Hello All:

Have you had a cheat and if so, what was your excuse? I have been on Atkins for 98 days. I have had two cheat days during the diet, although I made it 77 days initially without a cheat. I was looking over my own journal today and realized, like most of us, I have had my share of challenges over the period, yet have for the most part, stayed true to the diet. Sometimes I think our minds try to justify getting off the diet because of some event in our life that we think we can't handle without a cheat. Here are the things that have happened to me since I started the diet, and I was able to overcome the desire to use them as an excuse to cheat!

3 Birthday Parties (no cake, no ice cream!)
1 karaoke party
1 family reunion (out of town)
The FLU
1 Tooth Extraction
1 Trip out of the country for a week
5 Domestic Business Trips
A Vesectomy!

The last one, the vesectomy, I layed around and felt sorry for myself for two days. Several times I thought... who could blame me if I ordered a pizza and ate it in my condition? Yet, I realized I could fool everyone else, but not myself. Mike