Return of the Return of the Jedi

Been asked to update, will do. Think I stopped for awhile because I wasn't losing as much and I was getting off track. I didn't want to update my progress to say, well, I was failing. Due to some aggressive trash talking on both sides of the aisle, the bet is back on track, and this week, renewed effort is being put into losing. This has resulted in BS losing 6.2 lbs. thus far. She is pleased. LB is updating tonight. His reaction to BS's loss? "Holy shit." Be afraid, be very afraid. Also, get ready to purchase a tv. The totals as they stand:
LB: tbd
BS: 256.8, lost 35.2 lbs

BS is back on the induction phase of Atkins and had to go through the sugar withdrawals again. Not as bad as the first time, but still not fun. She is firmly committed to kicking LB's ass this week. She even bought a gym membership... that she has yet to use. Hey, it's been frickin' freezing here, lay off. She also found out that apparently her health insurance doesn't want her to lose weight. They will not pay for any sort of incentive unless you go to Curves. Um, what if you're a guy? Then apparently, no soup for you. And no soup for you anyway because apparently you're fat. Okay, maybe soup. LB is a work out machine and BS fears that he will look all skinny and runner-svelte when he gets down to 200, while she won't. BS has broad shoulders and isn't convinced that she could look "skinny" unless she got all anorexic and shit, which she isn't willing to do. Bitch likes food. Fitness goals were shared, they are as follows.

LB: Run a mile, bench press 150lbs, the ability to do pull ups
BS: Run a mile without wanting to die, after that, time the mile, after that, two miles, 35 sit ups in a minute (that may change), and benching something. She is not sure yet.

LB is also going to try a modified version of Atkins. BS is convinced that LB would feel better with less sugar in his system and so he's going to try it out. He's looking at a carb count of 75 a day combined with the fact that he works out like a mofo, 6 days a week. BS is back at roughly 20 a day and the pounds are melting off at that number. LB's diet will consist of beef and chicken and veggies, as well as other foods that BS still avoids. There are less than 550 days left of THE BET. To put this into perspective, the counter on the front page had over 700 days when we first began. The race is heating up, and players are saving up for incentives that each of them simultaneously does/does not want to purchase. Stay tuned...

Return of the Jedi

Haven't updated in forever. RL gets in the way and all that. Still on Atkins, still losing. Had a couple of set backs where I went overboard on the carbs and then the calories and didn't lose. But back in the groove now. I fit into my black pants and my jeans again thus doubling the number of pants that I own/can wear. I still can't tell any difference in my face but I've been told it's there by my sponsor. (CB) Also waiting for the fateful day when someone sees me and asks, "Have you lost weight?" I'm so irrationally excited for that I'll probably pee myself a little when it happens so that "Have you lost weight?" will immediately be followed by "What's that on your pants?"

Current weights for us
LB: 260lbs. -6lbs.
BS:270lbs. - 22lbs

Atkins Tuesday 9/1/09

Skipped breakfast cause I woke up too late. Lunch was chicken with cream cheese sriracha sauce, cucumbers with dill dip, 6 stalks of olive oil sauteed asparagus, lemon perrier water. Dinner was three deviled eggs, 6 stalks of asparagus in olive oil, diet rite diet cola, 2 macaroons for dessert and some dried coconut. Total of 19.2 carbs.

Wednesday:

Skipped breakfast. Must stop doing that. If the stuff I ordered from Atkins.com would ever freaking get here that would be easier. Weighed myself again today cause I like doing it. 280.2lbs. !!!

Atkins weekend

Friday's dinner was a weird one. I tried a recipe from the Atkins cookbook for tuna pate. (Not because it sounded that great but because I had all the ingredients on hand.) It called for (and I'm not kidding) 2 cans of tuna in oil, lemon juice, parsley, and 1 full stick of butter. Blend and serve with vegetables. Well, I ate it, and it was weird. I don't even know that I can describe the taste other than to say it was like eating fishy butter. Don't recommend that one.

Saturday: I had breakfast on the road to the lake. 2 bacon, egg and cheese bagels from McDonald's minus the bagels. No idea on the carb count but I estimated it at about 6 carbs. Lunch was a beefstick for 1 carb and a piece of pepper jack cheese with no taste for 1 carb (also half a L&M beefstick that I stopped eating because it tasted too sweet for there to be no carbs - we'll say it was 2), dinner was delayed but was two burgers and a piece of round bacon. Unfortunately the burgers were prepared with something that upped the carb count and I suspect the bacon was smoked with maple because that shit tasted sweet. Being conservative I'd say that burgers were a carb a piece and the bacon was 3 carbs. Came home and had some celery and dip for 3.7 carbs. All told it was probably about 19 carbs for the day.

