www.fitday.com
It's free and it's a good way to track what you eat
Kelly

Keep drinking your water, even though you feel like your going to float away. Keep the protein & fat levels up as well 'cause if you cut back too much on those, your body thinks it's starving and starts to hang onto the energy source.

Check your carb levels as well ' cause if you increased your levels too much, your weight lose will slow down, and remember if your exercising, your toning those muscles and they weigh more than fat. I also noticed on your profile that you are only working on a 30 lbs rather than 50+ so as Dr Atkins says in his book, the smaller the amount you have to lose, the slower it will come off.

The fact that you've lost 10 + in your first two weeks is an better than excellent start. You've done well so far, Don't give up yet.

Kelly, I will check out fitday, thanks.........

Marge, not giving up yet... and yes you are right, I did not lift weights the first few weeks to make sure this worked..... after I saw the pounds coming off I started to do cardio and lift some weights... I was not even thinking of that when I typed this out..... Good point.

I do drink lots of watter, I drink 2 - 3 liters a day, I drink 2 liters at work, plus whatever I have at home after with my meal and watchng some TV......

Carb levels are the same, I have not changed those, I will check my fat levels and see if they have come down, and if so I will send them right back up....



Thanks everyone, this is helpfull.

Actually I better change that.... I drink 2 liters of Crystal Light Iced Tea each day at work...... I can't stand the taste of plain water.......

I can't drink anything with aspertame in it, so it's plain filtered water for me. Safeway carries a nice carbonated water called Refresh. 99 cents for a 2 liter bottle. The lemon/lime flavor tastes like Perrie water but is a lot cheaper. I drank it a lot last summer whenever I craved a bubbly drink.

Is everyone else he cold has finally broken and the snow is turning into a mess?

Good advice Kelly... I will try it...... thanks.........

sigh, now to go get a glass of water......

sndcanada.com has the low carb bars from the states that have vitamins in them....

they cost a few dollars more than that other ones.... i didnt like chocolate decadence, but the smores are yummy.

they offer free shipping over 100 bucks and a discount over 200

the genisoy bars from costco are cheap and good as well i just dont know enough about them... i was just asking about them on a different thread

Lenni...
don't worry about the too scared to know. One of my co-workers started Atkins the same day as me. She didn't weigh herself before she started this WOL and she has no idea how much she's lost but lets just say her pants are falling off her butt. (the two of us look pretty funny as we are both constantly hiking the pants back up. Time to buy a belt I guess.)

Posted on www.cnn.com


Dr. Robert Atkins, whose popular diet stresses protein-rich meat and cheese over carbohydrates, weighed 258 pounds at his death and had a history of heart disease, a newspaper reported Tuesday.

Before his death, he had suffered a heart attack, congestive heart failure and hypertension, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing a report by the city medical examiner.

TazTuff, please see the information in this thread: http://forum.lowcarber.org/showthread.php?t=165899

Rosebud

thank you for posting that thread. I had not seen that article or heard anything aside from the news which seems to want to discredit the Atkins diet every chance they get....gee....hasn't that been the case with EVERYTHING that gains momentum in our lil world?

Having said that I am trying the Atkins diet now but will not stay that way forever. I guess I will have to see how it all goes

Thanks Rosebud, its good to see the link. they were talking about it on the local radio station and the DJ was putting more ephasis on the fact that Dr Atkins had a disease that was causing the problems. So not all the media are on the side of the detractors.

Go Low Carb, Go.

I read that thread, thanks.... I was not trying to say I believed it, I was just pointing out that it was said..........................


I am still not loosing anything...... 13 pounds in my first two weeks and not even one pound in my past 3 weeks.............. I bought those Ketone Test strips and I show neutral each day........... I am drinking lots of water.... 2 liters or more a day.... eating as per the book...... not sure......... It is discouraging.