On Apr 9, 10:44*am, "Stormmee" wrote:
at least you have your blood sugar down, and cravings have stopped. maybe
instead of freaking out think of "reasonable" protions, and start
eliminating things like mayo, chicken skin, do that for a bit and see what
happens, increase water when you start reducing these other things, and also
maybe start journalling now so you are in the habit if you decide to return
to calries, truth is doug, anything you do no matter how small in the right
direction is an improvement, i mean, while you prefer to lose, not gaining
is better than gaining, good luck and please post often, Lee

Thanks, Lee. Yes, getting back to journaling - which I've been doing
the last 3 weeks - is an important step for me.

And what you say about cutting out the most outrageous things on
Atkins, such as mayo, chicken skin, etc., might not only be helpful,
but be sort of like WW "Filling Foods" but avoiding all the high-
glycemic trigger foods on the WW list.

Maybe the WW list needs to be poured over and some things removed (for
me). I think they just tried to keep it simple by saying "all fruits"
and "all veggies" even though some fruits and veggies clearly have
different "sugar load" effects than others, and some can be very high
calorie.

If you eat strawberries, broccoli and spinach you are going to eat
less calories and less carbs than if you eat bananas, corn and mashed
pumpkin. But the "filling foods" lis treats them all the same way,
which I think is odd.


doug