New - Day 8 of Induction

[JayNo]

Greetings!

I'm a newbie - great site! I'm on Day 8 of the Induction and as of Saturday have lost 3 pounds. Heres to only 6 days left!

[Rools]

Hey Jayno I am on day 8 of induction too! Well done on your 3lbs loss, yay! You staying on just for two weeks or staying on induction beyond that?

[Taurus]

Hey fellow newbies, I am also on day 8 of induction and its going good. I think that I am going to go beyond that. Do you stay under 20 cards a day or how are you doing it? So after induction how many more are you going to bring in? Sorry I have lots of questions, just wondering how others are thinking.


Started 9/24/07 - 208/202/150

[JayNo]

3 pounds down, but 57 to go! I am definitely in this for the long haul. I must say, this is the first time in years that I have not suffered from bloating and embarassing stomach sounds after eating. I feel GREAT! I am a tad bummed it's only 3 pounds, but I'm not complaining too loudly - could be worse!!

I'm at a bit of a loss as to what I'm going to do after day 14. The book seems to indicate you just gradually start adding more of the good carbs in, but make sure you stay in ketosis. I'm not using the strips though, so I'm going to be very cautious. Besides, the fact that I feel so much better NOT eating sugars, bread, cereal, pasta, potatoes etc.. . . I might just stick with veggies and meat for good. That being said. . . ahem. . . I look forward to the day when I can "safely" have a dessert after dinner once in a while!

[TIME2SHINE4-08]

Hi Jayno! Welcome! I just finished my first week. Congrats on your 3 lbs!!! I'm glad to read you feel better eating this way!

[Elizellen]

It looks as if you are all doing a good job

After the first 14 days Dr Atkins told us to weigh and see how much weight we have lost and look at the chart in DANDR to find out what sort of resistance we have to weightloss.

Anyone who has only lost a tiny proportion of the total weight they hope to lose can stay on induciton for longer but for most of us who lose more than 5% of our total hoped-for weightloss in those 14 days can move to the next (main) weightloss part of Atkins which he called Ongoing Weight Loss (OWL)

In OWL Dr Atkins grouped types of foods into the 'Carbohydrate ladder' which has levels (which here we call rungs).

The idea is to add 5 net carbs of foods on each rung and see how we do with losing weight and feeling fine with no cravings.

So start with the first rung which consists of the same vegetables we were allowed to eat on induction and see how you do.

Some of us stay on the first rung for a while, adding 5 more net carbs every couple of weeks till we are allowing ourself as much veggies as we want, then move to the second rung which is dairy - like milk, yogurt, fresh cheeses (cottage cheese etc) and more of the induciotn-legal cheeses.

We have a whole forum for those with questions on how to do OWL with several useful threads 'stuck' at the top of that forum which you might find more explanatory than the book is.