Sunday: I didn't get up til like 6:45 pm. Went shopping for the week and proceeded to bake like a mofo. Made a crustless quiche, a whole roasted chicken, some deviled eggs, and some low carb macaroons for when the sweet siren call must be answered. Ate a piece of quiche w/a dab of cream cheese flavored with sriracha - 5.5 carbs, 3 macaroons - 6 carbs total, celery and dip - 3.7, some of the roasted chicken - 0 carbs, and a deviled egg - 1 carb. About 16.2 carbs for the day. Also found a diet cola that I can drink. At this point with all the sugar I cut out it even tastes like real Diet Coke.

Atkins Day 7 - Monday:
Breakfast - crustless quiche - 4 carbs.
Snack: 1 piece of quiche is plenty of carbs but not enough to fill me up so I had a snack of a deviled egg and a pat of cream cheese with sriracha. - 2 carbs.

Don't remember all of the rest of the day. The total carb count was under 20 though.

Monday Weigh In:
BS: 282.4lbs. -10lbs total.
LB: 262 lbs.

Crazy Ass Things You Can Eat While on Atkins #1

Pork rinds smeared liberally with cream cheese.

Wow. Tried it last night. Pork rinds are really not that great, you'd think it would be something that people love and say "Wow, I get to have these? That's amazing because they're so delicious!" Not actually the case. They taste like slightly musty, smoke flavored packing peanuts. Though when you put cream cheese on them they become much better. (This of course follows the equation [(anything) + (cream cheese)] = delicious and the greater the cream cream, the greater the taste.)

Atkins Day 4

Weighed myself again today for s & g's and figured I ought to start putting the actual weight instead of up this or down that so I can keep track. As of this morning - 285.8. Yesterday was somewhere in the 286 range. Seems to be working. Worried that I overindulged last night at dinner with the sour cream dip, will have to measure that this evening. Need to use hamburger by the end of the day today. Chicken will need to be used by tomorrow night. Remaining shrimp? Perhaps a mustard dip of some kind, cocktail sauce has carbs. Boo. I like cocktail sauce.

Breakfast: Atkins daybreak bar - 2 carbs. Total 2 carbs. 18 available for remainder of the day.

Lunch: Large Chef's salad and celery with dill dip, 1 cup baby spinach - 1 carb, 1 hard boiled egg - 0.6 carbs, 1 chicken breast - 0 carbs, 1/2 cup cucumber slices - 1 carb, 1/3 cup gruyere cheese - 1 carb, 2 tablespoons ranch dressing - 2 carbs, 1 stalk of celery - 0.7 carbs, 1 tablespoon dill dip - 0.6 carbs, 1 glass of water. Total carbs in lunch, 6.9. Total for the day, 8.9. Remaining for the day 11.1.

Atkins Day 3

I'm super psyched to report that the headache is pretty much gone today. Just a minor one that occurred after about 4:30pm taken care of with some tylenol.

Breakfast: Atkins Daybreak bar - 2 carbs. Total 2 carbs.

Lunch: Two bacon cheeseburgers + salad, two hamburger patties - 0 carbs, filled with 2 oz. pepper jack cheese - 1.4 carbs, 3 strips of bacon - 0.1 carbs, 1 cup of baby spinach - 1 carb, lemon juice dressing - 1 carb, Atkins dessert bar - 2 carbs. Total of 5.5 carbs. Daily total 7.5 carbs. 12.5 carbs available for rest of day. Total of five glasses of water thus far.

Dinner: Shrimp with homemade alfredo sauce, 6 pork rinds with cream cheese - 1.8 carbs, 1 stalk celery with homemade dill dip 4.4 carbs, 1 glass of water. Shrimp - 0 carbs, alfredo sauce (4 tablespoons heavy cream - 1.6 carbs, 1/3 cup gruyere cheese - 1 carb, 1 clove garlic - 0.9 carbs, 1 tablespoon butter - 0 carbs, sprig parsely - 0.1 carbs) and Atkins daybreak bar for dessert - 2 carbs. Dinner total - 12.5.

Daily Total: 20 carbs.

Oh yeah and I weighed myself today, down 4 lbs!!! Woo-hoo and all that.