this is NORMAL when you first start your exercise.

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read and post daily, it works!
rosie
http://www.moveon.org/

we face fear many times in life. sometimes it's an inner voice,
warning us of danger.
fear is an emotion indispensable for survival.
................................hannah arendt


"Yorkshire Rose" wrote in message
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I've been doing the Atkins now for four months and have lost 31lbs so far.
Well according to Dr Atkins book I haven't been doing it properly because I
haven't been exercising. Apart from a couple of feeble efforts on the
exercise bike. (I get really bored with that)

So this week I thought I'd better start an exercise programme of some
sort, to help me along, so decided to go swimming. I managed 12 lengths on
Tuesday and 20 on Thursday and felt fine when I doing that, didn't feel I'd
pushed myself too hard. My problem is later in the afternoon, both days I
felt dreadful! I've experienced this problem before...on low fat diets,
where I feel fine during the exercise, but later have to sleep the
afternoon. Its as if my body can only use so much energy and if I try to
use more, it has to slow down somewhere else to make up for it. The other
thing I find, is that instead of experiencing an endorphin high, I feel
really depressed.

Can you folks shed any light on what is happening, and why?

Typical menu

Breakfast
2 fried eggs fried in butter

Lunch
Tuna or cheese salad with a spoonful of mayo

Evening
Chicken breast or pork chop with either more salad or broccoli, cauliflower
or cabbage

Handful of almonds

couple of ounces of cheese to snack on

occasionally I have 2 or 3 ounces of strawberries sweetened with splenda and
with a couple ot tablespoons of double cream

2 cups of decaff coffee, black no sugar
2 litres of water
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Yorkshire Rose
270/239/200(interim goal)
Started Atkins 25th May 2003