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Quoted message said:Hi,
I was on the low carb diet but failed to keep up. Too much peer pressure to eat along. The weight just came back so fast. It did seem to work well for me though. I might start again but I think my body was really shocked and is putting on extra reserves. My cravings for food never seem to stop. I did manage to exercise more during the low carb diet but gave that up as well. I need some good motivational talk to
get me going again.
Quoted message said:
Any suggestions? Thanks a bunch.
Yes. How much weight did you lose during induction? The reason I ask is that
the majority of weight lost during induction is water weight that is shed when
glycogen stores in the liver are depleted. There are 4-5 water molecules bound
to each glycogen molecule, so it is shed as it is used up. Therefore, when you
go back to eating high-carb, the glycogen store is refilled with the associated
water, so when you regain REALLY FAST, much of it IS water, NOT fat, at least at
first. I don't know how much time has gone by or how much weight you regained,
but isn't it nice to know it's not ALL fat?
You already KNOW you can do it if you stick to it -- that's good. You also know
the weight comes back if you DON'T stick to it. That's bad. I say it's bad
because I know from my own experience with previous weight loss attempts that the
FIRST time I tried a plan (such as Nutri System or Weight Watchers), I was in a
"honeymoon" phase and did well, but the NEXT time I tried it (after going back to
"normal" eating and gaining it all back and then some), I was more likely to
cheat because I had done it before and didn't die from it, just gained the weight
back (faulty logic, but there you have it). HOWEVER, each time I've tried to
lose weight in the past, it's been for the SOLE purpose of losing weight and I
ALWAYS considered to be a temporary fix. I also considered low-carbing to be a
temporary fix when I first started it. I've NEVER stuck to something as long as
I have to low-carb, though, and my entire attitude about it has changed in the
process. It mostly has to do with how much better I FEEL, rather than the weight
that I've lost (although I find THAT aspect absolutely DELIGHTFUL :-) I don't
WANT to go back to feeling like [censored] all the time (not to mention CRAPPING all
the time), and that keeps me not only on track, but HAPPY about it. I feel
POSITIVE. I feel like, for once in my life, I actually have CONTROL over my
body. I didn't think I could do ANYTHING more about my health problems before I
low-carbed, because nothing I tried ever WORKED, directly or indirectly, which
depressed me and was a factor in eating even MORE [censored], thus perpetuating the
cycle. I figured it was only a matter of time before I simply keeled over (my
feet hurt too much to actually KICK any buckets). I have been AMAZED at the
positive changes in my health (and outlook on life) since low-carbing -- I would
have done it YEARS ago if I had known how much I would benefit from it. Looking
better is nice -- GREAT, in fact, but FEELING good is PRICELESS!
If eating the way you do now makes you unhappy, unwell and potentially
unattractive, changing it can make ALL the difference (at least it has for ME) in
SO many areas of your life. If *I* can do it with all my problems (and my shock
that I'm STILL going strong over a year later), YOU can too!
--
Saffire
205/149/125 - 5'1.5"
Atkins since 6/14/03
Progress photo: http://photos.yahoo.com/saffire333
