Halfway Point

[quotidianlight]

So today is day 7 of my induction but I am running into some questions about moving to owl next week. The first 3 days of my induction were rough and I didn't stop drinking massive amounts of caffeine until day 3. I did finally break the habit but I can't really count those days as clean. I also had three days of struggling with artificial sweeteners and while I didn't go over the three a day limit a couple times the drug of choice was aspartame. The problem is that I reacted really bad to them; it was almost as if I had eaten real sugar. So here it is day 7 and I am still struggling with carb withdrawals/addiction and feel like I am just now doing induction right. Am I supposed to stay on induction until the cravings break? I don't feel like anything is a habit yet and I'm wondering if it should be more ingrained before moving on. I am also looking at modified OWL which look like it may give me more time to get used to this WOE before flooding me with lots of new stuff.

[Designbabe]

I tried to break the coffee thing, but could not. Even decaf did not cut it. I find that all I need is a SMALL amount, a little baby cup in the morning, and I can function. So I continue with my coffee every morning (w/ half and half, no artificial sweetner) and I seem to be still losing weight with it.

As for the Carb withdrawals, today is Day 10 for me, and I think it's my first day of feeling OK. Still, I'm going to stay on Induction for 2 more weeks, as I find I'm dong well on it (in terms of losing weight).

[quotidianlight]

wow, I can't do baby cups. I'm a quad breve latte with a Diet Rockstar chaser. I have to admit that I feel fine once it was out of my system. I did have a swallow of diet soda before I realized it had caffeine though and was shocked to end up with a headache for an hour. So I guess this is about the fourth day since I quit coffee... I don't want to do extended induction for fear of lowering my CCLL but I don't want to jump into a lot of carbs and new foods either.

[Elizellen]

I would suggest moving to rung one of OWL after your first 14 days and staying there for a few weeks while you get your bearings.

I stayed on that rung for several months, adding another 5 net carbs of induction-legal vegetables every few weeks till I was at about 40 net carbs and still losing, then climbed further up the carbohydrate ladder.

[Porcelain]

Yes once you get out of induction, you don't go crazy, you only get to add 5 grams of carbs above what you are doing on induction. So you get a few more greens and veggies. You won't stop weight loss becuase of that! Just make good choices. Everything else is pretty much the same as on induction. I stayed on induction probably two more weeks before taking that tentative step to OWL and I am still losing. Well, I haven't weighed but I know I am losing inches, I can feel it and see it.

That 14 days was to break those bad habits. I am glad to see they didn't break you!!

Great job!