Low Carb Diet (atkins)

Badger_Lady

It's a senior marketing management position for a small but very well-known business... a brand new role so they need a "self-starter", which I sooooooooo am! Ask anyone...

To be honest, I think my stress levels are getting silly now - I can cope with any decision but to just keep me hanging on - it almost feels like a stalling tactic now... I've had a chesty cough ever since November and am pretty sure it's developed into a chest infection thanks to all the stress - have got a Dr appointment tomorrow to check it out.

Thanks for your support Pilly and everyone else! At least on the positive side I got a new chicken today (found it wandering around the office carpark...)

~daisy~_2

hi all - cold cold cold and fed up with it now
prolly cos im tired - 9th day since my last full proper day off and am getting my period - roll on sunday !!

brekkie - 2 poached eggs and butter
lunch - hm soup - was a tub out of the freezer and had a lot of suede carrot and lentils in that i wouldnt have chosen if i had realised but i didnt have time to defrost a different tub - and was very very hungry
dinner - tuna fishcakes and salad - but was naughty and had 2 huge dollops of tartare sauce with it.....

snacks - brie hot dog sausage parma ham - think other bits but cant remeber what

also i tried the cheesecake stuff....big dessert spoon of cream cheese warmed in micro for 20 secs glug of double cream sprinkle of sweetner and splash of vanilla essence all mixed up and it was amazing !!!!!

could do with a glass of wine tonight but am resisting and being good

badger lady - sounds like something that happened to my hubby a couple of years ago - got head hunted kept saying he wasnt really interested they kept on and on so he gave in went to see them - train tickets time of work new suit etc etc - went very well told him they needed him for a second interview but needed to get directors and ppl together for it from europe which was about 5 weeks later more time off more expense but by now of course his appetite has been wetted and he wants it
again went very well but they leave him hanging for another 3 or 4 weeks finally a 3rd interview with a presentation - time money work etc - promise to let him know by end of week took 5 weeks to get an answer - the phone call came when we were abroad on holiday !!! he didnt get it cos he didnt have a foreign language which they knew all along !!

am sure you will have much better luck but its soul destroying xxx

shykins

oh badger what a pain!!! am sure will be good news in the end

daisy resist resist u can do it!!... its flippin cold tho i have to agre (she says with a blanket and hot water bottle on her feet_

pilly u have WAYY too much time on your hands lol, i refuse to worry about my veg!!!.. i find the worse days are 3/4

menu today
brekkie... boiled egg
lunch.. pate in lettuce wrap
dinner... ham shank with coleslaw

x

pillypilla

Yeah, I know. Am gonna have productive day tomorrow and do some prep for my new job which I start next week, some real reading not flipping browsing on-line! Also gonna get some new shoes for my Graduation this Thurs. My friends are coming down from Newcastle and I'm gonna treat them to a full on Paleo tea (heehee) with cauli rice (heehee!), they don't know this yet of course!! :rotfl:
Am watching this sad programme about people in financial trouble due to present climate. Tomorrow my boyfriend finds out if he's being made redundant. So it's a bit crap in this house as well! Am just glad I'm in the healthcare sector, so I'm safe, but we've recently moved in together and it's a real worry.

Mercy

Badger Lady, sorry you're being kept dangling, is it just a power thing with these people or are they just very badly organised?

Made some chocolate biscuits last night will post the formula later - v nice

Yesterday
B - sausies, different ones this time
L - HM curry
D - Drumsticks green beans cream cheese
snack - choc biscuits

Have a good day all!

M

~daisy~_2

i resisted

HC_2

Morning, all

Haven't have much time to post lately, but have been reading through all the posts I've missed. Badger_Lady, well done on the third interview. It certainly does sound as though they're mucking you about a bit, so I just hope they don't keep you waiting for a decision much longer.

Yesterday

B: none
L: chicken, bacon and feta salad, with LC Caesar dressing
steak burger with melted blue cheese, asparagus

I was also desperate for glass of wine last night, but I managed to resist too (that must be a first ).

Tried to be good yesterday as I feel I might be slipping into eating too-big portions. I like to feel full but not stuffed, and I want to make sure the weight loss continues, albeit slowly. Might go back to induction for a few days next week, if necessary.

Have a good day, everyone.

yellowtuesday

:hello:Thanks for all the 'welcomes' everyone.:D

3rd day on Atkins just starting. So far have done very well, but I do miss bread and coffee with sugar and milk. But I know that they were the caused of most of my weight problems along with the regular binge eating.

Badger Lady - sorry to hear you are being so messed about, hope it all gets sorted out soon.

Daisy - My husband is in IT Recruitment and it seems happen all the time that the employers suddenly change their mind on what they want in a candidate, way down the interview process.

Pilly - did you get round to watching Supersize vs Superskinny? I watched it and thought the idea of putting two people with opposite problems together was a bit strange to begin with but I think it actually worked (at least for the two involed). I just wish the program makers would not keep repeating everything.

Yesterday
B scrambled eggs
L chicken salad with mayo
D Homemade burger with mozzerla and salad and mayo
Didn't feel hungery all day! Not drinking enough water thought so must make more of an effort with that.

I'm determined to make this work. I lost about 4st three years ago on Lighter Life but I made the big mistake of not sorting out my eating habits (which I new I should). I had never got down to my goal weight before I start sneakly eating again (for those who don't know it is a meal replacement diet , soups and shakes - no normal food at all)
I always had it in my mind that I would start the diet again to get down to the target weight so I didn't bother about what I was eating. Such a silly thing to choose to do. This time I see this diet as a 'way of eating' .


YT

sweetserendipity

Morning everyone, day 10.
Menu for today:
B - 2 pork medallions & fried egg
L - Salad (not sure what yet)
D - Stewed steak with broc/cauli & leek
Pud - to be decided
Snacks - cheese & salted peanuts
Went on the wii fit this morning, only managed 10 minutes before the batteries died (blame the kids!!). Told me I hadn't been on for 73 days :eek: but that I had lost 11lbs since then!!:j (Lost some weight before Christmas by not eating crisps, choc, cakes etc. but obviously my 6lb loss last week has added to it!!) Anyway, it then told me I was obese & that I should really do something about it :rotfl: Talk about giving with one hand & taking away with the other!!:rotfl:

sweetserendipity

Yellow, I watched Supersize v Superskinny last night & was shocked that the supersize lady had a bmi of 61?! Compare that to the skinny 17!! My bmi is in the 30's so I know I'm not one to talk but I was really shocked. Anyway, thought both ladies were really nice & they looked loads better at the end of the programme.