Low Carb Diva

April 29, 2009

If you have gone more than two weeks without losing weight than you may have to reduce your calories. I always start by reducing by 100 a week and go from there.

If only weightloss happened for everyone like the success stories they put in the diet books. Even Dr. Atkins promoted a quick weight loss with those he featured in the book. I think in a week or two I will start to buckle down more and track my calories again as I have been slacking off a bit. I want to be at least 150 by the end of the summer.

On April 30th it will be one year since I have been losing weight. I can't believe that a year has gone by so quickly. I am grateful that I spent this year losing weight.

April 27, 2009

Did you make it through the weekend without blowing your new way of eating or did you pig out and tell yourself that you will start today? I stuck to my way of eating this weekend and I am happy to say I no longer use bad news or states of emergency such as a flu pandemic, snowstorm or pending tornado as an excuse to stock up on junk food and eat until I burst.

If I knew how much harder it would be to lose weight this time around I would have maintained my 100 pound weight loss 20 years ago. Instead I ate my way up from 110 pounds to 307 pounds (that's an extra 100 pounds from where I was originally).

Each time you lose weight and then regain it seems to take longer the next time. This is especially true if you are older and have grown more metabolically resistant. Granted it is not impossible but it will require all of your focus and effort. It has almost felt like a full time job at times as I try to take off each pound, but I try and look at it in 10 pound increments as it makes the process a little more manageable.

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April 24, 2009

Before I started eating low carb I would look forward to the weekends. I would go to the grocery store and buy ice cream, pretzels and dip, cookies, cake or whatever else I was craving and eat all weekend.

I would justify eating this way by promising myself that I would start eating right on Monday morning. Of course it is so much easier to tell yourself this lie as you are eating pizza and cupcakes and are feeling sick from eating so much sugar and carbs.

Once that sick, bloated and full feeling went away so did my resolve and motivation to stop eating those things on Monday. I bargained more than 15 years of my life by doing things like this.

If you are planning a carb fest this weekend with the promise to get back on track Monday, STOP. Don't do it because those weeks will turn into months, those months into years. Start right now this minute, this second. A year from now you can either still be lying to yourself about starting to lose weight or you could be much thinner than you are now.

It's your choice. I choose to live and get healthy everyday.

April 22, 2009

So now we know the real reason these contestants are able to drop huge numbers each week. It's not the exercise it is their calories, or lack there of. When is the dieting public going to realize that starving yourself and eating little to no fat is not only unhealthy it is unsatisfying.

Kristen, Ron and Sione were so excited to show Bob how their eating habits changed, if only they had changed for the better. From the calorie tallies I made I don't think they ate more than 1000 calories each and less than 8 ounces of protein. It makes you wonder how much of their weight loss is due to their bodies cannibalizing lean muscle mass instead of losing actual fat.

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April 21, 2009

I just tried on a pair of size 18 jeans last night. They fit, well if you count the fact that once I pulled them up over my rear I was a bit concerned with how the heck I was going to get them off. They didn't button or zip, but last time I tried them (about 4 weeks ago) they would not even go past my thighs.

Although I like to see the number on the scale go down there are many factors that influence it such as that time of the month, muscle replacing fat, your wonderful fat cells holding water to keep your weight the same on the scale, thyroid issues, the alignment of the planets and stars, etc.

Eating low carb is not a temporary fix for me. It is a permanent change and even if that darn scale says I have not lost one pound I am going to keep doing what I am doing. Whatever eating plan you decide on make sure it is one you can stick to even when the scale stops going down, because there will be times that it doesn't budge and may even go up a few pounds.

Keep your focus and determination!

P.S. If you are one of those exceptional people who can weight less in the evening after eating than they did in the morning drop me a line. I would love to hear exactly how you are able to bend the space time continuum and make that happen.