Hey

I am new on the atkins diet, and I am severly overweight, I started 5 days ago and have already lost 6 kg or like 13.2 pounds for the non metric ppl.

I am really struggling with my eating though, I am simply not hungry, I just don't know what to do, anyone have some ideas?

I am eating sausages, lettuce, cabbage, corn, tomatoes, beets, cottage cheese.

I find it hard to reach the 20g carb intake per day.

I feel great, I exercise and things are just fantastic, but I am still a bit worried, I spoke to my doctor and he says I will be fine if I can manage to get my apetite back and raise my carb and protein intake.

Any of you ppl experience similar probs?

rgds

Matt

Hi Matt,
Welcome to LCE
Well, first off, I'd just like to say a big congrats for a successful start on Atkins.
Of note, if you have your book(DANDR) handy, you might want to re-read the induction list of foods. Corn, beets and cottage cheese are NOT on the induction list.
Beets, 1 cup cooked have about 14g net carbs; 1 cup cooked corn has 36g net carbs, and cottage cheese has 6g carbs for 1 cup. Later in the OWL phase, you can add cottage cheese, and much later in maintance you could add some of those *starchy* vegetables such as the corn and beets.
As to why you are not hungry, it may be the wonderful effect of ketosis; I would say, just go with it and enjoy your new found freedom from being hungry.
However, you do need to eat and get adequate nutrition. You might try eating on a *schedule* that works with your work or school schedule.
Breakfast is a most important meal, and while many folks here are not big brekki folks, they have found induction freindly alternate foods to eat in the mornings.
You don't have to have breakfast foods for breakfast...try some raw veggies and a slice or 2 of cheese; or if you like, a nice cheese and mushroom omlet. At noon or your lunch time, you might find a few meat and cheese roll ups in a few lettuce leaves works well for you. Then at dinner, have a protein, such as steak, fish, or poultry, and a salad with a few low carb veggies such as broccoli, cauli, green beans, etc. I think you just have to *tweek* a few things, and you will become more comfortable with your WOE(way of eating).
I'm also glad your physician is on board with you on your weight loss journey...that is a good thing!
Please post often and let us know how you are doing. Keep your DANDR book handy and refer to it as often as you need to...it is your *map* to success.
Best Wishes for much success!

HTH
Shelley

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Life deserves a treat now and again, but life also deserves being healthy[with required disipline] to make it worth living!

I know Corn and beets and similar are not on the list, but I was netting around 9g carbs before that so I HAD to add something.

I will take your advice and run with it and see where it leads

thanks a lot

rgds

Matt

Hi Matt sounds like you r doing a great job if you would like someone to chat to i would love to hear from you as im looking for someone to talk to as i feel i could benifit from a buddy as such. I also work in kgs as im from Aus.
Hope to hear from you Jen.
Keep up the good work

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:silly: Jenni Armitstead

Welcome, Matt.

For those of us with more to lose, there is a great deal of water weight lost in the first week or so. As long as you're getting sufficient protein, and you're feeling fine, I wouldn't worry about the initial rate of loss. It generally slows down as you go along.

Indeed, you almost WANT to keep it down to a reasonable rate. There are many good reasons for that, some of which are: Slower weight loss (2 lbs or less per week) is less stressful, overall, to your metabolism. Slower weight loss allows your skin the chance to shrink along with you. Finally, slower weight loss allows you to really internalize your new way of eating. Remember, the goal isn't just to "get it off" - most of us have been there and back before. The main goal is to have the habits that KEEP it off.

Hope you'll make yourself at home here.

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This all sounds great, I have setup a 1 year loss plan, before I go on to maintain my weight, like I said I am severly overweight, I used to be a professional surfer in the early nighties but hurt my knee and became a computer specialist, and the combination of not being allowed to workout ( docs orders) and a job where I was sitting all day made my weight double in 8 years, it is such a relief to finally get the go ahead from my doc, who by the way is fantastic and totally understands Atkins, so I can now excersise wich I do min 5 times a week, and following the Atkins diet has been great so far, ( 6 days and counting ).

I think the hard times is to come judging from reading other posts, but the way I see it, one small step at the time and lots of excersise will get me there.

Hi Matt great to hear from you its sound terriable what you have been through but good things are on the way.
I dont have much weight to loose but i still need support as you do, Where are you from? hope to hear from you again Jen.

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:silly: Jenni Armitstead

Welcome to an informative and supportive forum. Hope you'll make yourself at home here. As you say, sticking with the plan may be hard at times. Progress is never a steady road for most of us.

I'd like to suggest that you rethink your timetable. You didn't double your weight in one year, so it would be unrealistic to imagine that you could reach your surfer weight--or even close to it--in that length of time. Also, it takes at least a year to habituate to a new eating plan that will help you maintain for life.

Sometimes our expectations interfere with our perception of real achievement. Set yourself up for success! You can do it.

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