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    Coffee and Eating Disorders

    Okay, I've detoxed off coffee cold before. I'm chicken this time around. It was awful!!! I made my first cup of decaf tonight and I'm drinking it. I promiss to only drink coffee when I can't stand the headache anymore from now on until I am down to once cup in the morning at least. I drink weak coffee like I should drink water.
    I know I'll be on induction for forever trying to get it right, but this time I don't care how long it takes. I didn't get this way over night. My goal is to loose 20 lbs, but I could loose a hundred and still look overfed. For me its going to be for the rest of my life this time. Not 20 lbs then a pizza binge, not 40 lbs then I eat me a cheese cake. Not when I reach goal weight and I'll cheat for just a week, and then get back on track 20lbs in the wrong direction later. I know its perhaps the wrong way of looking at it. I am going to make mistakes if I have to do this for any length of time, and I refuse to feel like a total looser and eat a whole pizza to seal the deal!!! This is just kinda how I have to look at it so I don't beat myself up sooo bad and then give up.
    I walked my mile today. My knees are bad but holding up good. And I really did not want to walk. I never excercised before when I did atkins. I ate way too many calories or not enough.
    My dirty little secret is many years ago when I was a teen I lost weight by starving myself until I was very small and hiding in baggy clothes so no one knew all my ribs were showing. Everyone was so proud of me, everyone told me how good I looked. My father got a belt and made me eat. Then I would excercise for hours. When I feel hungery on a diet, it feels like I'm winning and I have force myself to eat half the time. When I'm not dieting I can eat huge amounts of food and never feel full until I am so stuffed its not funny. So deep down I'm afraid of how long it will take me to loose this weight and knowing when to say enough is enough weightloss.



    My starting weight was 235 lbs and I'm trying to get to 130 lbs.

    1st mini goal: 145! met 12/09
    2nd mini goal: 140!
    3rd mini goal:135!
    4th mini goal: 130!

    I drink coffee. I drink when I am thirsty. I am just a low carber. Not on Atkins at all!!! He has everything to do with my weightloss and nothing to do with it, depending on who you ask.
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    Re: Coffee and Eating Disorders

    YOu could be my twin. Except mine was a gym teacher, and not a belt. He sat with me at every meal break on a week long backpacking trip making sure that I would eat.

    Welcome to the board. I'd suggest using something like dailyplate or Fitday to track stuff. Sometimes I think that I eat more than I actually do, and having that log shows me how much I actually *have* eaten.

    Oh, and congrats on your mile.
    27/f/5'10"
    HW - 312, LW - 172 (Jul 2007), CW - 205, GW - 160

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    • #3
      Re: Coffee and Eating Disorders

      Well today I met my calories easily thanks once again porkrinds. They should really have a serious risk warning on those!!! 80 calories a serving, and 12 servings per bag. Now who looks at porkrinds and says "I'll just eat two or three." Not me, if I open that bag it will be gone that day.



      My starting weight was 235 lbs and I'm trying to get to 130 lbs.

      1st mini goal: 145! met 12/09
      2nd mini goal: 140!
      3rd mini goal:135!
      4th mini goal: 130!

      I drink coffee. I drink when I am thirsty. I am just a low carber. Not on Atkins at all!!! He has everything to do with my weightloss and nothing to do with it, depending on who you ask.

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      • #4
        Re: Coffee and Eating Disorders

        Wow. I didn't realize those had that many calories! Maybe I should pick some up as a snack for when I'm low!!
        27/f/5'10"
        HW - 312, LW - 172 (Jul 2007), CW - 205, GW - 160

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        • #5
          Re: Coffee and Eating Disorders

          Welcome to our board.. I have not given up coffee...I want too just don't want to deal with the headaches..
          Sandy
          40th birthday June 27,2009


          Starting Weight 293 Highest Weight
          Current Weight 271
          Goal Weight 150
          Female/40

          Mini Goals
          #1-Get into 260's-
          #2-Get into 250's-
          #3-Get into 240's
          #4-Get into 230's



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          • #6
            Re: Coffee and Eating Disorders

            I must have missed something..... Since when do we have to give up coffee? Coffee is low carb so long as you dont load it up with milk and sugar.

