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LIW +9.0
Overnight GAIN 0.4

Here is my menu for the day before – this is what I ate:

Breakfast: Coffee with Half and Half, leftover shrimp and broccoli
Lunch: chicken with huge blue cheese topped salad with blue cheese dressing
Dinner: ground chicken, green beans and tomato sauce
Snacks: pepper jack cheese, iced mocha

A total of 1450 cals divided: 78 fat grams (47%), 61 carb grams (12%), 122 protein grams (37%)

Two Steps Forward, One Step Back

Yup, this is the way with Atkin’s Induction – it’s up and down, up and down. I was chatting with a fellow HCG’r yesterday telling her that I was so not prepared to do Atkins Induction this week. I had none of the supplies needed to complete this program. Not nearly enough “fatty” foods to up my calories since I am not eating hardly any carbs.

My calories were low yesterday, yet I stuffed my face. I also spent a good hour outside (finally a GLORIOUS day to work outside) doing yard work and was very sore and tired when done. One more thing is that I ate late (around 7pm) and I ate WAY too many carbs for induction. But I insisted I wanted green beans with tomato sauce. Oh yeah, one more thing, TOM is still here!

So if you ask me, I am not worried about the temporary gain. It will come off. I am one of those that loses as TOM leaves the building, not while he is here.

I am running late again today folks, I don’t know what it is, but I seem to be finally catching up on some much needed sleep. Have a great day!

On to my commenter’s – these are my responses to yesterday’s comments:

Mary – Thanks girl!

Becca – Thanks to you girl!

Shelly – Thanks!

B – It’s worth a read if you have time, it’s a pretty healthy way of eating. Very similar to Dr Simeons.

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LIW +8.6
Overnight LOSS 0.8

Here is my menu for the day before – this is what I ate:

Breakfast: 2 scrambled eggs in EVCO, some cheese and bacon bits thrown on top
Lunch: two ginormous pork chops (I snacked on these during the day)
Dinner: shrimp and broccoli from the Chinese Fast Food place (just steamed)
Snacks: coconut bark and pepper jack cheese, a full tomato with EVOO and balsamic and blue cheese

A total of 1823 cals divided: 135 fat grams (66%), 29 carb grams (6%), 124 protein grams (28%)

Just the Stats

I only have time for the stats this morning. Was flat on my back almost all day yesterday because TOM was ruthless, so I gotta get started early with the stuff I neglected to do yesterday, in other words, play catchup.

Thank you all for the really comforting words helping me thru my ‘time’ yesterday, it’s such a joy to know I am not the only one that has to suffer! ROFL

If you haven’t figured out by now I have decided, since I have the time, to do a strict week of Atkins Induction and see how far that might bring me down. So my goal until Monday is to go 20 net carbs or less. So far so good.

On to my commenter’s – these are my responses to yesterday’s comments:

Shelly – feeling better today! Charleston is a great place to live, I do really like it here. I am a beach girl so being this close is just wonderful!

Mary – I did, I pretty much laid flat on my back with my trusty heating pad and loved every minute of it. But today is back to the grindstone!

Jan – Oh yeah, down goes the weight!

Becca – I can at least FOCUS now that TOM has made his appearance. Geesh, it was messing with my mind BIG time!

B - yeah, it got pretty bad yesterday, but I am like a new person today! YEAH!

Liz – I wish I would have seen that yesterday about the lotion, I needed SOMETHING!

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LIW +9.4
Overnight LOSS 1.6

Here is my menu for the day before – this is what I ate:

Breakfast: 3 scrambled eggs in butter
Lunch: one can of water packed tuna with mayo, 2 hard boiled eggs, spinach, tomato, red onion, sf relish
Dinner: grilled chicken, squash and onions, green salad with crumbled blue cheese and blue cheese dressing
Snacks: some monterey jack cheese, a leftover pork chop and some coconut bark

A total of 1830 cals divided: 127 fat grams (62%), 22 carb grams (4%), 149 protein grams (34%)

GEESH! FINALLY!

I actually feel like my life is on an upward trend, and not my weight! This has been a pretty excruciating two weeks waiting on TOM to arrive. When he arrived, in the middle of the field trip (a WALKING field trip mind you) was a bit more than I wanted to deal with yesterday, but I dealt with it, he is finally here, and now, he can leave and I can return back to normal.

First, about the field trip – we went here – Charles Towne Landing – when I left yesterday morning, I didn’t know it was supposed to be a walking field trip. I honestly didn’t know what it was. This place was closed down in Charleston for years and only recently reopened so I had never heard of it. I thought it was closer to the river and we were gonna see some ships and cannons and stuff, but it was a spot inland where the settlers of Charleston had landed and started forming this city. There was LOTS of walking involved. There was a history trail, an animal forest and a museum.

With TOM arriving almost within one hour of our trip, the rest of the day walking really played havoc with my back. OUCH – since I hurt my back in Jan of 2007, it gets very tender during the first few days of TOM and with all the walking yesterday, and not wearing the correct shoes, well suffice it to say that I was down for the count as soon as I got home.

Actually, today will be a day of being lazy. The cramps are strong, they will be today, and today will be the worst of it.

Thanks for hanging in with me while I was a little crazy over the last two weeks. Now that TOM is here, I know that I will be able to better focus on things like blogging, weight loss, getting back to LIW – all these things WILL happen, I have no doubt.

On to my commenter’s – these are my responses to yesterday’s comments:

Lili - HA! The problem was I was an hour away, in an auditorium of 1000 people and I looked for something to savor, and do you know that not one person had any chocolate? It was like the whole place was on some sort of health kick. So you know that made me even angrier. LOL – what, we worry?

Ewewho – Fun? That is a loose term I tell you! The kids had fun, and I put on my best face while I was with them. So that is important, that the kids had fun.

CB - you and me, we have been chatting back and forth since yesterday about this. I will be posting my thoughts in coming days. And thanks girl, all of this community is the pillar of which my foundation with this protocol is set.

Jenn - as you know by now TOM finally showed up, geesh. On the field trip no less, what is up with that?

Mary - how can this dorm school phenomena happen across the internet? You, me, Jenn, I wonder who else??? Geesh!

B – Looking forward to seeing your progress in subsequent days!