10/16/2015
Oh Adele, so sorry to hear about your wrist!
Today (Friday) I'm having a little adventure...I'm (wo)manning the phones at The Mister's shop. His office manager is away, tending to a sick child, so I offered to keep her chair warm. It's been fairly quiet so far; hope I didn't just jinx myself. And since I can't cut keys or work on locks, all I _can_ do is answer the phone. I have a lot of vacation hours accrued from my university job, so it's no big deal for me to help out. All right, on to food stuff.
Looking back in my notebook, I see I have been hovering between 187 and 186.5 all week. I added two new foods this week, carrots (1/2 cup per day) and sausage (2 patties). I think I need to remove both from my lineup for a while to see what happens. If I was to guess which one is the culprit, I would say the carrots, but who knows. I ate the sausage this morning but did not pack carrots in my lunch bag. I find that broccoli makes my tummy feel bloated, almost to the point of hurting. Maybe I'm eating too much at once... Have avoided cheese since Sunday's foray--lesson learned.
All in all, I think I'm doing pretty good. I'm sticking with Cali. mix veggies, and hamburger patties for lunch. Need to plan better for supper. A lot of this is just getting into the habit of "doing". There were a couple of times this week when I felt stressed, and I thought to myself "thank goodness I'm in control of my eating"--that normally those are the times when I would reach for something quick and easy to shove in my face--junk food, of course. We have to feel the feelings and learn to deal with those feelings and emotions in a different way. Food is not the answer.
Adele's Response:
Well of course you are right here, BUT... Knowing or understanding this is no guarantee that anyone will change this.
Trisha, I'm typing this with my left hand on a keyboard with a lot of the letters scratched off the keys, so it has to be brief and maybe a little scrappy. I would very much like for you to read Jill's thread here because so far you are reminding me a little of her. When I am able to type better I will expound on what I mean by that. Read over her journey at least once, pay attention to the time between her posts and tell me what you might be able to learn from how she handled things.
Again, I'll try to explain a lot more when I can type.
Adele
135 this morning
10/22/2015
No worries, Adele; I'll find Jill's journal.
I am going to stop the daily weigh-ins. I can feel my body is losing inches even though the scale still registers 186 lbs. So even though physically I am feeling the loss, mentally that number is starting to mess with my pysche. Going to drop down to once a week meetings with the scale.
10/27/2015
Weight 183.5 this morning.
Adele, I've put off writing this post because I'm pretty sure you're going to not like what I have to say. However I want to be honest, in the hope it may help someone else.
I've gone back to a zero carb lifestyle. I was on zero carb a few years ago which resulted in a great amount of weight loss. But like an idiot, I chose to start eating carbs again, wanting to be "normal", and of course the pounds flew back on.
I'd say about 98% of my food comes from meat, beef being my favorite. Once in a great while I'll eat a salad or some low carb veggies, but definitely not every day as the typical low carb diet mandates. My energy levels are high, the pounds are slowly/surely dropping, and my mood swings are nonexistent.
Now Adele, I'm not sure how you feel about zero carb eating. However this is your forum, and I will leave without another word if you want me to do so. I know your hand is still mending, so I won't expect an immediate reply.
Take care,
Trisha
Adele's Response:
I have no opinion of zero carb eating, or really any other specific diet or modification. I'll tell you that I spent about eight weeks of the weight loss phase of my journey doing exactly what you are doing now. In some senses, as part of the learning I needed to do anyway, it even worked. I'm a big proponent of figuring out what each individual body needs and then spending the rest of our lives finding ways to honor that no matter what else is going on around us, including facts and feelings. Doing what you are doing now could certainly be a part of that learning process.
I do think that those of us with food and weight loss issues tend to be all or nothing types. One thing I would caution you about, if this is really to be the time you really change, is that when you get angry, tired, frustrated, bored or anything else with such a restrictive program, I hope you won't go in the "nothing" direction, i.e., have a total carb blowout. That is what most of us will do. I hope you will guard against that. I hope when things get frustrating or any other kind of emotional, you'll cook a big pot of green beans and eat them, then come back here and talk.
So, I hope you'll stay here and keep us posted about how it's going. It's your body, your science project. But I do still hope that you will read Jill's thread, and maybe some of the other threads here. My hope when starting this forum was to have the individual journeys so people could learn from others without having to sort through a whole bunch of different conversations and a bunch of-off topic chatter. What I think the most important thing to take away is that despite lots of initial weight loss success, almost no one makes this over the long haul. The odds against success are staggering to me. I think it helped me when I finally realized that – that is, that this is a lonely road and a heck of a lot of work and that it's about a whole lot more than losing weight, although that has to happen before the rest of the work can be done.
That's enough of my rambling for now. I'm dictating this with the talk-to-text feature of a tablet!
Adele
135 this morning
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