OWL here I come ready or not!

[jackfox69]

Hi Everyone,

I just finished my 2-week induction on Friday and I did pretty well. My goal was to be at 300 lbs but I missed it by 3 lbs, I ended up at 303…. still pretty happy with what I lost though. I was going to continue to follow the induction for a couple more weeks but I am looking forward to adding some more choices to my WOE.

I weighed myself in this morning and I was down to 302.5! My weekly\mini goal is going to be the infamous 300 lbs mark, I am pretty sure I can loose the 2.5 lbs in a week. I was weighing myself daily on the induction with favorable results but I know as time goes on with any diet weight loss does tend to slow, for some at least. So I made a decision to weigh in on Sunday mornings, yep just once a week! This way if my weight goes up and down during the week I won’t freak out, get depressed and throw in the towel.

However I am never throwing in the towel again, I have lived as a FAT MAN way too long and I have had enough. I have the same feeling about staying on this WOE as I did when I quit smoking over a year ago and I will not fail. Quitting smoking has also helped me realize that temptation will always be there for me! Although the need and want for a smoke is rarely experienced I am still, from time to time, extremely tempted. I defeat those evil habitual temptations with a few triggers I have developed over some time!

What triggers you ask, and how did I create them! Easy, I associated smoking with everything negative! One trick I used was to think of something that made me disgusted, made me feel rotten to the core and then while thinking of those horrible things I would look at my smokes, I would smell them with my eyes closed while still concentrating on the negative images I conjured up. Eventually smoking to me became more and more repulsive until one day I just woke up and quit them.

For my weight, I have a picture in my mind of a show I saw on discovery about a man that weighed over 700 lbs! The images of his bed sores, the rolls of fat and his negative attitude is what I associate with the foods that I sued to love such as sugar laden chocolate, and other high sugar foods that have always tempted me through out my life.

Another tip I use is a little more positive! When I think of myself I picture myself fit, muscular and with a healthy glow about me. I picture the rich delicious food choice that are afforded to me and how satiated they keep me during the day and how at times I have to remind myself to eat! I see my self as upbeat and very personable, ready to take on any challenge that is thrown my way! Finally I see my self running around my yard with my kids without the pain in my knees I get when I have the added weight on my body! That is the kicker for me, my son is 3 ½ years old and he is getting faster and faster by the day. How am I going to keep up with him if I am 333 lbs! I picture myself being fit and chasing after him.

One thing that I have always had an issue with is excessive eating, eating not when I felt hungry but eating to fill some kind of void. I would eat until I made myself sick! Not just 1 sandwich before bed, maybe 2 and a bowl of cereal! The only thing that has helped me here is keeping this FACT of OVER EATING to the forefront of my thoughts daily, reminding myself that when I wake up at 12 AM that it is not time to stuff myself like a pig! I had to make better choices, first of all was deciding or better yet determining if I was in fact hungry at all. If I was then I would eat something Atkins friendly, if not I might have a glass of water or if the craving was really bad I would have a shot of cream ( MMMMMMMMMMmmmmmmmm) or some cream cheese, both curb the cravings for sweets for me!

Anyways, I will check in and let you all know where my weight is in a week. Come on big 300 baby I know I can make it. Oh yeah, this week I have resolved to go back to the gym so I am hoping that will help as well.

Thanks peeps!

Brian – 30 lbs

[not2late]

Good for you and welcome to OWL!

OWL might seem less intimidating to you than to a person whose hung around induction longer than the minimum 14 days because you haven't gotten sloppy with measuring your foods or keeping a food diary and because you haven't gotten brainwashed into believing you'll never lose weight if you eat above 20 net carbs daily.

The important things for you are:

1. Re-read the book
2. Read the stickies in this forum.
3. Add only 1 food at a time.
4. Keep exercising.
5. Don't add additional fat to your menu. Keep it the same as for Induction or slightly lower (like 1/2 tablespoon less).
6. Keep drinking your water.
7. Be strict about measuring foods and keeping a food diary.

