Carb Addicts 11-21 through 11-27

[manalu]

CARB ADDICTS SUPPORT TEAM




We all Carb Addicts!! Just post telling us you would like to join. We will find you an accountability buddy!!


We are here to support one another. We each have an accountability buddy, but we need to encourage each other as well.




Please check in here, as often as you like. Share your thoughts, what helps you get through, whatever you'd like. Just remember there is public access to this thread.


Accountability Partners

*********Mary Mary & Doodles

*********Manalu & Loadislight

*********Sadler_Girl & LCQ

*********Stilltryin & TheLoserWins

*********MelodyVAKS & PaintedLady

*********Smaller & Lynzee

*********Countrytwist & HelenLK

*********Dewdrop & Puttchikins




HERE'S TO US, HAVING A SUCCESSFUL WEEK!!!!
ONE DAY AT A TIME!!!!

[HeatherNicola]

Originally posted on the CC board

Conscious Self Sabotage.

Well I've fallen off the wagon with a bump. Oh I've got millions of excuses, but in reality it 's down to lack of will power and carb addiction. I know better, I know I have a problem if I eat sugar or wheat. But what did I do? I forced myself to eat something totally wrong. Yes I actually forced myself to eat a cream cake. I don't even like them. It was a though I was punishing myself. I think that deep down I don't believe that I'm worth it.

Concious self sabotage that is what I'm guilty of.

special adidition just for my fellow carb addicts!

I have decided that I need to concentrate on what is important and that is me. and those I feel are my friends on these boards. I know I will never be the most popular person on the boards and to be quite frank I no longer have the desire to be..

So I have decided that gone are the days of indiscriminate posting or replying to peoples posts just becaause I think that by doing so I'll get noticed. No those days are gone from now on the only places you will find a post from me will be here or on the Delta Bootcamp team.

Nikki

[fla gal 57]

I know that I am addicted to carbs. I found that out when i began on low carb four years ago. At first i just began cutting out sweets and starchy foods and when I did the weight began coming off almost as if like magic.
When I talked to my doctor about this she told me it was because carbs causes you to be hungy and when i cut down on them i was less hungry and ate less. we talked about the low carb diet so when i got home I got online and found Atkins and studied every bit of what he had and began following it and now four years later i am down over 100 lbs. and have kept it off to. I know I am still addicted to carbs so I just stay away from them and eat healthy low carb now.
I am thinner now and feel better to and my sugar levels are normal once again and my chlorestol is good and my blood pressure down to so what more can i say about low carb except that it is good, at least for me.
I feel that alot of people are over weight is because of a carb addiction and they don't even know it.
I know I had never heard of it until once I seen something on t.v.v about four years ago. Why can't doctors just tell you about it instead of putting you on just a 1200 calorie diet.
are they all scared we will lose our weight and not need them anymore.

I am now a much healthier person because of low carb so i would reccommend it to anyone who needs to lose weight.

[MaryMary]

Hi everyone,

I Love Sunday mornings. They feel like the beginning to a new week and I get to relax. My way of relaxing the last couple of weeks was to pick one thing that I wanted to declutter. Last week it was packing up all the linens that were bagged up and had been sitting on the flour of my bedroom for the last 7 months. They are now in my car and will be going to a friend who can disburse them to folks who need them.

This week I wanted to go through my closet again and pick out all the clothes that are too big and bag them up for this same friend. What she can't wear she will give away. She runs a ministry for her church and lives in the country, so they don't get as many donations as folks in the big cities.

At any rate, I had fun trying on things that I just knew were going to be tight to find out they were lose and actually hung nicely. In a few more months they will be in the bag as well. So today, I can actually wear most of the things except for a few that are still too small, things that my daughter gave me when she went from the 14/16's to the 10's. She is going to go through her closet soon so I don't need to worry about what I will wear.

Because I was energized from having accomplished my goal for this new week, I went out a weeded a corner of the garden. This was a gift to myself. Hubby is mowing up the leaves. Little by little we are getting ready for the snows that will be arriving in the next month or so.

Food is good and in its place. Weighed & measured 3 tmes a day. Planned ahead and written down. Committed to and grateful. Thanks be to God.

