Today, I went shopping, and bought some cold cuts and some sausages, a duck, some lamb chops, cheese and pork rinds. Thinking these items would work well in the diet.

I ate some pork rinds on the way home, bought plain, not flavor added Are flavored ones okay? This shopping was done after breakfast., eating the rinds around 11.am.

Any way I tried to eat some cold cuts, for lunch, both my husband and I ate some.... he really liked them, I felt sick after one bite.

The rest of the day, I couldn't even look at food, and my IBS started acting up.

Is all these strange happenings due to my body getting rid of toxins?

I feel full, and I am drinking lots of water....does anyone have any suggestions? I don't want to have to go off Atkins before I really get started.

Please..please help!!

Hi Alice, I dont see you mention eating vegetables and wonder if you are.
If it was me and all i ate was meaty things with no salad or vegies I would feel pretty well yuck too. Kind of nauseous?
Its not No carbs remember you get to eat 3 cups a day

Hope this helps

to eating pork rinds? It seems like to me that when I eat pork rinds they tend to "blow up" in my stomach or stick halfway down. I can eat them, but I have to have something to drink with them and eat them slowly or I get the "blow up" and feel kinda sick. It's just a thought, but they sure do that to me.

If a food makes you feel ill, don't eat it. It could be the high sodium content of the pork rinds or the nitrates/nitrites from the cold cuts. Bloom is right...you need to add 3 cups of low carb veggies every day on induction, either salad with dressing (not low fat or low cal) or a combination of salad and some other veggie.

Thank you all for your wonderful advise.

I probably ate too many pork rinds too fast (bad habit) and I am not used to them.... they just tasted so good and junk foody.

And yes.... I am not a veggie fan...I enjoy fruit more, and so I tend to forget to add veggies to my meals, I am very bad that way.

So, not only do I have to learn to eat the Atkins way, but a more greener way. Eat those Veggies my mother used to tell me as a kid. Well now I am going to, SO there!!!!

If those cold cuts continue to bother me, I am going to conclude that it is the nitrates...and let my husband eat them all, since they don't bother him.

Thank you again for your help. You fabulouse people you!!!

Hi Alice.....

That sick feeling could be part of the adjustment your body is making to the new way of eating. When I began, I had a few days where I didn't do much but lie on the couch and feel miserable. Hopefully, this too shall pass for you.

Marlaine

I can really sympathize with you I am about at the same place
I am in the middle of the carb withdrawl a little sick to my stomach, tired, headache, losing appetite I know it will pass. I have had it before but I remember the first time I gave up on the diet because I didn't think I could do this but I can. I hope you can stick with it. I don't know why I ever stopped it last time to many carbs with my name on them I guess.