A new adventure...

[lithera]

So, I've been talking to people on the Dr. Atkins diet. All protein and little carbohydrates. It seem to work for people. I borrowed a copy of the book and have been reading it. It makes sense. I know lots of things make sense when presented to you by someone who is trying to sell you something, but I figure it's worth a try.

14 days is supposed to be the trial period for this and that is easily do-able. I can eat meat and cheese and veggies for 14 days. I can't say that I won't miss the pasta and the potatoes and all of that stuff. (I will certainly miss chocolate.) I will also be kicking my caffine habit.

No sugar. No soda. No chocolate. No fruit for the first part of it, but I get the fruit and the potatoes back after the first three weeks or so.

Lots of eggs, meat, veggies and some cheese.

This will be interesting.

Comments

[nottagoth.livejournal.com]

and eat lossa fish. fish gooood.

[lithera.livejournal.com]

Yes, fish. Lots of fish too.

I see a run to the grocery store after work.
I see me putting it on my credit card.
I see me having my food and beating people who try to eat it unless I'm cooking for others.
I see a need for tupperware, too.

[julzerator.livejournal.com]

Get those cheapo glad tupperware things.. they work great and don't cost much.

[lithera.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's what I was thinking.

This will be interesting.

There is another...

[fireballof3.livejournal.com]

My dad always did this one diet that seemed to work. YOu have this soup that you have EVERY MEAL. Then, you eath different things every day. One day is tomatoes and another day is bannanas and milk, etc etc. It's wacky, but you'll lose 10-15 lbs in 2 weeks or less.

Good for weighing in @ army.

[sharkcowsheep.livejournal.com]

Sounds good to me, Kat.

What's up with the caffeine, though? Is caffeine off the menu, even in diet soda? Of course, diet soda does rot yer brain. Hm.

I could go for egg whites and cheese and meat. And multivitamins.

excuse?

[quipper.livejournal.com]

Except you don't like meat.

Re: excuse?

[sharkcowsheep.livejournal.com]

I like meat. I love me some poultry and fish. I even love me some pork and beef and assorted other edible beasties from time to time, but I refrain on ethical grounds mostly.

You know. You can fit twenty chickens into the space needed for a cow, fish don't eat rainforest and fart hideous methane compounds, that sort of thing. I'm off cod, though. There's like five of the little guys left in the North Sea after this gross big algae bloom. Really yecchy. Rafts of decomposing sea-life.

predator

[quipper.livejournal.com]

I will stop eating meat when I hear a jaguar become a concious objector.

of course, this is merely an opinion being stated, not an attack on anyone.

Re: predator

[sharkcowsheep.livejournal.com]

Things eat things. Is all good. Look at fungus!

Re: excuse?

[lithera.livejournal.com]

I'm going to be bringing home meat and steaks and the like. Some sandwhich meat and eggs and mayonaise for chicken lalad and tuna salad and egg salad. I think I'll be bringing home bacon too.

It will be a grocery bill, that's for certain.

Re: excuse?

[sharkcowsheep.livejournal.com]

We have a fair quantity of mayo already. It's still good and fresh.

We have tuna and some good big Romaine lettuce leaves...if you got a couple of apples or celery we could put together a fine tuna salad.

Re: excuse?

[lithera.livejournal.com]

No apples. No fruit yet.

Is it actually mayonase or is it Miracle Whip or something else? It makes a difference.

Re: excuse?

[sharkcowsheep.livejournal.com]

It's honest-to-god mayo. None of that 'dressing' crap.

[radu.livejournal.com]

No caffinee period. It is bad. Very bad.

<-- Happily weened off of Caffinee 2 years running -->

Caffine

[lithera.livejournal.com]

His big thing is getting you off being addicted to food products. Caffine is one of them. That and most caffine comes with lots of sugar these days. Soda, mochas and the like... It's just easier to take out the caffine all together. When I get further along in the diet I can get diet sodas back if I want them.

*nodnodnnod*

[vebelfetzer.livejournal.com]

Super amounts of energy, less sluggishness, mood improvements.

Carbohydrates like the kind we eat now were introduced after humans came up with agriculture. Well, there were a few wild tubers here and there, but bread and the like was what turned us from fearless warrior monkeys to cowering cityrats.

BREAD MAKES YOU WEAK AND STUPID! WE DO NOT TEACH AGRICULTURE IN THIS DOJO.

Kill. Eat. Be happy.

(not to say that I can resist those carbs...umm num num num...I'm working on getting back on the protein diet, though. It brilliant stuffs.)

Re: *nodnodnnod*

[lithera.livejournal.com]

Well, they had a sale on buffalo at Fred Meyer. I have buffalo steak. Yum.

Yum, yum, yum

Buffalo Steak?

[ex-winterkn.livejournal.com]

Hook me up!!!! I don't know how to cook it Buffalo, but if I go out and get some will you cook it? Almost makes me want to go out and hunt the little buggers with Ruger .44 lever action.

Re: Buffalo Steak?

[lithera.livejournal.com]

Sure. Go get some at Fred Meyer. I'll cook you some buffalo and we'll have yummy buffalo steak. Yum, yum, yum.

Not sure how long the sale is lasting, so, go and get some.