I am in too! Lilacotton, you are right. I mean committing to this WOE and way of life means sacrificing certain things. Although it is hard for us who LOVE things like cake and ice cream and chocolate, we are lucky to have all these low carb goodies now to make it a little easier so there is really no reason to cheat that often. I don't think the reason I do it is for attention or sympathy, I would rather people view me as strong and accomplished having lost weight than weak and never being able to lose it. But there is something about eating sweets that I cannot seem to resist unless I really get tough on myself, which I need to do again. I need to keep myself in check and although one cheat isn't gonna kill you, it gets you in the habbit of cheating over and over and getting nowhere, making you feel like crap back in square one, which is why we came to Atkins in the first place. So let's get tough and strong and do this!

me tooooooooo. But honestly i am scared that I am going to fail again.

I am scared too. This WOE isn't that hard but I always seem to cheat and then start cheating often and then think "I am not losing weight. I need to accept that I will never be skinny and enjoy myself." So I do end up in square one and then one day wake up miserable and start over again. One thing I have noticed is that my thin friends do eat less calories than I do. I don't feel like I am binging though, but I do eat a lot. For example, I have had about 28 carbs today and about 1900 calories and I still would like to eat more. Ugh I am frustrated, escpecially because I have lost no weight since I started cracking down last Monday. I wanna get tough but things aren't always logical like that. Help!

Ps I am 144.5 not 137, that was in Feb