A week after Tokunbo's arrival in London Bola arrived. It was a spectacular summer afternoon, with the sun shining brightly down on the Thames, and surrounding countryside. Tokunbo waited in the arrivals section. In his hands he held a bunch of roses. White roses..He looked nervously around the terminal, and paced up and down,now and then turning around to survey the emerging passengers from immigration. The last thing that he wanted was to miss her in the crowd of people outside the arrivals door. There were men, women and children, and taxi drivers all jostling around impatiently and contributing to a sense of controlled chaos. He saw her walk out, and he wondered to himself how he had thought that he could ever have missed her, even in a crowd. There was, in his mind, no crowd too big to seperate them from each other. In the passion of a new found love he suffered from illusions about the power of this love. She, was in a pink suit, on her head she wore a french beret in white, which made her appear younger than her age. Behind her she pulled a suitcase. As she spotted her lover making his way towards her her face broke into the familiar charming smile which had besotted him. He could not help but smile back in return, and he advanced rapidly towards her. " Darling...Welcome to London", and he kissed her ever so lightly on her lips and handed her the flowers. " Oh, you should'nt have.." she said taking the flowers, and impulsively lifting them up to smell scent of the roses " " Thank you...Mmmm... there is nothing like the smell of fresh roses" She gave him her suitcase and as they walked away he enquired about the trip, and the graduation that he had missed. " It has all gone well," she remarked, and the added, " Thank God! It is noce to be here at any rate. And you, have you been able to get any rest? You looked so stressed out before you left." This seemed to induce displeasure in him. " Everyone keeps saying that , and I am tired of hearing it. "Stressed out!", and "Stressed out!". Stressed out? Is there any man in his right mind living in Nigeria now who is not? No, I think sometimes that insanity is a blessed refuge created by God for the just and favored ones, from the turmoils of this world. Mind you, that is the happy mad man, whi in his detachment from reality is a soaring eagle in the heavens of bliss. No, onthe other hand, there is on the opposite side of the spectrum, a disorder of thinking in which the darkness is overwhelming and all encompassing, and for them, only death is a refuge from their tortured existence." She smiled to herself, evidently he was in better spirits, she could tell this by the return of his philosophising and the depth of his introspection. " Yes, you are quite right", and she smiled her sweet smile at him," if it's not the water being shut off, then it's the light.." " But, you digress!" he angrily interjected," Tell me everyting about the graduation, you must fill me in from the start to the finish." He could not bear the idea of her having a part of her life, although only a week, in which he did not feature prominently, more so in regards to mmissing a momentous occasion as a graduation. As they drove in the taxi she from Heathrow to their Hotel, she told him of the ceremonies and the speeches and the parties. It had seemed like it was just yesterday, she said, that they had entered the university, and now it had all abruptly come to an end, the fairy-tale existence of care-free college days were over. He had the asked her in as disinterested a manner as possible about his ex girlfriend Yetunde. At the mention of her rivals name her back had straightened itself , and a stiff formailty took over from the lightness," You ask of Yetunde?" She asked, half pretending to have not understood the question," She was there and left for Lagos, I think, the day after her graduation." then after a moment of thought she added" And, my understanding is that you never did tell her what we had agreed upon..." He nodded in agreement. She looked more displeased still, and in an effort to assuage her anger, he added, " How could I do that to her during the week of her final exams? That would have been a dastardly deed indeed . Have you heard the saying,' For everything has it's time and it's place'." For Bola, the break-up with Yetunde could not come too soon.

The Calorie king truely is KING OF THE CALORIE

You cant be too rich or too thin...

And for that reason, I think this Atkins diet is a good way to get the pounds down before you swing into a maintenance diet.
A book that has helped me to count the carbs, and the calories:
THE CALORIE KING, CALORIE,FAT, AND CARBOHYDRATE COUNTER.
i CARRY THIS BOOK WITH ME  at all times, as I have had trouble running my"diet" iphone apps. it turned out to be cumbersome and tiresome logging my intake on their web sites, and I think maybe my phone kept getting disconnected from their sites, and this is supposed to be easy? The more difficult we make it, the less likely we are going to succeed.
Keep a running tab of your intake esp Carbohydrate, and when you fail once in a while, just hop back onto the wagon, no regrets.

ALCOHOL:
If you plan to consume alcohol after induction, then go for the 0 carbs ; brandy, gin, rum etc. However, these drinks are high calorie, do not consume more than one shot a day if you are female, and 2 if you are male. Beware, this will slow down your weight loss, so when you are in turbo mode cut it out entirely.

BTW: I love the calorie king book, he is so approachable makes sense of all this food stuff for us lay folk. Lotsa pics too, just up my simple minded alley. After your holy book, Bible or whatever, this is the next most important book for the rest of your life.

The NO- Food list for Atkins: Induction-and weight loss phases

In order for all who are not familiar with the diet to follow my trend of thought I want to clarify that in the initial phases of this diet foods with high carbohydrate content are excluded, I already showed you previously the high carbohydrate content of bananas and even cantaloupe! Like wise, in this phase do not eat any of these foods at all:
POTATOES>
RICE
CARROTS
Avoid WHITE SUGAR<BROWN SUGAR, All products made with white flour, all pastas,
take note NO PROCESSED FOODS OR COOKIES:. ONLY CRACKERS and the Breads, in small quantities goal 16 gm CHO per meal.

