good morning world. i have been on the diet now for a whole week! yay. well here comes the big moment, we will find out if this diet is working at all. so last week tuesday morning my weight was 21.8 stone, 138 1/2 kg, 305 pounds. right lets get the scales out. right gimee a sec .......... yesssss ive lost weight ill give u the details in a sec.... 21.5 stone, 137.2 kg, 301 pounds. wow thats great i lost 4 pounds. i cant really cmoplain can i? oh well i gotta go out now. have a great day everyone!

hey everyone. wow what a day, i live in Jerusalem as you know and i traveled up north to a place called rechasim for a family event then we drove back to make the end of this wedding of our friends so its been a long tiring day and its late and i gotta get to bed so im sorry you all but its going to be a short one today. breakfast and lunch was the same as yesterday fried egg and tuna. but supper was abit disappointing. we went to this thing of my cousins and since they got no money there was no meat or fish rather just pastries, bread and dips. this is the first time were it was abit hard because i was hungry and there was food that i liked and no food that i was allowed. they had a vegetable soup which i had but wasn't great. but im proud to say i didn't eat anything that i wasn't allowed i was really strong with myself even though i was hungry so im really proud of that. but i was banking on eating at the wedding. so we left up north at around 9:30 and got back to Jerusalem at about quarter to eleven and went straight to the wedding. but disaster struck twice we came so late they had cleared up all the food so tonight wasn't great and i should really make myself something now to eat but im too tired so for the first time on this diet ill go to bed hungry it cant harm can it. anyways guess whats tomorrow?????????????? 1 week of my diet, i started it last week Tuesday morning so tomorrow morning im going to weigh myself and oh i really hope i lost weight. that's all for now. good night everyone.

hey you all. bad news my grill broke :-( ill get to that later. so this morning i woke up and felt great but not as slim as i felt last week so obviously being me i panicked, maybe the bread, maybe i ate too much, the diet doesn't work for me, but my darling wife relaxed me and said im being stupid and that i look like i have lost weight and that i should just carry on, i guess i believed her because i continued the diet so here's how my day went. i fried onions in the morning for my breakfast then i added egg and cheese and fried it all as a pancake mmmm.. there nothing in the world like such a breakfast. (i just hope im not having too many eggs, i remember as a little kid my mum would not let me have any more eggs because i had had enough that week, oh well ill just hope for the best) so that was breakfast. for lunch i made myself two tins of tuna with mayo and a few vegetable and that was not bad. i think lunch's are the worst part of my day because i cant really be bothered making anything that takes effort (ye maybe im lazy ha ha. huh no im not i work so hard for breakfast and supper i need a break!!!) anyway supper time is where the disaster happened. i got myself sausages and chicken wings with a bbq sauce for supper and it was all going well. i cut the sausages in half, put sauce on them and popped them onto the grill. then i got some chicken wings ready and put them on. after a few minutes the sausages were ready so i took them all off and put them on to a plate and moved the wings to the middle. snap, crackle, a spark or two and suddenly my grill died. i don't know why i think that maybe water got in or something like that. but that meant that all i had for supper was sausages but that's not as bad as the fact that i don't have a grill at the moment. oh well its all part of life isn't it. that's all for today, i gotta get an early night because tomorrow iv'e got a mad evening. one of my neighbours is getting married so we gotta go for that but before that we have a family event about 1 and a half hours away so i better get to bed. good night you all. oops i nearly forgot happy valentines eveyone!

