Day 5:
No breakfast today, but i made up for it with a Grande Soy Latte from Starbucks. I went a little crazy at lunch and had a chef's salad, it was just nice to have a different sort of texture going on, know what i mean?
Perhaps the most difficult thing about being on atkins is the endless amount of hassle that you get from other people. This is something that I have not been able to understand for YEARS now.

day 4:
Level of ketones today: large. This means that I'm into ketosis and that Dana owes me a carbolite yogurt. I looked at myself in the mirror this morning, and I can start to tell the difference, I swear to you.

Another quick post today, I'm off to go drink (open bar). Oh well, there goes the whole not drinking thing. I ate a garlic-basil sausage, a can of tuna, and a chicken breast today. (along with vitamins + supplements, yes, yes)

day 3:
Last night, I reached a moderate level of ketosis, according to my ketostix--this is good news.

Today, I ate a garlic basil sausage for breakfast, a cup of coffee, dk's protein bomb from rinaldi's deli in p.v. (3 meatballs, grilled onions + mushrooms, olives, and avocados) for lunch, and two strips o' bacon and a chicken breast for dinner. YUM YUM.

Day 2 Dinner:
Chicken breast. I think I'll probably be eating a lot of these, something tells me. No biggie, my appetite is starting to decrease anyway--which is not to say that it wasn't tasty.

MORE IMPORTANTLY:
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That's right, people. whiskey and vodka and tequila and gin... 0gm carbs. I'M GETTING DRUNK!

Day 2 Lunch:
I had one of my favorite protein-friendly meals for lunch: an in-n-out protein style 3x3 (three patties, three slices o' cheese, no tomatoes, mustard instead of thousand island, lettuce instead of a bun). goodness!

Day-um. Not only do I loves the bacon, I love how i feel when I don't eat carbs. Sunday night before I started atkins-ing, I ordered a small pepperoni and tomato pizza, an order of lasagna (a pie tin full), two dinner salads, garlic bread, and two diet cokes for dinner as a sort of "Last Supper". I ate both salads, drank both cokes, and ate half the lasagna and half the pizza. Mind you, I hadn't eaten all day (I forgot to, I was busy), but man when I went to bed, I felt so bloated it felt like my thighs were touching. So yeah, I started it off with a big bang.
A bit of clarification is in order--I am not a fat ass, I don't think I'm a fat ass, I just want to sort of start the new year off with a sort of willpower challenge, side-effects of which are that you have all kinds of energy and you lose a bit of weight. Ain't nuffin wrong wit dat, child.

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Day 2 Breakfast:
How does 4 pieces of Niman Ranch nitrite/nitrate-free bacon sound? I LOVE THIS! BACON IS SO RAD!

Day 1: a quick post, I'm busy.

Breakfast:
Skipped it, as usual. In my sleepy-headed daze I had a cup of coffee even though I had forgotten that I was going to give up caffeine. Oops. I also absent-mindedly had two little Tangerine Sour Altoids. Crap.

Lunch:
This is pretty easy to accomodate on Atkins, though if you really want to do it right, you end up having to bring lunch to work fairly often. Anyway, I walked over to Ralph's to get myself some tuna and some mayo (mmmmm) to bring back to eat at my desk (how unsocial).

Dinner:
Some of those little babybel edam cheese things that you have to peel the wax off of, and some pepperoni. Whee. How glamorous!

I'm going on the atkins diet starting today and so are you. Prepare to be amused--not so much laughing with me as laughing at me.I'm only guessing here, but you'll probably see things like:
- me justifying eating pork rinds
- the thrilling "race to ketosis"
- me lamenting not being able to drink
and more!