Rajah1973's Journal, 22 Sep 10

Rajah, look at my food diary. It will help. I have been eating this way for 9 months now. You an have meat, cheese, eggs, veggies, butter, heavy whipping cream, sugar free jello, and at this point full sodium broth. I sent you a buddy request. If I can help, please let me know! 

I think the best way is to get a good variety of all types of foods. Each type of food has special micronutrients that are healthy for you. It's not healthy to cut all kinds of food out of your diet, simply because someone yammers on about the evils of eating this or that. 

I agree with Runesinger. Have a little of everything, just not too much. Sounds like all this counting is not working for you and could cause setbacks. So stop it. 

Rajah, I am not doing Atkins now, but when I started out with it I really educated myself on the program. Suggest you really study up at www.atkins.com and print out for yourself all the info you need to be successful. For instance two of the basics are to track your carbs or netcarbs (which ever version you are following the old or new) Your food tracker is not tracking either of those. Secondly, you need to be taking in at least 15 net carbs of foundation vegetables. Maybe this isn't really the plan for you. Sounds like 5-6 small meal/snacks may work better for you. Stick to lean proteins, fruits, veg, dairy. No fast or "prepared" foods. I know you live in a small town in WV, but I am sure you have access to a supermarket? With some planning and prep time you can certainly be successful. Start fueling your body because right now it is in starvation mode and that is definatly not healthy for you.