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    Gotta have Faith!

    I have been in a string of days, days 39-43. I have been going thru the motions on those days. Emotionally I have been down, not excited, not rarin to go...yesterday I was feeling bloated and sickly on top of it. I barely ate, and was getting more and more tired. I remarked the honeymoon is over. My moods perked up after a meal, and the more I ate the better I felt, but I was not hungry, so I had been eating baby meals...I now sense, less food, makes for less energy.
    I have been on this road now for 5 plus weeks, so I was just walking by faith! Faith I had in the process, in ketosis, in the water and exercise. Yesterday I felt so fat! So bloated, so popping out of my clothes...So I just had to walk by faith, in the process, in ketosis, in the foods and water and exercise...faith.

    Today is totally different. Today the whole program resonates with my body, soul, and spirit...Today! I feel it is all good... My body tells me today, that my faith is right...my faith in the program is right...and it's all paying off. I "feel like" I have lost 10 pounds over night...who knows, I am not getting on the scale..I would rather feel this way, than not.
    Today the whole program resonates in my body, soul and spirit. That's a great feeling, after walking around for 5 days, just going thru the motions, trusting the process, the water, the exercise and ketosis. Trusting it.
    ARE YOU TRUSTING THE PROGRAM...ARE YOU HANGING ON TO IT. CLINGING TO THE STRUCTRUE AND THE RULES...HAVING FAITH IN THE PROCESS, REGARDLESS OF HOW YOU FEEL...
    THAT's FAITH!!! THAT's TRUST...Those things hold me together.
    I no longer walk by feelings, I am walking by a faith and trust in a program that really works for my body...It does not make for perfect feeling days, it's not been able to lift my moods in these last few days, but it's still very effective. It's still there for me! Holding me together and providing the results in my "bodie's timing". My body is taking it's own way, and my emotions are following, or rebelling..but my faith is strong.
    74 8/1/06
    SW225/CW142/GW135 83lbs GONE!
    2 YEARS and 9MONTHS!!! I've been here
    Jess Female/51/5'3

    www.jdudley.blog.com blog site
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    Re: Gotta have Faith!

    Good Job Jess. Go thru the motions for now. Because you will regret it if you don't. Your doing fine. We are right here for ya.

    I think Jess needs a huge STAC Member hug!

    /hug Jess
    Mouse? I don't need no stinkin mouse!


    22 / M
    Goal: 186
    Mini Goal: 215
    Current Weight: 380
    Started Atkins: Aug. 15, 2006

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    • #3
      Re: Gotta have Faith!

      Very good insightfulness. You know, a few months back, I went through a period where I was doing everything right and I went through a day of bloated grossness and felt tired again which was unusual. The next day, I had a couple of pounds off. After looking at it, I think that I had eaten too much soy sauce which was salty. You just never know what causes it when you feel like that. You might never know. The best thing to do is have the faith! You are right! Oh, and post here. Let us talk it out.
      149.8/no weigh/ 119



      1st goal: 139 (earlier weight)
      what the rungs mean to me:
      rung 1 - more veggies
      rung 2 - dairy (some milk in coffee)
      rung 3 - seeds, nuts (mostly sprinkled on salads)
      rung 4 - berries, melon
      rung 5 - wine -
      rung 6 - beans, hummus
      rung 7 - other fruits
      rung 8 - carrots/ potatoes (nah, prolly not)
      rung 9 - whole grains (fresh Dutch breads...)
      Major Goal - 128 lbs/ healthy range
      (on to pre-maintenance)

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      • #4
        Re: Gotta have Faith!

        Hey Jess (and everyone else), I've been hanging onto my faith in our WOE for about 6 weeks now...without real reward by the scale or the tape measure. Up, Up, Up, down, Up, up, down...it has really been stressful.

        I never lost faith in the plan....I know this is right for me. There were days where I had passing thoughts of "why bother" "go ahead and eat ____"...that was the self sabotage trying to get in my way. That was the addict in me. I stuck through it, and it seems I'm being rewarded this week with going down every day.

        So, to everyone, please don't lose faith. If I can stick through 6 weeks of fluctuation and no "rewards" then you can too.
        ~Joy

        Start 1/2/06 Goal 6/11/07 restart 1/2/09
        268.5/196/185
        QUIT SMOKING JULY 23, 2006 while on Atkins


        Just when you think you've eaten enough vegetables...EAT SOME MORE!
        http://www.fitday.com/WebFit/PublicJournals.html?Owner=ride2joy

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        • #5
          Re: Gotta have Faith!

          Yep, I am living above the feelings, I am living with faith in the program, in the foods, in the water, in the exercise. My feelings may be as they may, but I am sticking to it. Every day, every step allows me power over what I feel. I need that power to continue to overcome...
          I was reading farther in the book than I ever have...I will need strong faith, strong self control, strong abilities to choose things over and beyond my most current emotional state...I will have to engage with so many carbs...choices and measurements...
          the future is loaded with alot of responsibility....
          Allowing my feelings to overide my responsibilities is a pattern I have with foods. I am an emotional eater. I am gaining back the power. I told Caitlin sunday, when someone with a donut came and sat by her. I said, when you said no to the donut, you had the power. If you said yes to the donut the donut would have the power. The trick is to get the power over things, hold on to it, and use it over the donut...
          This program teaches, trains, trains, trains you to steps that lead to effective results. Faith and action are building blocks...
          I want the power, I don't want the food or the problems of my life to rob my power over them...
          74 8/1/06
          SW225/CW142/GW135 83lbs GONE!
          2 YEARS and 9MONTHS!!! I've been here
          Jess Female/51/5'3

          www.jdudley.blog.com blog site

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          • #6
            Re: Gotta have Faith!

