Lily, also look into these -
http://www.oceanfisheries.com/nofla...ied_tomato.html - if they are in your area. I buy them all the time, a pop-top can, so you don't need a can opener, they don't need to be refrigerated and they even have veggies in them. 7 carbs, 3 of which are fiber and should be mostly fine for induction. They have other varieties, but this is the best one for low-carb, some of the others are higher carb.
And thanks for the encouragement, all. I have been trying a bunch of different strategies, and I've even hired a "coach". She's not a diet coach per se, but she's a life coach, and is helping me work on achieving this one goal. We've been working through my different ideas of how to attack this, finding what does & doesn't work.
I've discovered at this level I have to cut calories, as I said. At first I tried counting calories, averaging 1400 a day which, for me based on what I know are my maintenance calories of 2400 a day, should produce 2 lb a week loss. I did fine for about 2 1/2 weeks and then lost it. The backlash was that I ended up overeating and/or eating higher carb for a week or so.
So, I determined that either the calories were too low or the time doing that low a calorie was too long, so I tried to stick with the low calorie, but taking a break and returning to maintenance after two weeks. That was fine for the two weeks, and I returned to maintenance, but again, I had backlash and my maintenance got sloppy and when the week of maintenance was over, I couldn't summon the energy to start counting calories again, so my maintenance eating dragged on another week.
Then some time at a more moderate calorie deficit thinking that was the problem. More crashing & burning. I have a real thing about feeling deprived. I get major rebellion & backlash after a while of it and end up saying "aw, to heck with it" and compensating with extra food or higher carb.
So, next strategy, calorie counting does make me crazy (too obsessive & I end up trading carbs for calories, so I end up hungrier to boot), so that's when I turned to ditching the counting of calories and decided to try to just cut back in a generic, non-counting way and if I was hungry, eat, as long as it was pretty much induction type foods. I knew I'd need to make up a further calorie deficit so I decided to increase my exercise, by a lot. So, I lowered the intensity of my exericse a bit so that I could extend the time spent at it by a lot. I should be increasing my calorie expenditure significantly.
And basically, that's the strategy I've been using for the past 3 - 3 1/2 weeks. Last week I had some very, very hungry days and I know that while it was low-carb, I ate too much and didn't lose. I also went with my husband to his parents for 4 days for the long weekend (last weekend in Canada) and ate off plan for much of that weekend. Not too much, but too much to lose and I put on a bunch of water weight.
So, I'm back at the generic low-carb with trying to moderate portions now, lots & lots of lower intensity exercise and doing okay with it. I'm really not sure if it will last or if it's just a matter of how long before I crash & burn on this, too.
I was at 166.8 lbs this morning. My immediate goal is 159. That would make me "normal" on the BMI chart and less than I have weighed since I was 21 years old. It looks so simple, 8 measly pounds. It feels like it's trying to fly to the moon.
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