I found that eating spinach for breakfast in my omelets and an increase in water made a great difference! That's one reason they say drink the water!

Okay,I'm finally fifty,died my hair finally to cover the gray,and have fifty to lose. I've been doing Atkins for over a year,Induction level no less.My doctor loves it! He recommended it!!!

I weigh everyday,but my official weigh in is on Mondays.That way i can see the weekly progress instead of daily ups and downs.No emotional rollercoaster that way.

I'm Jenifer and i'm short too.count me in too.I've been doing atkins since mid january.Lots of us out here doing Atkins,because it works!Pull up a chair and read peoples journals,their diet journals and you will learn so much.ask a question and someone will have the answer for you. Also Atkins.com site is FREE and they teach you everything!

You may want to keep your food journal public so if you have any problems we can see what you need help with.At the bottom of the food journal is a pie graph,that has your percentages on it for the day. Atkins.com will give you the percentages for fat,protein,and Net carbs needed for Induction.Hollar if you need more help.

I've been on Induction for almost nine months,Dr.s' orders,half way there,ask me anything if you need help.Watch the cheese,eat the veggies and easy on the Atkins products.If you get the headache,Atkins recommends chicken or beef broth,headache means your body is turning to fat burning mode and Atkins is naturally diuretic,so you lose the sodium.Drink the water.I spread my veggies over the whole day but mostly the first half,burn it early and relax the evening.

When you drop sizes a new you emerges,it takes sometimes months for your brain to adjust to the new you.the fear is still there of failure,but with the new eating skills it will lessen over time.if you have to,keep the old bigger clothes for a comfort blanket,buy some smaller ones as you need them.Eventually those comfort clothes will seem silly to keep and the smaller newer clothes will feel more familiar and become your new comfort clothes til the next time you need more.Also,there may be memories stored in those bigger clothes,the new ones won't have any m emories.You will need to make new happy memories with your new clothes.The fear of getting rid of the old and embracing the new is can be frightening,small steps generally work best,a few pieces of clothing at a time worked for me.

I did the same thing,kept a bag of really delicious chips on my dresser in the bedroom for eight months; so as soon as I quit atkins I could eat them and be happy.threw them away this weekend,i am not quitting and my brain finally said i didn't need them anymore.

Okay,I used the listing for the thinnest crust pizza i could find.if i had brought the pizza home i could have entered it under a protein choice after i weighed it.Sometimes it's better to grin and bear it than weigh it! Enjoy the pizza!Also if yoy have a portabella handy,put the topping on it and heat it up.Gets the veggie in too.

I believe MIM refers to muffin in a minute,can be found in the recipe section here.

Easier for me in the summer,more brats and I eat most of my fat in the morning and at lunch,throw in an avocado with your salad for fat.Just never give up!

Oh yeah,the butt pain.Me too. Our family tradition is no hips or butt,all stomach.I can't sit on a hard seat for more than an houror it kills me.What little butt I had is gone,great for jr jeans butt hurts like heck sitting down for any length of time. i take a cushion with me when i have to sit on bleachers.

I watched the movie too,vindication for what we do to be healthy!!

I use Hellmanns too,with olive oil, I think it's a little thicker than the original one.

I got tired of being fat,my pants not fitting,not having money to buy larger ones, being out of breath for just walking? and watching my family all get diseases from being grossly overweight.

Of course you can get back on track, dust yourself off and keep going. Consider it a small bump in the road of life, learn from it, smile, and move on.

And go for a ride in the car and not look at every fast food or restaurant sign and wonder if I am hungry and need to stop there. I swear on my last vacation to Mo. I memorized every food sign between here and home, not the attractions! Oh yeah and I have this little knobby bone on my foot, someone called it an ankle bone, looks weird!

I work at WMart, and yes there is still a shortage of canned pumpkin, there was last year and the store is predicting for this year also, people were grabbing cans of the stuff to stock up, we can't keep the stuff on the shelves before the holidays and once its gone after the holidays, we don't get more in. So for my store it is strickly a seasonal item.

I know how you mean, I have my weigh in on Friday, this whole week sucks! But the good news is I don't crave chocolate or chips before TOM arrives anymore. But the bad news is I'm still cranky and the pain won't go away, I thought when you hit 50 the problem would be over, no such luck here!

is that what the sloshing sound is when I walk or is it my thighs rubbing together?