Later on, after you have achieved you desired weight you should be able to introduce small quantities of these foods, eg whole wheat pasta, quinoa / brown rice.
For now,  "KISS"
KEEP IT SIMPLE STUPID works for me!

Daily weights, mental preparation and bread substitutes: Keep to 16gm carbohydrate equivalent per meal for bread.

you are now ready to start on the diet, and the good news is that you can do this at home without a costly weight reduction center. A couple of things before you set off on this path of self fulfillment:
Firstly:
WEIGH YOURSELF EVERY SINGLE DAY FIRST THING IN MORNING. document your staring weight, waist size, hips, thigh diameter.
Secondly:
Prepare yourself mentally for the diet. remember, the first 72 hours are the most critical phase, as this phase will remove carbohydrate craving.
Thirdly;
For those of you who cannot get the specific products that I have mentioned here for the ease of my western audience, then you will have to substitute wisely.
The mestemacher bread, can probably be substituted with a rye or pumpernickel bread. I guess if all these were impossible,  you could always bake your own rye or pumpernickel bread. I dont have a recipe for that now, but I will share with you some of my own bread recipes in the future; but as my current recipes are for people in the pur maintenance phase I will give you them later.  I have an equal passion for the WASA crisp bread, which I will give you nutritional info on later. But if you have this, 1-2 slices a day of this is also okay.
Now, if you have none of these, then my advice would be SUBSTITUTE with MELBA toast, or whole wheat crackers, or saltines, or water crackers: But max carbohydrate intake with meal 16 GRAMS CARBOHYDRATE EQUIVALENT.

A bread for the continued weightloss phase: Mestemacher fitness bread,rye bread and pumpernickel bread.

Preparing for continued weight loss phase: 70- 120 grams carbohydrate goal per day.

Mestermacher fitness bread:
I found this bread in CVS, and I used this bread during my continued weight loss phase, and also cheated with it during induction when I was feeling like passing out etc etc...
I also have no finacial interest in this company, and I am sure there are many comparable breads which I do not know of, and as such I can only tell you what I know. But nowadays, it is easy, read the product labels of all foods.
this bread can be of help, note the description:

130 cal/slice.
2 gm fat.
370 mg Sodium.
23 gm Carbohydrate.
7 gm fibre
net total carbohydrate: 16 gm/ slice.
protein; 5 gm.
This means that during the continued weight loss phase you can add one or two slices of this bread perday to your diet.
To me, this was a life saver!!! I ate it with some vegetable margarinr spread and some sliced cheese.
This bread does not seem to mold easily, it is vaccum packed, and after I opened the packet I kept it in the fridge, and it was as good a week later, i think one pack contains 8 slices, and it will last you nearly a week. I bought mine at CVS but i see it is available online. I am hopeful that I will be bale to continue this product as a weight maintenance food.

Induction menu ideas

I will not undermine your imagination by giving you a detailed description about omellett- making, and scrambling eggs. suffice it that, you cant put all the veggies in the world yet; just discrete amounts of onions, and salt and pepper to taste. You can use a sprinkling of cheese too. In the first few days, force your self to eat the three meals a day. I did the egg breakfasts.

Now you ask, what do I do for lunch and dinner with those few choice items? I am not an imaginative cook either but I will share with you my humble ideas for this:
1. Lettuce wraps, filled with ground turkey cooked in olive oil seasoned with pepper,salt,onion.
I think I enjoyed that meal the most of all, it was not too heavy on the meat...

2. Steak: I pan fried this steak and ate with ketchup, and salad leaves. This was a heavy meal, try to make sure the protein or steak is not larger than the palm of your hand.

3. Pork meaty ribs slow cooker:
I fried 1/2 an onion in a pan and then browned 2 pounds of the meaty type pork ribs which had been seasoned with salt and lemon pepper. Then transfer to slow cooker, add 4-5 tablespoons of barbecue sauce,( this is high CHO you will not consume the sauce after the meat is cooked, other than small amounts attached to your meat, read label of your barbecue sauce!!!). red wine vingar 1/2 cup,
cook on high for 4-1/2 hours-6 hours until done by meat thermometer.

4. Fish:
Smoked salmon with salad

Tuna salad made with onions,celery,and mayo, mustard.

Shrimps.

Salmon grilled, with salad.


Emergency supplies:
Orange juice.
Saltine crackers.
Wasa Crisp bread 2-3/day
Imported german rye/ fitness bread.
hand ful of almonds.

If you are going to cheat, then cheat with the supplies we are going to use during the maintenance phase. 

also:
greek yoghurt
raspberries.
papaya.
weetabix.
unsweetened instant oatmeal.



The good news about this diet is that for most of the foods you are not fussing and obsessing about weights of the foods, keep portions reasionable I already said the steak size, and keep portions of proteins to size of your p[[alm.  on those salad leaves you can splurge just be careful to use a olive oil and balsamic vinaigrette dressing see ya later! good luck.