Entertaining Atkins Stories?

[perchance]

I don't know if there is another place for this topic but I got to thinking last night that I'd like to hear anyones amusing Atkins-related stories.

This came to mind after I had a phone conversation with my mom where I came out of the Atkins closet to her. I told her I had made it through the first week and everything was going well and I have no sugar cravings but sometimes I'm afraid they'll crop up. She was very supportive and then we moved onto the subject of my little parrot. I mentioned that I had purchased a banana for him and she exclaims, "ARENT YOU AFRAID YOU'LL EAT HIS BANANA?!"

HA! Just the mental image I got from going mad with desire over a banana...


Okay. Anyone else?

[sallyseachange]

Thanks for the chuckle!

[Sunny_0ne]

That WAS a funny mental image! Fighting your parrot for his banana.

[rajenki]

LOL....yes, us atkinites are a bunch of carb-starved freaks stealing fruit from our pets!

I have one...I started a couple weeks before my birthday. A friend of mine at work...who struggles with her weight and I watch her repeatedly making the same mistakes with WW over and over again...wanted to buy me a birthday present. She said she was at the grocery store and saw all kinds of Atkins products and wanted to make me a gift basket full of shakes and bars! I politely said thank you for the thought, but this diet is more about whole foods and that I really had no use for the bars and shakes.

That is something that really bothers me about those products being available...it gives people the wrong idea about this diet.

[Sunny_0ne]

rajenki, it's really good that she let you know before she bought them, so you could graciously decline the gift!