Ready to give up! (vent warning)

[msanjelpie]

You should have lost more weight than you did.

You say you have started on thyroid meds... it may be that you haven't gotten to your optimum dosage yet... It took me about 6 months to finally have my blood tests show that my thyroid was in the 'normal' range after upping the dosage three times.

All though you may quit the diet, you should at least try to figure out why it didn't work because that might help you with whatever other diet you decide to do...

I understand your frustration... I hate veggies and the only one I have is lettuce... I hate water and thus drink soda and crystal light, I don't like cooking so I have junk like hamburgers and hot dogs and bologna... I have to take 17 pills a day and I can't swallow pills so I take them with honey which is 7 carbs right there... there are all sorts of reasons why this diet shouldn't work for me, but now that my thyroid is where it should be, and my blood sugar is stable, the diet makes me feel great, and that's the main reason I'm on it, losing a pound every couple of weeks is just a bonus...

Good luck in whatever you decide to do

[loulou78uk]

Found this on another board that i am on

Hello, do you know me?

If you don't, you should. I'm a pound of fat,

and I'm the HAPPIEST pound of fat that you would ever want to meet.

Want to know why?

It's because no one ever wants to lose me;

I'm ONLY ONE POUND, just a pound!

Everyone wants to lose three pounds, five pounds, or fifteen pounds,

But never only one.

So I just stick around and happily keep you fat.

Then I add to myself, ever so slyly, so that you never seem to notice it.

That is, until I've grown to ten, twenty, thirty or even more pounds in weight.

Yes, its fun being ONLY ONE POUND OF FAT, left to do as I please.

So, when you weigh in, keep right on saying, "Oh, I only lost one pound."

(As if that were such a terrible thing.)

For you see, if you do this, you'll encourage others to keep me around because they'll think I'm not worth losing.

And, I love being around you - your arms, your legs, your chin, your hips and every part of you.

Happy Days!!!

After all, I'm ONLY ONE POUND OF FAT!!!

[lisau39]

Well good luck with whatever weight loss you go for.
Atkins isn't for everyone.
I just had to ask though, did you check out the recipes posted? Linda's Low Carb Recipes? If I'm bored thats what I do. I bought a Low Carb cookbook for ideas.
Anyway, I'm sorry you are upset and hope you find your way. Best to you.

(((lisa)))

[LageNomAi]

Originally Posted by FwL

It really is ok.

This way of eating is not for everybody. Quite frankly, if I wasn't losing, hated the food choices and felt miserable, I would not do this diet.

I'm not sure why everybody seems to think that Atkins is some kind of 'cure for whatever ails you' diet that will work miracles for one and all.


Take a step back and see if in fact you wouldn't be more at ease on a traditional low cal diet.

What's important is that you find a way to get the weight off and be happy with yourself... not which diet you follow.

I love this response and agree 100%. I fully believe that there is no one eating plan that works for absolutely everyone. My mother had thyroid issues and Atkins did not work for her, at least not after a small amount of initial weight loss.

I really am so sorry that you are frustrated. There is nothing worse than feeling as though you can't control your own body. I wish you the very best in whatever you decide to do!

[Mrs. A]

Originally Posted by msm2009

So it's been 2 weeks.

I've lost 3 pounds and no inches. I am SO ready to throw in the towel!
What the ****?
I don't even feel like going into it.
my stupid boyfriend lost like 10 pounds LIKE YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO and i'm all trying to convince him i haven't been cheating all the time! seriously about to cry here. I've been using ketostix everyday and they're always pink and purple. what the ****? the first time i did atkins back in 2003 it did NOT go like this.
i don't want any more friggin gross chicken or sausage or beef or cheese! there was the hugest artery in my chicken the other day... now i'm about to vomit AND cry. i'm sick of cheese, i can't go number 2 no matter what i take and i'm a friggin fart machine! This just isn't worth it anymore.

now i remember why i've given up on this so many times!!! I HATE the food and it doesn't work for me! maybe it's my thyroid, who knows but i'm not doing anything wrong. If i'm gonna lose 1.5 pounds a week i'll go back to stupid weight watchers where i can eat stuff that doesn't make me want to barf and I'm able to go to the bathroom everyday. and p.s. even the thought of salad or vegetables just makes me want to starve. i've been eating plenty of that crap too.

no has to reply to this or ask what i'm doing that could be making it not work so great- i just had to get it OUT! what a miserable disappointing 2 weeks!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hi msm! I know you didn't intend your post to be funny, but it cracked me up. I have been frustrated the last few days as well, and absolutely bored senseless with the food choices. Now, I have had some success, at least that's what the scale says, but I can't see it, and my clothes don't see it either. I have decided to give it another week and if nothing changes, start looking at some other diets.

