Getting back on the Wagon (so to speak)

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Brian Worthey - 14 Mar 2004 06:38 GMT

Hello everyone. I've been reading here on and off for a while, probably
posted some a while, long while actually, back. I had been doing the low
carb thing and was doing quiet well, till I ate some pizza one night and
that was it, no more low carb for me. Well, I'm trying to get back on track
again and look to be starting once again Monday on my diet. I'll probably
do some major eating tomorrow, which I know is not a good thing, but I have
to have a blow out before I start. So, looking for any tips or advice to
help it stick this time.

I do have a question though on something I was confused about. What about
tomatoes? Are they okay? Even can tomatoes more specifically. I can't
remember if they are allowed and I can't find my book right now. I have a
few concoctions that I make with the can tomatoes and I think would be okay
for low carb.

Anyway, look to be posting more and reading more!

B-Worthey

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JC Der Koenig - 14 Mar 2004 08:56 GMT

Tomatoes are not low carb.

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Most of us probably aren't in danger of eating too little. :)

Becky P.

> Hello everyone. I've been reading here on and off for a while, probably
> posted some a while, long while actually, back. I had been doing the low
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> B-Worthey

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Mirek Fidler - 14 Mar 2004 10:14 GMT

> Tomatoes are not low carb.

But, with average 5g of NET carbs per piece, they are not high-carb
either.

I think they are well worth their carbs.... (in sense of excelent
question posted several days ago: "what have you done for me lately?").

Mirek

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Lady o' the house - 14 Mar 2004 15:30 GMT

Brian,

Don't have my book right now, either, but I seem to remember that according
to Atkins, tomatoes are allowed in small quantities, no more than 1 cup per
day on Induction. The reasoning for allowing them is that tomatoes,
especially canned ones, are rich in antioxidants. So you can eat them, just
in small amounts.

Welcome back and good luck!
Linda

> Hello everyone. I've been reading here on and off for a while, probably
> posted some a while, long while actually, back. I had been doing the low
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> B-Worthey

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Saffire - 14 Mar 2004 21:40 GMT

> Hello everyone. I've been reading here on and off for a while, probably
> posted some a while, long while actually, back. I had been doing the low
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> to have a blow out before I start. So, looking for any tips or advice to
> help it stick this time.

My first tip would be to NOT have a blow-out, but that's just MY opinion. The
blowout would give you some temporary pleasure, but there may be consequences
that could make your startup go more slowly, and you have to decide if it's worth
it. Once I made the decision to DO IT, I DID IT, even though I hadn't PLANNED to
start for another week. I just lived on eggs for a couple of days until I could
get properly stocked and took all my high-carb stuff to the food bank or threw it
in the trash. It's easy for me to say because I haven't "fallen off the wagon"
in 9 months (to the day), but I know that my attitude since starting this WOE has
changed dramatically so that it IS a Way Of Eating -- I don't view it as
temporary. I did, however go INTO it thinking of it as a quick way to lose
weight until I could start eating the same way. Try not to think of it as
deprivation; think of it as FREEDOM.

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jpatti - 15 Mar 2004 07:58 GMT

> My first tip would be to NOT have a blow-out, but that's just MY opinion. The
> blowout would give you some temporary pleasure, but there may be consequences
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> weight until I could start eating the same way. Try not to think of it as
> deprivation; think of it as FREEDOM.

I did something aimilar... had decided to have "whatever I wanted" for
my last supper so hit the grocery for it. Ended up buying a
rotisserie chicken a a pile off the salad bar - it *was* "whatever I
wanted".

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