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pjade said something on Zarabelle's thread that I want to respond to. {{{Thank you, pjade}}}
Because I tend to be more long-winded than a filibustering senator with bad hair, I decided than rather than weigh down Zarabelle's thread, I wanted to talk about tweaking here.
Zarabelle! I'm in no way making an example of you, either. I think you're the bees knees!
And for anyone else, this isn't to say, "Hey! My experience and anecdotal evidence is more important than yours." It's just me doing what I do... well, aside from humming through my nose and whistling at the same time. Relating my own experiences for what they are.
They are free to be borrowed or sent to anywhere where some cold person needs some hot air.
Just a quick something I found out about me from tweakin'.
When I started this WOE a year ago seriously (or so I thought), instead of referring to Atkins 2002, I referred to a guy I knew who lost a lot of weight on "Atkins" and ate alllll the frankenfoods he felt like. (Now I know he was SO stinkin' off-kilter, especially calling what he did the Atkins Diet!) Nonetheless, I saw his results, I was jazzed, and started "Atkins" the VERY NEXT DAY!
So I started "Atkins". I ate ice cream bars, candy bars, you name it! So long as I stayed within my so-called "20" I was coolio. Afterall, they made the stuff now that they didn't make back in 1984 when I first became introduced to Atkins. It was meant for my lips!
Nummer nummer!
I became one in my Zen with Blue Bunny ice cream bars! I was eating Pecan low-carb turtles by the bag. And don't even start with the low-carb Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, because I was a stockholder in those according to my pantry-broker.
My father was my first experience with Atkins, in 1984. He cheated every Friday and used the 1979 version of the Atkins DANDR. He ate BigMacs and fries every Friday, and then he would go 0-carb Saturday and Sunday and then hop back on plan Monday (which, again, old book, totally different system, for another time).
I had two men in my life now from whom I was borrowing bad habits. Both of them were tweakers!
So, seeing their results, I was a tweaker, and I cheated regularly, too (once a week- once a month, depending)!
So here I'm tweaking in two separate ways. I'm becoming one with the frankenfoods to help me kick my sugar cravings (o the irony), and I'm cheating regularly because I know I can jump back on plan with no problems whatsoever (um. yeah, cleo).
I'm not Cleochatra, Queen of DeNial for nuttin' honey!
In November I took a cheat day that cost me 3 weeks to get back on track. 3 weeks!
Because the 'poisons' were never able to fully leave my body, I was still taking the same ole 'drugs' though in lower portions, and my body reacted the same way as though I were low-cal dieting.
It was dieting all right... low-cal, high-fat and high-calorie dieting... which really isn't dieting at all! LOL! OMG I'm such a dork.
It was only when I came to ADBB in November of last year that I found out I wasn't supposed to eat that stuff (even though it's made for low-carbers), and was told I wasn't supposed to follow the 1979 version of DANDR! Adding to that, cheating is OUT!
OUT? Waitaminute!
I was stinkin' sure I was doing it right. So sure, in fact that for a month I fought with 2big over this WOE. FINALLY I figured out through research, 2big lovingly smacking me repeatedly upside the head, and reading the 2002 version (I researched every version I could get my mitts on), Dr Atkins' newest version was right (science changes with time and the old version of DANDR is actually dangerous by today's standards). Not only was Dr A's newest book right, but I was wrong about everything I was taught to me by well-meaning people who thought they knew Atkins.
Well, gentlemen who taught me wrong things! I now know Atkins, and you are no Atkins! (hee hee! I've always wanted to say that)
I look at all the time and opportunities I have lost because of my tweakin'.
I look at the fashions I've missed, the opportunities I let pass me by because I'm too ashamed to try to make friends because I feel so ugly, and I look at what my children have missed because of a mother who's winded playing croquet!
I am going to have a cheat-free period until New Year's Eve (small steps), and I challenge anyone else who's willing to go cheat-free with me until New Year's Eve.
It will be stinkin' hard, especially because we're headed towards the holidays, but I'm done screwing around! I'm not going to be the person who sits in my easy chair crying on December 31st because I coulda/shouyld/woulda.
Instead of waiting for January 1st, I'm done waiting.
Life's not waiting for me. It's passing me by!
Following Atkins since 1983 and only starting to show real results in 2005.
Because I tweaked. Because I followed false Atkins prophets/profits. Because I didn't believe enough in this WOE to do it the right way from the beginning.
22 years!
I made the mistakes for you.
