Fuddle here.

[imagood1]

Hi Fuddle -- you can do any exercise you like - walking work great when first starting out -- we're not all body builders like Norm!

Drink at least 64 ounces of pure water daily - that is what Dr. Atkins suggested. Glad to hear you are drinking good tasting water, that will help you want to drink more water. Personally I drink 150 ounces of pure water daily -- it helps keep the "nasties" and flushes the fat out of your system.

Make sure you are eating a variety of foods -- as far as your partner -- make what he wants to eat, I fix meat for all of us and potatoes, rice, etc. for my mother and husband every evening --- I eat veggies and a salad sitting side by side with them -- it doesn't bother me because I want to loose the weight MORE than I want the starches they are eating.

Here are links to the recipe sites we use -- you'll find some wonderful meal ideas...give them a try, your partner may even like them!! There are a few recipes everyone in my home eat. Good luck to you -- if you need anything let us know!

Make sure you use Induction Recipes to begin with.

Recipe Sites
http://www.genaw.com/lowcarb/menus.html
(Never ending induction recipes)(Never ending induction recipes)http://www.atkinsdietbulletinboard.com/forums/atkins-diet-14-day-induction/58513-never-ending-induction-recipes.html
(Induction Recipe Basics--More recipes added)(Induction Recipe Basics--More recipes added)http://www.atkinsdietbulletinboard.com/forums/atkins-diet-14-day-induction/6807-induction-recipe-basics-more-recipes-added.html

[neutronnorman]

Hello Fuddle:

I understand you position. I'm not suggesting you go into the gym and try to emmulate a bodybuilder's workout.

Man, you can do free squats and pushups three times per week and that will yield divideneds in changing your body composition. I know you work in front of a computer all day and so do I in a very round about way.

I'm not going to preach but do you think beer or alcohol s a good idea in the early stages of this diet? Beside derailing your fat burning process, it does supress testosterone production and aromatizes the hormone into estrogen esters, I believe.

But anyhow, take care buddy and have a great weekend.

[Fuddle]

Norman,

DVD and booze is, of course, a habit. Tonight I'm enjoying an evening in with DVD and FIZZY WATER! About to have my 7th glass of the day (4 fresh Irish mountain water, 3 fizzies). The day went well; for dinner there was a madras curry (beef, onion, Patak's curry, no rice).

I'm pretty sure alcohol was my major sabotage every time I tried Atkins before. It's been 4 years at least since I tried it seriously.

Thanks for the advice about squats and pushups. 40 minutes at a go?

[Fuddle]

Imagood1, tomorrow I'm making homemade Korean kimchi. Nice and spicy and made of all the veggies in Atkin's first list of veggies in his chapter on Induction.

[imagood1]

Originally Posted by Fuddle

Imagood1, tomorrow I'm making homemade Korean kimchi. Nice and spicy and made of all the veggies in Atkin's first list of veggies in his chapter on Induction.

kimchi sounds wonderful!!!! I'm glad you are making foods that aren't boring and have plenty of flavor....the worst thing you could do is eat bland meals, people who do rarely last long.

Keep up the great work

[neutronnorman]

Fuddle, booze is what screwed my metabolism up for the last few years. Academia, booze and many long hours of sheer boredom.

Booze played an incredible part in my bloating and unprecedented weight gain. I even began to develop male gyne.

I thank the my lucky stars that I have been athletic for many years prior before entering grad school. Like the obsessive, compulsive idiot I am, I chose two minors. The competition and stress was indescribable. Man, if I scored an A- or B+ I felt like committing Hari-kari with a butter knife.

I've always been that way, hence my brutal work out regime. I remember when I had a scholarship playing Jazz guitar at the University of Miami many eons ago, there were days I'd practice 7-8 hours with a freakin' metronome running scales and arpeggios until I was blue (well, be-boped to get technical) in the face.

[neutronnorman]

Originally Posted by imagood1

kimchi sounds wonderful!!!! I'm glad you are making foods that aren't boring and have plenty of flavor....the worst thing you could do is eat bland meals, people who do rarely last long.

Keep up the great work

Carole, it is no big deal. I've been messing with weights since I was 14 years old or so. I just believe that we really should owe it to ourselves, in retrospect, to spend a half hour just moving about.

Anyway, I'm not all that big anymore. Well, probably the person on the street would think I'm pretty big. I've only returned to weight training in the latter part of April / the beginning of May or so. I just have a solid foundation I can build on. I has been relatively easy for me to increase work out load or intensity because of experience. If I were a novice to any form of physical activity, I would be content to walk for 30 minutes or so 4 times per week and do a couple of crunches and kneeling push ups. I'd be happy lifting up a pair of peach cans in the air.

You posted earlier that nobody is better than somebody else. I truly agree with you. I post my stuff because I feel proud of myself just like everybody else should be if they are giving their best to achieve what ever goal is important to them. Everybody here is a winner because they are making inroads in their own ways. We all learn from each other and that is a wonderful thing.

[Fuddle]

Originally Posted by imagood1

kimchi sounds wonderful!!!! I'm glad you are making foods that aren't boring and have plenty of flavor....the worst thing you could do is eat bland meals, people who do rarely last long.

Keep up the great work

Great work... it's now day number two! Oh, flavour is never a problem. It's bland things like rice and potatoes and cereals and pasta that I really don't have so much attachment to. Well… not conscious attachment. Ι mean, I never sit and say "Damn, I've GOT to have some potatoes!" or "Oh no! We're out of pasta!". In fact, for me, potatoes are little more than a medium for supporting the butter and sour cream. And pasta... well, I confess to adoring pasta carbonara, but that's mostly the butter and cream and bacon and parmesan, isn't it?

I have discovered (over the years, remember I did Atkins back in 2002 but fell off the wagon so to speak) that if I eat a tuna sandwich the wheat makes me sleepy. No such sleepiness arises if the tuna is on a lettuce leaf or even just in a bowl with the mayo and black pepper.

I guess I'm lucky. I don't find bacon and philadelphia to be boring. I don't crave pre-packaged stuff. If a box has "ingredients" on it I rarely buy it.

[Fuddle]

Norman, took me a while to find "gynecomastia". Homer Simpson just calls 'em "man breasts". But yeah, seen 'em coming....

Starting Day Two with a big cup of tea, splenda, cream.

[Fuddle]

Mug of tea/splenda/cream this morning. 4 slices of bacon for brunch. Another mug of tea. Two glasses of water. Lunch, some feta and not too much yoghurt. Dinner, leftover beef curry from last night. Now: more water.