Tuesday, July 8, 2008

I just don't think you HAVE to go to 20 or 30 carbs to get your weight down. Try and pick up Barry Groves book and see what you think. He votes for 60 carbs, high fat and lower protein.

Yes I am journaling over there. I have had a hideous time of it recently. Gaining back 7lbs I FOUGHT so hard to lose. I am back on metformin now so even though the scale sometimes freaks me out I feel like I may be losing a tweenchy bit.

I hate hearing that you're having such a hard time of it again. Especially after you hit that "low." I will try to check out that book. I'll see if the library has it. I've never seen it at the used bookstore.

You know, Dr Mike is a big fan of 60 grams a day, too. He says in his blog that dropping to the level is all most people need see a huge improvement in health and weight. I think they only really use the 30 grams in their books b/c they know people want to see faster weight loss, and be rewarded more quickly.

Well, I hate being so out of touch with everyone. It's just not the same.

Just letting you see that comments can be made. Good luck with your journey and your blog!

Thanks, Koo. I've been on this journey too long and I'm getting exhausted. Every time I make it to my goal (several times in the last 1-1/2 years, and many times over the last 25 or so years), I "blow-it" and find myself with weight to lose again. It's very frustrating.

Hey Elle,
Nice to see you posting again and i'm glad you got the comments link fixed.
I believe you will get back into it when your ready. Sounds like your not quite ready to give up some of the things your enjoying right now. You will get there in your own time.
Just keep trying to maintain and not gain. I can't imagine me being off plan for 5 weeks and only gaining 10 lbs. That's not bad at all. I would have probably gained all I lost in that amount of time.
Your probably doing better than you give yourself credit for.
Hang in there, keep trucking, it will happen in time. I have faith in you and I know the others do too.
Tracy

Hi Tracy,

Sure is great to hear from you. (Thank you for the 4th of July E-card!) I think that gaining 2 pounds a week is pretty fast! Much faster than losing it! Well, I lose weight fast, too, when I put my mind to it, I guess. Thank you for the support. I just hope that my desire comes back before I hit 178 pounds again.

I'm not crazy about this mode of posting, either. You lose track from day to day.

What I was going to say about binge eating is that I once read a book, "Overcoming Overeating," that delved into this. Long story short, the author recommended that you:

1. Determine one of your biggest trigger foods.
2. Buy more than you can possibly eat between now and the next time you can make it to the store.
3. Eat the food to your heart's content. Eat it for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and 17 snacks, if you like.
4. When you're getting down on your supply, go out and buy just as much.
5. Repeat until you break the addiction.

This is not a "eat it until you get sick of it" mentality. It addresses the "forbidden food" mentality. How many times do we bring << fill in your favorite food here >> into our homes, and then eat it ravenously with the mindset of "As soon as it's gone, I won't buy anymore, so I won't be tempted."

Well, this method removes the temptation.

If you tell yourself you can have this food as often as you like without guilt, it somehow breaks the addiction.

I did this about 10 years ago first with Suzie-Qs and then with Doritos.

Know how many times I've had a Suzie-Q in the past 10 years? Not once.

Know how many times I've had Doritos in the past 10 years? Once.

And it's not because I force myself NOT to buy these things. It's because I don't crave them anymore.

That's my thought for the day.

PS: This method doesn't seem to work for everyone, but it sure worked for me. I suspect that those people for whom it doesn't work might not have given themselves lock, stock, and barrel to the "indulgence" phase. I know some people who have tried this, but never went out and bought more when their first supply ran low.

Just a thought.

Very interesting, Kath.

As much as I like that idea, I'm terrified to do such a thing! I'm afraid of the weight I would gain eating it and I'm afraid that as soon as I ended one temptation, another one would pop up. I have several, you know! Is that what you're supposed to do, attack each one as it comes up? What do you do 30 pounds later? Just kidding.

I'm betting that approach actually DOES work when the temptation is coming from the feeling of deprivation of a particular food, and nothing more than that, but I don't think it would work for the "numbing emotions/escaping stress" problem.

Do you think it would? I think that that is probably 99.9% of my eating issues--relieving stress and trying to numb my feelings.

People say that overeating will not relieve stress. I'm here to say that it DOES, at least for me. Most of the time after I overeat, I have an amazing feeling of calm, and not too much guilt. But it's a terrible way to cope with stress, b/c of the weight gain.

Elle

I feel the EXACT same way. I feel so together and calm after I overeat or eat a lot of carbs. I feel like I can do anything; I feel optomistic and positive.

And food couldn't possibly be a drug????? Yeah right!

I only wish that pigging on LC food would produce the same effect. Alas, for me, it doesn't!