For your viewing pleasure! My experiment

[Pineapple]

My weight is pretty much always 145 lately. Fine by me, I've got two and a half months until I want to get to my goal of 140. I'm easing from OWL to Pre-Maintence anyways.

So, since I figured I had all this time, I thought I'd play around!

Today, I shall eat nothing but frankenfoods!

I will eat at the same level that I always eat my healthy whole foods- 1200 calories, 60 from fat, 30 from protein- or shall I? *evil laugh*

Let's see what a day full of sugar alcohols will do to me. Will I wake up 10 pounds heavier? Will I inflate like a balloon? And will I still be in Ketosis?!

So let the horror begin! (just to clarify, this is a one day only thing, and just to satisfy my curiosity and maybe give some proof to the newbies how bad frankenfoods are)

Breakfast: 1 Atkins Mocha Bar, 1 Hershy's low carb bar
alleged carbs: 4
How I felt: VERY full. It's only 350 calories, which is what I normally do for breakfast! I burped twice and barely wanted to touch my water (and I usually love drinking it, at least 75 ounces a day). Also, I thought the whole thing was a bit sweet.

Lunch: 1 Atkins Chocolate Decadence
Alleged carbs: 2
How I felt: Back when I was taking Metformin, it used to give me a little bump where my tummy was. I've got it back, and a hour later a worried boyfriend actually asked me if I taken one today. When I was eating it I thought mainly that it was too sweet. I'm still burping, and I have a icky little suspicion that a bathroom trip's not to far off. It's getting hard to remeber to drink my water.

Second lunch: 1 Atkins Chocolate Decadence
Alleged carbs:2
How I felt: The little belly went down, thank goodness! Around this time my stomach seemed to settle down to. After all the posts I was starting to wonder if something dramatic was going to happen, but I drank some more water.

Dinner: 1 Atkins Chocolate Decadence
Alleged carbs:2
How I felt: Sometime after second lunch I stopped being full, just satiated. It's safe to say I'm sick of chocolate though. Me and my friend jogged down to get some eggs for tommorow's breakfast and I was back to feeling like myself.

Water Intake for the Day: 68 ounces


The Morning After (will be filled in March 3rd)
Was I in Ketosis: Yes, one shade lighter than I normally am
Weight: 145
How I felt: Since it's friday the gym opens later. So I did wake up an hour late. I'm not feeling sluggy anymore though, and think my stomach finally totally adjusted. Now for eggs!

[kelly94942]

This is totally exciting! I can't wait to hear back the rest of your report!

[atkinsagain]

Okay, I almost had an anxiety attack just reading this! Someone stop her, lol. But, I also know I'm not going to be able to keep from looking back in here to see how it turns out.

[wannabethintoo]

I don't see the point.

[sunflowergrl]

I can't wait to see how this turns out!!! What an interesting idea. You should write a paper on this experiment.

[Sheshy]

I don't either. Pineapple what are you trying to prove by eating junk food?

Originally Posted by wannabethintoo

I don't see the point.

[big_bad_john]

Wow I really want to see how this turns out...

Rather you than me though!

[Gala]

Can I ask you ......what for?

[Jellybean1984]

im not so sure I see the point either, to each there own.

[Pineapple]

I have two reasons. One point is that we're all told that sugar alcohols and frakenfoods are bad, cause stalls, and so forth. And I'm not going to disprove it, I want to provide an example for everyone, just give them a personal story.

When I was first starting this diet, I always read the personal stories about everything! That way I knew what I could expect.

I'm proud of myself for doing such a clean Atkins for a long time. Finally I'm able to fit into a size medium.

But mainly this is because I'm curious to see what happens.

(I picked up some green tea diet pills the other day, if I gain three billion pounds I might start using them for next week's weigh-in They have trace amounts of caffine however.)