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Hi, I'm Misty. I am a returning carb addict!
Hello. My name is Misty. I am a married 27 yr old female currently sitting at or around 259 lbs. I have done atkins or things similar to atkins on and off for the last 4 years. I seem to always loose my way and end up falling back into bad habits. The funny thing is that I know this is the only woe for me, I just can't say no to the sweets! I honestly can't count the number of times on my fingers that I have "been doing atkins" but it's something that apparently in all those times I was still doing wrong.
I have never gotten to experience the sensation known as ketosis. Or at least, I think I haven't! I am a member of another well known low carb forum and have been since about 2005. I have enjoyed it, but in finding this page have discovered what it really means to be surrounded by others doing exactly what you are doing and keeping you accountable for it every step of the way. I learned that it's acceptable on the other page to combine a little of this plan with that plan or to make up your own for that matter. What I am glad to have found in you guys is a clear cut set of rules followed nearly to the T! Now, having said that, I do still appreciate the other forum for what it is. Having gone back and refreshed myself thoroughly on the ways of Atkins I have discovered that I have never given it an honest go. In my first time I was eating macadamia nuts and whatever amount of cheese I wanted on induction. I didn't measure out exact 2-3 cups of salad or other veggies. I just ate veggies that were lowcarb. But my biggest pitfall was that my snacks were comprised of pepperoni, cheese, nuts, and more pepperoni in mostly unmonitered amounts. I also drank diet coke, sugarfree coolaids, consumed sugarfree jello, whipcream, and other "sugarfree" items. All of which were aspartame sweetened. I also had those "planned cheat days" where, you know, it was ok, because it was only that one day and it was completely thought out. Admittedly I did loose weight, but I never lost the craving for sweets and starches and I never had that not hungry feeling. I seemed to feel famished almost all the time!
It is quite easy to sit and reflect and see where my faults were. But, will it be so easy for me to pick up and start over knowing my downfalls and not fall into their pit again? Well, that's why I am here.
I started today out with a regular ol' bowl of sugary cereal and banana. But decided halfway through the day that I am done! There is no "lets wait till tomorrow, or the weekend, or I have groceries" or whatever other excuse I can come up with. It's now or never. I had a lunch consisting of salad greens w/ tomatoe, cucumber, bell pepper, cheese, olives, and ranch dressing, a grilled chicken breast smothered in sauteed mushrooms and artichoke hearts, a 1/2 cup of green beans and a 1/2 cup of cooked broccoli. Yes, it was a big lunch, and yes, more vegetables than I needed in one meal. But it was the first concious step to making the right choices again. I left and went to the grocery store and picked up some chicken wings, ground pork, lamb roast, bacon, cheese, eggs, bagged salad, cucumber, onion, tomatoe, bok choy, asparagus, turnips, green beans, celery, avacado, olive oil, red wine vinegar, deli meats, and water. I am stocked and ready for at least 3 days now and can confidently pick up something to eat that will be on plan for a clean induction.
Tomorrow will be my first day of induction. I will weigh and measure myself. I am starting a food journal to keep track of all I eat. I am going for a strong start and any support along the way would be wonderful, as well as anyone else starting today or tomorrow.....hey we could be buddies!
Thanks for listening to my ramble.
I have never gotten to experience the sensation known as ketosis. Or at least, I think I haven't! I am a member of another well known low carb forum and have been since about 2005. I have enjoyed it, but in finding this page have discovered what it really means to be surrounded by others doing exactly what you are doing and keeping you accountable for it every step of the way. I learned that it's acceptable on the other page to combine a little of this plan with that plan or to make up your own for that matter. What I am glad to have found in you guys is a clear cut set of rules followed nearly to the T! Now, having said that, I do still appreciate the other forum for what it is. Having gone back and refreshed myself thoroughly on the ways of Atkins I have discovered that I have never given it an honest go. In my first time I was eating macadamia nuts and whatever amount of cheese I wanted on induction. I didn't measure out exact 2-3 cups of salad or other veggies. I just ate veggies that were lowcarb. But my biggest pitfall was that my snacks were comprised of pepperoni, cheese, nuts, and more pepperoni in mostly unmonitered amounts. I also drank diet coke, sugarfree coolaids, consumed sugarfree jello, whipcream, and other "sugarfree" items. All of which were aspartame sweetened. I also had those "planned cheat days" where, you know, it was ok, because it was only that one day and it was completely thought out. Admittedly I did loose weight, but I never lost the craving for sweets and starches and I never had that not hungry feeling. I seemed to feel famished almost all the time!
It is quite easy to sit and reflect and see where my faults were. But, will it be so easy for me to pick up and start over knowing my downfalls and not fall into their pit again? Well, that's why I am here.
I started today out with a regular ol' bowl of sugary cereal and banana. But decided halfway through the day that I am done! There is no "lets wait till tomorrow, or the weekend, or I have groceries" or whatever other excuse I can come up with. It's now or never. I had a lunch consisting of salad greens w/ tomatoe, cucumber, bell pepper, cheese, olives, and ranch dressing, a grilled chicken breast smothered in sauteed mushrooms and artichoke hearts, a 1/2 cup of green beans and a 1/2 cup of cooked broccoli. Yes, it was a big lunch, and yes, more vegetables than I needed in one meal. But it was the first concious step to making the right choices again. I left and went to the grocery store and picked up some chicken wings, ground pork, lamb roast, bacon, cheese, eggs, bagged salad, cucumber, onion, tomatoe, bok choy, asparagus, turnips, green beans, celery, avacado, olive oil, red wine vinegar, deli meats, and water. I am stocked and ready for at least 3 days now and can confidently pick up something to eat that will be on plan for a clean induction.
Tomorrow will be my first day of induction. I will weigh and measure myself. I am starting a food journal to keep track of all I eat. I am going for a strong start and any support along the way would be wonderful, as well as anyone else starting today or tomorrow.....hey we could be buddies!
Thanks for listening to my ramble.
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