            ((((Jess)))) Atta girl. That is also known as fake it until you make it. Every body is different and they all take their own route to get where their going. Your body may be a stop start (lose...stay the same...lose) and DD may be lose a little lose a little. Last year when I was on plan I started out with an almost daily lose and after a few months it changed and then I was only losing on the my official weigh in day not the 6 days proceeding it. Then it changed again to nothing for a couple of weeks and then a couple of pounds down. The point I am trying to make is that you are walking the right road. Stick to it no matter what and the weight will come off. Sometimes that yucky feeling is followed by a whooshie. It is what it is.

            And BTW...you truly are an asset to the people here and I love seeing your posts.
            Elsie150
            Female 44, 5'
            SW241/CW215/GW150
            Never Ending Induction Recipes
            http://www.atkinsdietbulletinboard.c...n-recipes.html

            You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it. ~Maya Angelo~

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            • #7
              Re: Gotta have Faith!

              I'll be happy to share in the group hug. (((((Jess)))))

              Great job hanging in. As I was reading through, the only real point that popped up for me was hey, if we're really going to be successful FOREVER, then I guess you have to just keep on trucking, right?? That's what I'm trying to think anyway.

              I really, really do hope this time that it's a forever thing. I know in my heart that's the only way I'll ever be successful is to not give up, ever. And I haven't had to - yet - deal with any big plateaus or stalls or anything. So I'll be back when that happens to read those words above!!
              Nancy/F/47

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              • #8
                Re: Gotta have Faith!

                You rock, Jess! It is so funny that you brought up *faith* today ~ almost every night i pull a rune from my little rune bag (i collect them) and read from "The Healing Rune" book by Ralph H. Blum. For several nights in a row i have pulled the *faith* rune, and all in response to my feelings about where this way of life & way of eating is taking me...

                Here is an excerpt from the Faith page...

                "Faith encourages us to believe that we can make a difference -- a difference first in ourselves, and then in the world. It was Gandhi who said that we must be the change we wish to see in the world."

                What a great reminder, you have given us, today ~ to stay in faith along our journey ~ & together we will achieve our dreams & goals, and be better humans. Not only in body, but in all ways...

                Female, 35 ~ 5'6"
                Start Date: 6.21.2005
                New Start Date: 4.5.2010
                Overcoming sugar addiction one day at a time.

                "The body cannot be cured without regard for the soul." Socrates

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                • #9
                  Re: Gotta have Faith!

                  Originally posted by DragonflyMoon

                  "Faith encourages us to believe that we can make a difference -- a difference first in ourselves, and then in the world. It was Gandhi who said that we must be the change we wish to see in the world."
                  beautiful.
                  Lala ( F ) ( 5'6) (Mom of 1 )
                  Restarting Atkins Lifestyle 9/4/2007
                  Stats: 235 (H) 230 (C) 170 (G)
                  Today is the Tomorrow I worried about Yesterday.
                  Boot Camp Completed 12/11/206 went from (S) 218 to 206
                  Goal Pic: 160-170ish











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                  • #10
                    Re: Gotta have Faith!



                    well said.
                    149.8/no weigh/ 119



                    1st goal: 139 (earlier weight)
                    what the rungs mean to me:
                    rung 1 - more veggies
                    rung 2 - dairy (some milk in coffee)
                    rung 3 - seeds, nuts (mostly sprinkled on salads)
                    rung 4 - berries, melon
                    rung 5 - wine -
                    rung 6 - beans, hummus
                    rung 7 - other fruits
                    rung 8 - carrots/ potatoes (nah, prolly not)
                    rung 9 - whole grains (fresh Dutch breads...)
                    Major Goal - 128 lbs/ healthy range
                    (on to pre-maintenance)

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                    • #11
                      Re: Gotta have Faith!

                      Amazing...my first song that I ever got for kids, that started my whole little entertainer career was and is called, "I can Make a Difference!"...by me.
                      I have no idea what a "rune" is but it sounds like a wise pebble, you read...I like what you wrote...
                      well black and blue and off to bed
                      74 8/1/06
                      SW225/CW142/GW135 83lbs GONE!
                      2 YEARS and 9MONTHS!!! I've been here
                      Jess Female/51/5'3

                      www.jdudley.blog.com blog site

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                      • #12
                        Re: Gotta have Faith!

                        Originally posted by Outback Jess
                        I have no idea what a "rune" is but it sounds like a wise pebble, you read...I like what you wrote...
                        well black and blue and off to bed
                        Yep! Basically they are just symbols on stones, and those symbols have meaning. It is an alphabet, actually. I collect all sorts of sets... they are so fascinating to me. I really enjoy the "Healing Runes" book, and if anyone is interested in Runes definitely check out that book first.

                        Female, 35 ~ 5'6"
                        Start Date: 6.21.2005
                        New Start Date: 4.5.2010
                        Overcoming sugar addiction one day at a time.

                        "The body cannot be cured without regard for the soul." Socrates

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                        • #13
                          Re: Gotta have Faith!

                          Very timely message. I started out working so hard and could not tell any results..now I have become so discouraged. In fact, within the last few days I stopped exercising and paying attention to my water intake. Although I am still eating appropriately, I could tell the difference almost immediately..I seem to be at a standstill. I feel awful and fat! This post is what I need to keep me going! This WOL has worked for me before and there is no reason it should not work again. I will get back on track and keep the faith.

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