Originally Posted by Bernie2014

Delaney,
I have tears reading your post! I am so happy you are here😀👍
You said just how I feel they would have to put a gun to my head to get me to eat carbs and go off plan. I have never felt so happy or more alive! I never thought I could find a wol that I lose weight and feel spectacular and look forward to every day as an adventure! How cool is that 😜👍

Originally Posted by Whirrlly

Great response to my post JO

AND THANK YOU FOR SHARING that info with me from your private journal CAUSE that is the fight I have sometimes

just what you wrote. those stupid back and forth in my mind conversations and some days I swear I am going nutso!!

that was me with the drinking. should I or shouldn't I? maybe 1. but then 1 ruins my plan, why not 2 and go for it. Nah, NONE just stay on plan. but it is a holiday. but also it is ONLY a holiday, big deal. and so on and so on......haha

What you went thru from your emotional strain is the thing I have every now and then AND YOU SHOWING me that confirms I am not alone. I thought you guys were not having these thoughts and IF IT was only me I was screwed LOL

Now I feel I can easily work thru this cause we have the strategies in place and the hardcore warrior style to say screw it, do not cave and never go back to fatland!!!

sharing that helped me more than you know Jo.

I agree, we don't want to constantly talk of small weird cravings daily we get and push thru-----and bring down the thread----but at some point they get on my nerves. I have to scream to someone that it is ticking me off LOL

Originally Posted by Just Jo

Confession time:

Karen, I was soooo tempted to say "f&#k it" and eat off plan on Christmas because I was feeling so sorry for myself. I was really disappointed that all my company that had planned to visit, had changes of plan at the last minute.

I would have been PERFECTLY okay if I hadn't anticipated their visit because this would not have been the first Christmas by myself.

But it was the anticipation of all the company coming and the excitement, etc. Yeah, my fault for being excited! Anyhoo...

I had been so TEMPTED to eat carb-age to spite them...then I realize, who am I really going to harm/spite if I self-medicate with carb-age crap?

I have these "self talks" all the time, sometimes that's the ONLY way to have an intelligent conversation.

Here's something I wrote in my personal journal (not the online one) Christmas Day:

"Fat Jo" had me looking up pizza places on the internet. Thank goodness I’m a cheap bitch ‘cause I didn’t want to spend the kind of money it would have cost to get me a pizza! That was VICTORY number ONE over “Fat Jo” yesterday, here’s the second one:

Then last night as I was in bed, “Fat Jo” was trying to convince me that in the morning (this morning) I should run to Wal-Mart (it isn't even open on Christmas day) and get some croissants and other carb-age and face plant into those carbs! Of course, after a good night’s sleep all these self-destructive eating thoughts have disappeared! This is an absolute VICTORY over “Fat Jo” too!

See, you're not the only one that gets overwhelmed with the urge to eat carb-age crap!

And "Fat Jo" was even trying to justify it to me! I'm always going to have to be hyper vigilant against "Fat Jo" and what she puts in my head at times, I know that if I want to stay successful! And I DO!

Originally Posted by Just Jo

How has eating blueberries, sundried tomatoes and spaghetti squash affected you?

Originally Posted by DelaneyLC

I can't say enough times how grateful I am for this WOE and this hard core warrior support.

It amazes me that with all my dieting over the years (and years) that it took this long to figure out carbs are the problem. I always thought it was just food in general, never crossed my mind that carbs were the enemy. I just thought a low carb diet was just like the rest and didn't work for ME. Why? Because I never went low enough with the carbs. I never understood I had such a huge carb sensitivity.

Originally Posted by Bernie2014

Delaney,
I have tears reading your post! I am so happy you are here😀👍
You said just how I feel they would have to put a gun to my head to get me to eat carbs and go off plan. I have never felt so happy or more alive! I never thought I could find a wol that I lose weight and feel spectacular and look forward to every day as an adventure! How cool is that 😜👍

Originally Posted by DelaneyLC

I wish we lived closer to each other and could have spent the holiday together. It's a bummer your family flaked on you at the last moment! This Christmas I had more alone time than usual due to DH working. I still like to decorate even though no one else really saw it.

Originally Posted by 1DogDay

Thanks for you long response Jo! I'd say the way they affected me is that the next day, after my regular low carb meal, I was feeling like "okay, what's next?", almost as if something was missing and there should have been something else to eat. I did a bit of extra snacking on very "on plan" foods like pork rinds and butter.

Oh and I gained 1.5 lbs.