Well I blew it

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tinamb

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I started Atkins on Monday and have been doing very well until tonight.

I finished eatting my dinner a small piece of lemon basted roast chicken and a 1/2 cup of green beans.

My family was having desert so I left the room to not be tempted. Well 5 minutes later my 2 year old walks in with 2 soft baked chocolate chip cookies and I took one small bit and it was over. Now I have had 5 cookies and a glass of milk which is a big no no on the atkins diet. I have had almost 80 carbs for the day and you are only supposed to have 20.

I am looking for any advice of how to beat those craving at the very beginning of the diet. Thanks for listening to my weaknesses.
 
The best advice I can give is to get the sweets out of the house altogether. The kids and hubby don't need them either.
 
Tina - oh well... you messed up "now get over it" as my old trainer use to say! Don't let it ruin your day, week, month!

I had a chocolate hershey bar w/almonds yesterday. I was at a meeting all day and everyone was eating chocolate on a break. I didn't have any cash and some guy gave me a dollar.... of course I put it in the machine (after contemplatng for 10 min) and bought my treat! It was yummy but I regretted it all day yesterday and today!

I am doing Body For Life and am only in my 2nd week. Lastnight I almost thru in the towel until Sunday and was going to start over. But then I thought.... NO JUST GET OVER IT!

I ate clean all day today :)

At least it was a soft, warm cookie right! At least it was something worth being bad for :+
 
You won't like my answer: My answer would be to can Atkins in favor of a diet that is easier to stick to.

I guess the way I look at it, I couldn't give up my carbs. The cravings would be so great that I'd lose it and snarf down a whole loaf of bread and a couple of doughnuts to ease my pain. And, well, that wouldn't be a smart thing to do, would it? So, I eat sensibly and eat enough carbs to not get such awful cravings. Thus, I haven't had a doughnut in goodness knows how long...and that loaf of bread usually just ends up being a couple of pieces of a toast for breakfast.

I learned a long time ago that your body will tell you what it needs. If you crave carbs, it's because your body is needing them...and it will take them from whatever source is readily available. That means if all you've got is cookies close at hand, then cookies will be what goes into your mouth.

I eat when I'm hungry, and I eat what my body tells me it needs. Sometimes I crave salads, sometimes red meat, sometimes chicken, sometimes bread (and sometimes a DQ Strawberry Cheesequake Blizzard :) ). I've just learned to make smarter choices, eating lean red meat, small amounts of bread, and the smallest Blizzard DQ sells. I find that this diet is much easier for me to follow than Atkins.
 
where you been fitnut??

tina...girl, you made it longer than i could!!! atkins is hard!!! i agree that you have to keep it out of the house!!! that's my rule and if i but cheat food i eat a small portion and throw it away and i put put dishsoap on top of it so i won't get it out of the trash(cause if it's on top it's not dirty }( ) ya seen that episode of Sex and the City where miranda does that with the chocolate cake?? pretty bad when temptation is that strong! just start again! it will get easier once it is a way of life...unless of course it involves brown ricex(

jes:)
 
Don't beat yourself up, rule #1. Past performance is not a perfect indicator of future behavior.

To help with chocolate cravings, I use whey protein in double dutch chocolate flavor by SciTech, Whey Best. It has less than a gram of sugar, hardly any carbs (can't remember for sure...may not have any), and real chocolate taste. It's the only thing that gets me through TOM cravings. I mix it in water, so no added calories. Each scoop is 80 calories, and 20 grams protein. Hmmm...20 X 4 = 80 so I guess there's my answer, no carbs! :)

I found SciTech on bodybuilding.com
 
I agree with Catwoman about ditching Atkins. There are other diets that are healthier and that allow you a sufficient amount of good carbs that your body doesn't crave them so much.

Of course, there are also some foods that some of us just have to avoid (trigger foods) that will set us off on a binge, usually those with sugar or white flour or a combo of that and fat (for me, it's chips...which I haven't had in the house for a long time, because if they're there, I will eat them, and eat them, and eat them!).
 
I would not recommend ditching Atkins--I've had amazing results (lost 30 lbs in about 8 weeks & have kept it off). I've been on it for more than two years & it has had zero effect on my health. In fact, if anything I'm healther than I've ever been.

I'm sure it's difficult to stick to it when you have others living w/you--I guess I'm fortunate in the sense that I live alone so I can keep carbs out of my house w/o effecting anyone else, so it's been fairly easy for me.

The best advice I can give you is similar to what I'd tell someone who's quitting smoking--if you can make it through 10 minutes of the craving it'll pass. Perhaps keeping some sugar free hard candy or gum around might help--if you're craving something sweet you can just pop one of those in your mouth. Also, maybe you can have a "lifeline" like people in AA do--someone you can call when you get the cravings who can talk you out of it. Or PM me if you want!

Also you can check out the snacks on the Atkins website, although I'm pretty sure their desserts are for phase 2.

The cravings really do go away after a few weeks. If you can hang in there that long the diet becomes much much easier. For me it's the easiest diet I've ever done b/c I never feel hungry.
 
If that's all I had for dinner I would be hitting the sweets too! That's not enough to eat. I don't care what the Atkin's diet says. I would add a salad with lowfat dressing, whole wheat dinner roll and maybe some yogurt for dessert. It works for me.
 
That's actually a good point--you can certainly increase your portions & include a salad (but not the roll or yogurt). I mean, for dinner I can eat a giant Tbone, a large helping of a veggie & salad w/0 carb dressing (there are actually some pretty good dressings out there--they don't have oil but IMO there's no difference in taste). That's basically a 4 carb meal & it completely fills me up. Maybe that'll help w/your cravings.
 
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