Posted on 07/08/2003 12:20:27 PM PDT by Nov3
I'm not cutting back a lot, but I am eliminating salad dressings and reducing the portions a little. So far I haven't been excessively hungry. Amazing what a piece of cheese will do! All those years on Weight Watchers (and even after) I've denied myself cheese. MMMMMmmmmmmm. It seems like a real treat now and might even have the double bonus of improving the Wisconsin economy! LOL.
Buy Wisconsin cheese. We make all kinds, and our economy needs help -- big time! :~)
BTW I discovered a new kind of chees (new to me) at Sam's Club this weekend, and I just love it. I'm not sure where it is made because there was no fancy label on it -- just the generic store wrapping. It's white and it's called cheddar parmesan. Slices like cheddar cheese and has the tangy taste of Parmesan, but not quite as sharp as the hard kind you buy in the little triangles from Italy. I'll bet it would make a great sandwich, but for now I have to eat it in sticks.
Give it at least another week. Sometimes the body takes a while to realize that it's not going to get what it usually got, nutrition-wise.
Are you hungry? Tired? The exercise will help some.
Well first of all, look on the bright side. You haven't gained any weight either!
I must say that exercise was a part of my plan from the get-go. All the low-carb books I have read (including Atkins) stresses that exercise is a very important part of the diet.
Yes, you will see people post here that they lost tons of weight on Atkins "without exercise" but that never appealed to me. I didn't just want to lose weight. I wanted to be physically fit too.
Trust me, I was badly out of shape when I started my program back in April. I couldn't climb a set of stairs briskly without my heart pounding like a hammer. Now I bound up them with the energy of a 12-year-old boy. All because I walk, walk, walk.
I'm a busy guy but I found the time to walk. I get up an hour early and walk for an hour before going to work. I then use my lunch hour at work to walk again. I don't "stroll" either. I walk briskly and now I am starting to "power walk" but that is something you really need to work up to. For now, just walk at the briskest pace that you can comfortably maintain. If you are out of breath, you are walking too fast. If you can breathe too easily, you are walking too slow. Find that happy medium and stick with it. My walks are now the most pleasurable part of my day.
That is good. But don't worry, your fat will start coming off too now that the body doesn't have as many carbs to burn. Losing the extra water is one of the first signs that your body is converting to burning primarily fat.
I never bothered with daily weighings myself. I weigh myself once a week. That way, I never get discouraged with daily ups and downs. Your weight can fluctuate by several pounds from day to day but over the period of a week, it all smooths out.
Woohoo! Way to go!
For me, it was the realization, a month into the diet, that I no longer had to reach for the Tums every evening. That alone would've kept me on the diet forever.
As for exercise, it's been a week since I last exercised, and I guess it's time to hit the ol' rowing machine again. I exercise just enough to stop feeling like my brain's been stuffed with cotton.
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