went off diet over holidays

I was a very good boy -- losing close to 90 pounds -- between the beginning of Lent 2003 and Christmas 2003.

Then ................

I succumbed, and ate fudge, chocolate, fruit cake, zucchini bread, lasagna -- it all made me sick as a dog! All I can eat with which I feel well is high protein, no-carb stuff!

Why did you do that? I had cake (good cake, btw), sweet potates, mango
salad, beer, and other carby stuff for Christmas dinner. I was back on WOE
the very next day. No bad feelings and no weight gain.

Nothing wrong with a day off plan...just don't vacation off plan.

"JPB" wrote

I was a very good boy -- losing close to 90 pounds -- between the beginning
of Lent 2003 and Christmas 2003.

Then ................

I succumbed, and ate fudge, chocolate, fruit cake, zucchini bread,
lasagna -- it all made me sick as a dog! All I can eat with which I feel
well is high protein, no-carb stuff!

JPB wrote:
I was a very good boy -- losing close to 90 pounds -- between the
beginning of Lent 2003 and Christmas 2003.

Then ................

I succumbed, and ate fudge, chocolate, fruit cake, zucchini bread,
lasagna -- it all made me sick as a dog! All I can eat with which I
feel well is high protein, no-carb stuff!




Congratulations for losing so much weight in 2003! That's fabulous.

I also overate over Christmas. I ate everything that came my way. I
even baked some of it myself. I tried to eat moderate amounts of it
all, and am resisting the leftovers of the chocolate torte that is still
in my refrigerator, but all the guests are gone and I am back on plan,
and I'm feeling better. I agree with Jenny on that - as long as you
learn how to get back on plan when you've strayed off of it, you'll be
the better for it.

Here's what I am doing to get motivated to eat right again. I read
cookbooks, read this newsgroup, and go shopping. I just went to Trader
Joe's and stocked up on the LC cereal that I like, bought some tapenade,
so I can try that snack someone up in the "grazing" thread suggested,
and bought several other fun foods that are allowed on LC.

Don't kick yourself for it. Just be done with it and go back to what
you should now be calling "normal".

Rebecca

I did the same thing but I planned it that way. I do not deprive myself at Easter, Thanksgiving or Christmas. I will be starting Atkin's back next week and I will do it. I can't afford to undo what I have done this past year. I always set myself back a little but I catch up.

"JPB" wrote in message ...
I was a very good boy -- losing close to 90 pounds -- between the beginning of Lent 2003 and Christmas 2003.

Then ................

I succumbed, and ate fudge, chocolate, fruit cake, zucchini bread, lasagna -- it all made me sick as a dog! All I can eat with which I feel well is high protein, no-carb stuff!

Roger Zoul wrote:

Why did you do that? I had cake (good cake, btw), sweet potates, mango
salad, beer, and other carby stuff for Christmas dinner. I was back on WOE
the very next day. No bad feelings and no weight gain.

Nothing wrong with a day off plan...just don't vacation off plan.


I am going to have my first off-plan meal today--dim sum. This is
very scary to me, but I know that instead of then using that as an
excuse to binge, I will be very stringent about LCing afterwards.
I NEED to learn how to do this without it leading to a calamity,
and the only way I can learn that is by doing it. And the only
way I can adhere to this WOE forever is if I give myself
permission to eat off-plan occasionally.

--
Jean B.

PLEASE do not post messages with Active-x controls in them!!!! Or fancy
formatting. Thanks!

Going off your diet is part of staying ON your diet. If you don't learn how
to get back on after eating more carbs than usual, you will eventually cave
into the multi-day binge from hell.

Look at this as a learning experience and explore how long it takes you to
get back on track and what symptoms you experience as you readjust.

Chances are the biggest one will be intense carb cravings and hunger for a
day or two. It will pass. You'll learn to recognize the feeling next time
and be less likely to feed that hunger craving.

-- Jenny
Cut the carbs to respond to my email address!

Low carb facts and figures, my weight-loss photos, tips, recipes and more at
http://www.geocities.com/jenny_the_bean/

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"Rebecca" wrote in message
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JPB wrote:
I was a very good boy -- losing close to 90 pounds -- between the
beginning of Lent 2003 and Christmas 2003.

Then ................

I succumbed, and ate fudge, chocolate, fruit cake, zucchini bread,
lasagna -- it all made me sick as a dog! All I can eat with which I
feel well is high protein, no-carb stuff!




Congratulations for losing so much weight in 2003! That's fabulous.

I also overate over Christmas. I ate everything that came my way. I
even baked some of it myself. I tried to eat moderate amounts of it
all, and am resisting the leftovers of the chocolate torte that is still
in my refrigerator, but all the guests are gone and I am back on plan,
and I'm feeling better. I agree with Jenny on that - as long as you
learn how to get back on plan when you've strayed off of it, you'll be
the better for it.

Here's what I am doing to get motivated to eat right again. I read
cookbooks, read this newsgroup, and go shopping. I just went to Trader
Joe's and stocked up on the LC cereal that I like, bought some tapenade,
so I can try that snack someone up in the "grazing" thread suggested,
and bought several other fun foods that are allowed on LC.

Don't kick yourself for it. Just be done with it and go back to what
you should now be calling "normal".

