liberal amounts of mayo, dressings etc. maybe that's where I'm going wrong I have about 2 tablespoons on my salad and have about 1 or 2 teaspoons of butter on veggies (sometimes). I looked at the best foods mayo, that is 780 cals for 100G thats a lot of calories.
I have started this diet from having NO CREAM EVER not much dressing and never butter on my veggies I think the calories are way too high for me, carbs or not.
Is there anyone out there who weighed 190-180 and had a good weight loss? If so could they PLEASE list what they ate in a day?

I read on the atkins site a girl from NZ who was my weight 184, who got down to around 120 in 3 months???????? I think I need to know what these success stories are eating. I know this is a way of life but I NEED TO lose at least 20lb pretty quick not in 6 months time now, ok sorry if I sound impatient and angry but I am pee'd off right now I just feel like I'm stuck on this round a bout forever!

thanks

ok, I weighed 182 when I started 3 1/2 weeks ago and this morning I'm down to 168. I'm 5'7" and my goal is 147. You've got to remember NOT TO COUNT CALORIES!!!!!! That's where you're going wrong. Drink LOADS of water ( half your weight in ounces, which for me worked out to 2 1/2 litres a day on top of other drinks . I've been off the caffeine (except for about 2 diet cokes a week) and totally off the sugar etc etc. I am doing everything as close to the book as possible, except for weighing things out ( but I think I have a good grasp of what's excessive and what's not) I've also been in the gym and cycle to work and back.
Please please read the book cover to cover as soon as you can as it will be a lot better that just getting peoples' tips, you need all the info you can get. Also remember that you won't lose as much as quickly as someone much bigger.
Here's my typical day (I'm a veggie)from induction

cup of hot water with wedge of lemon squeezed into it ( cleans the liver)
2 egg mushroom and cheese omelette
vitamin b complex, soluble vitamin c supplement, multivitamin and mineral supplement
decaf coffee with sweetener black or with double cream

another coffee

salad with cheddar cheese, lettuce, red pepper (capsicum to you!), 1 spring onion, cucumber

gallons of water

steamed broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage/ asparagus etc with 2 quorn fillets ( vegie protein bit like chicken breast)
creamy mushroom sauce ( from green Atkins cookbook)

other dinners were roasted pepper stuffed with spinach, artichokes and ricotta, with cheese on top served with more quorn and a large roasted mushroom.

slimline tonic water, diet Fanta / Tango (orange drinks)

more water.


But now I'm off induction I am eating extra snacks ( I didn't feel I needed snacks before, I don't now either but am having them in an attempt to up my carbs a little) these are strawberries and cream and a handful of peanuts or the odd quorn sausage or lump of cheese( anyone got any inventive ideas for easy vegetarian nibbles i can take to work?)

So to sum up,
go by the book, count carbs not calories, drink water, vitamins, get used to having yummy fatty things (big shock, I know it doesn't seem right..) do a little exercise and enjoy it!

Dear Trude

Thank YOU SO MUCH! Your post was what I needed to help me believe this works! In fact I have printed out your post to keep.. Ok tomorrow is another day and I shall start with new WOL yet AGAIN...BTW I dont like eating alot of meat so your vegetarian menu looks good!

Cheers
Shelley

You might get some benefit from a food tracker like www.fitday.com. 100 grams of mayo is close to 8 tablespoons, which is more than you would use on a single serving of anything I hope. I generally find one tablespoon of mayo to a can of tuna is enough for me. If you prefer 2 TBS then have it.. Don't be overly concerned with calories. They do count after a point but that point is much higher in low carb than in low fat.
To make this a wol and not a diet you will be conducting an experiment using your body as your guinea pig. If something you try doesn't work for you-switch to something else. After a while this woe becomes second nature. Just remember what works for one person may not work for you. I have to track my calories, Maggie doesn't. She maintains just by counting carbs. If I stop tracking calories I start gaining.
Could be the dozen diets I've been on in the past 30 years. I figured out a while ago that so far I've lost 594 pounds on diets in those 30 years. This time I Will make this a Wol. You can do that now. Whatever approach you go with I wish you the Best.

Rob

Trude

The artichokes with ricotta sound delicious. Can you tell me how you fix this?

Thanks
Clare

Shelley, not forgetting that this is your thread. I'm sure the advice you've been given is right - the problem with low carbing is that it isn't an exact science, we have to tweak it so it fits us individually, and while we are finding out what works for us, we can easily get discouraged by the things that don't. Best of luck!!

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I know this is a way of life but I NEED TO lose at least 20lb pretty quick not in 6 months time now, ok sorry if I sound impatient and angry but I am pee'd off right now I just feel like I'm stuck on this round a bout forever!

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I want you to take a DEEEEEP breath and relax just a bit. (UH OH, It is the attitude speech coming. LOL)

I don't know what your reasons are but be careful to not make it any kind of race to meet any kind of "drop dead" goal. I can't speak to how the other person dropped 64 lbs in 3 months but that seems very excessive and unwise. Regardless, the "20 lbs pretty quick" is one of those types of phrases that always catches my eye. Now is the time to practice a bit of patience and just let the plan work for you. If all goes well you will lose a fair amount of the weight quickly however there are those cases where it isn't as quick.

It is important that you start correctly, not quickly. In the long run, you will be better off with good practices in place to help you through the inevitable hard times.

HANG IN THERE!!!

Don
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http://home.insightbb.com/~athuddriv...b/lowcarb.html

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>I know this is a way of life but I NEED TO lose at least 20lb pretty quick not in 6 months time now <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

This isn't a quick fix for vanity purposes. If that's how you're looking at it, you can plan on putting those 20lbs back on, and quite possibly even doubling, or tripling it.

I (and several others) have recommended you read the entire book cover to cover, and my suggestion still stands (read it, and don't start induction again until you do), because it doesn't sound like you get it. The health benefits FAR outweight the weight loss in the long run.

A 1-2lb loss per week is *healthy* and recommended. That means it should take you a few months to get to your goal weight - not a week or two.

The only reason I lost so much (39lbs) in the first 8 weeks is because I had so much to lose. That has now tapered off to anywhere from 7-10lbs per month, and that's fine with me, because of how I *feel* physically.

Anything worth doing is worth doing RIGHT.

(296/227/135) 04/01/03

shrinkydinky!

Are we in tune or WHAT!? LOL

HANG IN THERE!!!

Don
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http://home.insightbb.com/~athuddriv...b/lowcarb.html