Ok - I am doing well 75% of the time. I have never cheated in the nearly 30 days that I have been doing Atkins. However occasionally I will just want a lot of food. I am bored, or frustrated, or restless (I am at home full time and my husband travels - go figure). Or it is the week before my TOM. And I will pick at food - continuously. I will really want a slice of pound cake, or my other fantasy is a big plate of tempura, but since I will not eat those, I mac out on pork rinds, cheese or whatever other low/non carb food I have on hand. Sometimes it seems like eating simply doesn't make me less hungry. It's not a stomach-rumbling hunger, which is actually easier to resist. It's an emotional craving for food, and since I cannot eat the food that would normally curb that, I end up eating much more of something "allowable" than I would like, retaining water, and gaining a pound or two overnight. I am aware that it is just water weight, but it's frustrating never the less. Obviously distraction or keeping myself busy are the best ways to avoid this. Getting out of the house as well. It's been grey and rainy lately, which certainly doesn't help and limits my distraction techniques. I have found that a spoon full of peanut butter is a good way to stop the rambling nibbling, as is a martini, but I really don't want to overindulge in either of those if I can avoid it. Do other folks experience this, and what are some of your ways of combatting it?