Thread: I don't want to throw in the towel...any boost?
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Old March 25th, 2009, 03:27 PM
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Default Re: I don't want to throw in the towel...any boost?
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When I was gearing up to get back to eating low carb, I also focused on eating the foods I loved on plan and what I was going to enjoy again that I otherwise don't make. When I'm eating poorly, I NEVER make butter-basted chicken, or bacon, or bacon cheeseburgers, and now I crave them!

You should also look at ways to substitute the foods you miss so that you don't feel deprived. For me, my Mexican substitute is Taco Salad. Sure...I can't sit at a restaraunt and down a basket of chips and salsa like I used to, but I love, love, LOVE my taco salad! For pizza it used to be pizza burgers, but I made cauliflower crust pizza friday and it was fantastic! That's my new sub! There are recipes for LC Icecream in the Atkins book I had from 1992 (which I've loaned to a friend, otherwise I'd post it for you). I get my "desert fix" off of sugar free crustless cheesecake (for now...I'm sure I'll eventually get tired of this but plan on making pumpkin pie next) and my biggest "miss" is Macaroni and cheese with hotdogs...which I fake now with cauliflower and frankly think I might actually like it more. Cauliflower, by the way, would not EVER be in my grocery cart in the past...now it's a staple.

Your doing great! Congrats on Day 2!
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Started: 3/2/09

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Realistic Final Goal: 190
Stretch Goal: 140


Successfully did Atkins in 1998 using 1992 copy of the book...before it was "hip". Lost 60lbs, exercised daily, felt and looked great. And then I moved in with a junk-food loving man, my mom got sick and passed away, then I suffered a spinal cord injury, and junk-food dude left me...and now I weigh 292lbs. That's 22lbs MORE than I weighed the first time around. It's 10 years later...I know this will work for me again.