I baked a cake for my son & husband. I went 1 day of it in the kitchen and today - I just couldn't resist. I had a piece. This was my last day of Induction on Adkins... What does this major intake of sugar do to my katosis activity? Has anyone else cheated??? What happened??? I know the book says it is the kiss of death on this diet... I just couldn't help but take a bite and then the whole piece... Please help me!!!

Hey there. Don't freak out. You had a minor setback. Just chalk it up to being human! Start a new day tomorrow back on the plan and remember the sugar might make you feel a little lousy until it's out of your system. Maybe a few more days on the induction plan - personally, I need to be on induction most of the time for results and am quite used to it.

Take care and just get back on track. You'll be okay.

Cheers,
Lara

No, never! No one here ever cheats!




My face turned green!

Seriously, really bad cravings. Stay on induction for a few more days and you'll be fine.

Karen

Well, I don't really do it right, but I usually have a "anything I want" meal every week. Sometimes I eat something with sugar, sometimes it is just some pizza or burger and fries.

This really just stalls induction for about 3 days. So during a week, I lose pounds (about 2-3 per week) on four days a week, and get back into ketosis 3 days a week.

Works ok for me. Remember that it is restarting induction each time, so after a meal like that it will be whatever it took you to begin with to start losing wegith.

I really don't see a need to ever change my diet, 10-20 carbs is more than enough to make me happy. Besides I live in Southern US where meat is a way of life. I will have to see where my weight loss stops on this "cheat" meal Atkins diet.

Don't beat yourself up, you might wanna try my method!!!

Good Luck,
wsgts

It's kind of funny - but once I freaked... and then calmed down... I thought, "What the heck, I have to start over tomorrow... Why not get it out of my system!" I ate another small piece of cake, 3 oreo cookies, and a handful of chips with homemade salsa. Talk about binging!!! But I feel so much better getting that craving "out of the way".

I had a really bad headache yesterday - but I didn't use it as an excuse. (New it was coming off of the sugar high!) I actually made myself a little tougher of a schedule - more cardio (30 minutes on Elliptical and 30 on treadmill) at the gym each day and back on the induction diet for 10 more days. I'm close to being back on the high end of the stick - medium purple...

So I guess I learned a valuable lesson - If I'm gonna cheat, it's gonna take me twice as long (and twice as hard) to lose my goal weight. But it was worth every bite!!!!

A huge thanks to all of your advice & encouragment!
Teresa