[Klissineopar]

:x this is really hard!! i'm on my sixth day and craving chocolate chip cookies and oreos dunked in milk...when does it get better??? i guess being premenopausal doesn't help...i have lost 3 1/2 lbs so far..not very much..please tell me this gets easier thanx

[Tusanoc]

This diet, like so many others, is different from person to person. I never craved those things because I didn't crave them before the diet, I did however stop craving foods in general before too long. I was no longer constantly hungry, no longer crazily waiting for my next meal, and was generaly not nearly as hungry as when not on the Atkins.

If you are doing the diet correctly, then I think you should stop having the cravings within 3 days to the whole first 2 weeks of induction because that could be the time that it physically takes your body to change its processes. If you are having the cravings after that then I think it could be psychological. You are still remembering how good that food used to taste and how happy you felt when you were eating it. Its like smoking and other addictions. As far as I'm concerened they are half mental and half physical. The Atkins will get you over the physical, the mental part will be your job. This diet, like so many others, will require some will-power. There is no magic pill.

[TineSeign]

Just a question, you are eating fat right?

[sadgpokx]

Joe is right, you can't do Atkins without eating fat - maybe doesn't apply to you, but in case someone else stumbles on this thread, I thought it would be valuable to add, since it's so against the "conventional wisdom".

High fat, moderate protein, low carb is basically what the diet is all about. If you're doing low carb and low fat, you're not doing Atkins, you're doing something else.

[usacomm]

and lots of ladies here have said things like eating some chicken skin or an oz of cheese cuts those cravings right out! so grab something quite fatty, and you should be good!

isn't this a great way to live?!?!?!

t

also - just repeat to yourself "it isn't worth it!" because it really isn't - 5 minutes to eat something and then it's gone...and you've filled up your liver with glucose that it's gonna take DAYS to burn off befre your body gets into fat-burning again. not to mention how it will trigger days and days of cravings - it doens't actually satisfy, what it does is makes you want more!

hth!

and...3 1/2 pounds in six days is actually a lot....you are on your way to finishing your first 2 weeks of induction at "low-to average" metabolic resistance...which is just where you want to be. that means you don't have the problems some do with losing weight. don't expect TOO much and set yourself up for disappointment. your body will do what it does, but if you keep on, you are on your way to a healthy weight!