Day 7 - NEED HELP AND SUPPORT

[sassygoddess13]

Okay, I had a filet mignon smothered in butter and bleu cheese melted on top. Fortunately, all that fat is the ONLY thing keeping me "on target" right now because there is a gigantic cake here. Wouldn't matter if it wasn't though because I'm really missing sweets.

HELP! I'm ready to give up. I don't feel smaller. :confused

[spazzyhilo]

one of my favorite sweet meals is a mock danish:

1 oz softened cream cheese
1 egg
1 splenda packet
dash of imitation vanilla
dash of cinnamon

blend together in a microwave safe bowl, its best to use an electric mixer - until everything is completed blended. Then place in the microwave. I usually microwave for 1:25 and it comes out just right. If you want it a little crispier microwave longer, or softer for shorter. experiment!

Afterwards I like putting some butter on top of it. Very sweet tasting and satisfies any sugar cravings

[Peterlock]

Hi Sassy, :wave

The beginning is hard no doubt about it, withdrawal from anything isn't easy and sugar is no exception.

You need to add veggies to your dinner so they're spread out across the day, but refining and tweaking your menu can come later. As for right now, tonight my advice to you would be to get the cake out of the house, give it away or throw it away.

If it's there for other people who can eat it, just hold your guns and tough it out, the craving will pass. On the other hand if you give up you'll ruin five days of hard work, you'll throw your metabolism out of ketosis and you'll have to start all over again. Remember Dr. Atkins called that one the little cheat "The kiss of Failure"

In all the previous versions of DANDR he called the little cheat "The kiss of death" which I think was then and still is today, more appropriate because it virtually kills the success you've made up to this point.

The bottom line is how much do you want that 48 pounds off?

You wouldn't be here working as hard as you are if you were proud of your body and feeling good about yourself. Do you really want to live another month, week, hour giving in to food addictions and the unhealthy eating habits that made you fat to begin with and if you allow them have every intention of making you fatter?


Take Atkins as what it was intended to be, a way of life. Aspects of it, especially in the beginning Induction phase are more difficult for some than others - not much you, I or anyone can do about that.

But there is something you can do tonight and that's get through it without a cheat.

You can keep taking it one day at a time or one moment at a time until one day that person you always knew was there is staring back at you from the mirror.

You know how the other ending goes because you've already been there - that's why you're on Atkins, that's why you're here.

Just hang in there, it's not heroin, it's not crack cocaine it's a craving for sugar if you were strong enough to make it five days cheat free - you can make it six. The more you beat addictions, the more you starve them - the weaker they get.

Peter ha

[sassygoddess13]

Thanks guys! Well, I didn't give in, the cake (well, 1/2 anyways) is still there and will probably be gone by the time I go home.

Interesting: Before, I would tell people I couldn't eat salad for dinner because I'd be starving by the time I got home. (dinner = 8 pm, home = 1 am). Now? I eat my salad at 8 or 8:30 and I'm still full when I get home! :joy