(THIS WAS DAY 1 ON SEPTEMBER 14TH)

Weight: 201.8 lbs

Foods: 
Breakfast: 2 eggs fried deli style with 2 slices of bacon.
Lunch: Half pound of tuna salad
Supper: a portion of Salmon baked with some whole cream topping.
Night snack: 5 slices of canadian bacon with raw onion.
Oh, and water. Lots of water.

Well, it's begun. What can I say...? You eat and drink to excess, and it all comes down to this. The one mistake I did is to eat the b'fast and the lunch within an hour of each other, then wait more than 6 hours to eat the Salmon, by which point I was really startving. You're not supposed to go more than 6 hours between meals. Not really meals, looking at what I consumed, but ingestibles. Nice coinage  that, right?

Energy's kind of been low all day, but I think that's probably more due to the bad eating and drinking pattern that happened last night. Tonight, it's off to bed early, and let's see what ingestible happens to be the first meal of tomorrow.

The last time I tried the Atkins induction, and I gave up after 13 days, I lost 7 lbs. This time--who knows? the main thing is to stick with the progrm for 8 weeks. I'd love to lose 10% or about 20 pounds. Then I'd feel like I reclaimed somewhat my old self. 

Of course, fitness is another factor.

Exercise for this day: some walking, but other than that nothing. I need to work the exercise in to make this induction pay its handsome dividends.

Weight: 198.2 lbs

I'm pretty happily surprised to have supposedly lost 3.6 lbs in 2 days. Sounds almost too good to be true. I started the Atkins on Friday. On Friday morning, I tipped the scales at 201.8 lbs. 

Anyway, it's encouragement for sure to keep at it. Here's what I ate today:

Breakfast: 1 cup coffee with cream, 3 eggs omelette with onions and canadian bacon, salt & pepper to taste. 

Snack: A can of sardines in olive oil.

Lunch: a 10oz burger cooked rare with swiss cheese melted on it, onions.

Snack: 2 oz of camembert

Dinner: I'm pondering eating something for dinner and wondering if I should or shouldn't...

Okay, so I broke down and had dinner after all.

Dinner: shaved beef stir fried with garlic, some fresh green chillies. A dash of curry powder, and a dash of soya sauce.

My energy level is better today, and the headache also seems to have gone. I am really hoping that I don't weigh more than 198.2 tomorrow morning...!

I wrote a post last night and thought it published, but looks like it didn't.

I will search for it, but in the meanwhile, weigh on sept 14 morning was 201.8 lbs.

This morning's Weight: 199.2 lbs (water retention?)

So I'm finished with day 2 of the induction. Feeling somewat low on energy. I am waiting for that insane pick up in energy, but I'm also quite sure that it will come soon.

So, anyway, here is what I ate today:
Breakfast: two eggs, slivers of onion, a thin slice of avocado, and two strips of bacon.
Lunch: a can of sardines in olive oil with a clove of garlic added.
Supper:ground bison stir fried with onion and garlic with a dash of curry powder and crushed black and chilli pepper.

It looks like I'll avoid a night snack tonight...

I was craving sweets and cheese all day. But, I resisted.

Okay. Pretty much as everyone who's ever tried or done the Atkins induction says to themselves, "enough is enough." 

(btw, don't even know what T -1 means, other than that it sounds dramatic and conveys that tomorrow is T zero, or the start of the Atkins inductio
And so it is. I stepped on the scale this morning and weighed in at 202 pounds. I'm 5'11". And not a cornerback in the NFL. So my weight kind of sucks. I spent most of my life (until age 34) weighing at an athletic 162 lbs. Change in lifestyle, change in profession, change in lack of motivation, and now 202 lbs.

Forty pounds over the profile I remember of myself. I wish I could post a 162 lbs picture and a 202 picture of myself. the former might be of interest; the latter, an eyesore! Yes, I have low self-image at the moment.

So anyway, I'm going Atkins induction tomorrow, and am going to do the following everyday:

!) record my morning weight.
2) record my food intake, so that both you and me can keep me honest on my Atkins diet.
3) record whatever activities/sports/workout I did during the day.
4) record what thoughts are passing through my mind as I do this.

Now, for the record, I have tried the Atkins induction once before, and did pretty much get through 13 days of stikcing to it. On the fourteenth day, it all fell apart in a night of celebration and, you guessed it, binging on the good stuff. Sayonara, Atkins!

So in a sense, this is take two. Wish me luck!