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.

Side Effects

I have a headache that has not gone away for a day and a half. This is supposedly the by product of Atkins and of flushing all the sugar out of my system. The worse the withdrawls the better you'll feel when you are finished with the withdrawing apparently. It still sucks. A lot.

Atkins Day 2

Breakfast:
3 hard boiled eggs w/pepper and salt - 1.8 carbs, half an avocado - 1.7 carbs, one ounce of cheese - .7 carbs, three glasses of water. Total carbs in breakfast - 4.2. 15.8 available for the rest of the day.

Lunch:
Chef's Salad, 1 cup of baby spinach - 1 carb, 1/3 of a cucumber - 1 carb, 1 chicken breast - 0 carbs, 1oz. of cheddar cheese - .4 carbs, 2 slices of crumbled bacon - .1 carbs, dressing of lemon juice - 1.3 carbs, mayo - .1 carbs and raspberry vinegar - 2 carbs. 1 glass of water. Total carbs in lunch - 5.9. Total so far today 10.1. 9.9 available for the rest of the day.

Dinner:
Shrimp Scampi + salad, 1 cup of baby spinach - 1 carb, lemon juice dressing - 1 carb, shrimp - 0 carbs, 2 tbls. butter - 0 carbs, garlic cloves - 1.8 carbs, chicken broth - 2 carbs, 2 oz. pepper jack cheese - 1.4 carbs 1 glass of water. Total carbs in dinner - 7.2.

Total carbs for the day - 17.3.

Atkins Day 1

Atkins Day One:
Breakfast: Woke up too late and didn't eat, oops.
- had a headache, took aspirin, imitrex
Lunch: Mixed nuts - 6 carbs, Hamburger w/cheese, mayo, lettuce - 1.6 carbs, caesar salad w/o croutons - 3 carbs
Dinner: chef's salad with baby spinach - .8 carbs, 2 hard boiled eggs - 1.2 carbs, chicken breast - 0 carbs, 1 oz. cheddar cheese - .4 carbs, 2 oz. muenster cheese - .6 carbs, mayo and olive oil for dressing - 1 carb.

Total - 13.6 carbs

Also have had 4 large glasses of water thus far and you're supposed to drink 8. Yike. Thinking of shrimp for dinner. Shrimp with olive oil and garlic. Mmmm.