Blown

Well I did it for the second time in the last 6 months. I blew my 'lifestyle plan' and cheated. I started out yesterday eating what i wanted and actuallly continued through late tonight.

Why? Why would I throw it all away? Well I am not throwing it all away. But I took a break from my strict 20 carb a day life. So what did I do? Why did I do it? and what am I going to do?

Well I ate whatever I wanted for 48 hours. I had a slice of pizza, candy, crackers, milk, a few desserts etc.

Why? I am not sure. I have been thinking about what I am gonna do when I hit my lifetime goal weight and how will my body react. Will I continue on Atkins and just raise my carbs? Will I switch to a different diet? How will my body react? Well it was time to test the waters. I had been trying to hold off on increasing carbs but I dunno, with the stress of the baby, lack of good food in the house, etc. It was just the day to break free.

Well my carb binge held over to Sunday and when a friend who was making us a meal called to reschedule I took the liberty to order out. I got Shelly Italian and me Chinese. There were probably more carbs in General Tso's Chicken than I ate all last month. But I hadn't had Chinese for at least 7 months so it was good.

What am I going to do? Well back to induction Monday AM. Hopefully this 48 hour carb shock will have messed with my metabolism and perhaps jolted it back into a carb burning machine. We shall see.

So any negatives to breaking from Atkins? YES! tons of them. Well let's see, I immediately gained 13lbs. In my estimation, water weight. I used to pee a ton all the time, that stopped. My body feels bloated and I feel more tired. My blood sugar did go up a few points right after eating(which is normal). And testing in a few hours my blood sugar is back in the 80's.

So what did i learn? Well Atkins definately keeps the water off your body. So my first week or two of weight loss was water. And immediately I put the water weight back on. This also had happened 3 months ago when I deviated from the Atkins plan one evening. So this will change my thinking when it comes to reaching my weight goal. I suppose the Atkins method of slowly adding carbs back is probably pretty wise. This will give my body the chance to acclimate and I if I slowly add carbs perhaps my water weight will adjust. Cause I would hate to get to 220 and then gain 10lbs of water.

Anyway it will be interesting to see how this deviation/devistation will effect the rest of my weight loss plans. And will I be able to use the info I gathered from this experience to make my lifetime maintenance better? We shall see, as for now, induction starts in the morning.