[Georgiana]

Originally Posted by Mrs. A

Hi msm! I know you didn't intend your post to be funny, but it cracked me up. I have been frustrated the last few days as well, and absolutely bored senseless with the food choices. Now, I have had some success, at least that's what the scale says, but I can't see it, and my clothes don't see it either. I have decided to give it another week and if nothing changes, start looking at some other diets.

You may want to post your menu in the "Review My Menu" forum for us to take a look. If you do so, don't forget to mention quantities for every food. It would also be useful to know how much water you are drinking and whether you are exercising.

[SunnySmile501]

Even Dr. Atkins said that his diet was not for everyone. You have to at least believe that this is something you could do for a lifetime for it to work.

I did start out not liking: meat, mayo, cream cheese, sour cream, avocado, pork rinds, breakfast and many other Atkins foods, but I kept trying them until I learned to like them, some of them too much.

If you don't think you can stick it out until you can cultivate a taste for Atkins foods, then you are right to seek out the diet you can live with for the rest of your life.

[funkytofabs?]

I can understand your frustration. It's my second time around too, but wholeheartedly this time. I was expecting a bigger loss too, but the other posters reminded me that it doesn't come off as quick as we want it to, and it did take us awhile to put it on.
I get frustrated with the ketosis stix. They come and go and I've decided that as long as I am sweatin like a farm animal, SOMETHING is getting burned off.
I too DETEST veggies so I feel limited to the meat and cheese thing. I'm a lazy and terrible cook, but I keep plugging away at it. I've searched the web for low carb recipies and have found some pretty snazzy ones. They sneak in those horrid veggies and give me a spin on the egg thing So simple even I can handle them.

Don't give up. I wanted to the other day but read some other posts and got my ambition back. We're all in this together. Remember that ANY loss is still a LOSS, which is the goal, right?

Hope you are doing better.... vent ANYTIME, I say

[cheribaby]

I think all of us have been through some form of what you are going through. It's difficult to make any lifestyle change. I think Forrest (FwL) had the best advice. Take a step back and look at what you've done for the last two weeks. If you are eating things that you truly don't like and you don't think you can make this a true lifestyle change, then it's very possible that this is not the WOE for you. While I love the things that I will be giving up for awhile - breads and pastas and potatoes - I also love red meat, poultry, seafood, and many different veggies, so I know I can make this work (and have before). If this weren't true, I'd be on WW or something similar.

Having said that, I think you definitely have the right to vent. Many of us do (just take a look at the journals). There are lots of people willing to give advice, some advice is just very different from others. There are days when I have a right old tantrum in my journal, and then I feel better. Maybe starting a journal would help...

[noblenellie]

The first time I tried Atkins 5 years ago the scale did not move not one single pound for 13 days, then on day 14 when I weighed suddenly I showed a 10 pound weight loss! The Wooshie Fairy had paid me a very nice visit!!!!

This time around, I too have been discouraged but it is simply because I sometimes cannot be very patient. I restarted on May 4 and as of today I have lost a total of 5.4 pounds, which is really not bad when you look at it. But my problem is that I have been a slave to the scale and it moving up and down, up and down really ticks me off, LOL!!! In reading one of the threads yesterday I came across one that said that you can expect to lose 5-10% of the amount of the weight that you need to lose on induction...So for me, I realistically need to lose 50 pounds...well 5% is 2.5 pounds and the 10% is 5 pounds.....so I really cannot complain!

What we have to remember is that we did not put all this weight on overnight, in one week, 2 weeks or even a month therefore we should not expect to lose it overnight, etc...