[sharpyure]

Hi Tril,

I have been on Atkins just over 2 months

Here's an example of what I may eat during one day:

Breakfast:

3X boiled eggs
Kippers (200g)
Maybe as a treat Dr Vogel's Ultrabran (net 4g) and Alpro soy milk (net 0.5g)
Maybe as a treat bacon

Lunch:

Salad comprising of,
2X chicken breast (or smoked salmon, or cured meat such as chorizo)
1 egg
Feta
2x baby tomatoes
baby leaf spinach
cucumber
pesto
oil
grilled artichoke heart
half an avocado

Dinner:

Thai green curry comprising of:
5 or so slices of courgette
couple of pieces of asparagus
half a tin of bamboo shoots
2/3rds of a portobello mushroom
1 small Chilli
packet of king prawns
baby leaf spinach
100ml coconut milk
teaspoon of curry paste (containing no sugar)
extra virgin olive oil

My main (dinner) meal is the one that changes the most, another meal I have is chicken grilled with similar veg, extra virgin olive oils and goats cheese, maybe some parma ham.

Occasionally I will have a lowcarb (net 3g) mamalupe wrap with the chicken, if I do this, I will leave out something else that has a high carb count.

I feel that my salt intake is a bit high at the moment with all the fish

Around all of this, to keep myself going I'm likely to eat what I put on the 'occasional' list (babybel, processed meat, atkins nutrition bar etc).

I don't drink caffeine or anything with aspartame.

I have decaff coffee, and maybe some lemonade (sucralose) that has trace carbs.

I drink about 7-8 glasses of water a day.

I'm not saying that I'm starving all the time, however, I feel like I could eat all the time if it didn't make a difference.

You have to understand that I have a voracious apetite! (I take after my dad, I don't think this will ever leave me - I just love eating).

However, its certainly not as bad as induction, and it gets easier these days to ignore the delicious pizza my inconsiderate housemates eat infront of me on a regular basis (I think thats down to routine and discipline on my part more than anything though)

Cheers