hey every one i started this diet again two weeks ago and i'm worried my craving are going to get the better of me. is anyone looking for a buddy to support, encourage, challange who will return the gesture?

Hello Alexxa, I would love to be your buddy and your friend.
Your Stats look really good. Wow a whole 22 lbs since July. I started in April and have not lost that much in just one month. I have a lot of health problem that keep me from being a rapid loser.
I don't have cravings anymore. That all stopped after my first 2 weeks into induction. Still am on it too. I am only 5'1 so 169 lbs looked pretty ridiculous on my short body. Talk later

great i have a buddy! well i didn't lose that 22lbs from july, i was on the atkins a year a go and went down to 130lbs then i went off the atkins and binged on carb (couldn't resist! force of nature) any way i really messed up my motabloism from starving and binging on carbs, thankfully i didn't gain all the weight back. i just started the diet again two weeks ago and i haven't lost any weight, however i should probly give my body some time to heal before i complain.
you must be so proud of your self getting down to 136. have you lost weight quickly of slowly.

At first it was fast, and then after a month, I would stall for a week or two, lose a lb , stall for another week and so on. It is slow, but you know what they say, the slower you lose the longer it stays with you. I am really excited about all of this eating. Used to starve myself and not even lose a lb, and couldn't figure it out.
I hope you are feeling better about everything.
So you are back into induction right? I never went off. I have a thyroid problem plus my age is against me.
By the way I love your cat. I have 10 neighbors cats that come over to eat, because they are not being feed. I do own a tabby...his name is Buddy.
Good thing you never gained it all back huh? That really would have sucked.

hey there fat, i don't really like calling you fat (even though thats your user name) i feel like i'm being a bully. anyway yesterday i cheated and binged on carbs i feel really guilty but i'm back on the atkins today. i figured out that tuna in oil trigers my binging, i'm so glad i realised that because now i can contol my hungre.

Thats wonderful news, not the binging part....LOL Do you like pork rinds? That is what I eat when I feel hungry at night. Ya I use the tuna with water. Now behave yourself tonight...

yay i haven't binged since!! i don't know what pork rinds are, i think its an american thing. anyway, i'm finding it really hard to find things to eat with out having to cook it. i mean i have tuna and carb free chocolate but thats it i'm getting a bit board. do you cook your meals or have you found an alternative.

Don't you eat, eggs, cheese, pork chops, hamberger, meats of every kind, sausages, bacon, buffalo wings, chicken, turkey?
I do a lot of snacking on these foods. I do not sit down and stuff my face, like I used to with HC foods. If I get hungrey I grab something I cooked in advance, like a hamberger or a piece of steak, or bacon, and eat it. It satisfies me until I get hungry again later. I don't do a big dinner for myself ever. It doesn't bother me....because that is how I used to eat my HC sweets and chips....snacking all day long. You know when I look back on how I used to eat it makes me sick about how I abused my own self. I learned my lesson and will never go back to the old ways of fat carbs, how about you?

well in the old days i too ate lots of carbs, i would eat 6 finger buns for lunch somedays, but at the time i didn't think i would gain weight i thought since it was low fat i could eat as much as i wanted, HOW STUPID! i can't believe how nieve i used to be, it makes me cringe looking back on what i would eat.
any way my diet is pretty boring
breakfast: small can on tuna
lunch: low carb chocie
dinner: large can of salmon
snack: two slices of chesse and a large bowl of jelly
i only have about 980 cals a day, i know this isn't enough but the first time i did the diet it was all i could eat to lose, if i upped my cals i'd stall or gain, its pretty sad, i'll probly be hungre forever. whats your diet plan?

All of the meat, cheese, eggs, pork rinds, heavy cream, fat. You have to eat more meat and fat to lose on this diet. I am never hungry....I have to force myself to eat. I guess you haven't got to that point yet. Don't you like to eat eggs and ham, or bacon for breakfast. I don't even eat breakfast or lunch, I hate to admit it, but I am just not hungry. I do it later in the evening. Last night I had a sausage with cheese and pork rinds. Evening before that I had eggs and chees. I do sip heavy cream all day long with my diet drink. I am trying to eat more...but it is so hard....

Hello folks.

I would like to invite you to join us in the "Buddy Club". It's a small group that got together when we started the program in June. So we all have just started, struggling with ups and downs and "cravings". You'll find us in this category under "Buddy Club". There were 6 of us but a few seem to MIA so it would be nice to have some folks who need support and are there to offer some too.

Please come and check us out. We are a good group. No pressure, lots of encouragement and we even share some good recipes. Hope to see you there.

I'm getting discouraged. The scale doesn't seem to get under the weight I am now. I was upnorth for awhile on vacation and didn't weigh at all while I was there about 5 days I really thought that when I got on home that I would of lost at least a couple of pounds instead I stayed the same. Don't get me wrong I'm happy being on vacation and I didn't gain weight but I was following LCing. Help I need encouragement!!!!!!!!! Thanks Tina

That's too bad Tina, how frustrating. Any chance that you went off the diet without realizing it at the time? May it's TOM. It's natural to have plateaus. I know I went about 6 weeks and battled up and down and then withdrew a number of things and started again. Now I am losing again. Did you drink plenty of water? Just thoughts.

Thanks Clybella for your reply I made sure that I drank my water as for TOM I,m 53 and I haven't had that Tom of month for a couple of years and don't miss it lol. In the past when I don't see the scales move I get discouraged and start eating carbs and I would gain the weight I lost and then some. However this time I'm really trying to keep myself focused. What has helped me is the support from everyone. Thanks Tina

Like you, I am too old for TOM. The best part of being 50.

I too, would go for carbs when I didn't seem to lose, but I have discovered that if I hang in a day or two, or sometimes a week, I feel slimmer and low and behold, I drop a couple of pounds. I did well my first month, as people do, in June but July was awful. I seem to be back to losing again.

I have a great dessert I rely on. It fills you up and feels decadent.

Cream Cheese Delight

1 8oz pkg of cream cheese, softened
1 cup of sour cream
1/2 cup of Splenda
2 tsp of vanilla
1 cup of whipping cream

optional: 1 tsp of no sugar added jam

Soften the cream cheese, add in the sour cream and stir until there are no lumps. Add the splenda and the vanilla. Mix it all up well. Whip up the whipping cream and fold it in. Place it in 6 individual cups and add the jam if you want. Without the jam it's about 5 carbs each. I haveone everyday and I'm still losing!!! I just stir in the jam like yogurt. I love it. It makes me feel like I'm cheating without cheating.

Hope this helps. Hang in there.

Cly