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300/255/170
Whew! Well the plateau got finally busted!
What can I say.
I had to go back read up DANDR again and check up and try to discover
EXACTLY where I was either slacking, slipping, sliding, or even cheating.
Here’s what I found.
1.) Candida! I had decided to put off dealing with the candida until after
I was on OWL, but DANDR clearly states Candida will interfere with
Induction, so I’ve started taking different herbs, and vita-nutrients to try
to control the Candida. I’m also considering do a a series of liver and
kidney flushes which I hear will also help bring the Candida under control.
2.) Water. I simply wasn’t drinking enough water, I checked the various
formulas to calculate how much water and I discovered I should be drinking
almost 2 gallons of water per day!
3.) Exercise. true confession… here I was really slacking off on the daily
exercise…. Now I am using a Aerobics VHS Video Tape exercise course that’s
great and takes only 15 minutes. It makes me break a sweat and I feel great
afterwards! Eventually I’ll “graduate” to 30 minutes and then 45 minutes
aerobic exercise…
4.) Portion control even though I was being careful what I ate, here and
there I was a little sloppy how much I ate….I now measure and prepare my
food in advance and refrigerate all my meals in little ZipLock
containers…Works great!
5.) Coffee….I was allowing myself coffee with milk and coffee with
cream…. Coffee messes with the blood sugar and even the tiniest amount of
milk can knock you off induction.
6.) Those DAMN SHAKES! Everytime I try on of those damn shakes the Candida
flares up! I don’t care what it says on the label - those pretend sugars are
sugary enough for the Candida! So from now on I make my own shakes from
scratch with NO SUGAR! and MAKE sure that there is NO SUGAR OF ANY KIND in
any of the powders and additives I’m using!
7.) Attending Overeaters Anonymous meetings. ANA is just a food plan, and As
DANDR says, I’m ADDICTED to carbohydrates so I need extra help to deal with
the physical, emotional, psycholigical, and spiritual aspect of my
“recovery” from Carb. Addiction. For the last few weeks I’ve attended at
least one OA meeting per week and got myself an OA “sponsor”.
8.) The correct Vita-Nutrients. I had actually being trying all kinds of
differrent vita-nutrients. I re-read DANDR to check and see what I was
missing and I found that there were several reccomended vita-nutrients that
I wasn’t taking…
9.) Medical supervision. I’ve had some tests and there was protein in the
urine. I’m trying to locate a Atkins friendly doctor who can also advise me
on this situation.
All the best,
Tony

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