Day 48. Boring and Indulging Part 1.

Well other than over indulging in net carbs, I have nothing to really report, other than my local supermarket having an Atkins clearance sale. Which lead me to purchase 15 bars of Atkins Endulge Crispy Milk Chocolate Bars @ $0.50 per bar (normally £1 each) & 1 Atkins Chocolate Decadence @ £1 (From £1.98). They was on sale for such a low price, I was kind of obligated to buying a bulk load ;o) On the exercise front I did do some walking too ;o) But mostly, my day was spent studying Javascript programming.

Day 47. Deadlines are Coming!

Its a very short entry today. Unfortunately, time is running short and the deadlines are coming.... eck! So don't expect too much spiel over the next couple of days :oS

Day 46. Java for Dummies Completed.

Hi everyone, today I managed to finally complete a 400 page book on Java, yeeah! It only took me a whole week to get through, but finally Java is starting to make a little more sense, but not that much more ;o) I am proud of the fact though, that I made it all the way through the book from start to finish :o)

From tomorrow its time to get started on my assignments. I have some more serious deadlines coming up and hopefully with my new found knowledge it may help :o) Although some of the assignments are on totally different subjects :oS It should be ok… he says..!

As far as my diet is concerned, I didn’t stray too badly as you can see from the table below, still edging over my 20 net carbs intake still, hum… :oS

Anyways I think I will leave it there, with this non related Atkins entry for today. Ciao abella!

Ps. O o o.... I just remembered... I experimented today with my Chocolate Whey Protein Shake... and have I got a treat for you. Well basically what happened was, I mixed one teaspoon of Psyllum Husks in with my Chocolate Whey Protein shake (whilst blending it) and what a pleasant surprise. Not only do I now not taste the husk, but it also thickens up my shake texture :o) So if you have both ingrediants try it out :oP

Day 45. Nutty about Nuts

I don’t know if you have noticed recently, but my appetite has expanded. So much so, I seem to be eating more than 20 net carbs daily at the moment. For me this is a little concerning, but at the same time, perhaps my body is telling me to move on to phase two of the Atkins approach - The Ongoing Weight-Loss Phase.

To be honest am quite happy to stay within the Induction Phase. Am not bored with the food choices and I am still 15 kg from my goal (A long way), but maybe I should be starting to find my Critical Carbohydrate level. If you look at the graph of my weight loss journey so far (Found at the very bottom of this page) you can see my weight loss is starting to slow down each week.

If I find out my Critical Carbohydrate level I will then know my net carb limit to prevent putting on weight, and equally I will know the level of net carbs to carry on losing weight.

I think however, before I start to do this I might carry on with the Induction Phase alittle longer, just until I reach my half way point. (Am close to losing a whole two stone now). Something I do need to concentrate on is sticking to the Atkins rules of Induction. So for the rest of this week, I will try to be consistent with my 20 grams of net carbs (daily intake) :o) I think in order to do this I need to add more meat to my meals to generally make me fuller.

Another thing I have noticed is my nut indulgences. I love nuts, and I am glad they’re allowed on the Atkins plan, but my difficulty with them is sticking to eating only small portion. I seem to eat them in excess when snacking, ops. I think calculating nut quantities is difficult too, especially if they’re a mixed bag with no nutritional table :oS So another area to control me thinks :oP

Day 44. Mmmm Donuts :oP

I just want to apologize, I slipped up once again, and I kind of had a Homer Simpson Moment, d’oh!

First up my initial mistake was taking a friend to a Fish and Chips shop. She was real hungry and so we dined there. I was being real good by buying only a jumbo sausage, but then my friend started to tease me by waving the aroma of chips under my nose -> my kryptonite. Which led me to eat just the one, which then rolled into two and so forth, luckily I prevented myself from eating more than ten, oops!

Then we went on a small trip to Convy, after all it was another one of those pre-summer days where it’s a crime if you don’t go out and enjoy the weather. So we ended up hiking around Convy enjoying the sites, sea and sun. This was all fun until we passed this amazing Bakery. And yes you’ve guessed it, this is where mistake/incident number two occurred, and to be honest this could not be prevented.

Let me explain. Basically two things happened when I saw this shop, first I was gob smacked at the size of this cake, it was massive, and secondly I was so impressed with the price of this cream cake, it just had to be. You know when you see something in the sale and you just have to have it, well this cake @ £1.20 seemed just like that, and so I bought one and here are the pictures to prove it :o) Just to rub it in of course…!

Well I guess the damage is done now, but believe me it was delicious and hopefully just a one time occurrence (seem to be saying this a lot lately).

Nevertheless, to try and offset these Atkins crimes, I did however do loads of walking + an hour of table tennis so maybe it’s not all that bad. Something tells me I was lacking focus :oS

Day 43. Weigh-in Week 6. One and a bit Bag of Sugar Burned!

The results are in and that’s another bag of sugar and a bit I’ve lost :o) Yes I am 1.4 kg down from last weeks weigh off @ 92.4 kg (203.7 lbs or 14.6 Stone), so now I am currently weighing in at 91kg (200.7 lbs or 14.3 Stone) exactly. Yeeha!

From the body measurements there was only marginal differences from last week, but in some area’s still loses ;o)

Summarizing last week’s eating overall, I have to admit I wasn’t strictly sticking to the Induction Phase, a few days I would be eating sometimes more than my fair share of net carbs and other days I would be eating far less than the daily intake of 20 net carbs. Hum… Personally I put it down to still settling back at my uni home again. Nevertheless, lets see what results Week 7 brings.

What is amazing though, is am not really exercising and I am still losing weight, but on the other hand I cannot wait to get back into doing some sports.

Day 42. Liposuction Day

Hi guys, am so sorry, today I’ve had enough of doing the Atkins lifestyle, my results weren’t quick enough and so I decided to take drastic action (or some might say the easy way out), but am so glad I did.

I decided to have liposuction done all over my body, at a mere $8,000s what a bargain, painful but worth it don’t you think….??? ;o) hehehe! And now I can eat lots and lots of high carb, junk foods again…hahaha! Like pizza, chips, chocolate…. Oh so nice! Plus my body looks amazing, especially my six pack ;o)

Ok Ok APRIL FOOLS and all that! I guess I wasn’t so convincing with my story afterall! hehe me being a bad liar and story maker + I wouldn’t stoop to this level ;o) And who has $8,000s to spare, not me.

Anyways last day of week 6. Weigh in day tommorow, I wonder how am weighing up :o) Tune in tomorrow to find out.