Cravings!! UGH

_tierachanel
_tierachanel Posts: 124 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
Okay I'm on my third day on Atkins and I am having some major cravings. Do you have any tips or tricks to help try to stop them or learn to deal???

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  • FatFreeFrolicking
    FatFreeFrolicking Posts: 4,252 Member
    Might not be the right diet for you. It is totally normal to experience cravings when you drastically change your diet from one thing to another.

    Any reason in particular you chose Atkins?

    What are you craving?
  • _tierachanel
    _tierachanel Posts: 124 Member
    I've done Atkins before. It works. I want to give it another shot. My body is craving carbs. Like bread sounds AMAZING right now. I know I can get past this. When I tried Atkins before the cravings stopped after about the first week. I just need to get over this hump.
  • DrJenO
    DrJenO Posts: 404 Member
    I've done it before (and it's not really for me, but it did work when I did it), and it was a crunchy texture that I had missed.

    I would eat celery, or even pork rinds.
  • _tierachanel
    _tierachanel Posts: 124 Member
    Crunch! ugh thts what I want!! Pork Rinds it is.
  • Cheechos
    Cheechos Posts: 293
    If you're currently on Induction, you can try to drink some diet soda or chew some sugar free gum. Both of these are not advised, of course, because they can stall weight loss, but I find that a can of diet soda can chill out my cravings (I'm in Induction currently) and it hasn't really hindered me as far as I can tell. Sometimes when cravings get really bad I just eat pickles, which helps me out immensely. The Atkins bars are also allowed during the new Induction. I haven't had any of them since I personally don't feel strong needs for sweets right now, but those could also help.

    Edit: I agree about pork rinds; they are a LIFESAVER for those chip crunch needs. I hear you can also get some carb free flavored powders to add to them.
  • CHT103
    CHT103 Posts: 1 Member
    I really wouldn't recommend Atkins at all. I followed it in the past on a few occasions with good success while on the diet, but always put the weight back on as soon as I stopped following it. I remember those cravings you mention. They were horrible and are not good for the soul. Thave you feeling deprived. It also turns out that the reason you lose weight so fast is because you lose a lot of muscle mass, not only fat.

    Overall, from experience, I would say that monitoring your calorie intake is the best way of losing and controlling weight. I have been doing this using MFP for just over a year now and it is the most stable my weight has ever been.

    Good luck whatever you decide to do.......
  • Cheechos
    Cheechos Posts: 293
    I really wouldn't recommend Atkins at all. I followed it in the past on a few occasions with good success while on the diet, but always put the weight back on as soon as I stopped following it.

    You're technically never supposed to stop following Atkins. Once you go through the phases and enter maintenance, that's where you're supposed to stay and you follow the low carb way for life. It is really drastic for some people, so I can agree that if it isn't something that's sustainable for someone that they shouldn't do it. There's a good quote I heard out there once about weight loss (I think from a popular follower of Atkins, actually): "Do everything it takes and nothing it doesn't."
  • mallory5385
    mallory5385 Posts: 45 Member
    My Aunt does Atkins and she swears that the blue zero poweraid helps with the cravings.

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