Carboholics Anonymous Week 5

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I suppose I should have weighed myself today but I didn't! Too scared! Been really good today though - well and truly back on the wagon!

How's everyone else?

Good day apart from breakfast which has to be a mug of tea and a slice of toast . Lunch was salad with bacon and cheese cubes. dinner was cod and salad. Very yummy. Am now heading into the white wine which is not so good!

Hey guys. Good to see you've recruited new carboholics - welcome!

I too have been so bad this week I didn't dare post any confessions as they are tooooooooooo baaaaaaaaaad. Involved trip to my hometown of Liverpool to stay with best friend and she has cooked beautiful high carb dinners and poured cocktails down my neck. It was sooooo good! But the scales beckon on Monday.

Still no sign of Froggy?

I'm new to this thread but no stranger to diets.

I lost 4 stones in 2001 and kept it off until I had my daughter in 2005 through low-calorie low carb diet and visits to the gym.

After having my daughter I was 4 stones heavier again, which pissed me off as I tried to eat sensibly and continued going to the gym up to 31 weeks pregnant.

Since I had my daughter I've lost a lot of the baby weight but still have just over a stone to go. I've tried really hard all year but can't lose it at the rate of 1-2 lb per week and I'm half starved.

And I can't always get to the gym these days.

I started Atkins 16 days ago and I'm still doing induction. I've lost 7lb so far, which is encouraging. However, the ketostix nearly always show only "trace", which is disheartening. Could I be burning more fat at night?

How long did you all stay on induction? I'm tempted to carry on for a few more weeks as we are going to live in Australia for 12 months after christmas and I need fast results to get back into shorts etc for the aussie summer.

Advice gratefully received!

hi guys. I really really need your help & advice. I've done atkins. Got to a weight I'm happy with (wasn't my taret, but lots of people said I looked great but shouldn't loose any more), so I decided to move to owl, or whatever it's called thinking I'd maybe loose a tiny bit more but then stay reasonably stable.

Well, I have done rubbish. Even dh has noticed it. I went from a tiny bit of rice one meal, to loads of chocolate and 2 slices of cake. OMG I just can't help myself. I am such an 'all or nothing' kind of person. I gave up alcohol completely last year because I was so greedy with the booze and I find it a doddle to not drink anything at all, but really really difficult to just have one glass of wine.

My mum's a real major yo yo dieter, going from really fat to skeletal and back again since I can remember. I don't want to end up like her, but I really can't seem to control my food. I wish I could give up altogether. I know I woul d find that eassy.

But I can't. I think I should go back on induction, which I find easyish. But dh is concerned and so am I. How on earth do you do it? I don't want to undo all my good work, I don't want to end up like my mum, I don't want to do myself anyharm by eating wierd diet my whole life, but since I stopped induction, all the sugar cravings have returned with a vengeance.

Like I said, total abstinance for me would be a doddle, problem solved, but I can't do that, so what's the alternative?

hi ss, thanks for your answer. I've got the book so sort of know the theory. My problem is the reality of a total sugar addiction, and the 1st hint of a carb and I'm head first in chocolate. I've already eaten all the Christmas tree decorations.

I got down to almost this weight last Christmas, put on loads over Christmas. Then was so annoyed about it I went and put on loads more! I'm now at a weight I'm happy with, but getting concerned I'll do a repeat.

I really don't know how I cope with this other than stay on induction for the rest of my life.

Hi mogwai. Induction is supposed to be minimum of 2 weeks but you can stay on it longer. Can you buy the book or borrow from the library? Good luck. I find induction easy. It's the rest of my eating life I'm not so good at.

mornin'all.Welcome ernest and mogwai.
ernest ,I think I'm like you.I've lost loads of weight before and slowly piled it on again.I can totally relate to the have a bit of sugar and then devouring everything sweet in sight.
My friend is a sugar addict aswell and goes to overeaters annonymous.I don't know much about it as she's quite private about it ,but it deals with the emotional side of things I think.
I don't think that's why I do it,I think it's a physical thing.
I think if you think of yourself as a diabetic and unable to cope with sweet things it may help.I've often thought if I actually was one I'd be a normal weight!?
Anyway another 2lbs gone today yeh!

thanks for the answer ggirl. w
well done on 2 lbs, it's a good feeling isn't it.

You're right, for me it's not emotional. it's a real physical addiction to sugar. I noticed straight away when I started induction that the sugar cravings had gone and felt free and in control. Now they'ree back again. with a vengence, and bad timing with Christmas and all the sweets and chocolates etc

Hi I have been doing atkins for two weeks but had friends for the weekend and drank wine!I stillate atkins but not so strict (I think I had 2 biscuits and a few tortilla chips yesterday)I had lost 5-6lbs I don't have scales at home or do the sticks but will I have to go back to induction for 14 days after 1 day off?And do you think I will have put the weight back on?Going out to weigh myself later

ernest - I think a lot of those who do well with lc diets are sugar-addicts. It sounds melodramatic but it's true. If someone is unable to drink in moderation they ar thought of as alcoholics, ditto smokers but somehow an ability to eat sugar in moderation is seen as simply weak-will and greedy. Sugar affects the way your metabolism works and it makes you feel good for a short period of time. They used to call it a 'sweet tooth' ...ha! Sounds so harmless doesn't it? I've been there so many times - so much so that I made a decision a few months ago that lc was for life but that I would allow myself the odd holiday but keep that to a short, predetermined period of time - eg I'm planning on 3 days off over christmas. Yes I'll be out of ketosis and will probably gain some weight but as long as I stick to my guns and get back on the wagon asap I can limit the damage. Would you call abstention for an alcoholic 'weird'? It's not weird - it's just the way that I have to be and maybe you too?

mowglai - I'm not a fan of ketostix tbh. In fact I don't weigh myself more than maybe once a month at my mums. Just stick to the diet, drink the water and it will happen - in it's own time. If you are happy on induction stick to it - as long as you need. Just remember the green veg are important.

noddy - if it was just 2 days don't worry too much. Unlikely to have put it all back on again. Get back to induction asap and don't worry would be my advice.

joelallie, I agree, but by lc do you mean basically induction? I'm seriously trying to work out now where I have to draw the line for myself. If I thought permanent 'induction' was fine health-wise I'd do it, becasue then I had no sugar cravings and everything was ok. But now I've reintroduce eh rice and a bit of bread, oh and a slice of ds's birthday cake it's all gone tits up.

So where is your line drawn? DO you have things eg bread, rice that you'd basically 'never' eat again? Or just sugar? Do you eat lots of fruit? I now know I need to set specific limitations, just need help with it and what I could/should leave out.

ernest - I don't think of myself on induction really as although I'd like to lose more I know that I'd have to work harder than I want to to do that, so really I'm trying to maintain. I don't tend to eat sugar at all apart from occasional fruit and even more occasional birthday cake...unless I'm on one of my holidays. Sugar - in it's sweet incarnation is my main problem. I do allow myself a little bread (we had home-made chicken soup last night and I had a very small peice of bread for example). I learnt the hard way that if I make home-made bread I eat most of it! So I don't do that anymore. We had a thai take-away on Friday so I ate a few noodles. I even had a small roast potato on Saturday night. BUT when I do those things I fix it in my head that it's a one off - the problems start when you eat a bit and then decide that you can keep going and you've messed up already anyway. I eat almost all types of veg nowadays. Peanuts added to salad, a handful of walnuts with cheese. But nothing truly sugary sweet as that is when my willpower goes out the window. I use almond flour and sweeteners for baking - but not too often.

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