Fell of the waggon

[mybellymustgo]

my husband and I had a really really bad day yesterday, I was fed up of feeling headachy and ill and snappy for the last 5 days and we buggered it all up .. went for lunch and had steak ,, ate some chips drank wine, then the kids went to grandparents and we had the night to ourselves, had chopped chorizo with a small piece of ciabbatta and a chicken quasidila .. it gets worse .... 3 1/2 pints of peroni followed by a burger - I HATE MYSELF NOW .....

started a fresh today .. how much damage have i done ??? I was in medium pink ketones on the keto stick and now its negative again ... will i gain weight after this ??

[sham]

Re: Fell of the waggon

Just forget about your slip up and learn from your mistake.Since you have restarted thats good just regard it as a slip up we all go through it at a point.You will have to restart induction and work on willpower.All the best.

[LageNomAi]

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I'm really not a fan of people beating themselves up over a bad day. Things happen and we are all human. Has anyone here not slipped?

You simply learn from the experience by remembering how you feel about it and move on. What's done is done. Today is a new day.

[Georgiana]

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I was fed up of feeling headachy and ill and snappy for the last 5 days

I'm not sure what you mean by "ill", but what probably happened is that you were having the Induction "flu". It is caused by your body transitioning from glucosis (burning glucose as its main source of fuel) to lipolysis/ketosis (burning primarily fat). You will probably experience it this time too. So you might want to think of a better way to cope with it.

Do you own a copy of Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution (2002)?

how much damage have i done ???

I'm not sure how such damage is measured. But you kicked yourself out of ketosis and it will take your body a few days to get back there. For hours after your binge/cheat, you probably would have been classified as someone with impaired glucose tolerance... with all the damage this does to your body.

Impaired glucose tolerance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

will i gain weight after this ??

Likely. Part of it will be water weight, part of it will be fat.

[chinadoll]

Re: Fell of the waggon

Don't beat yourself up but do think about what led you to go off. If it was because you have been out of sorts and snappish, you need to recognize that turning to food is counterproductive. If it was a bite of something that set you off then you know now it is a trigger food. If having the chips on the plate is a problem, then in the future ask them not to serve them with the steak. If the alcohol lowered your resistance then use that info for the next time.

You don't need to feel guilty over it but you should try to learn from it.

[Georgiana]

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@ the OP:

You might want to read this sticky: http://www.atkinsdietbulletinboard.c...lent-tips.html
And this: http://www.atkinsdietbulletinboard.c...-one-bite.html

[atkinsgal08]

Re: Fell of the waggon

Remember ... everything we eat is a choice. Sometimes we eat things we didn't plan to by accident (an ingredient in food we didn't make).

Sometimes we hurtle off the "carb ladder" ... and when that happens, we need to figure out why ... lest it get repeated.

[liv]

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Chips and wine are cures for head aches?
I think some times we just find really cleaver excuses for eating off plan
(I know I try to talk myself into this that for the most ridiculous reasons sometimes.)

[mybellymustgo]

Re: Fell of the waggon

I had all the best intentions of sticking to plan and feel so crap that i just didnt have the willpower to resist .. i got into that mind frame of .. oh sod it everything social that you do revolves around food .. i cant just hermit myself away for a month ... just rubbish excuses really .. but back on it now and will just hopping that i wont get induction flu starting all over again ... i worked out i had about 300 grams of carbs .. disusting behaviour !!! lol

thanks for your replies x

[atkinsgal08]

Re: Fell of the waggon

>>have the willpower>>

I've found that it's not really "willpower" ... it's making a DECISION.

You have to DECIDE you're going to remain true to your eating.

[Wile E Coyote]

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Dust yourself off and get back on it.

[RitaCeleste]

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Sometimes I choose to eat something off plan. Yes, it does set you back. Yes you will gain weight depending on how many carby calories you ate with your fatty calories. Now I'm down 85 pounds anyway, but it took me a long time to get here. That is the price I pay, it takes longer. You can have a good cheat and loose nothing all week. You can trash the diet for awhile and get fatter. To get weight to come off, you've got to get better at being good. In the beginning my cheats were ALL YOU CAN EAT Chinese Buffet bad. Now my cheats are slice of garlic bread or something small. This is because I watched the scales climb and now know what cheating is going to do for me before I eat it. Also even my stomach has decided to shrink. It simply won't hold all the stuff I use to be able to fit into it. And knowing the scales are gonna shoot up from water and then you'll be left with a pound or two fat to get off just makes a binge no fun. I tell people you don't have to be perfect, just persistent. That doesn't mean cheating doesn't hurt your efforts, it does. However, if you are mostly good for a few years, it does pay off. I could be perfect for only a short time, I could be mostly good forever though. And that's how I went about it. If it seems like I'll regret not eating something more than I want to loose weight this week, I make the choice to eat it and set myself back a bit. Its not the end of my diet, its a pause. And it is a choice to eat right for a week and see what happens. And its a choice to continue to loose weight or merely maintain for awhile. Keep at it and try to stay on plan and it will pay off.

[meow]

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You might gain a pound of water weight, and you will stall for a few days as your body slips back into ketosis.
I can't be around chips. I never met a tostada I didn't like. I just avert my gaze, lol!
Homemade cookies are the hardest to turn down, for me. Fortunately, no one ever makes any except at Christmas.