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I'm so ****ed off!!! My FI started Atkins again!!! I hate that diet. He always loads up the house with all this stuff I can't eat- I'm on ww- and then goes off it a month later with a fury.... I want to be supportive, but my favorite food is sushi and I HATE all the meat I have to eat when he goes on!!! I'm so tried of steakhouses. On WW, I can only eat like a bite!!! Ahhh!!!

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Sept20yay I'd beat your FI up on that one.

FI and I are doing WW together so we're each others support team

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You guys should try and coordinate diets. That way you won't get sick of steakhouses and he won't get sick of small portions.

I haven't really discussed with my FH the whole diet/exercise thing. I want to discuss with him. But he gets a little crazy and so I have to break it to him slowly. So he doesn't try and overrun my plans!

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Sept20- you can eat high protein on WW- I would say stick to 'brown' starches instead of white ones and you'd be better off... I eat 'atkins' and I am almost always under what my 'points' allotment would be! I've done weight watchers for years.

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His parents are on him to do Atkins--- but what they don't realize is- I have to rearrange my life for that f-ing diet!!!! I'm so annoyed.... He called me a few minutes ago and was like- I'm bringing home roast beef for dinner - is that okay? I'm like, no that's not okay.... So now, we are eating different things!!! It ****s!!!

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I know Sassy, but I get sooooo sick of Fish occasionally... I like Italian, Japanese, high starch foods I can eat on ww..... He loves steak and while I love steak too, you really can only eat 4oz of that on ww and even that is like 10 points!!! It is very hard not to get bored eating atkins combined with WW. At least for me...

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I eat everything I want with WW just in smaller portions. Last night FI and I had prime rib, baked potato, corn on the cob. We used I cant believe its not butter instead of real butter and I think the meal came to be about 13 points. I have special K cereal bars for breakfast which is 2 points, 1/2 cup oj for 1 point, and a banana for 2 points, then lunch is tuna w/light mayo, melba crackers and celery for 6 points. This brings my total so far to 11 points. I'll have carrots or celery for snack and when I crave salt, then i have small pretzels for 2 points. I am allowed 20 - 25 points. So far its working really good for me.

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I am going to do the Atkin's thing.

Why is his family pressuring him to do Atkin's? I don't understand that. Besides which you are going to be his new family right?

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I find I just don't need to eat the starch.. I also found that since I stopped eating carbs I have not broken out once... I have been on Retin-A my whole like and now ... nothing- no break outs. no medication. no nothing.
I usually eat a protein bar for breakfast, tuna salad and veggies for lunch and then some type of wrap (they make low carb wraps.. and low carb pasta) or pretty much any kind of chicken, fish, pork dish known to man....
tell your FH to check out netrition.com for low carb foods you can eat on Atkins- it helps.

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His family feels that Atkins works best for men, and WW works best for women.... I know, crazy right? They feel Atkins will be better for him to lose some weight (not that he needs to lose much) but I still feel like not eating with him tonight!!! We have to have two sep dinners every night.... I need skim milk, he needs cream.... He eats popsicles for dessert or jello with whipped cream, I need a ww dessert... You get the point.... It also gets expensive!!!

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Sassy That site is great thanks!

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Diet Jello w/ lite whipped cream is only like 2 pts.. way less that a WW dessert! I would say check out the netrition site- their wraps have like 7 grams fiber- I bet on WW they'd be like 2 pts or maybe 1 for the wrap.. that way you could make wraps & both eat the same thing....

My FH eats what I cook- I usually make him a starch if he feels the need- he usually doesn't.

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thank you... I will try it...

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Man that sounds great. I guess I'll have to discuss all of this stuff with my FH when we move in together but that's not till June.

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Is anyone doing the WW online??? I was thinking about doing it because I dont really have time for the meetings.

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kp, i tried it online, and it's pretty good, they tell you your point allotment, and it works as long as you keep to it.
I decided to stop online, b/c after 2 weeks I stopped updating it, and went back to my old routine. I think that since I only had myself to answer to I was OK w/gaining back the weight

Tomorrow I'm going to the center so I could get weighed in every week by someon, I'm hoping I'll be embarrased if I don't do good, so that will motivate me. we'll see

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My FH and I work out differently so we have to do it separately. I'm suggesting we be supportive by asking each other what we eat and finding out if we did our work outs.

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I don't live with my FH either. But when he comes over for dinner he just eats what I eat....

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I think the WW meetings are great motivation, its the first time in my life someone else has seen the scale when I get on it When I joined last week, I was ready to strip down right there on line just to save some pounds!

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Well me and my FH are on such crazy schedules right now it's ridiculous.

I did good today though

2 hard boiled eggs for Breakfast.
Chicken Ceasar Salad no croutouns for lunch

We'll see what happens at dinner time..