2009 Staying Cheat Free Challenge

[EW78]

I hope you don't mind that I am jumping in. I have been getting to day 4-5 several times and then falling off plan. So today is Day 1 and I accept this challenge!

[Keetje]

EW, good luck with the challenge.

As for me, am now on Day 4 - clean as a whistle...its quite an effort, I have to say, but am in ketosis and am looking forward to meeting up with the scales on Sunday to see if I have shifted a few pounds.

Keetje

[focus83]

day 5 today so far so good, can i just ask if you sway for a day do you go back to induction or just continue on as normal with whatever rung you are on? thanks

[Taksioi]

Hello everyone,

I just joined and it was pointed out this was a good way to help keep myself accountable by posting here daily. This is technically day 0/1 for me so I'll start counting the cheat-free days after getting through today!

I've got so much to lose and there is no better way to do it than one cheat-free day at a time..

[happymomto4]

Finished day 3 cheat-free yesterday. I feel new power and conviction this time. Cheating only sabotages my own hard work. Not sure what I was thinking before. I feel GOOD when I stay away from the foods that everyone else in the family can eat because I need to eat this way to be healthy.

[EW78]

Thank you for the welcome!

Day 1 is recorded and now on to Day 2 ....

[sham]

Day 2 nice and clean induction.

[imagood1]

day 9 -- feeling fine!!

[Georgiana]

Welcome, EW78 and Taksioi!

Originally Posted by focus83

day 5 today so far so good, can i just ask if you sway for a day do you go back to induction or just continue on as normal with whatever rung you are on? thanks

Well, you should plan not to sway. Did you recently read Chapter 19 in DANDR? And here's a nice video Kent made: YouTube - Atkins Diet: Low Carb Emergency Kit

That being said, if life kicks you in the butt during Induction, you should usually just jump back on track and finish your 14 days but make sure you're in ketosis before moving to OWL. However the charts of metabolic resistance will be useless to you, which does not work in your advantage when you move to OWL. If you do Induction for longer than 2 weeks and then is when life kicks you in the butt, then you just get back on track. If you do OWL and instead of climbing the Carb Ladder you go down the ladder to Carb Land, then a cheat that puts you out of ketosis (like binging on Krispy Kremes at lunch) should be followed by a few days of Induction to put you back in ketosis; then you should move to where you were in OWL.

Originally Posted by focus83

i have people at work that always offer around cakes, biscuits and sweets, just wave them way that part is easy when im busy at work its when im at home bored thats the problem.

day 4 so far so good i think im still in ketosis.

I'm lucky to live alone, so there's no food I can't have in the house. And I keep dangerous foods (e.g. nuts - portion control issues) on the higher shelves---that way I don't see them all the time.

[sham]

Day 3 of staying cheat free.