Aw thanks BIWI. I think I do just eat too much, and I naively think because it’s healthy it’s fine. I know some members of my family can just eat and eat we don’t really have a stop button, whereas others will get half way through a meal and say “ I’m stuffed would love to eat more but I can’t.” Latter is an alien concept to me.
I use food a bit to cheer myself up and as I’ve got older as soon as I loose a pound my appetite becomes revved hence me wanting to lower the carbs and see how I got on. There is no getting around it though eat too much gain weight. Probably eating too much fish olive oil and salads is better than bread though. Having reintroduced the carbs my bingeing is back so today have started cutting down again. I also don’t know whether I’ve really stuck out the whole low carb thing strictly, no I correct myself, I give it a week then something happens and give up! Usually real tiredness but the weight gain was disheartening.
Before my wedding many, many years ago I kept eating omelettes and lost loads of weight. The weight just doesn’t come off as easily as it used to and my husband says perhaps I was just a. Lot stricter with myself then which maybe true, but I remember being all or to loose weight very quickly after a few days of lowering the carbs.
I feel a little at a loss and slightly frightened I’m finding this as challenging as it has been. Reminded some how much I use food to add interest to my life and loft my mood. I feel a bit sad! I almost want to just give up but seeing from the frequency of my posts I don’t! I did my 23 and me and it said likely to be overweight. My late grandma had very similar eating habits to me- could finish lots of bread! She was v v v overweight (as much as I loved her and she was very beautiful) so if I don’t fight this I will be similar. We are genetically similar in many ways. Part the reason low carb appeals is the foods I binge on are bread, cakes biscuits cereals and I don’t like that feeling of wanting more when I’ve finished a meal. A nice thing about a huge omelette is I feel satiated.
I had a salmon olive oil and avocado salad on holiday it was amazing and after I ate it I felt full and had a lovely meal, and thought why don’t I eat like this all the time. I woke in the night hungry though so wonder if actually the fat content was not as high as it first seemed.
I’m not veggie BIWI but I don’t really eat red meat but do eat chicken (although don’t have it much(, eggs, cheese, pulse.
Thanks so much for listening and your input BIwi. It means a lot to have had such support.