Help!

[chilton1]

I've been doing really well for 5 days so far. Absolutely NOTHING off of the diet! However, last night, my husband and I went to a social event and they had tons of snacks there. I was really hungry, and was very unwise to not bring anything to eat. I ate about four honey-roasted peanuts that were covered in sugar. I'm not sure if that will affect my weight loss much, or will it? I am definitely not going to do it again, but I am freaking out. I don't want it to take another week to get to back where I am, and get back into ketosis!

[pagliaccia]

It's good for you to admit it. In my opinion, since you only had that one slip-up and didn't derail entirely, I'd advise you to continue with your current Induction. You might not see as much loss as you would've if you'd had a clean Induction, and you won't be able to calculate your true level of metabolic resistance, but at least you'll continue with a renewed sense of purpose.

[neutronnorman]

Hi Chilton1:

The average weight of a peanut is ~1 gram. One seving size of honey roasted peanuts is 28 grams. At four peanuts, you ate ~4 grams. One serving contains 9 grams of carbs, 4 grams of fiber but 3 grams of sugar.

So you ate [4 g / (28 g / serving)] = 0.14 serving to two significant figures

So you ate [0.14 serving X ( 9 grams carbs / serving)] = 1.3 grams carbs
Using the same dimensional analysis for sugar yeilds 0.42 grams sugar
Using net carbs yeilds 0.7 grams carbs
The fat content of the peanuts are 12.0 g fat.

If you only ate 4 peanuts, your body never knew you ate the peanuts. It did nothing to your metabolism, but I'd recommend sticking to the Atkins plan. If you go out again, b.y.o. food or stick to the low carb stuff because you might derail your progress. You'll probably feel guilty then binge eat. It's similar to a recovering alcoholic who goes out and has 4 drinks one evening. Well, you know the snowball effect.


Cheers,
Norman

[chinadoll]

You should be fine. Just continue on and plan better next time.