Rebecca

You've got it right Jean. One has to binge occasionally to stay on this
diet, but it throws so many off that they never get back on it. If you are
like me when I binge you will get so sick that you can't wait to get back on
Atkins.

Dinah

"Jean B." wrote in message ...
Roger Zoul wrote:

Why did you do that? I had cake (good cake, btw), sweet potates, mango
salad, beer, and other carby stuff for Christmas dinner. I was back on
WOE
the very next day. No bad feelings and no weight gain.

Nothing wrong with a day off plan...just don't vacation off plan.


I am going to have my first off-plan meal today--dim sum. This is
very scary to me, but I know that instead of then using that as an
excuse to binge, I will be very stringent about LCing afterwards.
I NEED to learn how to do this without it leading to a calamity,
and the only way I can learn that is by doing it. And the only
way I can adhere to this WOE forever is if I give myself
permission to eat off-plan occasionally.

--
Jean B.

Dinah wrote:

You've got it right Jean. One has to binge occasionally to stay on this
diet, but it throws so many off that they never get back on it. If you are
like me when I binge you will get so sick that you can't wait to get back on
Atkins.

Dinah


And I don't see that as a bad thing. If it happens, that will be
reinforcement for this WOE! I hope I don't binge today.
Previously when I have thought I might eat a meal off-plan, I have
chickened out, so I suspect I will only eat a few things with
wonton wrappers on them. We shall see.

I do know that years ago, my attitude was all or nothing. I
either ate LC or, if I slipped, that just made me give up LCing
totally. Now that seem odd to me. I can't comprehend why I never
just went right back to how I was eating. It's not even that the
high-carb stuff is so appealing in comparison. Frankly, thus far,
the best carby thing I have had since I started this WOE in early
August was half of an H+H pumpernickel bagel (and not my beloved
pumpkin chiffon pie). I guess that's another thing I have to
learn--what is worth eating and what is not.

--
Jean B.

(Jenny) wrote:

Going off your diet is part of staying ON your diet. If you don't
learn how
to get back on after eating more carbs than usual, you will eventually
cave
into the multi-day binge from hell.

Look at this as a learning experience and explore how long it takes you
to
get back on track and what symptoms you experience as you readjust.

Chances are the biggest one will be intense carb cravings and hunger
for a
day or two. It will pass. You'll learn to recognize the feeling next
time
and be less likely to feed that hunger craving.

I agree with this completely. When I eat carbs I still get the cravings
but I don't feed them like I did before. I just think "here come the
cravings that I mistook for hunger for all those years and made me fat"
and am often able to ignore them, partly because I recognise them for what
they are and choose to see them as proof that LC works for me and partly
because I've just got out of the habit of eating loads of carbs.

I've had two big lapses in LC. My first was a week in France. It's
probably relatively easy to LC in French restaurants but we were camping.
Eating cheap in france is all about shoving huge quantities of bread down
your throat. I ate like this for a week (though to be fair it was quite
low fat) and put on four pounds but was back on track according to the
scales a week or so later.

My second was a week in Cornwall (south west UK), this time I ate low carb
low fat breakfasts (just egg and trimmed bacon) but pretty much ignored
the diet for the rest of the day. Some days i'd be really bad, ice cream,
pasties (sort of potato and meat pie!, the antithesis of LC), fries etc.
but I never went mad on quantity, I even missed lunch sometimes thanks to
the LC breakfasts. At the end of the week i'd put on only two or three
pounds and a week later, back on LC, I got the lowest reading yet on the
scales!

As you say, it's all about getting back on plan. The idea of reacting to
either of those lapses by giving up simply didn't occur to me, even though
similar incidents have knocked me off previous low fat diets.

Jean,

You have done so extremely well with your weight loss. If I recall you are
about 10 lbs from your ultimate goal, which means you should be gearing up
for maintence.

Don't be scared. At the worst, you'll be hungry. Or very hungry. Just sit
it out. It only takes a day or two (again at worst) and then it's over.
However, you may find that complex carbs don't even cause you cravings.

I carbed up big time between Christmas and New Years, on purpose, went back
on plan yesterday. I had a couple hours of intense cravings, but nothing
worse than I used to get with PMS. Then I started dumping the water I'd put
on (wearing a path in the rug to the bathroom g) I was down 2 lbs this
morning and expect to be down 2 or 3 more by next week. Meanwhile, I'm
completely burnt out on carbs having eaten enough to make myself feel
completely poisoned.

--Jenny
Cut the carbs to respond to my email address!

Low carb facts and figures, my weight-loss photos, tips, recipes and more at
http://www.geocities.com/jenny_the_bean/

Looking for help controlling your blood sugar?
Visit http://www.alt-support-diabetes.org/...0Diagnosed.htm



"Jean B." wrote in message ...
Roger Zoul wrote:

Why did you do that? I had cake (good cake, btw), sweet potates, mango
salad, beer, and other carby stuff for Christmas dinner. I was back on
WOE
the very next day. No bad feelings and no weight gain.

Nothing wrong with a day off plan...just don't vacation off plan.


I am going to have my first off-plan meal today--dim sum. This is
very scary to me, but I know that instead of then using that as an
excuse to binge, I will be very stringent about LCing afterwards.
I NEED to learn how to do this without it leading to a calamity,
and the only way I can learn that is by doing it. And the only
way I can adhere to this WOE forever is if I give myself
permission to eat off-plan occasionally.

--
Jean B.