Hey everyone . how is your weekend going so far? mines going great from all aspects. so Friday was abit bad because i was a bit busy so i missed lunch and apparently its not a great thing not to eat all your meals. oh well ill just make sure to be more careful next time. so i explained yesterday that i am Jewish and that i have certain meal requirements which are a little tricky. so it all went basically to plan. Friday night we didn't eat at home, we went to one of our friends to eat. i didn't warn them before that i was on the Atkins or on any diet for that matter, so they didn't plan the meal for me if you know what i mean (but even then i still managed to have a really full and tasty meal). so the first thing was bread which as i explained i have to eat because of my religion, but i had a small piece of wholewheat and even though its bad you gotta do what you gotta do. then for hors d'oeuvres they gave out two types of fish, a flavoured cooked salmon and a Moroccan spicy white fish. i had quite abit (allot) of both of them and they were really good. then they gave out chicken soup and i had about three bowls, they all thought i was crazy and i was like nah its just really good (truth is i was worried there wouldn't be enough main course for me). then came main course and out came a massive platter of roast chicken and another one of pickled brisket. i just pounded the chicken and meat, i think i must have had three quarters of chicken and i don't know how many pieces of meat, ahh it was just heaven. then the hard part of the meal was not eating dessert, but i had a nice big mug of coffee so i cant complain. that was at night. in the morning we ate at home and we had 5 of my friends over for the meal which was really nice. so we started off with bread again then we had mashed egg with fried onion mixed in and chopped liver. i had allot of that and it tasted really good. then for main course they had cholent (the potatoes, beans and meat stew) whilst i had those quarters i put in and wow they were amazing so i didn't go hungry or deprived. and i finished it all off with a coffee whilst they had ice cream. then later on in the afternoon i had another meal of the day and i had egg and liver (ye left overs from the morning) and herring in mayonnaise mmm... so now at night looking back it overall went really well i had allot to eat i just hope i didn't ruin anything with the little bit of bread i had. that's all for now hope you all enjoy the rest of your weekend. good night.

Hey everyone. so lasts night grill went down amazing. it was like a bbq just indoors and no smoke etc. i made myself chicken wings and sausages with the sauce and i haven't had a better supper in ages. I'm sure that's a supper im going to be repeating in the near future. so its Friday morning and its day 4 in my diet. i do feel a little lighter but nothing really noticeable just yet so well just wait and see. i haven't mentioned this yet but i am Jewish. so tomorrow is going to be my hardest day and ill explain why. Saturday for us is called sabbath. besides the rules of resting and not being able to do many things from sunset on Friday to nightfall on Saturday there is an accepted practice to eat three meals over the 24 hours. now in the Jewish religion a meal consists of eating bread, and this is were the problem starts, i don't know what to do about bread :-(. i think im just going to have a small piece by each meal and hope hope hope it doesn't ruin my diet. so tonight's meal is going to be starting with salmon fish in an amazing sauce. then we will be having chicken soup and then for main course chicken and meat. mmmm.. on this diet every things perfect Friday night. one slight problem is in the morning, we start off the main meal with mashed egg and liver but the main course is a little problem. all the Jews have something called 'cholent' which is potatoes, beans and meat stew cooked overnight in a slow cooker. so the only thing in there i can eat is the meat which isn't allot so i decided to throw in two quarters of chicken and i hope its going to have the flavour of the cholent (which is amazing) and then ill just have the chicken. i really hope i don't ruin my diet over tomorrow i guess we will just have to wait and see. that's all for the moment and i really cant wait to get to next Tuesday so i can say ive bin dieting for a week. hope everyone has a wonderful weekend and shabbat shalom!

Hey everyone. im sorry i didnt post yesterday but it was a mad day. so i am three days in and its going really well. i actually think i might be feeling a little skinnier haha thats me dreaming. well theres one thing im craving like mad and that is sushi! because of the rice i cant have it and i realy miss it:-(. oh well i guess its worth the sacrifice (hopefully). so for lunch i tried something new, i cooked some white fish with this ketchup-mayo sauce. it was good not great though so next time im going to try some other fish recipe. for supper i went out and bought myself a cheap indoor grill. yay. so i mde myself these chicken wings and sausages (sugar free ones) with a bbq sace ahh it was brilliant. so overall the diet is going great so far but it is a little harder then i thought. for example i miss my chocolate bars and cakes etc. but so far ive survived so i cant realy complain. im hopefully going to post some pics up soon of myself so we can see how well the diet is going to work. the other thing which is a little hard is making sure to drink all that water like the diet says to do. ive drunk alot of diet drinks for the moment and hopefully slowly ill try and get used to drinking so much water. ive not really been feeling hungry so from that aspect i cant be complainning (well with a large breakfast lunch and supper i hope im always feeling full). tonights supper is going to be fried chicken breasts in oil mmm i cant wait! thats all for the moment and i hope you are enjoying my journey as much as i am enjoying it.