You'll like OWL, because you'll enjoy a wider variety of food, while you lose that weight.

[jackfox69]

Originally Posted by not2late

Good for you and welcome to OWL!

OWL might seem less intimidating to you than to a person whose hung around induction longer than the minimum 14 days because you haven't gotten sloppy with measuring your foods or keeping a food diary and because you haven't gotten brainwashed into believing you'll never lose weight if you eat above 20 net carbs daily.

The important things for you are:

1. Re-read the book
2. Read the stickies in this forum.
3. Add only 1 food at a time.
4. Keep exercising.
5. Don't add additional fat to your menu. Keep it the same as for Induction or slightly lower (like 1/2 tablespoon less).
6. Keep drinking your water.
7. Be strict about measuring foods and keeping a food diary.

You'll like OWL, because you'll enjoy a wider variety of food, while you lose that weight.

Hey thanks for the inspiring words!

I think I have the booked memorized and the stickies are great! I am a seasoned low carber and have tried to follow a modified version in the past with no luck! I should have stuck with what worked the first time around, I did loose over a 100lbs before my wife got me pregnanat ;-)

I am starting at the gym on Monday morning 5:00 AM! Fat for me is my friend, I do not count the amount of fat or protein, I only count the amount of carbs in my diet. When I shop for meat I try to find the meat with the most fat, nice and marblized, chicken breast with the skin, pork shoulder covered in fat! For me if I cut the fat I slow my weight loss down and tend to get a bit plugged up, if ya know what I mean

I do drink water and I am learning to love it more each day! I never really enjoyed drinking water but when I start to get the blahs about drinking it I think of all the good it does for my body and they go away! I do not keep a diary and I wish I would and as for measuring foods I am pretty good at eye balling things out but when it comes to foods that have more carbs associated with them such as some seeds and nuts I am very strict. The green leafy stuff I just eye ball it.

And yes, I am already enjoying the woder variety of food. Today I am enjoying 1/2 of an acorn squash drowned in butter

Again thanks for everyone's support and I am sure I have said this before but I never get tired of saying so here it goes..... I love this place!!!!


Brian - 30 lbs

[not2late]

Hmmm...if you're already eating acorn squash during your first week of OWL, then you are probably following the 1992 version of the Atkins diet. You might want to read the 2002 edition because Dr. Atkins made OWL much more structured by adding the higher glycemic foods later in the OWL phase, in order to avoid any potential stalling or slowing problems early on.

I do recommend that you try to keep track of your foods. You'll find during OWL that some foods can affect weight loss or trigger blood sugar instability problems and those are the foods you need to avoid. Plus, you'll need to figure out your CCLL, so you won't be a slave to the Induction 20.

[jackfox69]

That is a great saying! I so do not want to be a slave! I don't care if I loose 1 lb a week or ten (would be nice though) I just firmly believe in this WOE! Again thanks for being here!

[ValidRouge]

jackfox,

Welcome to OWL! I love it here. Of course, everyone is different, but I've had much more success in OWL than I did in induction. It's been an average of 2 lbs per week, sometimes more, sometimes less.

[Isabeau]

Hi and welcome to OWL.

[jackfox69]

Hit my 4/23/06 Mini Goal! I weigh 299.25 lbs, under 300!!!!!!

First time in a long time!

No pics this week. I figured I would wait to see a bigger difference so I would not get discouraged!

See you next week were my mini goal will be 298 lbs!!!!!

Brian -33.75 lbs

[Tired of Chub]

Good for you Jack!!! Great job getting into the 2s!

And welcome to OWL!

[jackfox69]

Originally Posted by Tired of Chub

Good for you Jack!!! Great job getting into the 2s!

And welcome to OWL!

Thank you! BTW way I am Brian, my dog is Jack Fox and I was born in 1968 but my fat fingers hit the 9 instead of the 8 so hence I am jackfox69!

Thanks again!

Brian - 33.75 Lbs