Thu, Aug-07-03, 10:39
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Senior Member
Posts: 733
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Plan: Atkins
Stats: 159/141.7/130
BF: LOTS!
Progress: 60%
Location: Florida Gulfcoast
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- The next time you're really tempted with a high-carb food, such as french fries -- take one and very slowly eat it and really taste it -- you'll wonder why you ever wanted one! It's really amazed me how my tastes have changed, and how often I must have eaten simply because the food was in front of me....
- Buy the best you can afford of meats and allowed foods -- it actually doesn't cost any more than boxed high-carb mixes.
- Buy the kids high-carb treats that don't tempt you -- for example, I do not like chocolate ice cream (but I love butter pecan) so I tended to buy my teen the chocolate.
- Same goes for candies (like for Halloween and Easter and Christmas) -- Do not buythe stuff that used to be your favorites! I would NEVER have a Snicker's bar in the house, but I can bypass tootsie rolls and kitkats...
- Whenever you start feeling sorry about having to stick to this WOE, think of someone you know that has far stricter restrictions on their life -- I always thought of my oldest daughter who became type-1 diabetic at the age of 10 -- it tends to put things back into perspective...
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