:wave: Hi Everyone...I have been reading an extreme amount of posts for the Adkins Diet Program but maybe I'm just not reading the right ones because I couldn't find answers to my questions I have been wondering about so I'm hoping someone can give me some information:)

I have been doing the low carb thing as well I watching my calories but I haven't signed up online for the Adkins Program or bought any book or anything like that. I have just been buying some of the Adkins food at the store and kinda just doing it myself but I would like to sign up for the program if I could be sure they would give me a menu I could fix and eat. Belive it or not I don't like alot of food(couldn't tell it with how much I weigh)
lol....I don't want any fancy menus and I can't afford to go out and by expensive stuff everyday to make these extravegent meals I wouldn't even like anyway. So I am just wondering if anyone can tell me what kind of menus they set you up with and if it's easy and followable?
Thanks

So I am just wondering if anyone can tell me what kind of menus they set you up with and if it's easy and followable? WVG, I've been counselling people on nutrition for years and the most important thing you can do is get a copy of the book for the plan you want to follow. It's a very small investment in something very important, your health and well being.

You can probably borrow the book from a library to read and see if this plan is for you. Many sites online that sell books sell used ones for pennies. Please get one, any one, be it Atkins (it is Atkins btw ;) ), Protein Power, Sugar Busters, CAD, Schwarzbein Principle - trying to eat low carb w/o a specific plan is like trying to create a souflée from scratch w/o a recipe; it can get ugly!

Eating low carb specific food is not the way to do it; I can tell you from personal experience low carb eating is about eating real foods - whole foods that are not boxed or wrapped in cellophane.

Get a copy of a book, you're worth the money :)
Nat

Thank you Gopher:) I always thought it was the Adkins diet...LOL...Thanks for setting me straight ;) And that you for the advice. I am going to go buy a book.
Thanks Again and Take Care.

You're welcome :) Good luck, Toots.

Nat

I agree - you should be avoiding processed foods even if they do say "Low Carb" on the package and you should stick to whole, unprocessed foods as much as possible. Shop on the outside aisles in the grocery store and half the work is done.

Hey hey WestVirginiaGirl! Sorry I've been mia...I've been doing a lot of "deep thinking" and life direction planning sort of stuff. I think I mentioned before that I am a recovering opiate addict...so I have been focusing lately on that aspect of my life. I've been following this research about links between opiate addiction and not being able to process sugar correctly...there is one study that showed the huge majority of opiate addicts were unable to process sugar, kind of described it as almost an allergy to sugar. Anyway, that's where my head has been lately :)

I bought the Atkins book about 5 years ago and read it cover to cover and followed the plan for exactly 5 days, when at the end of the 5th day, I was NOT happy about what I was about to cook for dinner (more grilled chicken and hunks of cheese :mad: ), and a dominos pizza commercial came on the tv. I threw the chicken in the garbage, ordered a large pizza, and me and my husband sat down on the floor right by the door and inhaled the whole thing in no more than 2 or 3 minutes. We still laugh about that.

Anyway, what I wanted to say is that I am like you as far as being a very picky eater, so most of the menus for Atkins (or any other diet) I have never been able to use. I always have to break it down to exactly how many carbs or calories or whatever that you're supposed to have, and then build my own menus from scratch. That whole week I did that diet, I mainly ate eggs, bacon, hunks of cheese, grilled chicken, and cheeseburger patties without the bread and veggies.

Any new news on the thyroid saga? How's your little one doing with school? I hope everything is good with you and your family...give me an update if you get a sec!

Hey Girl :wave:
Good to hear from you. I was getting ready to write a post and see where you were:)
Hope you got some things figured out in your time of deep thinking. I need to stop and look at my life and see what I'm doing wrong and why I continue to live like I do with the weight issues and stuff.

I bought an Atkins book but my mom took it before I got a chance to read it :nono: she's mean...lol She always has to do everything first. Gets on my nerves. But I know I would have to make my own meals up because I just can't eat harldy any of the crap they give you to prepare like that.

My son is loving school and I hate it...lol...I hate when he's gone but like he says " Mom I'll be home later"!!!!!!!!...lol He cracks me up. I have went and ate breakfast and lunch with him a couple times already and helped moniter the kids at playtime. Thats alot of fun. I should have been a teacher or something in that sort. Hubby and I haven't saw eye to eye the last couple of days...he made a comment about my underwear :nono: and thats bad!
Just being truthful here...They are a size 10 and fit me and well he said "Why in the world did you get such big underwear for". So I had to inform him thats the size I wear. And Yes I wear the big ol' granny panties that come clear up to my belly button...lol.... But we started talking about weight and stuff and he thinks I should just be able to get up get out and walk and just lose the weight and I agree with most of what he said but it's not completely that easy. I relize I have alot of emotional attachment to food, more than I thought I did.
Well I have to get some house work done :rolleyes:
Take Care.