Atkins Mark II...

[Romana XIII]

Hello, I'm Romana XIII and I'm currently in Induction doing Atkins for a second time. It's out of necessity after all the holiday binging I did.

It took me almost a year the first time to lose 50 lbs. because I cheated so much. The first month I was very very good and lost 20. Everything after that came much more slowly, because oh, it won't kill me to have a piece of toast.

I'm now in the land of white rice and udon noodles (not to mention delicious green tea ice cream) which makes it difficult. And living in barracks with no kitchen, making it even MORE difficult.

Still, I'm determined to make it work because I've spent ultimately 16 years now struggling with my weight, and Atkins was the only thing that worked.

[Scotslass]

Hi Romana

How are you getting on 2nd time around? This is my 2nd time and I have been going for 3 weeks with no loss other than 1 pound off and 1 pound up.

[Romana XIII]

I'm only two days in so there's not really much difference yet. I weighed three pounds less today than I did on the weekend but that may have been period-related.

I remember the first time, I dropped one pound after the first few days, then gained two a day later, and then four days later had gone down five. So I'm trying not to pay much heed to the first week. Now, next week, if it doesn't start to drop, then I'm going to get annoyed.