[hani]

HI ALL,
I am hani, a bad, careless typer and carb addict, food addict, and compulsive overeater--i think!

send me a nice partner, please. i am discovering so much these days. would like to do the 12 steps but am not sure i want someone else's food plan.

i have been LCing about 18 months, and love it, but a few too amny carbs and the wieght and cravings go up. i am trying to discover what i can eat without the cravings.
thanks!!

[lcq]

Well I am here at last................things have been pretty crazy at work......I decided to check in here before I started anything today or else I might never get a chance

well I am at a new self realisation point in my life.............
I am joining the gym today ........well actually it will now be tomorrow since DH has to work late............but the thing is I am actually doing it .......we refinanced some loans so that I could have the extra cash to do something that is important to me.

I have been feeling so *blah* lately about this WOL since I was eating on plan but the weight was not moving. I realised that my metabolism is what needs the boost and DH agreed that I should go for it.

i also went for a facial this weekend and had a pedicure last week.......................things that I never ever bothered about since the kids were born.

i realised that i need to pamper myself now and not wait until goal for all the nice things in life .......and most of all learn not to pamper myself with food.

Also once a month I am going to go by one of my girlfriends house and we will dye each others hair............I have also realised that pampering myself costs way more than food so I have to find ways to cut cost

The bottom line is that I need to feel good about me now so when i get to where I want to be it will be a natural transition and not a sudden shock to my system.....know what I mean

So that is it for me for now

welcome aboard HANI..................you will have a buddy in no time ..just keep posting here until he/she arrives

Well I seem to have buddy repellant..................I e-mailed and PM'ed my last buddy last week and have not heard from her since

It's a good thing that I have an *unofficial* buddy to report to

Ok got to get to work


take care everyone

[HeatherNicola]

Hanni! As Lcq has already said just keep posting here and a buddy will soon be found for you. In the meantime if you have a pressing problem and don't want the world to know then PM any one of us and we will do our best to help.

[fla gal 57]

I have been fighting a cold for over a week now. got another doctors appointment in the morning with it to find out why it isn't getting any better only worse. its all in my chest and i am coughing terribly. my head is not stuffy at all just my chest are and it burns so bad to like its raw.
i went to my doc when i first started catching it but the medication he gave me did nothing for it so i will see him again in the morning.
hope everyone is doing well today with their low carb. this ocld has just taken my appetite away and i can hardly eat anything right now while i have it. that may be a good thing......maybe i will lose even more than i do normally.
take care and will see ya later.

A GOOD FRIEND IS SOMEONE WHO THINKS YOU ARE A GOOD EGG EVEN THOUGH THEY KNOW YOU ARE SLIGHTLY CRACKED........

[maxsmomy]

Hey LCQ I am here- I think I may be having email trouble- got your pm, email and emailed ya back- dont know what happened!! At any rate I am around so if you still want me as your buddy just pm me- ok?? I just pm'd you- hope you get it.

Melissa

[HeatherNicola]

I have just eaten 4 bars of chocolate one after the other and I have just been Yet I'm still looking around for something else to eat that is high carb. When you are an addict even being ill can't stop the cravings.

I have got to realise that as a carb addict I am as much a danger to myself and to my health as an alcoholic is to theirs. I have to realise that just like the alcoholic who can't take a single drink or they will be re addicted, so I can not take sugar or high levels of simple carbs and I never will be able to. There can be no going back, I have to face the truth head on, embrace it and get on with my life. I can either choose to eat foods that are bad for me and to put it bluntly kill me. Or I can be good to myself eat properly and hopefully live a long and healthy life.

So from this very minute I'm banning high carb foods from my kitchen except milk for Zoe and the Shreddied Wheat she likes for Breakfast, which is salt and sugar free. Zoe can also have whole wheat bread. All fruits and vegetables. Sweets and chocolate will not be used as treats. Cuddles and attention will be. I'm lucky there she prefers the cuddles to sweets! It has been me almost forcing her to eat those nasty sickly sweet things, thinking like a wooley headed carb addict that I was being a good and loving mother by trying to give her the foods that will probably cause her to be a carb addict just like her Mummy.