            And about the cheesecake and pizza eating. That stuff is not gone forever. Make it through induction. Make it through the stages. There are recipes out there. You will eat those things again! Keep on strong and you will get to the point where its okay to have all these things that inside you are dreading that you wont be able to eat again. Ok, so maybe you cant jam a twix or milkyway in your mouth, but who cares. I can live without those things. So can you.
            Male, 29 y/o Chicago, IL
            SW 330 / GW 200
            Started July 5, 2005
            Restarted July 9, 2007

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            • #7
              Re: Coffee and Eating Disorders

              Thanks, I'm glad black coffee is still okay. Last time I went on Atkins I started drinking it black and that stuck even threw gaining my weight back. Everytime I did it, I picked up something from it that stuck with me. I make the kids eat GFCF, gluten free casine free. That's pretty much no flour, no dairy, no sugar except what's in the soy milk soy milk and fresh stuff. But I have fruit out on the counter for them to snack on. That has tempted me more than pizza and cheese cake so far. As for the rest of the tempting foods that got me here, I just keep saying "I want to be thin more than I want that" and its true. I am so tired of being where I am, I want to see those scales move more than anything.



              My starting weight was 235 lbs and I'm trying to get to 130 lbs.

              1st mini goal: 145! met 12/09
              2nd mini goal: 140!
              3rd mini goal:135!
              4th mini goal: 130!

              I drink coffee. I drink when I am thirsty. I am just a low carber. Not on Atkins at all!!! He has everything to do with my weightloss and nothing to do with it, depending on who you ask.

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              • #8
                Re: Coffee and Eating Disorders

                Rita, it sounds like you've got great motivation! I've been through the starvation as well, about 4 years ago, and I know it's hard to get over completely (even now I notice I start to self sabotage in fear that any regimented diet will re-awaken the beast) but there's a great support system here! Best of luck, sounds like you're on your way
                I would rather struggle to do this, than struggle with the fact that I can't...

                24/F, 5'4, Re-start 12/26/07
                SW: 199.6
                CW: 185
                Mini1: 190 - 189.8 2/14/08
                Mini2: 180
                Mini3: 170
                Mini4: 159 (Lowest weight I got to first time on Atkins)
                Mini5: 150
                Mini6: 140
                Mini7: 130





                "Pain is weakness leaving the body"

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                • #9
                  Re: Coffee and Eating Disorders

                  Coffee is supposed to be off limits because...I can't remember...but I know I can't give it up because I would probably kill someone...and I'm not kidding...I know Scooterjam has done it (Bravo to him) but I am not that brave...check through the threads for the coffee thing..I think it has to do with cravings or unbalancing the blood sugars...
                  F44yrs young 5'7" SW172/CW152/GW140
                  restart date december 08, 2009!
                  1st mini-goal: 160 lbs - reached Jan 05, 2010
                  2nd mini-goal: 155 lbs - reached Feb 02, 2010
                  3rd mini-goal: 150 lbs
                  4th mini-goal: 145 lbs
                  GOAL : 140 lbs :chillpill:dancingba:dancing:

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                  • #10
                    Re: Coffee and Eating Disorders

                    I also remember reading that you are not supposed to drink coffee, but can remember the exact reason why. I had lost 12.2 lbs in a month without giving up my coffee. Then I hit a mini-plateau and was stuck there for a week.

                    So I gave up my coffee three days ago, and I have found that it wasn't necessarily the caffeine I was craving, it was the flavor. But more so, I found that I interrupted my routine in the morning by not having it. I still want it, but there have been many wonderful flavors that I have given up in my quest to a new life and more healthy body.

                    And in my three days without coffee, I have lost an additional 1.8 lbs. So I guess the results speak for itself, and I figured I would allow myself the occasional cup of coffee when I treated myself to going out for breakfast with friends, and just not part of my daily routine.

                    Good Luck.
                    alexandrea
                    28/f 5'0"
                    Starting weight 197 (1/1/10)
                    stats:
                    197/193.8/135
                    mini goals:
                    190
                    180
                    170
                    160

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                    • #11
                      Re: Coffee and Eating Disorders

                      i think the caffeine can trigger food cravings...or some such bullshit! actually, i'm sure it's not bullshit but i can't give up the coffee either! it is low carb and it's the nectar of the gods and goddesses...it is the gold at the end of the rainbow...it is the...ok, perhaps i'm a little carried away...!!!
                      jen
                      "life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." ~anais nin
                      female/40 years/5 feet 5.5 inches
                      original starting weight=245
                      bw=194 (07/09/08 - restart)

                      goal 1=clean induction

                      245 180

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                      • #12
                        Re: Coffee and Eating Disorders

                        okay, decaf coffee is on the accptable food list with an *. it says no caffeine, if you have the book go to page 127. i have a hard time to but i mess up and feel so bad and get my motivation back. posting on this board is excellent motivation!!!
                        oh and WHATS THIS ABOUT CALORIES??? someone fill me in PLEASE???i usually end up around 1500-1700 a day, is that fine?
                        Restart date 1-18-10 @ 191
                        1st mini goal: 181--met 1-25-10 ;~)
                        2nd mini goal: 171
                        3rd mini goal: 161
                        4th mini goal: 155
                        GOAL!--149:




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