Smurf- THANKS for the shwarma info- I will check with my place. It is a kosher restaurant but still, they might be doing the same thing.
Doreen- everything you say is totally right. I have to make 3 meals a day a priority- and I have been letting that get away from me. I dont understand how the body can store the food as fat if it is protein and fat with no insulin around to convert it. (Of course if the shwarma has sugar or breading that would explain that.) I can't seem to stay away from eating at night. Would that alone blow it?
Shadow tail- I tried, I really tried to stay on the fat fast but it is true- eating fat all the time gets really gross.
Plus I was not getting that loss of appetite thing, so I was just eating all the time.
All- I had a crisis over the weekend. On Friday I called the Atkins Center in the morning, since I live only downtown from the center uptown. All I got was voicemail and the ONE person in charge of new patients was not available live. I left a voicemail around 11am. By 330, no one had returned my call so I called again and guess what- they close at 330pm and only had an answering service for "emergencies". As you can imagine I was really upset.
Food had become my enemy, nothing was "safe" to eat, everything I was doing was wrong... I think a bunch of you know what I mean. I actually stood in the grocery store not knowing what to buy. It stunk!
Then, I got sick. I woke up in the middle of the night with one of the "bugs" that is going around. Just a cold/flu thing but in my case it was the end of the line. I have not caught a cold in 3 years because I eat fresh grapefruit or fresh oranges every day. (I know it was three years because my cold medicines had expired.) Natch I had stopped and replaced my vitamins with Basic 1 and 3 from Atkins, but for at least some of us, (and likely most if not all) vitamins from a bottle cant do the job that vitamins from fresh food can do. I was taking the psyillum capsules to get past the constipation, taking pills all day.
I had to decide that my health comes first, I can't afford the down time from colds and flus, and I dont want to tell you what was going on with the constipation.
BUT
While I was sick, I reread my Montignac books. I see now the subtle but significant differences in these methods. I had lost weight on Montignac before years ago (the <A HREF="http://www.lowcarbluxury.com/goldenshot.html">one golden shot</A>) and became frustrated after two months on it this year with no weight loss. I switched to Weight Watchers for a month, where i had had success last year (20 pounds) but I couldn't keep to all the measuring and I was snapping people's heads off and I wasn't losing weight there either this year. That brought me to Atkins. I have two friends presently who are dropping the pounds successfully on Atkins, I remember reading Stevie Nicks saying God Bless Dr. Atkins, in fact everyone around me seems to have a sister or a husband or a friend, even in the shops the guys at the counter had done Atkins successfully- so I do NOT mean to put Atkins down, it's just that Montignac is the lifestyle that I can live with- happily. Even if I am not losing weight, I believe in it, and agree with all it's principles. I like it.
So I am not leaving this great site, I am just going to move over to the Montignac forums
I hope the folks over there are as great as you folks are.
I also watched a great episode of "What Not To Wear" where they blame the clothes, NOT the body. Yeah! I can wear attractive clothes.
I am going to buy some clothes for the size I am (this is basic good diet principle anyway, love yourself and your body as you are NOW).
I gave away all my Atkins stuff (sorry, I would have given it here but I found someone right away who would take it all and I needed the fridge space) and bought some great food I can eat on Montignac. (I kept the Atkins BBQ sauce... I hope I can use that in a pinch this summer)
I am flying, really happy. I will lose the weight, and I will be able to live with this method because I believe in it for life. Montignac says all the same things here that you guys mentioned, eating three meals a day, not eating at night, I know I still have to conquer those issues and I will. And I will ask the kosher shop if they use those things in their shwarma, I bet they do.
So THANK YOU again, especially doreen for this great forum, and please look for me on the Montignac boards (what is "Thin For Good"?) and I will try to pop back in here with a progress report.
I'll see you guys in the grocery store- reading all the labels!!!!
PS- Smurf- I have been to those kebab places in Berlin- the one I went to was a stand in what was East Berlin in 1990- you bring back good and delicious memories!