getting discouraged and it's only day 3!

[love777]

oh and the hot sauce is tapatio
ingredients: water, red peppers, salt, spices, garlic, acetic acid, xanthan gum, sodium benzoate as a preservative

serving size 1tsp
0 calories
0 fat
110mg sodium
0 carbs

is this okay?
If not anyone have a good hot sauce they can recommend?

[Georgiana]

Originally Posted by love777

what foods are we allowed to be liberal on. I know it says meats but is that it?

Here are the Rules of Induction: http://www.atkinsdietbulletinboard.c...induction.html (What are the Rules of Induction?)
The answer to your question is there.

But "liberal" doesn't mean you can stuff yourself with food.

And keep in mind that overeating protein can interfere with weight loss. Atkins is high fat, moderate protein, low carb.

Also I read somewhere that even though meats and some cheeses and stuff say no carbs I should count each portion as 1 carb. that's what I have been doing. So like for 1 egg I count 1 carb. is that right?

"Clean" meats (e.g. steak, chicken, ground beef, fish) should not have carbs. Cured/processed meats do have some; also read the list of ingredients. Organ meats also have some carbs and are limited to 4 oz per day. Shellfish also has some carbs; oysters and mussels are "carbier", and thus are limited to 4 oz per day.

Cheese has carbs.

Eggs have carbs. A large egg is 0.6 net carbs.

You can look up the carbs in different foods in the USDA database, or you can use FitDay to keep track of your foods.

The USDA database: http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/search/
FitDay: FitDay - Free Weight Loss and Diet Journal

[Georgiana]

Originally Posted by love777

oh and the hot sauce is tapatio
ingredients: water, red peppers, salt, spices, garlic, acetic acid, xanthan gum, sodium benzoate as a preservative

serving size 1tsp
0 calories
0 fat
110mg sodium
0 carbs

is this okay?
If not anyone have a good hot sauce they can recommend?

Looks fine, even if "spices" is a little mysterious. However, the carbs are not 0. Calories can be listed 0 if they are below 5. Carbs can be listed 0 if they are below 0.5 g. Since some of the ingredients have carbs (e.g., red peppers, garlic), the sauce will have carbs too.

If you only use a tsp, the carbs are negligible, imo. But if you use more than that, they'll add up.

[blueberry]

Originally Posted by love777

oh and the hot sauce is tapatio
ingredients: water, red peppers, salt, spices, garlic, acetic acid, xanthan gum, sodium benzoate as a preservative

serving size 1tsp
0 calories
0 fat
110mg sodium
0 carbs

is this okay?
If not anyone have a good hot sauce they can recommend?

My favorite is Frank's Original Red Hot Sauce. Mix it with a little melted butter and you've got the original buffalo sauce for chicken.

Ingredients are: Cayenne peppers, vinegar, water, salt and garlic powder.

[mission to lose]

Originally Posted by love777

But yesterday becaues I had to volunteer all day at this concession stand the only thing there was for me to eat was a johnsonville braut foot long. And maybe cuz I had two of them it set me back?

Welcome.
My advise is to never be unprepared, as many have already said. You said the only thing to eat was...

If you are going to be some place when you know you will have to eat during that time, fill a cooler full of food. There is rarely an excuse for not have all the food you can eat handy. I have had several occassions where I have been away from home for over 12 hours, yet I stayed on track because I packed food to be ready throughout the events of the day when I needed to supplement what was available to me.

BE PREPARED and hang in there!

[Jenileigh]

I too do not recommend getting on the scales everyday, that is enough to discourage anyone. I would wait until the end of the two weeks to weigh again. I weigh weekly, every Friday morning and log it in a notebook where I also log my food, this way I can keep up with my carb intake every day. I can look back and see if I made mistakes or if I need to change or add new things.

[love777]

i've been keeping a journal so I dont need to count like my steaks and chicken (grilled by me with just a little seasoning on it)
Because i have been.

If there is grilled or friend chicken with skin (not battered) can I eat the skin? and can I eat the dark meat?
Or should I try to stay with lean breast no skin?

That one day when I was volunteering they woudln't allow me to bring a lunch box so I really did have no choice. I brought one and was forced to leave it in the car and my lunch was 10 min so I wasn't allowed to go to my car cuz it was 15 min walk away! Well I won't have to volunteer again for a while.

[atkinsgal08]

>>hould I try to stay with lean breast no skin?>>

Not unless you like it that way. You can eat it that way, or you can eat the skin.

[atkinsgal08]

>>ot sauce is tapatio
ingredients: water, red peppers, salt, spices, garlic, acetic acid, xanthan gum, sodium benzoate as a preservative

serving size 1tsp
0 calories
0 fat
110mg sodium
0 carbs>>

This is fine. Just know that it's not really 0 carbs ... neither is Frank's.

If the ingredients have carbs (like peppers), then the resulting final product can't be 0.

[love777]

what are some good sauces to use as dips for chicken and steaks that are low or no carb? i can't eat my meats completely plain.

Yum deep fried skin on chicken is ok then I'm ok with eating it!