As part of one of my goals for the year, I started the Atkins diet at the beginning of the year and I’m currently going through carb withdrawal.   I’m not nor have I been hungry for most of the day but I do have a craving for carbs: any carbs!  I keep thinking about snacking on some chips, a slice of bread, some crackers, or baked goodies but those are definitely not on the diet.

For the most part, I’ve been eating eggs for breakfast, beef/shrimp/chicken for lunch and fish for dinner.   I plan on buying some lobsters this week too!    The Atkins diet is the only diet that has ever really worked for me….at least temporarily.   I’ve been on the diet before and within the first month or two I’ll easily lose 30 pounds then another 10 to 15 pounds until I get sick of eating the protein stuffs.

This year I plan on doing something different, I will be on high protein, low carb diet for 6 to 8 weeks (the induction phase) and then I’ll take two weeks off and restart the induction phase again after the two weeks.    I don’t plan on pigging out during my two weeks off, I will eat low fat food probably Subway veggie and <6 grams of fat sandwiches during that period and then return to induction.

I am hoping that the two weeks off will provide enough variety so that I don’t get burned out of the Atkins diet.   I plan on sticking to the program for all of 2010 and the only thing that may derail me is a great deal of business travel that is anticipated for the year but I’m going to give it my best.