Hey everyone so this morning i was all excited and just to be sure i weighed myself again and i was the same 305 pounds. so i wrote that down nd made my breakfast. i had fried egg with onion with a little bit of cheese so that was really easy and enjoyable (supporting my point i made earlier that i don't know how healthy it is but atkins is enjoyable). until lunch was easy because i wasn't hungry at all. lunch was the first hurdle because i usually have crackers with egg or tuna. so i decided to have two tins of tuna with full fat mayo with a little veggies mmmmm... the rest of the day was a little hard because i couldn't really eat anything and usually i might eat some snacks (chocolates etc). so last night for supper we decided we were going to eat out. so we went to this really nice restaurant which we eat by every so often. usually i always start with this hot freshly baked bread and dips so it was abit hard to give that a pass. but i tucked in by main course and had these amazing grilled chicken wings and a plate of chicken liver with this heavenly sauce. so now i'm back at home feeling really good that i managed my first day of my diet so well and its actualy its not that hard (i know its my first day). so here's hoping to many more of the same. i don't feel any skinnier yet... actually I'm not as bloated as i usually am after a full day of food so yay that's great. well I'm off to bed and heres hoping for another great day tomorrow.

My history of dieting and why i chose the atkins diet.

Dear everyone, as you may have seen in my description my name is avi and I'm 20 years old from Manchester. Since i was about 11 years old I have been constantly putting on weight and haven't looked back or skinnier (well besides one year) ever since. I am now 20 nearly 21 and have decided to start the Atkins diet which will hopefully make me look and feel the person I really want to be. All of us overweight people know that this is one of the hardest battles we will ever experience in our lives (isn't it annoying that skinny people don't believe us). We have all tried many diets and failed and we just wish we could find one that would work. Well in the Summer of 2006 i had enough of myself and decided to starve myself until i became skinny, so i went on this crazy diet of hardly eating and not enjoying myself but i lost alot of weight on it. By the summer of 2007 i had lost over 70 pounds. But sadly enough it didn't last very long. That summer i worked in a restaurant for 2 months and you can just imagine how much i ate. Well by the summer of 2008 i was close to where i had originally started (the story of my life). After that time i was on and off my diet and was constantly gaining and losing a few pounds here and there. In march 2009 i got married to my beautiful wife and at the wedding everything was perfect besides my suit size :-(. This past summer she realised even though i would never admit it that my weight really bothered me so she encouraged me to go and see a dietitian. I went to meet this dietitian and she decided that the best diet for me at that time was the slimmers world (red & green) (have you ever found that skinny dietitians never understand us overweight people). we gave it a try together and i started losing a bit of weight little by little. Not very fast though and it started getting very frustrating because every time i would want to enjoy myself and cheat on the diet a little i didn't lose weight that week so after about 2 months i quit because it was just too hard. since then until now i have gained 1 stone which brings my weight at the moment to the grand total of 21.7 stone (138 1/2 kg). now you may be wondering why i chose the Atkins diet even though many of my friends discouraged it and most people (mainly skinny ones) will say that you cant lose fast weight rather you have got to overhaul and change your entire way of eating. well ill explain to you why i chose the Atkins. many people wont understand this but when a person is overweight and always has been he obviously has very little self control regarding eating and he obviously enjoys his food. so how do you think it is possible for a person to change and suddenly go onto a diet which consists of vegetables vegetables and more vegetables? it doesn't work maybe for some people it does but for many it doesn't. so if you study the Atkins diet you See that you can enjoy foods and still lose weight. it may not be the healthiest way but it works and the truth is if you ask any overweight person like me they will tell you that the only thing they want at the moment is to be skinny. we don't care if its unhealthy or if we might put the weight back on we will worry about that when we are skinny. so please dont reply by saying Atkins is stupid because its unhealthy and you will put the weight back on because i want to see you weighing over 300 pounds right now with your self confidence regarding our weight at rock bottom and then we will see how you feel about going no the Atkins. so this is the beginning of the journey for me and i hope at the end we will have a happy ending.