Don't go making them for yourselves!
*edited because I biffed*
Because I tend to be more long-winded than a filibustering senator with bad hair, I decided than rather than weigh down Zarabelle's thread, I wanted to talk about tweaking here.
Zarabelle! I'm in no way making an example of you, either. I think you're the bees knees!
And for anyone else, this isn't to say, "Hey! My experience and anecdotal evidence is more important than yours." It's just me doing what I do... well, aside from humming through my nose and whistling at the same time. Relating my own experiences for what they are.
They are free to be borrowed or sent to anywhere where some cold person needs some hot air.
Just a quick something I found out about me from tweakin'.
When I started this WOE a year ago seriously (or so I thought), instead of referring to Atkins 2002, I referred to a guy I knew who lost a lot of weight on "Atkins" and ate alllll the frankenfoods he felt like. (Now I know he was SO stinkin' off-kilter, especially calling what he did the Atkins Diet!) Nonetheless, I saw his results, I was jazzed, and started "Atkins" the VERY NEXT DAY!
So I started "Atkins". I ate ice cream bars, candy bars, you name it! So long as I stayed within my so-called "20" I was coolio. Afterall, they made the stuff now that they didn't make back in 1984 when I first became introduced to Atkins. It was meant for my lips!
Nummer nummer!
I became one in my Zen with Blue Bunny ice cream bars! I was eating Pecan low-carb turtles by the bag. And don't even start with the low-carb Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, because I was a stockholder in those according to my pantry-broker.
My father was my first experience with Atkins, in 1984. He cheated every Friday and used the 1979 version of the Atkins DANDR. He ate BigMacs and fries every Friday, and then he would go 0-carb Saturday and Sunday and then hop back on plan Monday (which, again, old book, totally different system, for another time).
I had two men in my life now from whom I was borrowing bad habits. Both of them were tweakers!
So, seeing their results, I was a tweaker, and I cheated regularly, too (once a week- once a month, depending)!
So here I'm tweaking in two separate ways. I'm becoming one with the frankenfoods to help me kick my sugar cravings (o the irony), and I'm cheating regularly because I know I can jump back on plan with no problems whatsoever (um. yeah, cleo).
I'm not Cleochatra, Queen of DeNial for nuttin' honey!
In November I took a cheat day that cost me 3 weeks to get back on track. 3 weeks!
Because the 'poisons' were never able to fully leave my body, I was still taking the same ole 'drugs' though in lower portions, and my body reacted the same way as though I were low-cal dieting.
It was dieting all right... low-cal, high-fat and high-calorie dieting... which really isn't dieting at all! LOL! OMG I'm such a dork.
It was only when I came to ADBB in November of last year that I found out I wasn't supposed to eat that stuff (even though it's made for low-carbers), and was told I wasn't supposed to follow the 1979 version of DANDR! Adding to that, cheating is OUT!
OUT? Waitaminute!
I was stinkin' sure I was doing it right. So sure, in fact that for a month I fought with 2big over this WOE. FINALLY I figured out through research, 2big lovingly smacking me repeatedly upside the head, and reading the 2002 version (I researched every version I could get my mitts on), Dr Atkins' newest version was right (science changes with time and the old version of DANDR is actually dangerous by today's standards). Not only was Dr A's newest book right, but I was wrong about everything I was taught to me by well-meaning people who thought they knew Atkins.
Well, gentlemen who taught me wrong things! I now know Atkins, and you are no Atkins! (hee hee! I've always wanted to say that)
I look at all the time and opportunities I have lost because of my tweakin'.
I look at the fashions I've missed, the opportunities I let pass me by because I'm too ashamed to try to make friends because I feel so ugly, and I look at what my children have missed because of a mother who's winded playing croquet!
I am going to have a cheat-free period until New Year's Eve (small steps), and I challenge anyone else who's willing to go cheat-free with me until New Year's Eve.
It will be stinkin' hard, especially because we're headed towards the holidays, but I'm done screwing around! I'm not going to be the person who sits in my easy chair crying on December 31st because I coulda/shouyld/woulda.
Instead of waiting for January 1st, I'm done waiting.
Life's not waiting for me. It's passing me by!
Following Atkins since 1983 and only starting to show real results in 2005.
Because I tweaked. Because I followed false Atkins prophets/profits. Because I didn't believe enough in this WOE to do it the right way from the beginning.
22 years!
I made the mistakes for you.
Don't go making them for yourselves!
*edited because I biffed*
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