Buddy List July 28 - Aug 3

[Elsie150]

Vanessa...same here!

Robin...your flu symptoms aren't going away yet?? Hmmm...wonder if you caught another bug at the same time. Have fun with the new puter. I am still learning mine.

[valleriek]

Hey you guys, thanks for the nice words, I really appreciate a kind send off, even though I will miss you all too!

Joe, yes, I am quitting, I am sorry.

Elizellen, (Bill) thank you for your post, but there isn't anything significant that could have caused this in that time frame. I did 3 years of school before and kept all my hair intact! It happened the exact same way, at the 6 week mark when I did South Beach before, I know exactly what is happening, it is my body reacting to eating extremely LC. And BF is experiencing the same thing, it is obvious.

Elsie, thanks so much for making this a place to come to share our experiences, I hope your thread continues to be a positive place and that it helps many of you succeed in your wt loss. You rock!!!

I just need to listen to my body and adjust accordingly.

[2MuchMike]

Morning Buddies:

Val - sorry to hear this WOE was causing you problems and that you are leaving.

Bill - congrats on the 40 lbs and 60 days w/o a cheat! That inspires me to keep going.

I'm starting over on induction today. I don't really know why, but I've lost my focus. I did so well and was really focused for the first month, and had a lot of success. For the last week I've felt like I'm on a unicycle, wobbling this way and that, just this close to falling off completely.

It's always a mind issue. How I relate to and tolerate (or not) feeling uncomfortable. One of my favorite authors is Pema Chodron. She has a great description of how running away from that feeling of edginess leads to ever increasing suffering and addiction. I'll post it someday - I think it's a perfect description of emotional eating. I have years of habit built up that says eating certain foods and drinking pop will take the edge off. It's going to take time to develop new habits.

I stumbled yesterday morning because I felt so lousy - not sick, just really tired and groggy. The story my mind was telling me was that I'd feel better if I just had some pop and something sweet. I believe success for me can only come when I develop enough mindfulness to hear that story, understand it for what it is, and just let it go without acting on it. Just let the uncomfortable feeling be as it is until it goes away.

Anyway, I want to thank all you for this forum and for your support. In past attempts I was always going solo. Even though I've stumbled a lot lately, just being part of this group keeps me from giving up completely.

I hope you all have a great weekend. It's going to be hotter than all get out here (KS), so I plan on staying indoors as much as I can!

[sugarsack]

hi everyone, this week i had a vendor send me a 5lb box of sees candy.. oy vay.. i succumbed, i ate 4 nut cluster things... gave the box to the whole office and jumped right back on induction as of friday ..i refuse to gain the 15 lbs back .. never before have i stuck to something like this.. yes a slip up here and there but jumping back on is different.. thanx for all of your support - i love this board

[Elsie150]

Mike...way to go on not giving up! It really is mind over matter.

When I am in the right mind set this WOE is SOOOO easy. I don't feel deprived or tempted at all. BUT when I am not in that zone it all starts being difficult. Right now I am not in that zone. So I am not being good at drinking my water or getting all my veggies in even though I am not cheating. And because I am giving it a halfass attempt I am getting halfass results the scale is jumping up and down and up again staying around the same by weigh day. When I am on point and doing it right then the weight really does come off.

So what will help you Mike? A daily challenge between you and me?? Planing your meals and snacks until you get back in the zone? Posting them? Let us know because we want to help. You are so worth the effort Mike!!!

Sugarshack...good for you for getting back on track. Did you do that right after or did you use the cheat to justify more cheats? What can you do different? Have a plan for the next box of candy! Way to go on the 15 pounds down!

[Elsie150]

Mike's posts have really got me thinking this morning. How some of us are struggling right now. And how tough in can be when something is stopping you from really commiting to this WOL. In one of my very earlier posts in this thread I said to 'Fake it 'til you make it'. That is what I have been doing lately. Since cousin week was over I guess. Eating legal but not by the rules. Meaning not being sure to get all my veggies and water in. So I was saying to myself...how can I 'fake' it even more to get me closer to plan rather than this coasting along that could easily led to falling off plan. I have had a bad week with the exercising challenge..started off good. But between forgetting once to do my second set and being so tired from the kids having a sleep over and one of the kids sick and throwing up during the night to another bout of bursting cysts yesterday which has me exhausted it has kind of gone out the window. I sat down to try and figure out how to trick myself or help myself until I am back in the game. One of the tricks I am going to do to help me get my water in is that with breakfast..and before a coffee...I need to drink 2 cups of water. Just 2. No big deal. Then I can have a coffee. If I want another coffee then I will need to drink another 2 cups of water. It is now before 11 and I have had my 4 cups of water and only 1 cup of coffee.

Hey...it's working. What else can I do? Taking more advice I had given about a DH who wasn't getting all his water in. Putting it in bottles or a jug to give me a visual about how much to drink. Hmmm...this could really work.

