not doing well this week

[ZOESMOM]

i'm still committed i have a plan i'm sticking to it. all day i do well and then night comes. i know i should just go to bed but i don't, at least last night i didn't. i started out good. i was craving so i ate two beef dogs. couldn't stop there so i did the utlimate i ate a bowl of cereal which didn't taste as good as i was expecting and a pb&j sandwich on regular bread. uh-oh! i should've stopped when i dropped my peanut butter half of my sand. on the floor, that was a sign see but i didn't heed it. i cleaned up the mess and made another sandwich. I was fumbling with the knife and just made a mess on the counter trying to make that stupid sandwich. I know it was psycological. my mind was saying noooooo don't do it but the rest of me was determined to. i know that this plan is not about guilt and disappointment but i feel so guilty and disappointed in myself. people make mistakes, eh excuse me we make bad decisions but Atkins is forgiving right? i can get back on the wagon today and start again.
just to soothe myself i'm going to blame this on my monthly visitor and move past it. want to hear the funny part? i jumped up this a.m. and weighed myself why do we do such silly things? we cheat and then we check the results. i was the same nothing gained nothing lost. oh well moving on....

[not2late]

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Get right back on the wagon today with your first meal.

You have to figure out what triggered your binge. Generally, if you need a snack, it should be a high fat snack. The fat will help to satisfy your hunger. Also, you might want to try the water trick. Sometimes we mistake thirst for hunger, so drink a glass or two of water and wait about 20-30 minutes. If you aren't feeling hungry anymore, then it was thirst. IF you still feel hungry, eat a high fat snack.

You might also want to eat this snack slowly. It takes about 20-30 minutes for our stomachs to signal our brains that it is satisfied. That's one of the reasons dieting advice always says to eat "leizurely" meals.

[shashee]

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Get Right back on track! We all fall down sometimes, but you gotta pick yourself up and keep on going. I always have trouble when my monthly friend comes. I just want to binge binge binge. Speaking of PB and J, I wanted one sooooooooooooooooooooo bad last night. So so bad. It really took all I had not to eat one. I did eat about 20 chocolate chip morsels though, so really I ate the same amount of carbs that wouldve been in that sandwich =( But the morsels were way smaller and for some reason I thought that would be better. Its like Once you start you cant stop, its a mind game. I used to always thing, well I already cheated misawell have a blowout... This time around though If I slip up a little I dont let it continue on. Yes I had 20 morsals, but that was enough, I went and grabbed some roast and a slice of tomatoe.

I think of it like this. Yes I messed up, no it wasnt right, but I still ate only a 1/4 of the carbs I usually eat. So your still winning.

Cheating isnt the right thing to do, but we can all hop back on

[tracymax]

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I had a really tough time yesterday afternoon. This is really stressful sometimes, not because Atkins is difficult, but because sugar demons die hard. You're doing an amazing thing for yourself by recognizing your mistake and getting back on the right path.

Some people say guilt is a good motivator. I disagree. You should do things because you want to, not because you feel guilty. So, starting today, eat right because you really want to, and throw away the guilt - it's completely useless!

[2big4mysize]

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stress and TOM if you were an emotional comfort food eater can cause you trouble. Your Dr Brain has a massive starage system and cross referrences emotions with what you ate and how it made you feel afterwards so when you are stressed it knows what foods made you feel good and prescribes them for you.
In order to succeed on your low carb plan you need to ignore that Rx and get a second opinion from your newly arrived low carb section. so have a high fat snack or better yet do something to distract yourself. exercise is great cause it generates good feeling chems in your brain and constructively uses up the bad stress chemicals.

Start keeping a food journal and log what you eat and also answer the 5 Ws who what when where why for before during and after eating and see if you see a pattern that is triggerring you. I know I discovered celery was a sweet binge triggerring food for me going out to eat with my younger sister casued massive sugar wanting later so I stopped eating out with her.

[rissa]

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i know how you feel! this last time i was on this woe, i went off a couple dyas because my family and i were really sick with the stomach flu. then my grandmother came for a visit then we went on a trip to TX.... i just kept making my excuses as to why i couldnt get back on and gained 30+ pounds in the meantime. im glad that you arent following in my footsteps. i was never as depressed as i had been right before i came back to this woe. This really is the ONLY diet thats right. And the ONLY way for us carb addicts to survive and loose weight. so just stay on track! be proud of yourself that you are hopping back onto the atkins wagon with us!

[Peytonn]

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late night is hard for me.. and when I'd usually mess up royally! (debbie cakes used to call my name at 2am)...


now I try to keep something handy.. that's AWESOME.. like the whipped creme/creme cheese concoction in the fridge... when I wake at 2am.. or before I go to bed if I 'need' something... I grab a big spoon of that.. (usually straight from the bowl)... and it's so satisfying.. i'm done..

last night.. I wanted 'real' food at 9pm... so I had some chili.. with sour creme.. (i made some 'legal' chili with chunked beef ....

it only took a small amount and I was good..........

I guess the key is to have some 'legal' appealing foods available.. then bread is less appealing..

[Elsie150]

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This is what work for me. First make sure you drink lots of water during the day. 8 cups will not do it for me...I need 12 minimum to keep the munchies away. And if you haven't had your 2nd salad of the day (romaine, tomato, cucumber, chives, dressing)...that would be a good time to have it with some protein. Now some people are into the have a little of something high fat and that is good if it works for you. But when I am hungry at night I want to EAT...and not a little something...so the salad works great for me as it takes longer to consume...so I can munch on it for a longer period of time and that makes me feel more satisfied. Now a salad at night is not the answer for everyone but it works for me when those munchies strike...give it a try...along with lots of water and see how it goes. JMO.