I'm ready to restrict carbs, as I sleep so much better when I do and also I want to lose a little faster and not rely so much on the cc in my band. Today, just for the heck of it I used a ketostix I had from my last Atkins fail (my fault, not the diet) and I was FLOORED when the stick showed moderate KETOSIS!!!! I wasn't expecting that, since just yesterday I had a 1/3 of a chicken roll for an early dinner. I guess because of the caloric restriction in general, the body uses fat as a primary source of fuel. Soooooo, I'm actually/not-really already on "day 4" of Atkins, according to the stick. WONDERFUL!!

Congrats!! I am in the process of going mostly proteins myself, see how this will work for a few months.

How many carbs are you planning to incorporate? It should be at least 20gm. Diets with little to no carbs are too harsh on the liver and maybe even the kidneys

In the past when i have had too few carbs my body made kidney stones ( although it does run in my family)/ Just kept happening when i dieted

wendy

Those things are EVIL!! My last kidney stone bout was about 5 years ago. I loveeeeee my doctor because when I had lithotripsy done I peed all of them out that same night. Now it's my hubby's turn next week, but it's so much worse for him because they usually inset a ureteral stent and that is almost as bad as the stones themselves