Sorry this isn't going to help anyone, but it's funny!Chocolate is a vegetable...
Chocolate is a Vegetable:
Chocolate is derived from cocoa beans.
Bean = vegetable.
Sugar is derived from either sugar CANE or sugar BEETS.
Both are plants, which places them in the vegetable category.
Thus, chocolate is a vegetable.
To go one step further, chocolate candy bars also contain milk, which is
dairy.
So chocolate bars are a health food.
Chocolate-covered raisins, cherries, orange slices and strawberries all
count as fruit, so eat as many as you want.
If you've got melted chocolate all over your hands, you're eating it too
slowly.
The problem: How to get 2 pounds of chocolate home from the shop in a
hot car.
The solution: Eat it in the parking lot.
Diet tip: Eat a chocolate bar before each meal. It'll take the edge off
your appetite, and you'll eat less.
Chocolate has many preservatives. Preservatives make you look younger.
A nice box of chocolates can provide your total daily intake of calories
in one place. Now, isn't that handy?
If not for chocolate, there would be no need for control top tights.
An entire garment industry would be devastated. You can't let that
happen, can you?
REMEMBER: "Stressed" spelled backward is "desserts"
Wendym, I have a funny feeling you are doing the big diet no-no, getting on the scales everyday! I know we all do this, but you cannot really tell if you are losing weight. If you can put those scales away for one week (or get your partner to hide them so you don't know where they are) because if you are being a slave to those scales your daily/hourly mood will be dictated by a lump of metal in your bathroom. If you are doig the Atkins diet properly you will be losing weight, however we all know that the irst week or two's weight loss is mainly water, after that its real fat (well that's the weigh I look at it!). As my SW consultant said last night, 1lb is 8 sausages! It sounds better that way. She also last year brought in 1lb of fat to show us. Not nicely packaged lard, but fat from the butchers, it was really gross and certainly inspired me. Perhaps you could do this. Find a local butcher who will cut 1lb of fat off a huge animal carcass, you will be amazed at how much there is!
Good luck and take one day at a time, since you started you have lost a few lbs you said, well that's great. Just think in about 3 weeks you will have lost at least 1/2 stone!