in the day.

I still remember forcing myself to eat at 11:00 a.m. the first morning, which was early for me. By the end of a month, I was ready for breakfast by 7:00 a.m. and never wanted food after dinner.

I was able to stop taking the 160 mg of Nexium that I had been taking for years for acid reflux and I no longer had it at all.

If you eat late at night, your food is processed slower while your body gears down for sleep, so you are still full in the morning. If you make a rule about eating late, you will soon be able to eat earlier.

I always liked breakfast foods, but late in the day or for dinner. If you had told me that I could eat bacon and eggs at 7:00 a.m I would have told you that you were crazy.

You can do anything you set your mind to do. Decide how much you want the weight loss and the energy and health, then do what it takes to make it happen. Everything that you really want comes with a price tag: pay the price and keep moving forward and don't look back.