Nikki

[loadislight]

Hi Nikki,

I understand what its like to be so full and still look for more to eat. I have spent many, many evenings doing the same thing and then have the following morning to be filled with self-loathing and make another promise to myself that ‘today will be different’. This is a destructive disease, both physically and mentally. When I first started my food plan (atkins), I also had to get the trigger foods out of the house. This was important for me to do until the cravings subsided. Something I’m currently doing to stay out of the food is sharing what’s REALLY going on with me with my accountability/support partner. This is often not easy, but being honest and vulnerable with another person is helping me to stay sane in the present and uncover some of the past emotional crap that makes me eat in the first place. For me, I can’t get over it without going through it.
Please remember that you’re not alone in this struggle – we’re here to support one another.

David C.

[lcq]

Hey Melissa.

I have been sick for the last few days and have not been at work.
Caught a cold/flu bug and am not over it totally as yet.
Will go check your Pm now.......but I did not get any e-amils from you.
everyone else have a great day

Nikki ............been there done that............I read in a magizine it's called *THE FEAST BEFORE THE FAMINE* ..........it's what we dieters do when we know we are about to start a diet and are going to be deprived for awhile...................for us Carb addicts it is so self destructive....but we can overcome.......you are on your way baby...........on your way


later peeps

[doodles]

Happy Thanksgiving everyone.

[T82]

TheLoserWins: I know how you feel. I used to be a carb addict and was so miserable. I know exactly what it's like to eat and eat and eat until you're sick and then still eat some more. It's like always feeling horribly full but never nearly satisfied.

I want to direct you to an author that helped me IMMENSELY. Without reading her books, I would still be a carb addict today. Her name is Geneen Roth. She has about 4 or 5 books out. She is one of us. I urge you to check out what she has to offer...

[lcq]

Thanks T82...................I did a google search and I am already impressed by what i read..............I'll go look for the book

Everyone..I hope all is well with you.
Melissa and I are back buddying again...........looks like we were experiencing e-mail problems so we are just going to stick with PM's for now

Hey......Nancy ..........or whoever starts up the new thread on Sunday.....please remember to change my buddy to *maxsmomy*


Hey Lynzee..........you heard from smaller as yet?.......if not please check in here so that you can get a new buddy

ok have a great weekend everyone

see you all next week

Lisa

[maxsmomy]

Just a quick check in! I started induction yesterday and proud to say that even it being thanksgiving I did well. I've gotta stick with this the full 2 weeks and get back into ketosis again. I want to start the New Year with a loss instead of the usual gain. Lcq and I are back in touch despite email probs on my end. Having a buddy makes all the difference. Hope eveyrone is doing well and hanging in there. I will check in again soon!!

Take Care,

Melissa

[CoverdGirl]

if there is room for one more carb addict. I read that book about 4 years ago, The Carbohydrate Addict's Healthy Heart Plan, and realized I was REALLY rEALLY addicted to carbs. The whole premise of that plan is having a controlled portion of carbs (whatever form you want them in) once a day. Well HELLO! That was like asking an alcoholic to drink ONE glass of wine each day for his cholesterol!!!! Ain't gonna work!

So here I am, 40 pounds heavier than I was back then, and desperately wanting to CONTROL food and not let it control me anymore. I looked into greysheeters and liked what I saw but am unable to commit to the meetings, etc. I have 4 young children so leaving for meetings, etc. is not possible. Our oldest has fibromyalgia and our youngest is autistic. My plate is full.

Anyhow, I hope to get an accountability buddy here. I am blogging my way through this... hoping that being transparent and honest (there's a first) about my addiction to carbs will help. You can follow along on my journey by CLICKING HERE... who needs reality TV?? It's my life!

[manalu]

Hani and CovrdGirl!!! You will be accountability partners. So share emails, pms or whatever, to get to know one another. It is really important, in my opinion, to learn about each other, get to really know each other in order to have accountability. I look forward to hearing from my partner. We keep in contact regularly.



Just so you all know....here is the thread that begins tomorrow.
Carb Addicts 11-28 through 12-4

Hope all had a wonderful Thanksgiving!! We have much to be thankful for! I am thankful for each of you!!!!

[lcq]

Carb Addicts 11-28 through 12-4