On day 12 of Induction, adding to my support system

[leecee]

Hey there!

I just love this site and had to be a part of it. My name is Leah and I have been familiar with Atkins since high school 6 years ago. I tried to do it then, but totally lacked the will power (though I thought I was doing great on the diet at the time...haha) I cheated all the time by eating a bunch of nuts and those delish Atkins bars and SF candy, etc... DURING induction...that was the wrong approach, the wrong mind set, etc. etc.

SO! Now I am here again. I am in a great mind set to finally shake these extra pounds/I just want to be healthy because I am coming off a bad break up and am focusing on myself 100% now...I'm on day 12 of Induction and following the rules to the T..(or at least as close as I can possibly manage...i.e. I love coffee, I love diet soda (with splenda when I can find it), I have had some turkey bacon that contained sugar very far down in the label...cheats along those lines.) I am having a lot of success this time around and my will power is paying off! I am down 8 to 10lbs (I weighed myself twice on day 1 and I weighed 191.5 and also 194...the body is so crazy...I love how we can weigh totally different numbers in a day.) I plan on sticking with Induction, or the extended version, rather, for the rest of the summer, though I must say, giving up my corona for the summer is HARD (especially when all your friends are having a blast on the beach! haha...oh well! I will be happier in the long run, right!?)

I feel great, I am exercising as much as I can manage (I am doing two jobs right now [waitressing and running a fried food/pizza shack by the beach...p.s. it isn't hard to resist fried food when you make it...haha] and I am taking 2 summer classes...so I try to do some intervals at the track, ride my bike-stationary or street bike, do some push ups, lift my lil hand weights...what ever I can get in...) All that is missing is a little bit more of a support system to keep me on track and going toward my goal of 155lbs which at 5' 7.5'' looks great on my body.

I can't wait to make some posts because I have a lot of questions that maybe some of you can help me answer!

Looking forward to what this site can do for me!

[imagood1]

You should move on to OWL (ongoing weight loss). You have 28 pounds to go -- if you stay on extended induction another month and a half or longer you won't have enough time to go through the rungs and add foods back before you are at your goal.

The first rung is adding 5 additional net carbs of veggies back to your food -- the second is dairy, third, nuts, etc. You add 1 new type of food back on each rung...you will continue to loose as long as you follow the rungs the way they are written. You might stop loosing if you continue on extended induction with such a small amount of weight left to loose. Here is the link for OWL Ongoing Weight Loss (OWL) - Atkins Diet

Hope you will consider it.

[leecee]

I definitely will! Thanks for the input! I really didn't even consider it until now just because I love the way I am eating and I really am not missing the carbs! My family is all really prone to diabetes and we really respond to this WOE when it is done right...I guess I will brush up on OWL and start adding in those nuts...I do love them. I would love having more veggies in my diet too! Thanks for planting the seed so I can keep staying healthy (which is my main goal...not weight loss.)

[chinadoll]

Hi Leah, OWL will really teach many things about what triggers you and the whole juggling act that becomes maintenance so I am glad you have decided to move on.