Emotional Help! - long - sorry!

[Whatsername]

Something in the book about induction that stays in my mind is something like "a little taste of this won't hurt" kind of thinking is the kiss of failure.

Some days are easier than others, that's for sure.

[thefemalegreenday]

I was thinking, Im sure so many of us go through this..
I know I do, its tough to watch your family and close friends eat whatever
and not even have to work out.
All the time I think how good junk food would taste.. But really.. Its not worth it.
Food is one thing, happiness and health is another.
The Aktins diet, its a life thing, though somedays it seems to suck...Just think of all the stuff we get away with, butter, egg yolks, cream, chicken skin.. Most folks don't even touch the stuff. (though they'll happily eat a piece of cake, I never understand that)

[JulieB]

I feel that way too sometimes...but I try to turn it around. I've never been able to buy really cute clothes - that isn't fair - so I'm trading in a 30 year habit of eating whatever I want for being able to wear whatever I want (sort-of - I'm not exactly a teenager anymore ).

I used to feel that way a lot more on diets, and did a bit for the first day or 2 on this WOE, but I got over it really quick. I gave up dieting altogether for 10 years - absolutely refused to have anything to do with it - so I know where eating anything I want will get me, and I've decided that that's not where I want to go. I'm doing this for me and I know what my choices are and what they will get me. Maybe its getting older and realizing that the world/life isn't fair, maybe its this WOE, I don't know, but its working for me.

[Outback Jess]

Hey Nicole, I'm jess. I read your words, they could be my words at different points in my life and the frame work of my own thinking.
Girl, I've been on this journey for 3 yrs now. It's a good diet, one my body has done so well on, and responded too. I love proteins and fats, and learned to give up the white stuff, over time, it became less and less an issue, because I kept forcing my mind to think on the good side.
"How do you feel Jess"
"Can that food make you feel this good, Jess"
"Would you loose control if you ate it Jess"
Things like that really helped me steer clear. I learned to deal with my self.
It's been a long hard battle, I've slipped down the slippery slope, I done things I'm not proud of, and then again, I've done a ton of things I am proud of. That is where I keep going back to. The things I know work.

Find those and work em

[sham]

Hi I understand what your saying but as your in the induction phase your probably going through it hang in there hopefully you will be better and won't feel like it as time passes.Hope you overcome the feeling.

[ladyhairg]

I find myself craving a big ol' bowl of Kellog's Corn Flakes. And I don't even like Corn Flakes! Or milk -- some days I would just KILL for a big, tall cold glass of whole milk . . . which I hate. I haven't voluntarily swallowed milk since my college days, but just try telling me I CAN'T have it!

It truly is emotional. But I think back to my old days on Weight Watchers or whatever . . . all the years I deprived myself of any trace of fat. I mean, I can have cream cheese now, and sour cream, and steak, and bacon, and . . . On Atkins, I can eat foods I've been denying myself of for years. Okay, denying and then sneaking anyway . . .

Sigh. The human mind is sick, wierd and twisted thing, isn't it?