Sun, Feb-13-05, 10:25
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Monday came.
Posts: 4,440
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Plan: my own
Stats: 275/219.4/155
BF:ummm . . . ?
Progress: 46%
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Hey Bigjoe, and welcome.
What a great response to a wobble--get on here looking for support and for a place to contribute your experience and ideas.
You didn't mention whether this is your first time LCing, or if you're a vet, or why you chose this route, but if this is your first time through, here's a few thoughts that might be of use. Many of us have had to learn this the hard way, but some bright souls get it from other people's mistakes.
If you find LCing works for you, and that nothing else has, long term, you may need to make peace with the idea that you're not just doing this for awhile to lose weight, but that you need to change your diet for health reasons, just as you would make accommodations for high blood pressure or diabetes or heart trouble.
It helps to think of this not as a way of eating, but a way of life--you'll see that expressed around here as WOE or WOL or WOLF (forever.) That `big picture' perspective means that you don't have to look at LCing as something that you are off of if you eat off plan, but rather a bump in the road, a learning experience. Then come up with a plan for doing better next time.
If DMIL loves you and wants the best for you, enlist her help by giving her some recipes and ask her support in not serving high carb favorites until you get a little stronger and further along. If she doesn't love you and want the best for you, or can't be flexible about the food she serves, shrug your shoulders and plan on eating a good LC meal before you go to her house. We've all got our danger zones that you just have to plan for and learn to live with.
Lots of water and good food today will help you get over the cravings this may have triggered.
Last edited by kathleen24 : Sun, Feb-13-05 at 10:31.
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