[keriann_forgoodthistime]

Originally Posted by Kathi22

Thanks everyone. I was really upset last night when a good friend of mine started pointing out all the negative deprivations - and she is very uninformed about Atkins. My DH wanted to go to a mexican place for a bite to eat and we all know this is all white flour! I missed that occasional mexican meal with nachos and started believing that I was depriving myself. But you know what, I am depriving myself more from happiness and an active lifestyle by being so over weight. I have been depriving myself from my mini goal to lose 66 pounds because I keep going off plan. I am not gaining anything from this - but weight!

good for you for getting right back on. i think we all have days like that - but look at your siggy - you've lost 40 POUNDS!!!!!!!!!!!! how INCREDIBLE is that!???? You, my friend, are absolutely FABULOUS for having lost 40 pounds! Do you really want to throw in the towel and gain it back?...I can almost guarantee that you will, if you go back to eating any other way...

i know - for me - i keep thinking about summer and ice cream...and how hard it'll be for me to stay away from the ice cream shops - and yes, i feel like i'm "depriving" myself - but at the same time - I then look at all the positives. You should do this - write down all the GOOD things you LOVE about doing atkins...for example - for me - all of this TOTALLY outweighs those negative feelings:

1. I've lost 14 pounds in 2.5 months. I think back that if I wouldn't have started atkins - and i'd have tried low fat diet "starting tomorrow" and more'n likely woulda GAINED weight instead...

2. I'm wearing my "skinny" jeans that I thought I'd NEVER EVER wear again (was in 17's now in 13's)...

3. While I may feel "deprived" about certain foods - there are other foods I'd never have DREAMED of eating on a low-fat diet - and these foods are INCREDIBLE!!! (real butter - full fat mayo - lots of olive oil - fattier meats - all the vegees I want without having to "weigh" or "measure" them...)

4. My grocery bill has gone WAY down now that I'm only buying whole foods and not junk.

5. I LOVE what I see in the mirror...

6. I KNOW that while it may take 1 pound a week - I WILL be 160 lbs again! the fact is that the way i'm eating is SO freakin' easy - and i'm NOT obsessing like i used to - that I FINALLY feel "normal" and i AM losing about 1 pound a week! Unlike being on a low-fat diet where it didn't work...

7. I know that atkins IS healthy. Our body NEEDS fat - NOT carbs. Grains and refined sugar wasn't even available until the 1900's and yet it's the 1900's when all the diseases we deal with EXPLODED!! Once low-fat diets became the "rage" and people stopped eating fat - what happened to society? Heart disease became the number 1 killer!

The list goes on and on and on. I know for me - I've already decided that there is just absolutely NO choice. I can NOT go back to the way I USED to eat - because look at where that got me. 197 pounds and a size 17. That's what eating bread and high carbs got me to. Do I REALLY want to go back there? NO!

You CAN do this. My suggestion is to go to Linda's Website and print off a bunch of new recipes (i made her coconut chicken last week and omg FABULOUS!!!)

You CAN do this and it IS worth it!!!!