Now..veggies...how to make sure I get at least my 2 cups salad veggies and 1 cup other veggies? Well this morning I had a broccoli cheese quiche so that is some right there...estimating about 1/2 cup. But if that wasn't already made I wouldn't have had any...so it is in the planning. If I don't plan my meals out then I would usually grab a meat. But what if I make myself eat the veggie first?? Then I can have the meat. Like a salad before dinner kind of thing. Or veggies and dip. Sounds good in theory I think. We will see. These are going to be my first two 'fake its'. It is time to step it back up..I am starting to feel a bit excited...

[billbazz]

I failed at understanding the power of Addiction---never having a sweet tooth I thought I was the lucky one--of coarse I was consuming all the pizza, pasta, and greasy foods I could get down-- till I was in a coma.


We are HUMAN! we are easily Addictable!
BUT--we are also fighter's!--we are educated-- enough to understand and to take action to reverse the coarse we were on! We are smart enough to reach out for help! and we are compassionate enough to reach back!
We are one for all and all for one!
I know I will see you all at the finish line.....


We all started this diet for the same-- and for very different reasons--
and the #1 thing we all share--Is that we all made the correct choice

And like Elsie--I should keep remembering and following my own quote--one I made on the first day on this board:
[quote
The way we eat and what we eat is so very different than other diets.
The Education we recieved about the foods we are eating--or have eaten--is different from other diets also--the clear way it's laid out in the beginning all the way to lifetime maintenance is so very different from other diets. quote]

LOL--tuff being Human sometimes!!

[moniegail]

hey buddies, i finally got my long week over. 11 hrs overtime this week, including the 7 hrs i worked today. today is my 2 month anniversary restarting on plan, and i feel pretty good about it. i meant to weigh myself this morning, but i was running kinda late and it slipped my mind, so i will weigh myself in the morning. hopefully by then the 3 lbs gain from last weekends debacle will be gone.

mike-focus...that's a must on this plan. if you lose focus, it's so easy to lose your way. good for you for going back to induction to regain your focus. try to stay the course, and once you reach the end of your 14 days, i strongly suggest you move on to OWL. sometime boredom with food can cause you to lose focus. once you begin climbing the rungs, should you fall off again, get back on plan where you were in the rungs and keep going. if you keep going back to induction for 2 weeks everytime you falter, it kinda becomes like a yo-yo diet. you keep going back to the beginning and never really learn how other food effect you.

Elsie- complacency.......that seems like a good word for what you are talking about. it's sometimes so hard not to become complacent. i know where you are coming from. it seems as i have been fighting off the same thing for a few weeks also. at this point i feel like i'm winning. i've been doing ok with the water, but veggies do sometimes become a struggle for me too. lately however, i seem to be making an extra effort to get them in, and now have found myself a few evening having more veggies than my fat and protein. last night, i had fresh half runners out of aunt's garden and cooked cabbage for dinner. i even found myself saying, "i feel kinda guilty not having any meat with dinner" it was sooooo good though, so the guilt didn't last long. just keep our little voices in your head saying "elsie eat your veggies" LOL you can fight through this just keep it up.

bill-you are so right.....we are easily addicted to so many things. we did indeed make the correct choice in Atkins, and with all the support we give each other we will indeed meet at the finish line. maybe not at the same time, but those that finish first can stand and cheer on everyone else and we can have a big low carb party afterwards. thank goodness this plan is different than other diets, cause i don't like feeling hungry, and i rarely ever feel hungry after a big juicy steak with a side of yummy veggies.

well, i went to the grocery store a little bit ago to get some supplies to make the stuffed peppers on the never ending recipe thread....been eyeing them all week. so i'm off to start cooking dinner. oh yeah, and i bumped the recipe thread again as it had fallen close to the bottom of the threads and i was getting tired of having to scroll down to glance at the thread everyday. don't want it to get lost in the forum.

to all those i didn't respond to from the last couple of days, i'm sorry. i hope all is going well. will check in later tonight if i can.

monie

[sugarsack]

Elsie, yes i jumped right back on .. no justifying... the bad thing is.... i resisted peanut m&m's all week.. we always have them... but the sees candy i succumed to.. go figure ?

[Elsie150]

Wow...talk about withdrawals...the gremlins got into my modem and it wasn't working. They can't send a repair guy until Tuesday due to long weekend. I think there is a loose wire though because it is working now. I tried rebooting...unplugging...checking all the cables to make sure they weren't loose and the darn thing would not work....the neighbors son came over and fiddled and of course it worked! I hate when that happens...LOL!

Bill and Monie...well said!!!

Sugar...well at least you go right back on right away. Good for you!

I did really good today. Working on my 12th cup of water. Did well on the veggies...MMMMMM...cabbage fried in butter with salt, pepper and cayenne...who knew it tasted so good? I really enjoyed it. Starting to feel better from the burst cysts...pain almost all gone...still tired but did go and putter out in the garden a bit. So far plan is working. One good day at a time.

Mike...how did today go??