What do you do, when you have a day - or a week - when nothing seems to satisfy you? And your meal plan looks boring and uninspiring without pasta/bread/chips/potatoes?
I've done this before, I know how it goes. I lost about 35lbs last time and kept it off until I got pregnant again, and despite my best efforts, I'm at almost the exact same starting weight as I was before (187lbs - clinically obese with a BMI of 30). That's depressing, realising that the baby weight hasn't fallen off and I have to do this all over again from the beginning. I'm fine with LC as a WOE/WOL and tend to make my food choices along those lines anyway, but the dieting part requires calorie counting and macro calculating and MFP and I find it hard going, maybe because I know how long it is going to take me and that I can't take breaks.
I'm nearly four weeks in, 12lbs down which is great, but I have twice that to go and the initial loss is always more so I expect a big slow down and a stall. I have shortcuts to help me discipline myself: I volunteer to drive so I won't drink; I have LC snacks constantly on hand - dark choc, nuts, mini cheeses, bag of sugar snap peas, packet of salami in the fridge. Didn't feel hungry at all for the first two weeks, but I'm hungry all the time now for rubbish. I have awful carb cravings that started 2 weeks in when I got my period and they never went. DS has chocolate buttons in the fridge. I smell them when I open the door and all I want is to devour a packet of cadburys buttons cold from the fridge. I don't even like cadburys usually - I have my own 70% stuff in the door and I have a 10g square a day for a treat. I have a massive bag of salted cashews in front of me, I've measured out 30g and am trying to psyche myself up to put it back in the cupboard but what I really, REALLY want is to grab a cold beer and polish off the whole bag.
My meals are ok, I have a salad for lunch every day which I quite like and is very low-effort. Tonight's dinner is baked salmon and spinach, with either broccoli or sprouts. Yesterday I had steak, the day before I had sausages (the 97% pork ones) with assorted roast veg, before that spiced lamb mince with aubergines, so I'm not really lacking variety or inspiration - just carbs!
What do you do to feel satisfied?
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What do you do to fight carb cravings?
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TheVeryHungryPreggo · 05/10/2015 17:35
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