hoping not to sink myself..
Well I strayed away again, not because I really wanted to, but around the holidays the money got so tight I coudln't afford to eat the LC way. Between the vitiams and all the extra cash on meats, it adds up. It sounds silly, but pasta is cheap, real cheap, and reg bread and peanutbutter is extremely cheap and fast. It was the differnce between a $90 groceries and $150 groceries, the vitiamins add quite a chunk to that number alone each month.
My wife was let go of her job a week before Thanksgiving without warning, and half the money was gone, bam. We squeeked by, and I had to cut some corners, this was one of them. To do the diet right and to stick with it, I need variety and variety is expensive.
But a funy thing is happening, products are going our direction, I no longer have to go to those very expensive specialty stores where bread is $6 a loaf, my local market now has lower carb bread (9 Carbs) for a couple of bucks, has Low carb icecream, woot, and a whole side isle of atkins stuff, including all his bards, shakes, bake mixes and everything else a slimming body needs.
My wife is back to work with a new job, and it even pays better hehe, holidays are behind us. I was sitting there watching TV the other day, and what comes on but a subways comercial talking about atkins. I thought to myself, yea that sounds like a great idea, time to start treating myself again to a healthy diet, not this cheap crap. So I'm back but things are changed a bit to be honest..
I find my attitude toward the diet though is changing. I still want to slim down, and I will be eating in such a way to do this. But I am done with the scale game, If I never step on a scale again it will be too soon. I find myself only using my clothes as my baromiter, is it tight, or has it loosened up to tell how I am doing.
I have also loosened up on how critical I am counting my carbs, I used to try to stay under 10, but I am kind of thinking differnt. I am not trying to do this only to power loose, but to find a lifestyle so I am going comfortably slow. LIke one of my new rules is only two slices of Low carb bread a day (18 carbs), figured thats the most I should have, one sandwich oposed to none like before. Also allow myself one icecream treat a day if I preffer, (5 carbs) so that alone is 23 carbs. So that kills my old rules.
The other thing I am doing a bit differnt is veggies, I used to measure how may I ate so thier carb count didn't sink me. I still limit myself to the low carb ones, broc and coliflower, no potatoes or corn but I don't worry about two spears, I just take some.
As in anything in life has a cost, this may bar some of my weight loss. But I am trying to shake that "I just need to get through this, and I will do well" kind of weight loss mentality. I want to find a spot where I eat like this all the time, I don't want to make a big sacrafice anymore, I want to be healthy and smart without extremes, does that make sense. And if my results seem to lag, I will adjust as I go.
I notice already that because of the high fat intake, my hunger has just nose dived and to be honest I am talking advantage of this. I am only eating when I'm hungry, and cutting my nightly consumtions way down, and bringing my morning meals up. I am not usually hungry for supper, after eating lunch at noon, oddly. So i haven't been. and around eight I get really hungry and I sit down and have something small and fatty but 0 carbs,(like pork or steak) and bingo im good.
I suppose I should go back to induction, but just don't have the motavation for that, and that would actually stop me from going back to LC. But If I can just slip back to my old LC eating habbits, I hope my body just kind of goes back to what I was doing before, just slower.
hmmm didn't realize this would be such a long post hehe
Last edited by Just Dave : Sat, Jan-24-04 at 07:35.
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You sound happy, content and patient to me Dave. And you are losing weight and getting healthier. I am happy for you and wish you continued success.
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