Thursday - Roll Call

[skinnymom!]

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I'm here, but feeling blah. I am hitting that wall that I usually do. This is the point where I traditionally quit and stuff my face with carbs. I get to feeling "why can't I eat the way everyone else does, why do I have to do all this extra work" it's not even a craving, it's just annoyance and laziness on my part. This time I will not quit. No matter how crabby and cranky I am about it, I need to push forward. I'd be too embarrassed to drop off this board and have everyone know I failed....again.

So I'm here, but today will be hard like yesterday was. I just need to keep going!

[tryingagain]

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HE HE Terry!
SkinnyMom - You can do it!
I myself am feeling the shame and embarrassment from failing AGAIN, and actually need a 3RD time around club!
You can do it, you have come this far, don't make yourself have to start over like I did!

[floydgirl]

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I'm here, but feeling blah. I am hitting that wall that I usually do. This is the point where I traditionally quit and stuff my face with carbs. I get to feeling "why can't I eat the way everyone else does, why do I have to do all this extra work" it's not even a craving, it's just annoyance and laziness on my part. This time I will not quit. No matter how crabby and cranky I am about it, I need to push forward. I'd be too embarrassed to drop off this board and have everyone know I failed....again.

So I'm here, but today will be hard like yesterday was. I just need to keep going!

Skinnymom, hang in there. I've been there before, and know how that feels.

I've noticed that you are on OWL rung 1. How long have you been on this rung? Have you thought about going up to the next rung?

Whenever I start feeling this way, it is usually because I am bored with what I am eating. As you move up rungs, there are so many new and delicious foods that you can add back. There is no need to feel deprived.

[julirama723]

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Hey all!

I'm hoping to see a change in the scale tomorrow, wish me luck. I'm a little nervous--I'm going out of town for the weekend and won't have access to fitday! Gasp, the horror! (I'm a fitday junkie.) But, since I track everything everyday, I know the nutritional info for almost everything I eat, right off the top of my head, so it shouldn't be a bad weekend at all. I'm excited to get out of town for a couple of days!

Today I'm going for a 4 mile run after work, and I've GOT GOT GOT to drink over a gallon of water today. For the last couple of days I've probably only gotten in 100 oz. and I can really feel it in my body...grr.

Have a great day, all!

[skinnymom!]

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Thank you guys! If not for this board I know I would have had cereal for breakfast

I have been on Rung 1 since Sunday, so not a full week yet. I do have some cottage cheese in the fridge ready for the Dairy rung on Sunday but am afraid to try it. I did lose a lb already since this past Sunday though, so adding a few extra carbs in has not slowed me yet. I know I am making progress and like I said, I'm not craving anything - it's just the planning. I need to remind myself that I felt this way about planning meals period even before doing Atkins. My husband and I both get so tired of having to think up meals for the family, so I need to remember that if I quit, I'd STILL be planning, only I'd be overweight in addition to having to do that chore.

It's easy to convince others to stick with it, why is it so hard to convince yourself

[MissyMiss]

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Morning all.

[tryingagain]

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Skinnymom, I know EXACTLY what you mean,
Its so easy to be motivational for others but for ourselves its a different story. Why is that???
We can do this! You have already made it through induction, WOO HOO to you! I am starting induction over, BOO HOO LOL
We WILL get there, we have to make the choice and just do it right?

[tmn]

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I'm here, but feeling blah. I am hitting that wall that I usually do. This is the point where I traditionally quit and stuff my face with carbs. I get to feeling "why can't I eat the way everyone else does, why do I have to do all this extra work" it's not even a craving, it's just annoyance and laziness on my part. This time I will not quit. No matter how crabby and cranky I am about it, I need to push forward. I'd be too embarrassed to drop off this board and have everyone know I failed....again.

So I'm here, but today will be hard like yesterday was. I just need to keep going!

I went through the same at times the first time around on Atkins. Then I considered how the foods they get to eat would affect my body. Insulin spikes and crashes, higher cholesteral, chemicals that make me feel like crap. And always craving more foods, even after I've porked out on those meals.

Now I consider all this even more so this time around because how much the regaining of the weight I had lost before is hurting so much physically. The weight gain is he!! on my legs and knees. I did a one-mile walk yesterday and it was so painful that at times I struggled not to break out in tears from the frustration of it all. So I've easily managed to think of some of the stuff I crave as poisons to my system. Except for chocolate - man, I STRUGGLE big time with that one... No way something that lucious is "poison"...

Anyway, I emphathize with you. Maybe the struggle to give in is easier because the consequences aren't as bad or apparent for you yet. But if there was a way I could help you really see just what you are avoiding by staying on Atkins, I'd do it.

Hang in there - your health is just not worth some of those foods others eat.

[tryingagain]

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Terry - Great Advice and I am a moron for not seeing it that way:

"So I've easily managed to think of some of the stuff I crave as poisons to my system."

I had the same mentality quitting smoking and it worked like a charm, and thats the mentality I need to have here!

[Sheepie]

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Morning all. I bought some new bras last night (sorry guys) and although I was unhappy that I still had to get the same size, I did get a sports bra with the idea that I might actually pick up the pace a little bit on one of my walks!

[mitzimarie]

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Good Morning...

In a huge hurry this morning, so...

I'm in!

I'm out!

Later!

[tmn]

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I had the same mentality quitting smoking and it worked like a charm, and thats the mentality I need to have here!

Oh yeah! Absolutely! My employer at the time gave out quit-smoking kits. In it was a very informative book that explained all the different organs smoking affected. It's certainly not just the lungs! Freaked me out enough to help me quit. 14 years and 25 or 26 days now.

[skinnymom!]

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Thanks Terry! It does make total sense.....and I am more determined this time because my body broke through a "wall" if you will of weight gain. My high number has always been the same. No matter how much I ate, pigged out, what have you, it NEVER went above that number. I thought "well this is fine, I may not be THIN but I'm not obese and I guess I don't have it in me to get bigger than this number." Then this year I went over that number by 10 lbs and was still gaining and it scared me. I DO have it in me to become obese and I don't want to be. I just need to remember that I don't have the "safety" of that number anymore, it no longer exists.

[tryingagain]

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Wow Terry 14yrs Congrats!!
I just hit day 100 Yesterday

[tmn]

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Thanks Terry! It does make total sense.....and I am more determined this time because my body broke through a "wall" if you will of weight gain. My high number has always been the same. No matter how much I ate, pigged out, what have you, it NEVER went above that number. I thought "well this is fine, I may not be THIN but I'm not obese and I guess I don't have it in me to get bigger than this number." Then this year I went over that number by 10 lbs and was still gaining and it scared me. I DO have it in me to become obese and I don't want to be. I just need to remember that I don't have the "safety" of that number anymore, it no longer exists.

Wow. Good for you! Thankfully, you have Atkins to make it happen. All the diets I tried failed miserably and I kept giving in and gaining afterwards. It's basically why I call my journal "Failure is NOT an Option!" I have a lot of challenges to deal with but I KNOW I won't fail as long as I stick to this WOE and WOL.