Ohio Kim - re-read your book. NO sugar is allowed.
Try Splenda - it's available at krogers, Big Bear, Meijers and Walmart. It's a little more expensive than sugar, but it's okay to use.
Your menu - you're not eating enough. You need to get your consumption up. I'm not where I can use my calculator, but it looks like you need more veggies, more fat and if you eat it, more meat. Atkins isn't based on eggs and salad alone. That's for those restrictive diets that leave you HUNGRY. This diet works by restricting your carbs, not your fat. Fat (healthy, natural fat) is what makes this way of life work.
Suggestions:
my breakfast today: 2 egg omlet filled with 1/2 avacado, 5 chopped black olives, 3 chopped strips of bacon and about 1 oz of cheddar. The omlet was made with cream and cooked in coconut oil.
Lunch: 2 cups spinach, 1/2 cup cucumber, 1 chopped stalk of celery, 2 chopped eggs, left over roasted chicken chopped into the salad and shredded queso blanco melted over the whole thing. Olive oil dressing.
My dinner will be: Lamb chop, another spinach salad and either broccoli or cauliflower. For my sweet I'll have diet jello made with cream. (small box of jello - 1 cup hot water, 1/2 cup cold water and 1/2 cup cream poured into 4 2-oz plastic containers for easy transport).
Snacks - am - full fat string cheese
pm - Hickory Farms snack sticks (sausages with 1 carb).
I'm out of induction, but everything I mentioned except the snack sausages are fine for induction.
Sounds like a lot of food, doesn't it! But I'm losing weight at a steady rate and that's the point. I also drink about 4 liters of water a day (roughly 16 glasses of water) and take my vitamins and supplements.
All of my salads get olive oil and all of my veggies get butter.
Oh, I'm not a particularly tall person (hence the name shortstuff) and this amount of food keeps me very comfortable.
How soon will this work? Depends on your body, but you should see some weight loss at the end of the week. I weigh myself only about every 8 days or so because you will have natural ups and downs.
Good luck and what part of Ohio are you from (I'm in Columbus).
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