A friend introduced me to Fiber Gummies. They are like eating a couple of gummy bears but with 5 calories apeice. And they really work as long as you are consistent. Sometimes I use them as dessert .

Evening everyone- its full of strong wind and rain here. I really hope it isnt as bad over weekend because i really wanted to get out for a walk with the kids tomorrow for extra exercise.
Been a bad day today- had sweet cravings for sugar and chocolate all day. I admit ive given in but not like i could have.
Its a good thing that my weigh in day is Monday- might help me get through the weekend without anymore sins!!!!!

Going over today, so I guess I'll make it my guilt-free day. Hubby was going to bring home lunch, so I told him to get Subway. He came home with four burgers (two for each of us). I can't throw food away, and it would have caused an argument, so there you go. 900 calories for lunch. and I was doing so well today, too!

1) 1,600 calories max/day (allow myself 1 guilt free day over 1,600) - 1406, 1519, 1467, 1328, 1908
2) do 2 exercises on days I don't work (walking/weights/gardening/Richard Simmons/stationary bike) - lots of walking, nothing offical, but I was cleaning the house and the yard for most of the day, lots of gardening and walking, lots of gardening and walking, nothing
3) 20% protein minimum - 25%, 19%, 25%, 23%, 24%
4) 64oz water minimum - not enough, 64oz, 64oz, 64oz, 80oz+
5) calorie deficit 700+ - 863, 1087, 1000, 1075, 332
6) take vitamins - yes, no, yes, yes, yes
7) lights out by 11 the night before - no, no, no, no, no
8) no food after 8pm the night before - yes, yes, yes, yes, no

1.) Workout x4: 4
2.) Under 1400 calories/day: 1249, 1081, 1265, 1293, ~1900
3.) Drink 64 oz. of water/day: 64 oz., 70 oz., 30 oz., 112 oz., 96 oz.
4.) Study 30 mins every day: 50 mins, 1 hour, 0 mins, 30 mins, 0 mins

Ok, so from what I read at the beginning of the thread, it's seven days and not five. I've tanked on two days so far, but determined not to let it get any worse than that. Worked till 4 yesterday, then came home and ate (and continued to eat ) while working till 11:30. So, this weekend I am bound and determined to prove that even though there's a lot to do, I can still balance this and do what I need to do for my body and my health. The only good news is that I have been making myself get some sleep! So, here are weekend goals:

Health and Wellness:
1. 1300 calories or fewer
2. Eat clean.
3. Exercise both days.
4. Drink water.
5. Sleep at least 7 hours.

Little Things I've Been Putting Off Forever:
6. Make progress on the carpet issue.
7. Vacuum cat hair off the furniture.
8. Change family pics in family room and staircase.
9. Get new prescription sunglasses

Work stuff:
10. Proof 2 reports.
11. Write 1.5 reports.
12. Do two insurance auths.
13. Revise report and send new version.

I hope everyone has a good weekend; if you're not here, I'll see you all back bright-eyed and ready to go Monday morning!

Here are my goals for this week:
<1400 calories: 1414, 1790, 1076, 1838, 1439
Net Carbs < 20: 33.4, 71.1, 17.0, 135.1, 47.0
Water >64(oz): 45, 50, 50, 60, 65
exercise: none, none, none, none, again-none

Blew my entire net carb allowance on breakfast (plain yogurt, ¼ c. Muesli and some strawberries, but it worked wonderfully with my *constipation problem. Then we had a BBQ at work yesterday, and I managed to have a burger without the bun and some green salad. One of my co-workers brought some Korean beef and some fixings to put into these lillte wraps – turned out they were made from oriental radish (aka daikon). It was delicious, and gave me another low-carb idea!

I’m going to regroup and refocus – back on atkin’s Induction for at least 2 more weeks I realized this week struggling to keep the carbs down that in order to keep losing I need to be very strict about < 20 net carbs/day. Anything over the 25g mark and I stop losing entirely.

Pam, thanks for the tip re fiber gummies. I am going shopping today and will look for them.

Have a great day everyone!

Hi Joanna, and anyone else who is interested in this recipe, here it is as promised. To calculate nutritional information I went to 'tomorrow' in food journal and entered the entire ingredients list, then divided everything by 10 to get a calculation per slice, then I added the portion per slice as a custom food.

Chocolate Almond Crust:
1 ½ cups almonds (or 6 ounces)
¼ cup splenda
2 squares bitter chocolate, melted
3 tbsp butter, melted
2 tbsp. Vanilla whey protein powder

Grind the almonds into a fine meal in the food processor (if you grind your own with the skins on the fibre content is higher than if you buy them already ground as they likely use blanched almonds). Add the splenda and pulse to combine. Pour in the melted chocolate, then melted butter and process until evenly distributed. (I actually did this in a bowl with my mixer as my food processor is too small for this amount of food) Add the vanilla whey powder and pulse again to combine (I didn’t actually have any so left it out and the crust turned out just fine).
Turn out into a greased 10” springform pan, pressing the crust a little up the sides to cover the seam. Bake at 325F degrees for 8 minutes, allow to cool before adding the filling.

Cheesecake filling:

3 – 8 oz packages Philly cream cheese (I used the light as the carb count was the same)
1 c. Splenda
3 large eggs
1 ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
½ cup heavy cream (whipping cream)

Preheat oven to 325F degrees.
Allow the cheese to soften to room temperature. Beat the cream cheese and splenda together on medium speed for 3-4 minutes. Add the eggs and vanilla and beat on high speed for 3 more minutes. Add the cream and beat again for a couple more minutes. Turn out into the cooled chocolate almond crust (10” springform pan). Bake at 325F degrees for 45-50 minutes. Check for doneness by inserting toothpick into middle of cake. Cake is done if the toothpick is clear, if not, bake for another 10 minutes. Allow to cool completely before removing sides of pan.

Variations: I didn’t have bittersweet chocolate, so I used Lindt 85% cacao 4 sq. For crust, and made a topping with the other 4 sq. I calculated based on 10 pieces/cake, but I think we actually got about 13 slices out of it.
Calories: 387
fat: 32.57g (satfat 15.37, polyunsat 2.7, monounsat 6.3)
cholesterol 132.5mg
sodium 31.5g)
potassium 3.1mg
Carbohydrate 14.2g – fibre 2.7g = 11.5 net carbs/slice
protein 11.46g
Vitamin A 20%
Calcium 13%
Vitamin D 2%
Thiamin 5%
Niacin 5%
Phosphorus 16%
Selenium 10%
Zinc 9%
Iron 17%
Vitamin E 31%
Riboflavin 19%
Vitamin B12 8%
Manganese 24%
Copper 23%
Magnesium 15%

ENJOY!

Wow, that sounds awesome, Cate! Thanks so much!

I give up for this week. I am eating like a pig and apparently that is just what I am going to do.

Cheescake recip looks great tho I cannot tolerate Splenda but I imagine you can use other sweetener?