Day 1

[tmo967]

Today is day 1 for me.

I work nights and then am a stay at home mom so I had to have coffee still. I had 2 cups with cream.

Then for breakfast I had 2 sausage links (pre-cooked), 2 eggs scrambled with 1/2 cup of baby leaf spinach and 1/2 cup of colby jack cheese. I had 2 glasses of water to make up for the coffee (something I do regularly anyway).

I am tracking my foods on fitday, but dont really "understand" it. Hopefully that will come with time. Anyone else just starting out too? My biggest trouble will be the weekends when I am home with the whole family (my husband works a lot during the week). During the week it is easy to eat well, but the weekends we eat out a lot, so finding acceptable meals is going to be hard for me.

[liv]

1/2 cup of cheese? We are limited to 3-4 oz of cheese.
Make sure you review this:
http://www.atkinsdietbulletinboard.c...induction.html (What foods can be eaten on Induction?) (What foods can be eaten on Induction?)

[tmo967]

yes, isnt 1/2 a cup equal to 4 oz? i wont be eating anything else "cheese" today. also, i did not eat it all, i got full .

[liv]

I am not sure? It could be. The oz is weight for cheese. So you have to cut the chunk and then grate it and see what happens.

[Elizellen]

Originally Posted by tmo967

yes, isnt 1/2 a cup equal to 4 oz? i wont be eating anything else "cheese" today. also, i did not eat it all, i got full .

According to www.fitday.com one cup of shredded cheddar cheese has 455 calories and one ounce of it has 114 calories, so one cup (8 fluid ounces) must hold about 4 ounces weight.
So assuming Colby cheese is similar to cheddar cheese your 1/2 cup probably held about 2 ounces in weight.

I usually weigh cheese before shredding it to be sure what quantity I am using in a recipe.

As a side note - the pre-shredded cheese usually has added starch to stop it sticking together, so use block cheese and grate it yourself if you can.

[greenbeagle13]

Yes, this is my first day as well. And I too work nights, so my day begins at around 3:00 p.m. I am glad you posted because I thought we could have endless amounts of cheese - as long as it didn't have any carbs.

I am somewhat confused because I see people talking about giving up diet cokes, but there are no carbs in diet cokes. (I have sent off for the book through Amazon).

Today I ate bacon and eggs, roast beef, and 3oz of cheese. According to FitDay I have consumed 6.5 carbs, but I have already eaten 94g of fat (yikes), AND 1283 calories. WOW. That's difficult to adjust too that type of counting, but it certainly seems to work for all of these people,

Thanks for your question about the cheese..., it helped me too.

[ziggy]

they dont drink diet cokes cause diet cokes have aspartame and aspartame causes stalls in alot of people

also for health reasons you should avoid all types of soy and polyunsaturated omega-6 vegetaple oils aswell

[IrishIrish]

Originally Posted by greenbeagle13

Yes, this is my first day as well. And I too work nights, so my day begins at around 3:00 p.m. I am glad you posted because I thought we could have endless amounts of cheese - as long as it didn't have any carbs.

I am somewhat confused because I see people talking about giving up diet cokes, but there are no carbs in diet cokes. (I have sent off for the book through Amazon).

Today I ate bacon and eggs, roast beef, and 3oz of cheese. According to FitDay I have consumed 6.5 carbs, but I have already eaten 94g of fat (yikes), AND 1283 calories. WOW. That's difficult to adjust too that type of counting, but it certainly seems to work for all of these people,

Thanks for your question about the cheese..., it helped me too.

Until you educate yourself about the Atkins plan by reading DANDR 2002, you should at least go through the forum with the Frequently Asked Questions and read the Rules of Induction and the Acceptable List of Foods. Looks like you may not be getting your veggies.

[greenbeagle13]

Yeah, I can't wait for the book to get here. In the meantime, I am trying desperately to read through these forums (FAQ's as well) to get educated about this eating pattern.

After reading these forums I realized how important veggies are so I ate my veggies yesterday by eating a garden salad with oil and vinegar dressing. Initially I bought Ranch Dressing at the store, reading the 0 carbs on the label, thinking it was all good. Then I was reading in here about the added sugar in the dressing, as well as the bacon I bought, and returned them both to the store. I bought bacon that has no sugar in it and ate that this morning.

I am trying my best to learn from these boards until I can sit down and read the book, but I'll probably have some ???'s even after reading the book.

I appreciate the experience in these forums and the help provided.

Thanks!