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 Weight today: 190.0

Yikes. I have crept back up to 190 pounds! I panicked briefly, but I did remember that I pigged out over Labor Day. I drank a few beers, ate way to much and did not keep up my water as I should. Still, no better time to start the Atkins I suppose. I need to drop some weight and get back on track!

I got up this morning and ran 5 miles and started my Atkins diet off like this.

• 3 Eggs, Canadian Bacon and Coffee with Splenda - Breakfast ( 280 calories, 7 total carbs)
• Atkins Shake - Snack #1 (150 calories, 1 carb)
• Caesar Salad with grilled chicken, no dressing, Diet Soda - Lunch (180 calories, 2 carbs)
• Hood Milk Substitute, Stringsters String Cheese, Diet Soda - Snack #2 (170 calories, 2 carbs)
• 3 hamburger Patties (low fat), Green Beans, diet soda - (1070 calories, 3carbs)
• String Cheese, Diet Soda (80 calories, 1 carb)

Total for the day is 1890 calories and 22 carbs

So I am supposed to stick right around 20 carbs for the Induction Phase of Atkins (14 days). Other than that there are not a lot of rules. I am counting calories because I want to see how the low carb diet compares to Body For Life when the calories are about the same, but the carbs are greatly reduced. I am expecting to further dispel the simplicity implied in the “Calories in, Calories out” theory. I will also drink my 8-10 glasses of water a day and keep up my standard 6 days of exercise a week.

I am changing my weight training this month to a circuit training program using resistance bands that I got out of Men’s Health. I am anxious to see how these bands work. If they are good then the “travel dilemma” related to how to find a gym and workout on the road might be solved!