In article <[email hidden]>, [email hidden] says...
Quoted message said:I was eating way too much food. I had portion creep and was eating cheese
frequently as a snack. I have maintained my weightloss but was confused as
to why I wasn't losing anymore.
I really want to figure this out, not give up and reach my goal.
I don't know if I should be trying to restart at Induction (i do atkins) or
if I should investigate another plan that works a bit diffrently.
I recommend going back to induction, at least for a few days until
ketosis kicks back in and the carb-cravings subside.
Quoted message said:2 cupcakes, a pack of M&Ms, 2 mini-candy bars (like halloween), a
nutterbutter cookie, frosting in a cup mixed with shredded coconut, all the
leftover corned beef & cabbage, Take 5 candy bar, full size Almond Joy,
cheese danish & marble pound cake & enourmous choc. chip cookie (all from
starbucks).
That was my food for the day - not normal, I was in binge out of control
mode.
Yeah, that's a pretty big crash, all right. Did something else going on
in your life precipitate it? We don't need to know that, but it's
something you might want to explore. Old habits in response to stress
die hard.
Quoted message said:Had a normal dinner. So - I felt ready to quit, or maybe give up LC and find
a new plan. I have such sugar addiction problems - I always end up binging.
I have come so far and am miserable now. I feel like I am lost and like I
know NOTHING about LC.
That's temporary, like a bruise. Hurts like hell at first, but the pain
and discoloration usually subside in a day or so. Try not to dwell on
the fall; instead, focus on a PLAN to pick yourself up and get right
back on the wagon. Kind of like when a professional skater falls during
a triple axel -- nothing you can do about it once it's happened, so just
get up and keep going.
Of course, it's easy for me to say, because I don't have small children
or a husband/partner around to tempt me. My adult son lives with me,
but he usually fixes his own food and keeps most of it in his room. He
keeps making Pop-[censored] lately, which smell good, but do not tempt me.
The only time I had a big-time temptation was when he baked some
Pillsbury dinner rolls -- DAMN they smelled heavenly! I had to go in my
room and shut the door :-) He used to make them a lot, but now that I
think about it, he hasn't made them in a long time since I told him
about how tempted I was. What a sweetheart! He tries to eat healthy,
but he's been eating a LOT of junk food in the last couple of weeks as
he's been cramming for exams.
It's a commitment, to be sure. It really DOES require a change in
mindset, which could take some time. I started out gung-ho to do
Atkins, but did not think of it as a permanent change in lifestyle until
about a month later when I realized how much better I felt and how easy
it was to do compared to any other diet I had ever tried. As I said in
a previous post, it's not the "thin" part that motivates me, it's the
FEELING BETTER part. Maybe you need to think about WHY you want to lose
weight and what it would take to make it a priority.
Do you weigh and measure your foods? I keep track of EVERYTYHING I eat,
and the very process of doing that has made me SOOOO much more aware of
the nutritional value of foods in general. Going back to pre-low-carb,
whenever I gained a lot of weight, it usually coincided with my
deliberately NOT wanting to know -- I didn't want to know what I weighed
and I didn't want to know how many calories or how much fat was in
anything I ate. Yeah, 6 raspberry-cream-filled candy & cookie frogs
from the Danish bakery were good, but they were probably about 1500
calories EACH. I didn't even LIKE them THAT much, but I ate them all in
a day, anyway -- more than once. Didn't know, didn't CARE. I CARED,
but it was more of a matter of almost HYSTERICAL denial and a battle
with the more rebellious side of me. My inner-child and I argued about
"food" all the time, and the kid usually won. I sometimes ate 6 Kit-Kat
bars in a row, too (six was a frequent binge number of "servings" of
sweet stuff for me). It was really more of a PUNISHMENT of myself than
a treat, considering how much I stressed out over it, even through all
the denial. I can't IMAGINE ever doing that again because I simply know
too much about the nutritional value of food now to ever justify it to
myself again, no matter HOW much I want to deny it. I'm not saying it
WON'T happen eventually, but since my mindset about food HAS changed, I
think it's much less likely. Sometimes it just takes time to develop
different attitudes about how and why we eat at certain times.
--
Saffire
205/142/125 - 5'1.5"
Atkins since 6/14/03
Progress photo: http://photos.yahoo.com/saffire333
