Since Friday is my start date to begin SBD this has given me time to think things over as well as get my shopping list in order etc. My brain is very much stuck in *Atkins mode* at present just like it was stuck in low fat mode when I first began Atkins. I was doing Deal-A-Meal before I began Atkins. I guess it will take some time to get my head and my thoughts wrapped around SBD as I progress.

I think, because I have become so used to eating them, giving up poultry skin and regular bacon will be difficult. Cutting the fat from my meats will be difficult for me as well since I have been used to just eating it but as long as I buy them as lean as possible then I only have to deal with what the butcher has left on the meat. I keep thinking that maybe I should go out and get a dog so he/she can eat any fatty bits I will be tossing out.

The hardest thing will be giving up fruit for a time. Since I have been off Atkins I have been in serious fruit eating mode. I'm glad phase 1 is only 2 weeks long. Any longer then that and I will probably kill for an apple.

Speaking of apples, I had better go back and look and see what fruits we get to start enjoying in Phase 2. I never read that bit of the book yet.

Happy Easter Monday everyone.