Sounds like a lovely day yesterday, despite all the lugging. The shop sounds lovely. I am a sucker for interesting food shops, whether decent greengrocer, farm shop or health food shop. I love fresh horseradish and usually keep some in the freezer but sadly I have run out and haven't seen any about for a little while
Good luck for weigh in this morning and hope you enjoy the meal out. Looks like a really interesting place. I very much like the idea of kangeroo bourginon or surf and turf where ther "surf" is crocodile! How much of an affect do small "slips" make on Atkins? Such as the predicted handful of chips? How much longer until fruit is allowed back in? I think that's one of the things I would find hardest and most annoying about the diet. And was certainly something I ignored when trying low carb.
Well WI this morning was 14st 5.4lbs, a loss of 1.6lbs, making 9.8lbs in 3 weeks so far, so it looks like I got away with it yesterday, at least for this morning!
I suspect that a WI tomorrow may show a different story though!
A small slip can make a difference of several pounds quite quickly, because (forgive the very simple explanation here, and apologies to any experts if I have it wrong, but,) as I understand it, when your body is working in fat burning mode it doesn't hang on to as much fluid (as glycogen, I think) in the cells and fat cells. When you have sugar, or a carb which can easily convert into sugar and often spike blood sugar at the same time, then your cells 'grab' it to hang on to and to use as fuel, instead of using your fat as fuel, because it is 'easier' but not necessarily better, for the body. (bad, lazy body cells!
) That gives you a sudden fluid gain on the scales. It will usually go pretty quickly once you get back on to low carb levels again, and doesn't mean you can't ever increase your carbs long term. Yesterday our carb levels worked out at around double what we have been having, so the sudden doubling of carb levels would I suspect make the body go way-hay - glucose! Whereas if you increase your carbs slowly over a period of time then your body adjusts as it goes. (At least that is what I told my OH, who had two sausages instead of one, and a latte in addition to the chocolate, and gained a pound this morning, and was devasted to think he could never have sausages again... refer back to earlier post re gluten free, 100% pork sausages!)
For our meal out today (one and a half hours to go!) I am going to ask to have my food served with a salad instead of veg and potatoes/rice. Realistically I will not know exactly what is in the sauces, so I am not going to spoil our meal by worrying about it, and after two days with some naughtiness I expect a possible gain tomorrow, but it is 6 more days after this to next weigh day, so I will get straight back on track tomorrow and aim to get any gain, and more, off for next week. On a brighter note, I have discovered that the OTHER bar of sugar free chocolate we bought yesterday - dark chocolate with cranberry - is only 9 carbs per half a bar, but a much bigger bar than the choc orange one, and therefore 2 good sized squares is only 3 carbs. It is also more yummy than the milk one yesterday, so that will be the chocolate of choice! We have had two squares each this morning as a treat, then it needs to go under lock and key until next weekend!
Re the fruit Atomic - you can move onto the next stage at any time after induction, and this is arranged in 'rungs' where you pick a food group to add, in measured amounts, and see if it affects you personally re your weight loss. You can add them in any order, but there is a suggested order which has been shown to work best for the majority of people. Last time I added more veg, then fruit and more dairy as my first three changes, then nuts and seeds, then moved onto the other options. I'm not planning to add fruit or more dairy as a regular option yet, as I want to get a good amount off pretty quickly before I start to relax things, but if an occasional full fat greek yogurt were to sneak in over the next month, I'm not going to stress about it, likewise a handful of blueberries. Rhubarb is allowed right from the start, and some of our home grown has my name on it, with home-made custard/meringue!
Horseradish - how do you store your horseradish in the freezer? I was thinking just peeling, grating and freezing, to defrost and add to some cream as needed!
