A Confession...and a lesson

[shrinkingpoohbear]

Last night I weighed and my weight was the same for the third week. I was very upset because I had recently joined Curves and had been working out every day that they were open. I had went to work out 10 times and still the scales said I had not lost a pound. This set me into a foul, mood and I did something that I know I should not have done, I stopped on my way to work and bought a lot of carb loaded junk food. I ended up buying things like candy bars, potato chips, Little Debbie pecan pie and doughnuts, cinnamon rolls and the like. The only really smart thing I bought was a Coke Zero. I guess I kinda felt like all the work I had been doing was for nothing and I was feeling sorry for myself and having a big pity party. After I got to work I laid out all the junk I had bought and was going to eat myself silly. I ate one of the candy bars and a Little Debbie pecan pie, and then realized that I did not even really like the taste of them. Then I tried the chips and I thought they really tasted like paper. I next bagged up all the remaining things and took them to a friend of mine that worked in the other building confessing to her what I had done and why I wanted to give her the food. The lesson I learned is that "I DO NOT LIKE JUNK FOODS SUCH AS CANDY AND CHIPS ANYMORE" this really suprised the heck out of me, since I used to live on the stuff; Yep, even the chocolate bar did not taste good. Later, I ate some ham and cheese wrapped in lettuce with mayo, and that was really good. Have I gone crazy or what???????? I wish I knew!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Laurenfra]

Re: A Confession...and a lesson

First of all ask yourself have I gotten smaller. Do you measure or are your clothes fitting looser. You should not care what you weigh, care what you look like and how you are getting healthier.

Be proud of yourself for not eating the junk food next time you wont even buy them.

[2big4mysize]

Re: A Confession...and a lesson

Congrats on practicing carb harm reduction and giving them away prontoi.

Scales are not a good indicator of your hard work and here is why

scales measure the effect of gravity upon your total mass. On Atkins you are morphing your mass. you are shedding fat mass adding muscle mass and your fluid mass is in a constant stat of flux. So lets say in those 10 workouts you added 1 pounds of muscle tissue and your muscles hydrated in response to your new work load and added 3 pounds of water. you have burned off 4 pounds of fat mass but that evil sclae notes no change in your total mass so you are angry and hurt that you have noting to show for all that hard work. Well you got noting cause you wwere looking in the qwrong places. get out your tapemeasure and see if you lost inches i know Curves measures you so tell them you don't see any sclae changes and want to know if you have lost any inches cause you are thinking about quitting. that should get you measured fast and yeper you will be smaller and floating on air. or you can use the same pair of old clothes to "measure your success with as you keep shrinking they will keep getting smaller and smaller and you will be smiling bigger and bigger.

So put your evil scales away for a month or two and see how much you are shrinking.

Happy low carbing.

[Finelly]

Re: A Confession...and a lesson

First of all, congrats on the lesson learned! It's not recommended, of course, to cheat, but isn't it great when you taste something you used to love and realize it just doesn't do it for you anymore?

Second of all, it is SO hard when the scale doesn't change. I went through that this summer and it was just a killer. What saved me were people on this forum, my tape measure, which kept showing a size change, and my trust in the woe.

After EONS, I finally started to lose again, and dropped about 13 lbs in 3 weeks. Now, I'm in a pause again, but I know for sure that it means nothing.

It is ok to come on to this forum and b-tch in a post, by the way, about not losing. Sometimes it's what gets us through, being able to express it with people who have been there, done that, and hearing their words of encouragement in response!

[Sheshy]

Re: A Confession...and a lesson

Last night I weighed and my weight was the same for the third week. I was very upset because I had recently joined Curves and had been working out every day that they were open. I had went to work out 10 times and still the scales said I had not lost a pound. This set me into a foul, mood and I did something that I know I should not have done, I stopped on my way to work and bought a lot of carb loaded junk food. I ended up buying things like candy bars, potato chips, Little Debbie pecan pie and doughnuts, cinnamon rolls and the like. The only really smart thing I bought was a Coke Zero. I guess I kinda felt like all the work I had been doing was for nothing and I was feeling sorry for myself and having a big pity party. After I got to work I laid out all the junk I had bought and was going to eat myself silly. I ate one of the candy bars and a Little Debbie pecan pie, and then realized that I did not even really like the taste of them. Then I tried the chips and I thought they really tasted like paper. I next bagged up all the remaining things and took them to a friend of mine that worked in the other building confessing to her what I had done and why I wanted to give her the food. The lesson I learned is that "I DO NOT LIKE JUNK FOODS SUCH AS CANDY AND CHIPS ANYMORE" this really suprised the heck out of me, since I used to live on the stuff; Yep, even the chocolate bar did not taste good. Later, I ate some ham and cheese wrapped in lettuce with mayo, and that was really good. Have I gone crazy or what???????? I wish I knew!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It is hard to have the scale stuck, especially when you've changed you're WOL.

One good thing that has come out of the your fall, is a learning lesson! You have learned that you don't like the taste AND that it didn't solve any problem. I think you handled it really well, you listened to your body (it didn't taste good, so you stopped eating)...and you got rid of the food! I'm sure you're bummed that it happened, but you turned it right around and admitted the problem and jumped back on the wagon, that's awesome!

[Terry]

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It was great that you bagged up all that junk and got rid of it!! You did the right thing. That was a big step.

When I began Curves I remained at the same weight for months...... MONTHS I tell ya, very loooooooong months........ and that was the beginning of my downfall after working so hard to lose the first 65#. I lost inches but the scale absolutely ruined my resolve.

Now here I am having gained more than I can bare to check out on a scale and struggling to keep on track.

Please dont let that happen with you.